Prasan Sinha's movie makes it to Cannes

Bihari filmmaker Prasan Sinha's first Hindi digital feature film, `Kismet Ek Anokha Mor', was well received at the 62nd Cannes
Film Festival.

Sinha, who hails from Muzaffarpur in Bihar and shifted to Delhi a decade ago, shot the movie
in digital format in Tikli village in Aravali hills in Haryana in 14 days. The medium-budget film was premiered in the India Pavilion at the Cannes Film Festival- 2009 on May 16.

Film celebrities like Sharmila Tagore, Subhash Ghai, Rakesh Roshan and Jugmohan Mundra were present during the show. He said the movie would also be screened at Dubai Film Festival and Venice Film Festival. It would be the opening film in the digital section of International Film Festival of India in Goa.

Having over 25 years of working experience in filmmaking with eminent filmmakers like Saeed Akhtar Mirza, Sinha has so far directed 45 documentary films, 25 corporate films, 10 ad films and more than 365 episodes of various TV serials. Sinha's directorial venture was `Sab Golmaal Hai' for DD metro.

"We have made an attempt to introduce a new concept in filmmaking which is of low budget and does away with the menace of piracy," Sinha said.

The film, produced by Abhay Yadav, is based in rural India and gives the message of self-employment. All the actors of the film have worked in rural theatre.

"Digital format shoot brings down the production cost by 40-50%," Sinha said and added some parts of Slumdog Millionaire were also shot in the digital format.

Talking about his upcoming movie `My Dear Brother-in-Law', Sinha said it's a comedy depicting a middle class family of a village and their old value system.link