Angamali Diaries

Director Lijo Jose Pellissery /India/132/Malayalam/2017

 

Synopsis The story revolves around Vincent Pepe (and his friends) who wanted to be a powerful leader of a righteous gang that ruled the city, like his seniors. And then there’s the rival clan with the malicious gangsters of Angamaly a locale on which the entire film is based. The movie goes through all the gang-fights, the failed romances, an accidental death, a messy business deal and much more in the backdrop of a soundtrack with local fervor – with folk songs from Angamaly.

 

Directed by  Lijo Jose Pellissery
Written by  Chemban Vinod Jose
Produced by  Vijay Babu
Director of Photography  Girish Gangadharan
Editor  Shameer Mohammed
Sound Designer  Renganaath Ravee
Music  Prasanth Pillai
CAST : Antony Varghese , Sarath Kumar , Tito Wilson, Rajan, Reshma Rajan

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

• Award of Excellence – 13th edition of Accolade Global Film Competition

DIRECTORS STATEMENT

Angamaly Diaries is not a conventional commercial film, and it is steeped in the local Angamaly idiom. For me, the way to tell the story of a particular place in detail is to bring in the flavour of the local food, the humour, music, all of which are an essential part of Angamaly Diaries. Watching the film was like experiencing a new land. It worked because we were not sticking to one protagonist and one story-line, we were telling Angamaly’s tale.