Priya Krishnaswamy
略歴
Priya Krishnaswamy is a 2-time National Award winning Indian film producer, writer, director and editor who works predominantly in Hindi and Tamil cinema. In 2004, her documentary film, 'The Eye of the Fish - the Kalaris of Kerala' won the National Award for Best Arts / Cultural film.
She made her feature film directorial debut with the Hindi film Gangoobai (2013).[1] She garnered acclaim for writing, editing, directing and producing the Tamil language thriller Baaram (2018) which won the National award for Best Tamil Feature Film in 2019. She was announced as the director of Tamil language feature film Pichaikkaran 2, starring Vijay Antony.
Screenplay
Karuppaswamy, a widowed night watchman, lives with his sister and three nephews, Veera, Muni and Murugun in a small town in Tamil Nadu. While returning from his shift one morning, he breaks his hip in an accident. While his nephews want him to be treated in town, his son Senthil takes him to his ancestral village, to be healed by a tradiitional healer. After a few days, Kuruppaswamy dies. At his funeral, Veea hears something that makes his blood run cold. How did Kuruppaswamy die?
Story
Karuppaswamy, a widowed night watchman, lives with his sister and three nephews, Veera, Muni and Murugun in a small town in Tamil Nadu. While returning from his shift one morning, he breaks his hip in an accident. While his nephews want him to be treated in town, his son Senthil takes him to his ancestral village, to be healed by a tradiitional healer. After a few days, Kuruppaswamy dies. At his funeral, Veea hears something that makes his blood run cold. How did Kuruppaswamy die?
Producer
Karuppaswamy, a widowed night watchman, lives with his sister and three nephews, Veera, Muni and Murugun in a small town in Tamil Nadu. While returning from his shift one morning, he breaks his hip in an accident. While his nephews want him to be treated in town, his son Senthil takes him to his ancestral village, to be healed by a tradiitional healer. After a few days, Kuruppaswamy dies. At his funeral, Veea hears something that makes his blood run cold. How did Kuruppaswamy die?
Editor
Karuppaswamy, a widowed night watchman, lives with his sister and three nephews, Veera, Muni and Murugun in a small town in Tamil Nadu. While returning from his shift one morning, he breaks his hip in an accident. While his nephews want him to be treated in town, his son Senthil takes him to his ancestral village, to be healed by a tradiitional healer. After a few days, Kuruppaswamy dies. At his funeral, Veea hears something that makes his blood run cold. How did Kuruppaswamy die?
Director
Karuppaswamy, a widowed night watchman, lives with his sister and three nephews, Veera, Muni and Murugun in a small town in Tamil Nadu. While returning from his shift one morning, he breaks his hip in an accident. While his nephews want him to be treated in town, his son Senthil takes him to his ancestral village, to be healed by a tradiitional healer. After a few days, Kuruppaswamy dies. At his funeral, Veea hears something that makes his blood run cold. How did Kuruppaswamy die?
Kumari
Preman (Fahad fazil)is the caretaker of a flat at Cochin. Everyone in the flat calls him 'Natholi'. He faces some unfortunate events in the flat and begins to write a story with the same characters in his real life and plays with their lives in his story. The film revolves around the story of the conflict between Preman and the character he creates. He has lost his control over the character he creates and the movie plots ahead with the interaction between them.
Director
Gangoobai, a childless, elderly widow, has lived her whole life in the tiny colonial hill station of Matheran, set in the spectacularly beautiful Sahyadri mountain range about 4 hours' drive from Mumbai.
Editor
A newly-wed couple's lives are changed during the Bhopal gas tragedy in 1984.
Editor
Krishna alias Kris Sahani lives in New York, but decides to travel to his homeland in order to act in a movie. While Ricardo Fernandes leaves Australia to travel to Bombay in search of his missing brother, Roger. And finally, Zeres Mistry, from London also travels to Bombay to find his true love. The paths of all three NRIs cross in the taxi to Colaba, and they decide to stick together. They find an apartment, owned by a gay landlord, Pesi Shroff, who openly and lovingly eyes a visibly uncomfortable Zeres. Things do not go well for Kris as he is asked by Filmmaker, Don Mastana, to act in a movie that is slated to be the worst movie in Bollywood history. Ricardo finds himself at the mercy of the local police, who make it clear to him that they have better things to do than look for his missing brother. It is only a matter of time before the hapless trio to realize that their respective hopes and dreams are soon to turn to hopelessness and nightmares - from which there is no escape.
Editor
There is something comical and pathetic about Percy, an awkward young man of 28, living alone with his aged mother in an old house tucked away in the Parsi colony in Bombay -- a very middle-class setting. Though Banubai, Percy's mother, utterly dominates Percy's life, she does so with love and kindness. Percy holds a clerical position in a small Unani pharmacy, famous for its sexual restoratives. It is only at his place of work, where he wields some power, that Percy displays a measure of authority and self-assurance. One day, Percy discovers a fraud in the office accounts, as a consequence of which one of the junior employees is sacked. This event has far-reaching consequences in the lives of Percy and Banubai. Percy's peace is soon to be shattered.
Editor
Om Dar-Ba-Dar is a 1988 Indian postmodernist Hindi film directed by Kamal Swaroop and starring Anita Kanwar, Aditya Lakhia and Gopi Desai in lead roles. The film set in Ajmer and Pushkar in Rajasthan, employed nonlinear narrative and an absurdist storyline to satire mythology, arts, politics and philosophy.