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LAST FILM SHOW

Set circa 2010 in the remote Indian countryside, LAST FILM SHOW (CHHELLO SHOW) is the story of a young and free-spirited nine-year-old called SAMAY, whose life turns upside down after watching a movie at the local Galaxy Cinema. Falling passionately in love with films, he begins to steal money from his father’s small, struggling teashop and skip school to watch movies. Soon, Samay and his gang of friends develop a new obsession: to create their own 35mm movie from their dreams. Although Samay’s father quickly discovers his son’s ‘immoral’ obsession and physically punishes him to get him to stay away from the ‘filthy’ world of movies, it is already too late for Samay, smitten as he is by the world of movies. As he continues to pursue his obsession, Samay’s path crosses with FAZAL, the projectionist at the Galaxy Cinema, and together they strike a deal. Samay will let him eat the delicious food that his mother lovingly makes for him every day, and in return, Fazal will let him watch movies all day long from the projection room. In no time at all, their "food-for-films" deal turns into an endearing, long-lasting friendship. But an era of change is sweeping through the country, and soon the unlikely duo will be forced to make heartbreaking choices, and ultimately their dreams will be altered forever...

  • PAN NALIN
    Director
  • PAN NALIN
    Writer
  • DHEER MOMAYA
    Producer
  • SIDDHARTH ROY KAPUR
    Producer
  • PAN NALIN
    Producer
  • MARC DUALE
    Producer
  • BHAVIN RABARI
    Key Cast
  • RICHA MEENA
    Key Cast
  • BHAVESH SHRIMALI
    Key Cast
  • DIPEN RAVAL
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 51 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    June 10, 2021
  • Country of Origin:
    India
  • Country of Filming:
    India
  • Language:
    Gujarati
  • Shooting Format:
    DIGITAL
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2.39:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Distribution Information
  • ORANGE STUDIO
    Sales Agent
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
  • SAMUEL GOLDWYN FILMS
    Distributor
    Country: United States
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - PAN NALIN

Pan Nalin’s ANGRY INDIAN GODDESSES (Mongrel Media / Netflix) has been enjoying top critical and commercial success across the world. It is the first Indian film to win Audience Choice Award First RunnerUp at the Toronto International Film Festival 2015 and Prix du Public at the Rome Film Festival 2015; followed by many other awards. Pan Nalin came into global limelight with SAMSARA (Miramax) a massive commercial and critical success worldwide and won him some thirty plus international awards including Grand Jury Prize at AFI Fest and Santa Barbara Intl Film Fest. Many critics and spectators considered SAMSARA a groundbreaking film. Nalin’s romantic epic VALLEY OF FLOWERS (Pandora/TF1/France2) is considered a major underground hit. This Japan-France-Germany co-production still continues to enjoy multiple-platform releases with cult success worldwide. As a writer, Nalin’s tragicomedy screenplay SLIGHTLY SANE won the CJ Entertainment’s Award for The Best International Project at Asia Film Market, Busan, South Korea.
Nalin has also made several documentaries with BBC, Discovery, Canal Plus and other leading international networks. His multiple awards winning feature documentary AYURVEDA: ART OF BEING (Kino) was theatrically released worldwide with major success. Nalin’s feature documentary FAITH CONNECTIONS (Cite Films / Jungle Book) was an Official Selection at Toronto, won the Audience Choice Award at IFFLA Los Angeles and it has been theatrically released worldwide. In 2006 Pan Nalin was awarded Spain's highly prestigious Vida Sana Award. Also in 2007, David Flint's Triangle Media Group UK, awarded Pan Nalin as one of the Top 50 Achievers in Global Mainstream Media in the field of Film, Theatre & Drama. Nalin also made it into The Better India’s prestigious list of “25 NRI (Non-Resident Indians) Across The World Who Have Made India Proud.” Nalin recently completed a first New Zealand – India co-production THE DISAPPEARANCE OF EVA HANSEN, a spiritual thriller set in the Himalayas starring David Wenham and Emmanuelle Beart. The partly autobiographical LAST FILM SHOW is his first Gujarati language film.

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Director Statement

“Last Film Show” for me is a cinematic mission.

The disappearance of all things called film in 2009 had shattered all my celluloid dreams. My heart remains broken for almost a decade.

When the world took away the film from me; it was almost like taking away the red or blue or yellow color from an artist who paints. How can an artist be forever red-less or blue-less!

But since, I’ve made peace with the world made up of 0s and 1s. I’ve entered the digital domain and embraced virtual reality to revere the human spirit of innovations.

But still, why am I so deeply emotional about some light-sensitive emulsion stuck on plastic!

I started digging deep within me to find some answers.

It all started when I saw my first film -and since there has been that constant obsession to catch the light!

That physical light, which lens gathers,
That physical light, which aperture controls,
That physical light, which shutter cuts,
That physical light, which film records.

In “Last Film Show” I plan to celebrate that recorded light, which often creates havoc in the human mind –and heart.

Last Film Show will be a festivity of films within each frame; haunting lights, shadows, optical illusions, darkness, and then vast open spaces bathing in sunlight. I plan to garnish each image with top-notch aesthetics. Each composition nourishes the human spirit of each character; meanwhile, each camera move breathes life into kinetic patterns of narration.

Earthy sound is carefully recorded on location to evoke an organic soundscape. Be it soothing sounds from nature or mechanical sounds from a factory; it is all intricately designed to create the music to the mind. Because the only music Last Film Show will have is music that exists in sounds of everyday life.

The pace of the film almost imitates real-life –and real-time; sometimes dynamic, sometimes contemplative, and sometimes energetic. The edit will cut and control time in order to create the seamlessness within the unfolding of the story.

Overall, it’s one emotional cinematic roller-coaster ride where every moment comes straight from the heart -and the treatment from the guts. A kind poem on timelessness where the time in itself has been unkind.

And ultimately an honest attempt at holistic storytelling, which is based on true lies.

- Pan Nalin (Paris 01.05.2019)