India’s ‘Jallikattu’ out of Oscar race
Jallikattu is the second Malayalam film to be submitted as India’s entry to the Oscars after Adaminte Makan Abu in 2011.
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Director Lijo Jose Pellissery’s Malayalam language independent action film
Jallikattu, which had been selected as India’s official entry to the 93rd Academy Awards for the foreign film category, is out of the Oscar race. The 15 shortlisted films are from Chile (
The Mole Agent), Czech Republic (
Charlatan), Denmark (
I’m No Longer Here), Norway (
Hope), Romania(
The Man Who Sold His Skin).
Jallikattu, starring Antony Varghese, Chemban Vinod Jose, Sabumon Abdusamad, and Santhy Balachandran, follows the plot of a bull that runs amuck from a slaughterhouse in a hilly remote village with all the residents gathering to hunt it down.
The Exhibits and the Eyewitness, 2017).
Fahadh has acquired a reputation for often giving up being a film’s hero in favour of a supporting role that appeals to him and lending an X Factor to that role. His confident choices ultimately led to India-wide accolades for
C U
Soon (2020) that marked a new frontier for Indian cinema at large with its exploration of the desktop genre tailored to fit the constraints imposed on filmmakers by the COVID19 lockdown.
Fahadh 2.0 is at the forefront of the Malayalam New New Wave and has gradually grown to be considered one of India’s finest actors by pan-India cinephiles too.
Uma Mahadevan Dasgupta
During a period of COVID-induced self-isolation this year, I watched Malayalam movies. They were like a balm. The backwaters are beautiful; the people are engagingly real. The stories are intensely local, set on the blurred boundaries between rural and urban that is so peculiar to Kerala.
These are ensemble stories, perhaps because Kerala is in some ways more egalitarian than many other places; also because that’s how communities live. There are awkward brothers, inquisitive grandmothers, and a teenager who plays football, cooks dinner and yearns for his mum. I love that a person called Baby can be a woman or a man, diminutive or large in size, Hindu or Muslim or Christian by faith. A character can drive an auto, be a friend, and have a hobby, all at once. Identity doesn’t feel rigidly fixed. People can change. Can it be that people are complex?
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