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Multiplex - Screen 3
01/12/2006 @ 03:00:00 P.M

Vanaja -- Asia Premiere

Language: Telugu

Program: Film India Worldwide

Director: Rajnesh Domalpalli

Length: 2006, 35mm, Colour, 111 mins

Screenplay: Rajnesh Domalpalli

Producer: Latha R Domalpalli

Cinematographer: Milton Kam

Music: Bhaskara S Narayanan

Sound: Andrew Halasz, Radhakrishna Eskala

Cast: Mamatha Bukhya, Urmila Dammannagari, Ramachandriah Marikanti, Krishnamma Gundimalla, Karan Singh

Production Company: Varija Films Pvt Ltd

Website: www.VanajatheFilm.com

Print Source: Emerging Pictures 245 West, 55th Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10019, USA

Outsourced: USA

Director Biography: ‘Rajnesh Domalpalli, born in Hyderabad, India, has an electrical engineering degree from Mumbai’s Indian Institute of Technology and an M.S. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. In 1986 he worked as a Computer Engineer in California’s Silicon Valley. He then took up Film at New York’s Columbia University, graduating with an MFA in 2006. While in Columbia, his student script won an award, which he subsequently developed and directed as his first feature.

Synopsis: This Telugu-language film set in coastal Andhra Pradesh, revolves around 14-year-old Vanaja (Bhukya), the spirited daughter of a low-caste, drink-addicted fisherman who can barely earn his keep. A soothsayer tells Vanaja she will be a great dancer one day. The girl manages to get a job as a house maid to the landlady-danseuse Rama Devi (Urmila Dammannagari), who sees her potential and starts teaching her the Kuchipudi dance form. Rama Devi’s son Shekhar (Karan Singh) returns from America to pursue a career in politics. Sexual sparks between him and Vanaja are ignited by the latter’s defiant nature. He rapes her. She gets pregnant and leaves her job. Vanaja doggedly seeks revenge but at every turn, her plotting to do so fails. She branches out on her own, sustained by her undaunted spirit of survival. Domalpalli has selected real-life locations and used untrained locals which help to give the film a natural authenticity.

Festival Participation:

Toronto International Film Festival

Hampton ’s International Film Festival

Denver International Film Festival