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World Premiere
Kamli
A Window on Asian Cinema
Crime/Violence · Social Criticism · Tradition
- CountryIndia
- Production Year2006
- Running Time70min
- Format35mm
- ColorCOLOR
Program Note
Through its critical perspective on serious poverty and preference ideology in current India, [Kamli] also puts an ethnographic eye on the Tribal Lambada, a nomadic tribe that has fallen down to the lowest social class by losing its homeland.
Kamli and Reyda, who belong to the tribe, give birth to a son in the hospital. When their son is accidentally switched with someone else`s daughter, Reyda thinks of selling the baby. After a long, lonely struggle, Kamli finally finds her own son. When she cannot identify the baby girl`s parents, she decides to accept her as her own daughter.
Throughout the film`s central narrative of Kamli`s searching for her baby, Sastry stresses the gravity of discovery and the protection of forgotten people by focusing on the music, dance and language of Tribal Lambada. Also, the director points out that poverty and the moral corruption of baby trafficking are deeply connected with the vanishing of minor cultures.
(Kim Ji-Seok)
Director

Kanala N.T. Sastry
Born in 1948. K.N.T. Sastry has been a film critic for over three decades in major Indian media. He made a short documentary film on the nomadic theatre group, “Surabhi”, received the National Award as Best Anthropological Ethnographic Documentary in 1999. He was also a Jury member at the 5th Pusan International Film Festival in 2000. His debut feature film [The Rite... A Passion] was invited to PIFF, and [kamil] is his second feature.
Credit
- Director
Kanala N.T. Sastry - ProducerHari Charan PRASAD
- ScreenplayKanala N.T. SASTRY
- CinematographySunny JOSEPH
- Production DesignKanala JAYADEV
- EditorBina PAUL
- SoundRadhalkrishnan
- MusicKotukapalli Isaac THOMAS
- Production CompanyApoorva Chitra
hariprasad@ceoexpress.com
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