Kaleidoscope
Tiger's Pond / Vaghachipani
Natesh Hegde
Director's bio
Natesh Hegde
Director and scriptwriter Natesh Hegde was born and brought up in Yellapura in the Western Ghats of Karnataka, India. He completed a master’s in journalism at the Karnataka University Dharwad. Pedro (2021), his debut feature film, was part of the NFDC Film Bazaar’s Work-in-Progress Lab in 2019 and had its world premiere in the Busan New Currents Competition in 2021. It won the Roberto Rossellini award for Best Director at the 5th Pingyao International Film Festival and the Montgolfiere d’Argent at the Festival des 3 Continents in Nantes. His short stories have been published in major Kannada-language magazines.
Synopsis
In the sleepy hamlet of Vaghachipani, an under-aged sheperdess is discovered to be pregnant. Her employer who is hellbent on becoming the chairman of the village-council is making every effort to cover it up, resulting in more cover-ups threatening to be exposed. Mentally-deficient, the young sheperdess has no idea what a pregnancy is.
Details of Cast
Malabari : Dileesh Pothan, Prabhu : Achyut Kumar, Venkati : Natesh Hegde, Basu : Gopal Hegde, Pathi : Sumitra, Devaki : Bindu Raxidi
Details of Crew
Cinematography: Vikas Urs, Editing: Natesh Hegde, Paresh Kamdar, Music: Leo Heiblum, Sound design: Shreyank Nanjappa
Producer Details
Anurag Kashyap, Ranjan Singh
Writer Details
Natesh Hegde
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