Painting Life (2018)
A Bollywood filmmaker and his crew gets stranded in a remote Himalayan village due to torrential downpours. How the intense experiences under siege, affect the filmmaker's thoughts and priorities forms the central theme of the film.
- Date of release
- 2018-10-27
- Runtime
- 2h 25m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Bijukumar Damodaran
Casting
- Prakash Bare — Filmmaker
- Shankar Ramakrishnan — Nassar
- Meera Vasudevan — Wife
- Ravi Singh — Cinematographer
- Geetanjali Thapa — Lady in the guesthouse
Interesting facts
Painting Life is a 2018 Indian English film written and directed by Bijukumar Damodaran. 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.
Production
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 William…
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.
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