By indiabroadcast
Sunday Dec 2 2:35 AM
New Delhi: For 26-year-old director Mangesh Hadawale, it was a difficult journey to make his film Tingya, which made its debut at the 38th IFFI to acclaim.Sunday Dec 2 2:35 AM
The debutant director’s path had several hurdles, foremost being his insistence that the film be narrated in his mothertongue – Marathi.
But 41 producers later – which included Ashutosh Gowariker who, despite his interest, was too caught up with his own Jodhaa-Akbar – Hadawale found one who could help him.
Tingya is a sensitive tale about a boy and his love for his bull, set against the politically charged background of farmers’ suicides and the life in rural Maharasthra.
The film is part-biographical.
"I have also gone through the same motions as Tingya, “says the first-time director.
Hadawale adds, “It’s as much a commentary on farmers as well as about the love for a boy for his bull whom he considers it to be his friend.”
