Cinema Bandi

Cinema Bandi (2021)

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Everyone is a filmmaker... at heart.

A struggling rickshaw driver’s life takes a rollicking turn when he comes upon an expensive camera and decides to make a film with his fellow villagers.

Date of release
2021-05-14
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (17)
Runtime
1h 38m
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Director
Praveen Kandregula

Casting

Interesting facts

Cinema Bandi is a 2021 Indian Telugu-language neo-noir dramedy film directed by debutant Praveen Kandregula. Produced by Raj & DK, the film features several debutant actors. Set in a village near the Andhra–Karnataka border, the plot revolves around a group of young filmmakers trying to make a film through a camera they found. The film premiered on Netflix on 14 May 2021. Cinema Bandi is featured in the Indian Panorama section at the 53rd IFFI where it won the Jury Special Mention. The film is inspired from an Indian documentary Supermen of Malegaon (2008).

Production

Praveen Kandregula met Raj and DK in 2018 at an interview. He and other writers mainly Vasanth Maringanti(lead writer) made a booklet about the ideas of making the film. The producers Raj and DK asked Praveen to make short film on the same story. Soon he made a short film based on the same story. Thus, the film is produced.

The film was filmed in 2019. It was earlier scheduled for theatrical release in 2020. Due to COVID-19 lockdown in India, it was rescheduled to premiere on Netflix. In an interview, Raj Nidimoru said that "We want to support indie filmmakers, specially first timers to make their films. The idea is not to call for stories because it's not like we have a dearth of them.

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