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PRAKASH TRAVELING CINEMA
PRAKASH UTAZÓ MOZI
India
Director: Megha. B. LAKHANI
14 min. 2006, Colour,
with dialogue, Hindi, English subtitled
Distributor: National Institute of Design
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Producer: National Institute of Design
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Screenplay: Megha. B. LAKHANI
Cinematographer: Geetika. JUYAL, Megha. B. LAKHANI
Music: (on location sound) Swati Desai
Editor: Megha. B. LAKHANI
Cast:
Feroz BHAI, Hanif BHAI
‘Prakash Traveling Cinema’, attempts to capture the spirit of an age old medium of entertainment through a bioscope film projector owned by two friends who share a deep friendship, unceasing optimism and most of all, an undying passion for their traveling cinema. The documentary takes you through their lives on the street where they walk around the city lugging their antique traveling cinema, which they lovingly refer to as the “lorry”, and lure the people into watching glimpses of movies, which the cinema has to offer. A stiff competition from movie theaters, television and technology has pushed this medium to the brink of extinction, and yet this sole traveling cinema has been able to dodge these hardships and continues to roll the path undeterred. ‘Prakash traveling cinema’ is simply just a subject employed to actually explore those innate tendencies of human nature that constantly fuel unfathomable emotions such inspiration, hope and endurance, that tend to survive even when all odds are against them.
Megha. B. LAKHANI
Date of Birth: 09.May.1984
Education Qualification: Graduation: B.Sc.Visual Communication. (First Class) University of Madras, Chennai, India
Post Graduation: Diploma in Film & Video Communication, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India.
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