Pushpa Ignatius ‘ Short Film Gets International Applaudes

The famous ad filmmaker Pushpa Ignatius , presented a thoughtful short film. It is all about a south temple priest who was influenced by occult and black magic. This movie was internationally applauded and awarded as it touches the idea of religion, casteism, gender equality, and the magic of fate and redemption .

As per the sources, Pushpa told, “My producer and I are always discussing scripts, and I just told her this idea, and she was sold on it, too”.  She added, “It was as if the story led me on... instead of me writing t the story, the story was making me write it.” Pushpa explained her journey and difficulties while choosing from characters to locations, as no temple was ready to give them space to shoot, finally they ended up on a village pond and some exteriors of Chennai.

Pushpa explains her ideology behind this concept so crucial, “So, I keep getting queries about the temples in the south of India, what are the rituals that happen there, and what is the meaning of caste. But the gender equality bit — they all get. In fact, that too came up in the story quite by accident. In my family, my sister and I have always been brought up differently — my dad always treated us like boys. I guess this was at the back of my mind when i was writing the script. The film does have a dark ending. That’s again something that fascinates the western audience- the fact that the girl doesn’t want to give the priest redemption-  she has decided her fate, she will get redemption, but won’t allow him to. And, of course, many in the audience were enamoured by the i dol of the Goddess shown in the film.”

The film is going global, with film festivals like Short Film Corner at Cannes, and has bagged the Silver Tree in the Best Film category at the Viva International Film Festival held in Bosnia. She has tried to change the perspective of India, she mentions “Usually, people are used to seeing India’s poverty, street kids, beggars, and so on in these circuits. So, temples and rituals do intrigue them. And so does casteism. It’s quite an alien concept to the west.” This though has definitely made a change has been appreciated worldwide

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