Girgit Film

[Shanta Plansinis]

Girgitis a 2019 Indian Tulu-language comedy drama film[1] produced by Shoolin Films and Manjunath Attavar.[2] The film was theatrically released in India on 23 August 2019. It stars Roopesh Shetty, Shilpa Shetty, Roshan Shetty, Naveen D Padil, Bhojaraj Vamanjoor, Aravind Bolar, Sandeep Shetty, Prasanna Shetty and Umesh Mijar. The story of the film was written by Roopesh Shetty, and jointly directed by Roopesh Shetty and Rakesh Kadri and became the highest grossing Tulu film of all time.[3][4]

A young man falls in love with the girl of his dreams, and eventually, she also falls in love with him, but he has to face many weird, funny and tough situations in the process to marry her, as she has other commitments to oblige. Will the young man be able to succeed in getting his girl or have to face other consequences from this entertaining story.

I also got exposure to a lot of new international cinema, as compared to watching films in India where one is generally exposed to American animation only. The kind of exposure you get to short film making, (both live action and animation) on the festival circuits is fantastic. Short film making is generally an independent effort and looking at these films opens your mind, the festivals give you a chance to know how the film makers work and how they approach their challenges.

I was very impressed with some of the Russian animation TV series, they are way ahead in terms of their story telling for children as compared to what we see coming out of mainstream Hollywood. The thing is that Russian animation has not been globalised yet, the same is the case with quite a few European countries where they have been making some really beautiful work, which gets broadcast in their domestic channels and they continue creating new stuff in their own rhythm. I think India is much more modeled on American animation and even the idea of commercialisation is similar.

It is scripted and directed by me. Phat Phish productions will be producing it and the animation will be done by Fisher Folk, the studio that we have set up here in Bandra. We will be a team of 25 to 30 artists eventually. We have been working on the feature for the past five months and currently the storyboarding and character styling is in progress.

Its about 3 young individuals from 3 different villages of India. A 16 yr old girl from Madhya Pradesh, 17 yr old boy from Kashmir and a 10 yr old boy from Karnataka. These three kids end up living on the streets of Mumbai, where the story is set and which also keeps panning back to their lives in their respective native places.

All I am concerned about is that my film should turn out good. My producers have put full confidence in my film, thanks to the merits of Printed Rainbow. They are more confident of recouping investments than I am. They are the kind of producers who are putting their money into projects that they believe in and that are interesting, they have the capability and networks to commercially recoup investments from good works of art.

What are the challenges you are facing currently as a feature film maker?

I worked alone on Printed Rainbow and I had total control. The concept and execution and the iterations were all very cohesive. Now with 25 to 30 artists, the challenge I face is to translate my thoughts and feelings to people who come from various backgrounds. We are in the process of making the team shed its conventional rules of what Animation should be. My approach is that every film and project you work on has its own set of rules. The team sits together to explore what is the most effortless way of doing things without compromising on quality.

We are working on new styles in the film which are justified by the story, but these have never been used before. Exploring new styles is very challenging. Telling a story without words is a challenge too. I follow the principles of live action more than animation.

Another challenge is finding good people. I am looking for people with 5-7 years of experience in 2D and the work requires a lot of patience as it is hand painted frames we are creating. I want people to join because the work excites them.

I feel all the poaching and inflation of salaries that is happening is not good for the health of the Industry. Quite a few artists are moving just for a better salary rather than believing in their project. All over the world, people who have succeeded in animation are those who have been devoted and committed to their craft, the work produced from such commitment has given birth to business models and not the other way round. We, in India, are looking for short cuts and these will eventually hit us hard. Again the industry will eventually suffer due to its own over enthusiasm.

You can argue that India is the largest producer of live action films and the model here is that the handful of Hits take care of the business for even the rest of the films and the show goes on with exceptional, good, average and bad films all being part of the mix produced. The difference between Animation and Live action in India is that there is a 100 year old market for domestic live action films while Animation as a genre or a medium is new for a majority of the audience. Secondly in terms of technical finesse, a bad live action film will not look really bad, but a bad animation film can really look bad. Plus it is really sad to see so much of an effort gone waste, because even bad quality animation takes a lot of effort. I just hope that everyone who is announcing projects, give their all to them and builds a body of work that makes Indian animation proud.

Speaking about her role, Sharma says, "I play a cop in Bhopal in The game of Girgit. The film is based on an app called the blue whale app. The game on the app is a series of tasks which finally leads to self harm or harming someone else once one has taken the assignment there is no way out. I'm solving the case."

Speaking about the film, Talpade said, "The plot of the film is extremely interesting and that intrigued me to be associated with the film. The Game of Girgit is being directed by Vishal Pandya and I'm really looking forward to this journey."

Director Vishal Pandya added, The Game of Girgit is a story of today's generation where the young kids have adopted friendship apps on mobile as their friends with whom they share all their private life without knowing what problem they are getting into."

"Shreyas Talpade plays an app developer who takes advantage of this vulnerable kids & Adah who is a cop, investigates the cases of kids committing suicide & how her own closed one becomes a victim. Now, the challenge to catch Girgit is not professional, now it gets personal."

Dibyendu Bhattacharya, who has acted in popular web series such as Undekhi, Mirzapur, and films like Maqbool and Dev D, will be portraying the role of Pramod Bajpayee. Girgit will also see Ipshita Chakraborty and Joy Sengupta as Nilanjana and Indra respectively. Shot across the expanse of Kolkata, the movie also hosts a star cast of Koneenica Banerjee, Pradip Bhattacharya, Payel Mukherjee and Donna Munshi.

Girgit Studios recently released an animated short film, Pahal, based on encouraging women entrepreneurship in India. The film is a part of the Her & Now media campaign by giz, India in partnership with The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, India.

Pahal revolves around three women entrepreneurs, Arshia, Mridu and Fulwari, waiting for their Start-up funding event to begin. Sharing about their start-up stories and struggles leaves them with something more valuable than just the funds they had come to the event for.

Directed by Swarup Deb, Avinash Medhe and Anuj Kumar, bringing about a mindset change within the families to become the nourishing soil to help more and more women entrepreneurs to flourish is the main hope behind this project for the trio.

New Delhi, July 27 (UNI) Ranveer Singh has announced his next big project with director Aditya Dhar, known for directing 'URI: The Surgical Strike.'

The forthcoming film is set to be a star-studded spectacle with a stellar cast featuring Sanjay Dutt, R. Madhavan, Akshaye Khanna, and Arjun Rampal.

Thiruvananthapuram, July 26 (UNI) The curtains went up for the 16th edition of the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK) at the Kairali theatre in the state capital on Friday evening.

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