By Jude Sannith Mini CNBC-TV18's Jude Sannith watches India's official entry to the Oscars with its director, Pan Nalin, who breaks down 'Chhello Show' while advocating the art of "imperfect" filmmaking It's as simple as it gets: 'Chhello Show' (English: 'The Last Film Show'), India's official entry to the Oscars, is a movie about movies.
However, you cannot help but wonder if it's fair to bracket Pan Nalin's latest Gujarati feature film into merely a movie, for it is so much more.
In this journey, the young protagonist makes friends with the local cinema's projectionist (Bhavesh Shrimali as Fazal), discovers the magic of the cinema hall, watches classics like 'Jodhaa Akbar', falls in love with light and moving pictures, commits a bunch of juvenile misdemeanours with his partners in crime, and quite literally lives through the last days of classical cinema itself — all this so that he gets to make motion pictures of his own.
"I relate to Samay's character more now than before," he tells me with a smile, "Like every filmmaker, I went through the transition of loving popular cinema, Hollywood, the French New Wave, and Italian Neorealism.
Whatever movement the camera displays is often compelled by what Nalin calls "a moral decision" whose very existence must have a reason.
As India's official entry to the Oscars in 2023, 'Chhello Show' will be reviewed by a jury at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Source:- CNBCTV18