PACHA (THE NATURE )
Ramasseri village in Palakkat.Here,people struggle to get drinking water. The only support for them is the drinking water tanks that arrive there once in a while.But most of the time the water in the tank is insufficient for everyone to have.
Appu, a eleven year old boy, who lives in this village go through severe hardships.He was completely taken aback when his mother was detected of having cancer. That woman, who already had a paralyzed hand, was affected by cancer, unawares. On knowing about this,Appu’s father divorces his wife .Then,the responsibility of running the household falls on Appu. Appu started getting late to school.He used to be punished by Balan Sir for that.
Only, the headmaster of the school encouraged Appu who used to be good at studies and also used to draw beautiful picrtures. His classmate,Srikutty, was the only companion for him.Srikutty also used to like Appu. For Appu, who didn’t have many friends,the trees and the birds in the village were his friends. Appu, who didn’t have any relatives, it was these friends who consoled him on his sorrows.
For Appu, those trees were his grandparents ,his brother and his sister And he shared his sorrows with them. He loved them like his own soul. That news reached the village quite unexpectedly.Some people reached the village to cut down all those trees.And they start cutting them down one by one.A beggar called Bhaskaran who goes crazy seeing all this, requests Appu to protect the trees from being cut down. He asks Appu to come out in the open against this cruelty towards nature. Appu who is still a young boy gets ready to protect nature and his own mother.
‘Green’ is Appu’s journey in search of greenery.
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SREEVALLABHAN.BDirector
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SREEVALLABHAN.BWriter
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JAYACHANDRAN,SARAVANAN,BABITHASAJEEVProducer
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MASTER MITHUNKey Cast"APPU"
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Project Type:Feature
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Runtime:1 hour 30 minutes 33 seconds
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Completion Date:December 31, 2018
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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:RED
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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LONDON INTERNATIONAL MOTION PICTURES AWARD ( LIMPA )
United Kingdom
May 24, 2019
OFFICIAL SELECTION -
INDIAN FILM FEST ITALYTRICASE
Italy
June 22, 2019
BEST FILM AWARD -
SALENTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALSALENTO
Italy
July 29, 2019 -
KERALA FILM CRITICSThiruvananthapuram
India
APRIL 2019
SPECIAL AWARD FOR BEST CHILD ARTIST -
SOORYA FILM FESTIVALThiruvananthapuram
India
July 4, 2019 -
SCANDINAVIAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALHELSINKI
Finland
August 10, 2019 -
JANMABHOOMI AWARDSTHIRUVANANTHAPURAM
India
July 20, 2019
SPECIAL AWARD FOR PACHA
Mr.Sreevallabhan hails from Trivandrum,India.He has been actively involved in film making in the malayalam film industry since 1995. Sreevallabhan his career in films through his debut documentary film on the well known Malayalam film actor Mammootty. After that he was involved in the making of several Malayalam and Tamil films as associate director. Throughout this period he was also active in making short biographical documentaries on well known personalities.
In 2004, he scripted and directed the much acclaimed film ‘Syamam’ which depicted the tragic state of affairs of AIDS patients. Apart from winning several awards at home,this film went on to win the best long narrative movie award in the New York Film Festival in 2006. The film then travelled to Washington DC, Brazil, Germany ,Rumania and Australia were it received much appreciation and accoloades from the audience and film enthusiasts..In 2006 itself, this film received the film city award and film audience award for the best upcoming director in Kerala.
In 2014, ‘Pakaram’ another film directed by Sreevallabhan received the special jury mention in the Atlas Film Critics award.
Scarcity of water is the greatest calamity that the world is going to face.Probably, the next war would be fought for water.To a great extent, we ourselves are responsible for this situation. We spoiled the rhythm of nature by cutting down trees and polluting the environment.As a result, often, we are facing calamities like cyclones, tsunamis and landslides. We will have to witness the severe most water crisis in future, if we don’t open our eyes to all this, instead of keeping on boasting about our own power.
Let us take a pledge through “Green’ .A pledge where we imagine that the earth is our mother and all those living on it, the trees, the animals and the birds are the mother’s children and that we will include them also in our journey forward on this earth that we have taken possession of.
With a conviction that this is possible, we present this film to you. Though, the story of this film and its characters are fictitious and created from our own imagination, around us, there are people who suffer .This film is being dedicated to them.