Nasir (film)

Nasir
Directed byArun Karthick
Produced byMathivanan Rajendran
StarringKoumarane Valavane
CinematographySaumyananda Sahi
Edited byArghya Basu
Production
companies
Stray Factory Rinkel Film, Uncombed Buddha, Magic Hour Films, Colored Pickle Films, Harman Ventures
Release date
Running time
75 min
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

Nasir is a 2020 Tamil-language Drama film directed by Arun Karthick and is an Indo-Dutch co-production between Stray Factory, Rinkel Film, Uncombed Buddha, Magic Hour Films, Colored Pickle film & Harman Ventures. The Hollywood Reporter described the film as "An observational chronicle of one seemingly ordinary day in the life of a seemingly ordinary sari salesman in the southern city of Coimbatore," with a focus on tolerance and human values. The movie's poster is inspired by the outline of Gandhipuram.[1]

Nasir was the recipient of the Hubert Bals Fund in 2018.[2] The film premiered at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam in Tiger Competition and won the NETPAC award for Best Asian Film premiering at the Festival[3] It also bagged the Grand Prix at the 14th Andrei Tarkovsky Zerkalo International Film Festival, Russia.[4] It won the Golden Wood in the Asian Arthouse Film Festival, 2021, Kolkata.

Cast

  • Koumarane Valavane as Nasir[5]
  • Sudha Ranganathan as Tal[6]

References

  1. ^ "'Nasir': Film Review | Rotterdam 2020". The Hollywood Reporter. 27 January 2020. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  2. ^ Jeshi, K. (21 May 2018). "Following 'Nasir'". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  3. ^ Rosser2020-01-31T19:01:00+00:00, Michael. "Rotterdam Film Festival 2020 winners revealed". Screen. Retrieved 9 February 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ "Arun Karthick's 'Nasir' wins Grand Prix at prestigious Russian international film fest". www.thenewsminute.com. July 2020. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  5. ^ Joshi, Namrata (5 May 2020). "'Nasir' movie review: Losing his religion". The Hindu.
  6. ^ Weissberg, Jay (9 February 2020). "'Nasir': Film Review". Variety.