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Marathi film `Vihir', produced by Amitabh Bachchan Corp Ltd (ABCL) and directed by Umesh Kulkarni, got a warm reception and ran to a full house at the Berlin International Film Festival.
"It is a great honour for me to be here in Berlin. The film is based on an autobiographical event, I lost my cousin in a well when I was 14, and I found the idea that somebody can be here one day, and be gone the next, very intriguing. It raised questions that I try to answer through the film, to search for him," said Kulkarni, whose short film "Three of Us" was also at Berlin in 2008.
"Vihir", meaning the well, ran at the prestigious festival Sunday. Kulkarni was there with his 10 member team, including actors Madan Deodhar, Alok Rajwade, actor-writer Girish Kulkarni and Mohan Agashe. The film is about the friendship between two teenage boys Sameer and Nachiket and how they grapple with death and larger philosophical questions. "Vihir" played in the Generation 14 plus section of the festival for young adults.
`Vihir' has screenplay and dialogues by Girish Kulkarni and Sati Bhave, and cinematography by Sudhir Palsane. The film has warm portrayals by Madan Deodhar, who has a heartbreaking innocence, and Alok Rajwade, who has a maturity that belies his tender years. ABCL's CEO Wing Commander (retd) Ramesh Pulapaka was at the festival as well.
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