KERALA PARADISO
Set in the back drop of the Kerala, South India a small theater named “Kerala Paradiso” struggles to exist. Naveen works in this theater owned by his uncle. His world is all about watching movies and helping his Uncle in the theater. His world comes crashing down when he gets to know that the theater is being locked down as it was mortgaged by his Uncle. Racing against time he and the 5 regular movie goers try to save the theater through crowd funding and donations.
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Bijoy LonaDirector
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Bijoy LonaWriter
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Bijoy LonaProducer
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Kalesh RamanandKey Cast
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Sree PadmaKey Cast
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Harindranath HaripadSupporting Role
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Murali MohanSupporting Role
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Bindu MuraliSupporting Role
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Habib KhanSupporting Role
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Martin LambaiSupporting Role
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Razak ParadiseSupporting Role
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Beena VargheseSupporting Role
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Kareem PerambavurSupporting Role
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Siva Sudheesh. NSupporting Role
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Umesh KumarSupporting Role
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Rajagopalan. PSupporting Role
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Chackochan ManjummelSupporting Role
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Biju KumarSupporting Role
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Aslam MohamedSupporting Role
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Aneesh KottikoChief Associate Director
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Baby PeruvaAssociate Director
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Murali KrishnaAssistant Director
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Vijay AndrewsEditor
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Eswaran ThangavelDirector of Photography
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Sivan RajappanAssociate cameraman
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Arjun RajaAssociate cameraman
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NithyanandhamAssociate cameraman
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BalaCamera Assistants
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SuriyaCamera Assistants
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Chandran DevarajanProduction Controller
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Jose FranklinMusic Composer
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Aravind MenonSound Mixing
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Sachin SudhakaranSound Effects
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Hariharan MSound Effects
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Anil S NairSound Engineer
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Project Type:Feature
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Runtime:1 hour 16 minutes 52 seconds
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Completion Date:May 30, 2016
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Production Budget:60,000 USD
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Country of Origin:India
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Country of Filming:India
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Language:Malayalam
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:Yes
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Student Project:No
Bijoy Lona is a writer and director from India. His first short film "Miracle babies" which was drama about the hardships faced by the surrogate mothers which had the won the special mention at the agape film festival, honourable mention at Southhampton film festival , Special mention at Santa Monica Film festival and many Indian film festival awards. Bijoy is known for his soulful writing rooted in values and is firmly committed to the good cinema that moves people.
Director Vision
I am very passionate about this story as it deals with the magic of Cinema. This has been most personal story written by me as its more personal take on Art, Artist and Cinema. It revolves around five movie buffs and their part in making the village people believe about the magic of cinema than mere entertainment.
I had portrayed cinema as an art form pitted against the other Art and local dance form. This portrayal is shown by the village only theatre which is about to close down. The nativity is a very important hence we had used the set up of the Kerala and the dance form of Kathakali. The entire soundtrack has been composed keeping in mind the fusion of the modern music with the Kathkali style of Music. The final moments of film with the restore your faith in the magic of cinema.