Makkhi
Director: Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni
India | Hindi
2014 | 30min | Colour
Subtitles: English
Saturday, Nov 7 Club House, 1:30 PM
The film follows the story of Pipal and Tutur, both employed as ’Fly Killers’ at a restaurant. They have the responsibility to keep the restaurant fly-free as the drainage next to the premise attract too many flies. When the drainage is closed the officials plan to shoo away the ‘Fly Killers’ like flies.
Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni
Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni studied film-making in the film and television institute of India where he specialised in direction. His diploma film Girni (The Grinding Machine) won the presidents gold medal for best short film and best direction in the year 2005. His short documentary Three of Us premiered in Berlinale 2008. His first feature film Valu (The Wild Bull) along with the other two films, Vihir (The Well) and Deool (A Temple) were premiered in Rotterdam 2008, 2010 and 2012 respectively. Vihir was selected for the prestigious Berlin International Film Festival in 2010. He has directed short films among which Gaarud (The Spell) and Vilay (Dissolution) have been selected in the short film festivals of Oberhausen and Clermont Ferrand. He also produced Masala (Spices) (Released in April 2012) and Pune-52 (Released in January 2013). In 2012 at the prestigious Indian National Award, Umesh won the Golden Lotus for Best Feature Film for Deool (A Temple). He and his creative partner Girish Kulkarni have founded a production company under the title of ‘Arbhaat Films’ to produce films primarily in Marathi language but with a universal appeal.
Credits
Director: Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni
Cinematographer: Deep Sunni
Screenwriter: Girish Kulkarni
Editor: Ujjwal Chandra Singh
Sound: Alok Jha
Music: D J Narrain
Cast: Saharsha Shukla, Ashish Verma, Urmila Mahanta, Kunal Pant, Akash Sinha
