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Wikipedia article
'Chhello Show' (, ) is 2021 Gujarati coming-of-age drama film directed by Pan Nalin. It stars Bhavin Rabari, Bhavesh Shrimali, Richa Meena, Dipen Raval and Paresh Mehta in lead roles. The film premiered at the 20th Tribeca Film Festival on 10 June 2021.
Plot
A nine-years-old Samay from Chalala, a village in Saurashtra in Gujarat state of India entered a cinema hall projection booth by bribing Fazal, a cinema projector technician, and watched several films through summer. He became engrossed with cinema for life.
Cast
* Bhavin Rabari as Samay
* Bhavesh Shrimali as Fazal, projectionist
* Richa Meena as Baa, Samay's mother
* Dipen Raval as Bapuji, Samay's father
* Paresh Mehta as cinema manager
* Vikas Bata as Nano
* Rahul Koli as Manu
* Shoban Makwa as Badshah
* Kishan Parmar as ST
* Vijay Mer as Tiku
* Alpesh Tank as Mr. Dave, teacher
* Tia Sebastien as Leela Mila
Production
, Gujarat, India in 2019
The film is semi-autobiographical as Nalin was born and brought up in Adtala village in Saurashtra. Six village boys from local communities of the region were cast. The film was shot in villages and railway station in Saurashtra. He also brought old celluloid Hindi films and a technician to run projectors. The cast is mostly made of child actors. Dilip Shankar, Nalin's friend and casting director, assisted Nalin in casting the child actors. The film was shot in March 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in India. The post-production was completed during the pandemic. The film is produced by Dheer Momaya's Jugaad Motion Picture, Nalin's Monsoon Films and Marc Duale's Stranger88 in co-production with Virginie Lacombe's Virginie Films and Eric Dupont's Incognito films.
The film focuses on hope and innocence. It also highlight ending culture of single-screen cinema and 35mm celluloid films in India.
Release
The film premiered at Spotlight section of the 20th Tribeca Film Festival on 10 June 2021. It was the first Gujarati film selected for the festival section. The film will be released in Germany, Spain, Japan, Israel and Portugal.
The film was nominated for Tiantan Awards at 11th Beijing International Film Festival, to be held from 21 to 29 September 2021.
The film won the Golden Spike to Best Film at the 66th Valladolid Film Festival (Seminci) held in October 2021.
Reception
Prahlad Srihari of 'Firstpost' called the film "an ode to movie-going, as movie-making". Tanzeem Pardiwalla of 'Mashable India' rated it 5 out of 5. She praised the direction, cinematography, theme, story and performances.
References
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