Private Project

The Sound of Slaves

The story portrays the plight of a poor dalit family that faces countless atrocities and discrimination from the upper-caste village land lords. One of their daughters commits suicide after being raped and tortured by the landlords The family struggles to find a place to cremate her when the landlord offers land for cremation only if they work in his farm which they don't agree.The dead woman's brother and his pregnant wife take the corpse on their shoulders to find a cremation site but the village heads incite the villagers to boycott the family, depriving them of basic needs and demanding them to leave the village. The family seeks the help of the fellow villagers but in vain facing with mockery and violence.

  • NAVEEN KUMAR DESHABOINA
    Director
    LATA BAGWAN KARE
  • NAVEEN KUMAR DESHABOINA
    Writer
  • BHANU PRAKASH BHANNU
    Key Cast
    "MADHA"
  • MALLIKA KULAL MALLIKA
    Key Cast
    "MANGAVVA"
  • SANDRA SITARA SANDRA
    Key Cast
    "LACHHI"
  • SONU R SONU
    Key Cast
    "NINGAVVA"
  • BALRAJ WADI BALRAJ
    Key Cast
    "SIDDAPPA"
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Runtime:
    2 hours 57 minutes 17 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 23, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    40,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    India
  • Country of Filming:
    India
  • Language:
    Kannada
  • Shooting Format:
    RED
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16.9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - NAVEEN KUMAR DESHABOINA

Born in rural village of Karimnagar district hailing from a poor family, studied in government school and college mostly on scholarships.
I worked part time as a proof-reader in a small newspaper company, then as a projector boy in KAFISO film society.
There, a passion rose from watching a film of the legendary director Satyajit Ray, inspired me to do some.
With so much struggles, worked as assistant director in some serials.
One day, at a small tea stall, read an article about a 65 years old Lady ran in a marathon to save her husband’s life and won it. Made a movie, named “Lata Bhagwan Kare” which won national film award and filmfare award.

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Director Statement

My main motive behind making this film is the true incidents, one which happened in my village. Then I searched about these and came to know that, one tribal man was not even allowed to cremate in graveyard because of Untouchability, then those tribe people cremated him in their huts-area. In some villages few people gave dead bodies to the hospitals. Like these many inhuman incidents happened to the lower caste people. So to one feel and see the problems faced and still facing by lower caste people, I made this low budget film with the help of real and poor people, no professional artist is used.