KUKLI

“My childhood hobby has become an addiction.
The spark in addiction has resulted in passion.
Though my passion isn't related to my profession,
But my mission has silently enriched my vision”.

The prime aim and objective of MM Production are to produce good quality Videos and Content that will directly or indirectly support the overall growth of the Santal Social System and promote their language, literature, culture, and tradition worldwide. Team MM Production consists of a group of like-minded people. We are working with minimum resources and limited manpower to fulfill our purpose. 

I am Shyama Sundar Majhi, the Director of the Short Film KUKLI. This film is produced under the banner of MM Production in July 2019. I belong to an Indigenous Community: the Santal Community. The story of my film is picturized on an underprivileged little girl who descends from the indigenous Santal Community of rural India. I'm very well acquainted with the grass-root reality of my community. Through this film, I want to show the world about the Santali culture, tradition, social system, the pain, and suffering of my Santal Community.

Basically, I belong from a technical Profession and I possess an engineering background. Neither did I have studied in the film institution nor have attended any filmmaking workshop in my life. In my Short Film "KUKLI", not a single trained artist has been cast. Almost everybody is from my village and most of them are my family members and relatives. That was a big challenge for me on how to get the work done effectively and efficiently. Working with a child artist who has never been professionally trained, is really a very tough task for the Director. In my Film, the main character is a little girl child who knew nothing about acting and of course film shooting. The hard work of my team has reflected in the success of our film "KUKLI". Till now my film has won 115 National and International Awards out of 180 official selected Film Festivals across 16 Countries. It is not a matter of awards, but it is sure that my film is successfully highlighting a strong social message on humanity, anti-war, pain, and suffering of the tribal lives even in present India.