![]() ![]() It went on to earn three times its Rs3 crore budget and bag two National awards. Set in the tumultuous 1970s, Shala depicts the idle schooldays of 14-year-old Mukund Joshi (Anshuman Joshi) who whiles away the time with his three best friends. The film is about the journey, not the destination, as Dahake eschewed the conventional narrative structure where one scene flows from the last. ![]() Instead, the film is an assemblage of unforgettable vignettes that are destined to linger on in the memories of both the characters and the viewers. ![]() Shot sumptuously by Spanish cinematographer Diego Romero, Shala also highlights the uncertainties and polarized perspectives of the youth around the time of the Emergency.įrom the lead actor to Ketan Sunil Pawar and Ketaki Mategaonkar, who play his free-spirited friend Surya and love interest Shirodkar respectively, Dahake extracted incredible performances from the child artistes, many of whom were facing the camera for the first time. Shala is available on Disney+ Hotstar and Amazon Prime Video. The seeds of the provocative Kaccha Limbu, actor Prasad Oak’s directorial debut, were sown in 2014 when the filmmaker learnt of a novel titled Runanubandh by renowned man of letters Jaywant Dalvi.
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