Koimoi Recommends Killa: Throwback To When Avinash Arun Captured & Directed The Melancholy Of Displacement
Killa captures the coming of age day by day of this child with the riveting backdrop of Konkan in all its monsoon glory
Stills From Avinash Arun’s Killa
While adults deal with their more significant problems, the children associated have to suffer the brunt of the heat too. Avinash Arun, who we now know for directing the gut-wrenching Paatal Lok, began his direction journey with a film that centres on children and what it looks like to see the world from their perspective and discover where they belong to. Today on Koimoi Recommends, I recommend you Arun’s National Award Winning film Killa (2015) that not only is a cathartic ride through the mind of a migrating child who already has his back burdened with the loss of his loving father but much more.
Laila Aur Satt Geet (2020)
Filmmaker Pushpendra Singh made his debut in 2014 with
Lajwanti, adapted from a story by renowned Rajasthani writer Vijaydan Detha. Singh actually had his eye on another story by Detha, but its rights had already been sold.
Kenchuli is about a married woman from the Gujjar community whose beauty attracts other men in her village and sets off storms within their hearts and hers. The Rajasthani-language version of the feminist tale, titled
Kaanchli, came out earlier this year.
Although Singh moved on to other projects – the feature
Ashwatthama and the documentary
Pearl of the Desert – he has finally returned to the story that he had hoped would be his first feature.