Marathi-Kannada Film ‘Follower’ On Belgaum Issue Premieres At Rotterdam – FilmyVoice
Marathi/Kannada film ‘Follower’ is the newest film to joins the ranks of Indian cinema making a mark on the worldwide stage. The characteristic movie premiered on the prestigious 52nd Worldwide Movie Competition Rotterdam (IFFR), the place it obtained rave critiques and ran to packed screenings.
‘Follower’ premiered on the 52nd IFFR as a part of the pageant’s Focus: The Form of Issues to Come Section.
Helmed by debutant author and director Harshad Nalawade, ‘Follower’ encapsulates the combat between Belgaum’s essential linguistic groups- Kannada and Marathi by way of the lens of Raghu, a radicalised journalist. The movie has dialogue in Kannada in addition to Marathi languages.
Follower tells the story of a brainwashed youth belonging to a marginalised group and by digging deeper in his story, makes an attempt to discover a world contaminated with hate propagated by misinformation about one another. The movie navigates by way of private variations of characters and creates a microcosm of a bigger society that’s consumed within the ‘US vs THEM’ mindset.
Submit an IFFR screening, an elated Harshad Nalawade stated: “Our laborious work paid off. I didn’t got down to show some extent or make any scathing remarks on any group or political ideologies. It’s a human drama of how circumstances can play upon your psyche and the way it shapes you as an individual and the alternatives you make. Our private and work setting have a bearing on our personalities and escaping that’s all the time a problem. As social beings we’re all uncovered to varied partisan opinions and bombarded with content material as of late, someone with a profession in information is anyway residing within the eye of the storm, so turning a blind eye to what’s in any other case an city ennui to others will not be a selection for him.”
Harshad is from Belgaum- the place the story is predicated. The characters are actual and the continued tensions in Belgaum counsel that this engrossing story is coming alive. Taking inspiration from the director’s experiences of rising up in a linguistically marginalised group of the border metropolis. Follower was conceived in 2018 after he had directed and written numerous brief movies. For ‘Follower,’ Harshad raised funds by way of crowdfunding and ultimately obtained chosen within the NFDC Movie Bazaar Work-in-Progress Lab, 2021.
The movie is produced by HumaraMovie in affiliation with Causality Movies and stars Raghu Prakash, Donna Munshi and Harshad Nalawade.
‘Follower’ had earlier been part of the NFDC Movie Bazaar WIP Lab, 2021 and Movie Bazaar ‘Goes To Cannes’, 2022 the place it was additionally very nicely obtained.
