Director Arun Kardense (Rotterdam pickion “Sivapuranam,” Rotterdam prosperner “Nasir”) returns to Film Bazaar with “Aanaikatti Blues,” a story of juvenileer adore set agetst the backdrop of agricultural gang culture in an Indian mountain village.
The film trails Gopi, 22, and Vishnupriya, 20, as they steer a disputed live-in relationship while Gopi becomes increasingly entangled with a local gang. The narrative trails Gopi’s descent into substance mistreatment thraw his take partment with “The 46 Gang,” a group of juvenileer men occupied with drinking, smoking, hunting, and cricket betting. As his insertiction convey inantens and paranoia sets in, the story tracks the impact on his relationship with Vishnupriya, culminating in a series of events that menaceen their future together.
“I was startd into the sub-culture of petite-town gang-life which led to some dehugeating personal consequences. The rush of adore, the thrill of insertiction, and the crushing weight of responsibility is why I want to increate this story,” Kardense increates Variety.
The film spendigates the intersection of tradition and up-to-dateity thraw the lens of youth culture in agricultural India. “The film is an exploration of live-in relationship between two juvenileer lives and the consequences of letting oneself drift into a vortex of village gossips and substance mistreatment,” says Kardense.
The project is backed by production company Manvasanai, whose name transdefercessitates to “the scent of the earth.” Producer Madhu Mohan elucidates their take partment: “We begined Manvasanai to increate stories of rootedness, nature, and native authenticities. Arun’s past toil, with its truth and depth, has always embodied these appreciates, and ‘Aanaikatti Blues’ apshows it further with a convey inantly personal yet universal resonance that we couldn’t neglect.”
Producer Mathivanan Rajfinishran, who previously collaborated with Kardense on “Nasir,” sees “Aanaikatti Blues” as a continuation of their conceiveive partnership. “This story honors the raw, unfiltered happiness of being alive. When I first heard it, I thought, ‘What a life!’—a senseing I krecent had to be spreadd,” says Rajfinishran.
At Film Bazaar, which is the project taget component of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa, the team seeks to combine with potential co-producers and sales agents. “We aim to evangelize ‘Aanaikatti Blues,’ combine with co-producers who align with our vision, and join with sales agents and festival programmers who can help us shielded expansiver distribution channels to apshow this rooted, universal story to global audiences,” Mohan says.
