With encouraging worldwide consideration garnered by a number of awards, Crimson Polka Productions’ ‘Mein, Mehmood’ continues to make waves. It gained the very best brief movie award on the current Kolkata Worldwide Pageant.
‘Mein, Mehmood’, starring Ozair Abdul Aleem, traces the lifetime of the character Mehmood. He is an easy, middle-aged man from the Indian subcontinent who has gone to the Center East to earn a dwelling.
Mehmood, who works as a phone operator at an organization reeling from the pandemic, struggles to fulfill month-to-month gross sales targets. His lack of ability to talk English limits his skill to converse with potential clients. ‘Mein, Mehmood’ (‘I am, Mehmood’) appears to be like on the plight of hardworking immigrants around the globe who aren’t properly versed in talking English.
“The rationale we selected this matter was that this explicit downside is usually taken with no consideration regardless of being a world downside,” says Prataya Saha, who wrote and directed the movie. The movie has a crew based mostly in Bangalore and is one more instance of impartial filmmakers crossing borders to shine on the worldwide stage regardless of restricted assets.
Talking additional on the theme of the movie, Prataya says, “We’re not in opposition to any language, however it’s a downside if you prioritize one language over the opposite. They decide you based mostly on whether or not you may communicate the language or not.”
After dazzling at famend international movie festivals just like the DC South Asian Movie Pageant and the River to River Overseas Movie Pageant, the movie will stream on Disney+Hotstar in mid-2023 if all goes based on plan. say the creators. dh.
Prataya has accomplished his first brief movie in Bengali. It’s within the ultimate phases of its submit manufacturing. It stars many Bengaluru-based theater actors. She has additionally written two function movies and is in search of attainable collaborators.