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City has starring role in film fest
Classic movies Bazaar, a poignant portrayal of poor Muslim women in the Old City, and Ankur, are among a bouquet of films being screened.
Hyderabad, its people, its distinctive dialect and culture are integral parts of all these films.
Anand director Shekhar Kammula, who also shot Dollar Dreams with a bunch of Hyderabadis in the city, said: "Making a city the central character of a film will not only help the audience identify with it, but the filmmaker can also raise issues pertinent to the city."
Chief guest K Vijayabhaskar spoke of how the city, consciously or otherwise, played a vital role in most Telugu films right from the 1970s. According to Vijayabhaskar, director of hit films like Nuvve Kaavali and Jai Chiranjeeva: "There is a lot of scope to make movies in Hyderabad.
It has many unexplored places. There is a perfect mix of cultures, traditional and modern at the same time. This gives us scope to make films on different stories based here in the city."
Both directors also noted that there was an audience for all kinds of movies in Hyderabad. There was room for art films, crossover films as well as commercial films. This was thanks to the multiplexes that screen movies targeting small audience, they said.
From a filmmaker's standpoint, Vijaybhaskar said, the city was a very comfortable place to work. "The infrastructure is all there-good studios, labs and even animation opportunities.
The city gives us the scope to make a low budget movie with just Rs 1 crore or even a big commercial film costing Rs 15 crore,"he said.
Also present at the festival was filmmaker B Narsing Rao who talked about young directors of the city who have successfully experimented with crossover films.
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