The last month alone, Chennai was flooded with
Films from every corner of the world, starting
with the Polish Film Festival to the recently
held Disability Film festival, a first of its
kind in the country. There was one every weekend.
What has surprised even the guest, the likes of
Govind Nihalani, Nafisa Ali, Dev Benegal, Prakash
Raj, Ravi K Chandran and Salil Choudhry who came
down to inaugurate the India International Disability
Film Festival was the overwhelming response these
festivals received. The festival stood out amongst
the others in more ways, one was that arrangements
were made for people with disabilities to experience
the movies and the other was a open competition
“60 seconds to Fame”, a one minute
film on disability, the jury was shocked by the
number of entries they received, 208 of them from
which they had to pick 3 winners. This is what
director Govind Nihalani, jury head had to say
on the entries - “every one of them had
looked at the subject with imagination and seriousness
with the limited resources available to them.
I think they produced huge variety of view-points.”
Many of the Guests opined that most mainstream
movies tend to either empathize with the disabled
or mock at them, seldom do we have films that
show life in their perspective. |