The Roots

“MOOL” (THE ROOTS) is a documentary about tribal herbs and their uses. Tribal people have interesting stories of how they found medicinal qualities of any herbs. They transfer their knowledge in ancestral way.
They have unique way to preserve their knowledge and in turn nature from being misused, thus protect herbs and obviously jungles from vanishing.

  • Suyog Deshpande of Greyshades film Production
    Director
  • Satyajeet Pangu of Zankar Studios
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    8 minutes 43 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    December 12, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    2,500 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    India
  • Country of Filming:
    India
  • Language:
    Marathi
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Pune International Film Festival
    Pune
    India
    January 14, 2020
  • Kolhapur Film Festival
    Kolhapur
    India
    March 18, 2020
Director Biography - Suyog Deshpande of Greyshades film Production

Name - Suyog Deshpande
Suyog Deshpande is an independent film-maker, originally from Chinchwad -Pune (Maharashtra). In the year 2006-07 he started pursuing film making through work experience from assisting several films and documentaries with FTII and other Productions. after that he associated with ‘Dr. Jabbar Patel’ for his corporate and feature films.
He directed several commercial, social and mainly corporate films. Also he started his own film production called “Grey Shade Films” in 2017 in Pune.
from last year he is teaching film making to tribal students around Pune, Maharashtra. With Zankar Education Studios. Also some of Tribal students from this course are associated for “MOOL”.

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