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Bengali Filmmaker’s Malayalam film ‘Katti Nrittam’ is reaching its last leg of shooting after a long wait of one year. Aneek Chaudhuri started the shoot of the film in November 2019 and completed 80 percent of the film’s shoot by March 2020; then, the lockdown happened. Katti Nrittam derives its name from Kathi Vesham (used in Kathakali referring to diabolic characters in the art form) and in this film, if we go by its literal meaning, it states ‘knife dance’. Katti Nrittam is a modern-day take on Mahabharata from a female gaze.
As per Aneek, “The epics, mythology evolve with time; it changes the era from being patriarchal to an equal society. This film is all about Draupadi’s revenge and here, we have portrayed Ved Vyas as a female.”
Still from the movie
The movie is set in Wayanad and is about the feud between two families that has lasted generations
Filmmaker Nithin Lukose grew up listening to his grandmother narrate stories of people in the highlands of Wayanad. “My family moved here from Kottayam in the early 1950s. Her stories were about the hardships of the people who migrated in that era,” he says. These tales are the inspiration for him to make his début Malayalam feature film,
Paka: The River of Blood. The movie is set in Wayanad and is about the feud between two families that has lasted generations.“The place and the Orattu river there play very important roles in the film. As I am familiar with the place, choosing this as my setting felt right,” he says.