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Best Film Digital Talkies International Film
Festival 2001
Best Film Kara Film Fest 2001
Best Screenplay
Kara Film Fest 2001
Best supporting
Actor Kara Film Fest 2001
divra drishti
Made in the tradition of Dogma and Dogma-inspired horror such as The Blair
Witch Project, Divya Drishti is set in the seemingly desultory environs of
suburban Mumbai. A charlatan sadhu sits at Raju's chai shop, drinking cheap
country liquor and hoodwinking eager, if not innocent workers and housewives
who come to him for advice. The neighbourhood he counsels is tied together
in a complex net of sexual betrayal, unfulfilled desire and blind faith in
the sadhu's healing power.
One day, however, the sadhu
begins to lose his eyesight. The doctors tell him the cause is his
alcoholism, but he knows better: his imminent blindness brings with it a new
'vision', cataclysmic nightmares, hallucinations and, finally, the truth.
Thus, the film examines the very nature of truth and belief, pitting
blindness against vision and fact against fiction to create a tragic, and
perhaps cathartic, climax.
The Filmmaker
Sidharth Srinivasan graduated from St.
Stephen's College with a degree in Economics. Sidharth's first independently
written, produced and directed film, The Tightrope Walker [35 mm, colour, 15
min], made when he was 24, was screened in competition at the 57th Venice
Film Festival. Divya Drishti is his first full-length
feature film.
Directed
by : Sidharth Srinivasan;
INDIA/2001/120MIN/HINDI
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