While working on “The Golden Thread,” director Nishtha Jain didn’t want to tell a story that focused solely on economic identity and oppressed workers. She also wanted to capture the complexities of the individuals she was following.
About India’s aging jute mills, harsh working conditions coexist with hopes for its ecological revival, “The Golden Thread” shows the last vestiges of the industry via mill workers who are fighting for minimum wage.
“My stories are complex,” Jain said during an IDFA Filmmaker Talk on Tuesday. “They are not black and white. They lie in the gray. (‘The Golden Thread’) is not just a one-line story. It’s about jute. It’s about this factory. It’s about the ecosystem. It’s about factories being made obsolete. It’s about how these factories work and the people (who work in them).”
The docu made its world premiere at IDFA in the Masters section.
About India’s aging jute mills, harsh working conditions coexist with hopes for its ecological revival, “The Golden Thread” shows the last vestiges of the industry via mill workers who are fighting for minimum wage.
“My stories are complex,” Jain said during an IDFA Filmmaker Talk on Tuesday. “They are not black and white. They lie in the gray. (‘The Golden Thread’) is not just a one-line story. It’s about jute. It’s about this factory. It’s about the ecosystem. It’s about factories being made obsolete. It’s about how these factories work and the people (who work in them).”
The docu made its world premiere at IDFA in the Masters section.
- 11/15/2022
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
Actress Navya Nair, who has been a part of several critically acclaimed hits in Tamil and Malayalam has lavished praise on director Ratheesh Balakrishnan Poduval’s recently released Malayalam film, ‘Nna Thaan Case Kodu’ (‘Sue Me’), saying that the film is drawing appreciation as it is talking about the helplessness of the common man.
Taking to Instagram, the actress penned a post saying: “What a satire !!! Fully packed theatre. It’s all about laughter and claps because Rajeevan is talking on our behalf — the helplessness, the chaos of the common man (all in humour).” And chackochetta (Kunchacko Boban), what a transformation man!!! Kudos to you. Each and every character is just awesome. The judge, the heroine Gayathrie Shankar, the auto driver Rajesh Madhavan, the teacher, the biker Mridul Nair, the tempo driver, the advocates, the minister, the chief minister Unnimaya Prasad. All so so good.”
“Director, screenplay writer Ratheesh Balakrishnan Poduval,...
Taking to Instagram, the actress penned a post saying: “What a satire !!! Fully packed theatre. It’s all about laughter and claps because Rajeevan is talking on our behalf — the helplessness, the chaos of the common man (all in humour).” And chackochetta (Kunchacko Boban), what a transformation man!!! Kudos to you. Each and every character is just awesome. The judge, the heroine Gayathrie Shankar, the auto driver Rajesh Madhavan, the teacher, the biker Mridul Nair, the tempo driver, the advocates, the minister, the chief minister Unnimaya Prasad. All so so good.”
“Director, screenplay writer Ratheesh Balakrishnan Poduval,...
- 8/14/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
ReviewDirector Amit Masurkar draws out the human-animal conflict in all its complexity by bringing in several threads into the story.Sowmya RajendranSherni begins with the blurry shot of a forest guard pretending to be a tiger. He mimics the stride and growls of the beast until the riveting performance is broken by his colleagues. His act was for setting up a camera in the jungle, but with that opening, Amit Masurkar also blurs the line between man and animal. Are we separate from nature because we are civilised, and does being civilised mean we're better (a drunken song in the latter half of the film implies that we're not)? Sherni, now streaming on Amazon Prime Video, is based on the controversial killing of Avni, a tigress in Yavatmal district of Maharashtra in 2018. Killing a beast of prey has always been associated with masculinity and bravery, despite the efforts of conservationists...
- 6/18/2021
- by Sowmya
- The News Minute
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