Answers to those questions...

"How can I watch this film?"

"Is it coming to the theatres?"

"When will it release?"

These are three questions that are sent most often to my inbox! 

So for all those people - here is the answer :

Manjadikuru / Lucky Red Seeds has only been screened at film festivals so far. 

(fortunately to some wonderful responses! :-))

The film has recently gone through a change in the Producers, so right now we are preparing the full release version for you with more scenes, fresh sound design, more songs and tracks... eagerly getting it ready to share it with you!!!  :-)

Time to smile again!

It has been a while since the last post... that folk tale has been truly metaphoric of the journey this film has taken since. During this time I had many moments of hopelessness where it didn't seem like there was light at the end of this tunnel. But there IS plenty light :-) and so let's do what someone smart suggested -

"drop those gaps into the silent limbo of the past...
let it go, for it was imperfect, and Thank God it can go!"

Back to the beginnings with our smiles once again... Last night Lucky Red Seeds was awarded the 'Certificate of Appreciation' at the Schlingel Film Festival in Germany :-)

Our first production office

In a long room with sloping roofs, in London, I wrote the first words on a second hand laptop. Very much the struggling student dreaming big.

From there a few years later, our first production office - a tiny room, in a corner of our apartment in Mumbai.  A desk. Two chairs. A new laptop. Plain walls but for an inspirational note, my father's picture and a poster of the film I wanted to make! A big window with a lovely 10th floor view to let in the fresh air and the dreams.

So what would we call ourselves?
"Little Films" seemed appropriate :-)

A few months later, we are in the same tiny room. The same desk with more laptops. Files start to build up. Walls plastered with reference notes and pictures. More importantly, the first member of our team Arvind Ashok Kumar joins. Like they say, the first follower transforms the lone nut - into a leader. So here we were, two nuts on either side of the same desk :-)

Coming home

Hi Anjali,

You don't know me but I know NP very well, and he asked me to visit the blogspot. And I am glad I did. It made me very nostalgic. A large part of my childhood was spent away from India but the most defining years were those spent in India. It was then I knew that I had finally 'come home.'

I think it's amazing to touch upon the innocence of childhood and re-live its memories through moving pictures. I think the experiences we have in our childhood define who we are and what we become.
To get in touch with your childhood is to get in touch with your soul.

I wish you all the best and hope through your movie, you touch the hearts and souls of many.

Winnie

The Line Producer's take

NP Prakash, writes in from Mumbai where he is a producer with Highlight Films. He started by producing "Punaradivaasam" - a Malayalam film and his latest film is produced by Disney!

"I am one of the few lucky people who got the privilege to read the script of Manjadikuru. it was a really wonderful and touching script that took me back to my childhood time. There were so many similar things in the script that happened in my family also. It was a nostalgic experience while reading the script."

"I still remember the difference in treatment given to the cousins of our age from abroad who would come for holidays compared to us who were in Kerala only. Still remember the small things we used to be fascinated about and one of them is Manjadikuru. We used to break it open and eat the dhal inside!

Used to feel that the paddy fields next to our house were never ending, and the trees used to be so huge and tall..."

NP Prakash has backed up his belief in the script by coming onboard as Line Producer on Lucky Red Seeds - the film. :-) And since then he has been rock solid with us n through all the ups ad downs and plenty fun!