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      • Painting Life is a 2018 Indian English film written and directed by Bijukumar Damodaran (commonly known as Dr. Biju). The film was jointly produced by Silicon Media and Blue Ocean Pictures and depicts the experience of a film crew who are stranded in a remote Himalayan village.


      Plot


      The crew, led by a Bollywood filmmaker, arrives in the Himalayas to shoot a song and dance sequence for their upcoming blockbuster. However, after torrential downpours and landslides, they find themselves cut off from the outside world with no basic amenities or means of communication, at the mercy of nature.
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      For the director, who has been highly successful commercially, cinema is mainly an entertainment business with no connect to the real world or social issues. He saw the valley as merely a picturesque locale for his shoot. Through a series of intense, he begins to see the world in a different light. His eyes open to the travails of the breathtakingly beautiful land and its beleaguered residents. How these revelations affect the thoughts and priorities of the filmmaker, both on the personal and filmmaking fronts, forms the central theme of the film.


      Cast


      Prakash Bare as Filmmaker
      Geetanjali Thapa as Lady in the guest house
      Shankar Ramakrishnan as Nassar
      Ritabhari Chakraborty as Actress
      Meera Vasudev as Wife (Guest appearance)
      Ravi Singh as Cinematographer
      Purav Goswami as Associate Director
      Krishnan Balakrishnan as Asst Director
      Melwyn Williams as Production Controller
      Noksha Saham as Hunter
      Phuntsok Ladakhi as Monk
      Tensing Lepcha as Hotel boy
      Kinsong Bhutia as Guesthouse manager
      Govardhan BK as Hotel boy
      Yangcho Bhutia as Girl from the village
      Arjun Subba as Boy from the village


      Crew


      Painting Life is the first English feature film directed by Dr. Biju, whose earlier eight films have won national film awards.
      M. J. Radhakrishnan, a 7-time winner of Kerala State Film Awards for Best Cinematography, is behind the camera.
      Singaporean composer Mark Chan composed the background score of the film. The sound design, recording and mixing are performed by Jayadevan Chakkadath and Pramod Thomas. The film is co-produced by Silicon Media.


      Production




      = Casting

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      Painting Life is a pan-Indian project with a cast and crew from 10 different Indian states. The cast of the film includes Prakash Bare (Bangalore), Geetanjali Thapa (Mumbai), Ritabhari Chakraborty (Kolkata), Shankar Ramakrishnan (Kerala), Ravi Singh (Mumbai), Purav Goswami (Assam), Meera Vasudevan(Mumbai), Phuntsok Ladakhi (Jammu), Noksha Saham (Arunachal), Kinzong Bhutia (Sikkim), Master Govardhan(Kerala), Tensing Lepcha (Sikkim), Melwyn Williams (Delhi), Krishnan Balakrishnan (Kerala), Yancho Bhutia (Sikkim) and Arjun (Sikkim).


      = Filming

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      The film is shot entirely in Sikkim, an Indian state that borders China. The movie also talks about the dam construction which has impacted the ecology of this area. A number of NGOs and activists from the state, who continue to work against projects that threaten the ecosystem of Sikkim, were associated with the movie both on and behind the camera.


      Festival Selections and Awards


      Winner Best Screen Play award at Aurangabad International film festival 2019
      Winner Premios Da Critica (Critics award) at 39th Oporto International film festival, Portugal, 2019
      Winner best cinematography at Indian Film festival Cincinnati, Ohio 2019 September
      Montreal World Film Festival, August 2018 in World Greats
      Almaty Film festival, September 2018 in Main competition
      Hanoi International Film Festival, October 2018 in Panorama
      Jogja NETPAC Asian Film Festival, November 2018 in Asian Perspective
      All Lights International Film festival, Hyderabad, December 2018 in Main competition
      International Film festival of Kerala in December 2018 in the section Indian Cinema Now
      Dhaka International Film Festival in December 2018 in Asian Film Competition section
      13th Ethiopian International Film Festival in December 2018 in World Cinema section
      16th Chennai International Film Festival in December 2018
      6th Aurangabad International Film Festival in January 2019 in the Competition section
      11th Jaipur International Film Festival in January 2019
      Fantasporto 2019: 39th Oporto International Film Festival, Portugal in February 2019 in two Competition sections Director's week and Oriental Express
      Buddhist International Film Festival, Dikshabhumi, Nagpur. January 2019
      South East Asia film exhibition, Kunming, China. June 10 to 14
      Asian Film Festival Barcelona, Spain. 31 October to 10 November
      In Competition, Indian film festival Cincinnati, Ohio September 2019
      Buddhist film festival New Delhi, October 2019.
      Buddhist film festival Patna, October 2019
      Indian Monographic Film Week, Canary Island, Spain, June 2020


      References




      External links


      Official website
      Painting Life on Facebook
      Painting Life at IMDb

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