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Feature Films
PATNAGARH
(Odia -135 min, 2019)
Inspired from a shockingly true incident of Hate and Revenge, “Patnagarh 23 Feb 2018, Odisha” is a bilingual in Odia and Telugu. The film is an investigative thriller that explores the mind-set of a criminal hiding in plain sight. A newly married couple receives a gift box five days after their wedding, their happiness turns short lived when the gift turns out to be a bomb that kills the husband and his grandmother and seriously injuring the wife. A massive investigation begins to find the killer.
PATNAGARH
(Telugu - 137 min, 2019)
Inspired from a shockingly true incident of Hate and Revenge, “Patnagarh 23 Feb 2018, Odisha” is a bilingual in Odia and Telugu. The film is an investigative thriller that explores the mind-set of a criminal hiding in plain sight. A newly married couple receives a gift box five days after their wedding, their happiness turns short lived when the gift turns out to be a bomb that kills the husband and his grandmother and seriously injuring the wife. A massive investigation begins to find the killer.
RAKTHAM-THE BLOOD
(125 mins, Telugu,
Digital, 2019)
Raktham (English: The Blood) is an Indian film in Telugu (2017), directed by Rajesh Touchriver and produced by Social Activist Sunitha Krishnan.
The film highlights inescapable moral issues associated with murder and terrorism, even for an existentialist. The film explores a conflict between the ideology of nonviolence and right to kill people who inflict violence. Hate weighs down certain people into intolerable suffering and exists elsewhere as a comfortable system. In such a context, those who are unable to get rid of their own hearts even in the most contemptible of efforts, solicit respect and empathy. That lends rationale to narrate this group's revolt, their difficult brotherhood and the inner battles they fight to put themselves in tune with the plot to kill. While letting Camus lend voice to their struggles, the movie also dissects his philosophy of the absurd, raising rebuttals pertaining to the heart and a sense of belonging.
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NAA BANGAARU TALLI
(117 mins, Telugu,
Digital, 2013)
Naa bangaaru Talli” (My dearest Daughter) in Telugu explores the consequences of sex trafficking, testing the vulnerability of trust in human relations. The filmmaker Rajesh Touchriver has specialized in innovative pictures that takes challenging risks. The film stars Siddiq, Anjali Patil, Lakshmi Menon, Ratnashekhar, Anup Arvindan, Nina Kurup, Warren Joseph and Sunil Kudvattoor. The cinematography is by the very talented Ramathulasi with Rajiv Nair as the art director. Don Max is the editor. The fantastic 3 songs are done by Sharreth . Shantanu Moitra of the ‘Three Idiots’ fame has composed the Background score and a beautiful song.
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ENTE...
(116 mins, Malayalam
Digital, 2013)
Provocative, shocking and surprisingly tender amidst an explosion of unbridled emotions, “Ente…”(Mine…) in malyalam explores the consequences of sex trafficking, testing the vulnerability of trust in human relations. Srinivas(Siddiq) is a wonderful and devoted father to Durga(Anjali Patil), and he provides her the best. Working in the city and maintaining his family in a small town works well for him for years. One day everything is shattered when Durga comes unannounced to the city to appear for an interview concerning her college admission. Durga’s life is brutally torn apart as Srinivas wrestles with grief, remorse, self pity and guilt. Prathyayam marks the telugu debut feature for both Siddiq Anjali Patil, Lakshmi Menon and Nina Kurup The filmmaker Rajesh Touchriver of the “In the name of Buddha” fame has specialized in innovative pictures that takes challenging risks. The film stars Siddiq, Anjali Patil, Lakshmi Menon, Ratnashekhar, Anup Arvindan, Nina Kurup, Warren Joseph and Sunil Kudvattoor. The cinematography is by the very talented Ramathulasi with Rajiv Nair as the art director. Don Max is the editor. The fantastic 3 songs are done by Sharreth . Shantanu Moitra of the ‘Three Idiots’ fame has composed the Background score and a beautiful song.
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Amaithikkaka...
(120 mins, English/Sinhalese/Tamil/Hindi,
anamorphic, 2009)
The movie Amaithikkaka is the filmmaker's response to this enormous human tragedy that has engulfed the lives of tens of thousands of innocent people. The film tells the story of Siva, a native Tamil from Sri Lanka (by implication, identical stories of thousands like him) who was compelled to leave his motherland and take refuge in UK. The story narrates the harrowing experience he went through, in vivid, visual details, with atrocities against women and children. The film portrays the agony of a people devastated by circumstances beyond their control, of ordinary folks who only wanted “peace of mind and a decent life,' as a protagonist puts it in the end. The focus is on the atrocities, flagrant violations of human rights by the Tamil freedom fighters and the Lankan Army. The message that emerges urges one to take a non-partisan stand condemning violence and blood-shed, no matter who the perpetrators are or what their justifications be. It is an impassioned plea to the collective conscience of all right thinking people, a plea to shun violence once for all and to turn to the path shown by the Buddha and Gandhi. The film upholds the value of compassion and abjures all forms of retribution. There is no room for rhetoric.
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Alex - The Blue Fox
(160 mins, Telugu,
35mm Anamorphic, 2005)
Alex means Alexander, a cop on special duty. He employs himself on a job he calls 'Blue Fox Operation'. He knows only one thing - save the innocent and shoot dead the criminals.
10 - The Strangers
(125 mins, Telugu, Hindi
35mm Anamorphic, 2005)
The film is a thriller and it’s theme is about a patient who is suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder.
In The Name of Buddha
(150 mins, English/Sinhalese/Tamil/Hindi
35mm anamorphic, 2002)