Rotterdam Selection ‘Naangal,’ a Personal Portrayal of Childhood Trauma, Unveils Clip, Director’s Next Film (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comNaman Ramachandran Variety has secured access to an exclusive clip from Indian film “Naangal” (“This Is Us”), which has its international premiere in International Film Festival Rotterdam‘s Bright Future strand.
The film is directed by Avinash Prakash, a veteran of commercials and music videos who also directed Prime Video stand-up comedy special “Aravind SA: Madrasi Da” (2017). “Naangal” is his fiction feature debut.
Set in the late 1990s and early 2000, the film is a story of three siblings, un-identical twin boys of eight and their 12-year-old elder brother, who are forced to grow up with their strict and unreasonably proud and arrogant father who is going through a major financial and personal crisis and is separated from their mother.
They live in a massive house nestled in the verdant hills of Tamil Nadu, southern India, but cannot afford water, electricity or a decent meal.
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