Movie ‘Mithyam’ makes it to the Cannes Film Market

Mangaluru: India being a ‘country of honour’ at the Marche du Film (Cannes Film Market), the business counterpart of the

Cannes Film Festival

, and a lot is being talked about Bollywood celebrities at Cannes, however the coastal region too has a reason to celebrate. ‘Mithyam- the false truth’, a film directed by Raghu Naik, hailing from Gokarna in Uttara Kannada district, is one of the films featured in the

Cannes Film Market

. The film is about a diligent doctor named

Abhay

, who discovers a mysterious rise in mercury poisoning cases among the populace Raghu Naik, after leaving a lucrative, high-paying software job in Atlanta, moved to Mumbai in 2010, and joined a film school, to professionally pursue his life-long passion for cinema. He has grown to be a world citizen, working and living in cities like Mumbai, Jakarta and Atlanta, as well as Belagavi and Pune. This exposure to diverse art, literature, culture and international films, is what inspired Raghu to become a filmmaker. He told TOI, “Mithyam is my first feature-length film as a director, and is a labour of pure love and hard work. The response at the festival has been good so far,” he said. Naik earlier worked on a sci-fi fantasy series and web series. His brother Vinayak Naik, with an experience of over two-and-a-half decades, of heading global business for technology companies, and after having lived in many countries, got into filmmaking in 2013. The protagonist of the film is played by Ankit Varshneya, a new talent from Mumbai. Among the cast and crew, many others have a coastal connect. For instance, Parivesh Padhy, who plays the character of Rahul Sharma in the movie, graduated from a college in Manipal. Parivesh has been an active part of the Hindi film industry for many years now, producing films and reality shows, when not acting and modelling. He said, “The team is also attending several online workshops and programmes, as part of the

Cannes

Film Market. The OTT release is expected to happen soon after the festival,” he said. Vijay Krishna from Bengaluru plays the role of Sanjay in the movie. He is a theatre actor, and has also acted in several web series.

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