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DHARANI

“DHARANI” – MOVIE SYNOPSIS
The film Dharani portrays the story of an orphan, Vishwam who is deaf with little hearing
ability. His father died when he was young and his mother decided to commit suicide along
with her son, after struggling to meet the two ends. However, she finally took her own life by
jumping into a public village well leaving behind her son.
Even though, Vishwam was able to talk, the shock of watching his mother’s death dragged
him into a deaf-mute stage. An old man by name Narayanan was the only companion
whenever Vishwam faced big dilemmas. Vishwam was a squatter, and when the village
people decided to move him out from the property, only Narayanan was there to help him.
Vishwam does all the dirty work for the entire community and on return he gets nothing or
sums of peanut value.
As the story evolves, one day Vishwam’s hut got burned down by some goons and anti-social
elements. Having neither a proper place to sleep nor a place to go, Vishwam is taking shelter
under a banyan tree near the temple. He loves to play cricket but the kids in the village
doesn’t want him to play their games. Even though he likes kids, the kids doesn’t respond at
all. One day, when the kids ran out of players they decided to let him play. Vishwam
overjoyed by this, gave a welcome shot to that cricket ball thrown at him, which eventually
landed in the same old well which has become a dumping well rather than a well with water.
Vishwam had to convince the kids who were in such an agony. He decided to do the task of
taking the ball out from well all by himself. Without much further thought he went to the
well and try to take the ball out from the well. During this process, he slipped and fell into
the well.
Vishwam tried a lot to get out of the well, but in-vain. He finally realised that no one cares
about him and as such no one was looking for him at that time. Meanwhile, he realised the
beauty of nature where animals be it small or big that has shown this enormous love
towards him.
Thus this movie depicts the real nature of our existence, our own role in this planet earth –
that is to co-exist with other beings rather than destroying their habitats and destroying
them all at once for our existence.

  • Sreevallabhan B
    Director
    Shyamam, Pakaram, Pacha
  • Sreevallabhan B
    Writer
  • Parallax Film House
    Producer
  • K Sreenivas
    Editor
    K Sreenivas was born on 1972 in Thakkala, kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu to Mr Krishna Pillai and Mrs Radha. After his education, in 1987 he started to work in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada film industry as an assistant editor with eminent senior editors such as Uma Shankar and Srikar Prasad. Thereafter, in 2000 he started to work as independent editor and in 2004 entered into Malayalam film industry to work as an independent film editor for a blockbuster Malayalam movie. He worked as an editor for more than 30 Malayalam movies and won best editor award for Malayalam movies (awarded by Kerala state government) in three separate occasions. The movies he worked with have received national awards as well. Mr Sreenivas has worked with famous Malayalam film directors. Currently he has finished a project with director Sreevallabhan for the upcoming movie “Dharani”.
  • Ratheesh Ravi
    Key Cast
    "Vishwam"
  • Jiju Sunny
    Cinematography
    Jiju Sunny Hails from Malappuram in Kerala . He has started his career as an assistant cinematographer in Malayalam film Industry. After a while he was able to associate with plenty of cinematographers in Tamil Telugu and kannada film industries. With his astonished experiance in various film indusries in India he became an indipendent Cinematographer in Pyali a malayalam movie. After this two state award winning movie he joined his hands with a thriller movie "Thrayam " also a malayalam language movie. Dharani is his third movie.
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Genres:
    Environmental, Drama
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 28 minutes 30 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 31, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    80,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    India
  • Country of Filming:
    India
  • Language:
    Malayalam
  • Shooting Format:
    RED
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2.39:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Distribution Information
  • Parallax Film House
    Distributor
    Country: India
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Sreevallabhan B

I have been actively involved in the cine field since 1995 and made debut as a director by making a documentary based on a Padma Sree Mammootty. After the successful completion of the project, I stepped into the Movie industry where worked as an Assistant and Associate Director for a few movies in Malayalam and Tamil Languages. In addition to movies, I have been actively involved directing Short documentary based on famous personalities.
As a Director
1) SnehapoorvamMammoottikku (Documentary)
DDI Channel in 2001
2) Shyamam (Dark clouds of Reality) Feature Film 2005
3) Pakaram Feature Film 2013
4) Humanity First (Short Film) 2016
5) Pacha (The Nature) Feature Film 2019
6) Rajashekareeyam (Documentary) 2021.
My major contribution in the Malayalam Movie named “Shyamam”, a touching strong based on the social implications of the deadly AIDS. Staring I.M.Vijayan, KPAC Lalitha, Mamookoya, Kottayam Nazeer, M.R.Gopakumar, Suraj Venjaramoodu, M.S.Thrippunithura, Krishna etc.

Achievements of Shyamam (Dark Clouds of Reality)
a) Best Long Narrative Movie 2006(New York Film Festival)
b) Best upcoming Director 2005(Film City Award)
c) Best upcoming Director 2005(Film Audience Award)
d) Best Social Awareness Movie 2005 (Film City Award)
e) Best Child Artist 2005 (Film City Award).
f) Screened in different countries / cities (Washington DC, Brazil, Germany, Romania etc)
g) Satellite Rights to Amrita TV
h) Video Rights to Blue Berry
i) Other Screening rights to PRD (Government of Kerala)
Second Movie “PAKARAM” in 2013
This movie had a big line up of Noted stars. The cast include Siddique, Jagatheesh, Mala Aravindan, Devan, Menaka, Radhika etc.
a. Special Jury Mention in Atlas Film Critics Award
b. Satellite rights to Doordarshan and ACV
c. Video Rights to Horizon Videos
d. Audio Rights to Eastcost Videos.
Third Movie PACHA (The Nature) in 2019
Starring Master Appu, Guest Appearance -NedumudiVenu, KPAC Lalitha, Menaka, G.SureshKumar etc

Achievements of PACHA
a. New York IO Film Festival (US) -Best Environmental Movie
(Grand Prize Winner-2021)
b. Nehemiah Film Festival (US) -Best International Narrative
Feature Film-2021
c. 2nd Salento Film Festival (Italy) - Best Film-2019
d. Cannes World Film Festival (France) - Best Narrative
Feature Film-2021.
e. Janmabhumi (Special Jury Award-2019)
f. Film Critic Award-2019
Screened in
a. Scandinavian International Film Festival (Finland)
b. Seoul International Film Festival (South Korea)
c. India International Film Festival Boston (US)
d. Indian Film Festival (Italy)
e. London Film Festival (UK)
f. New York Lift Festival (US)
g. CMS Festival Delhi.
h. Soorya Film Festival.

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Director Statement

Dharani portrays the societal attitudes of apathy and hatred to our fellow disabled people. Dharani instills and motivate us to think about our own wrong-doings towards disabled people by showing the co-existence between human beings and other animals.