All All. Sign In. The Critic's Jury awarded their prize by unanimous decision to Ennennum , an extremely well-written science fiction drama in which Ouso and Devi , a married couple, get confronted with the possibilities and pitfalls of technological immortality.
You can read my review here. A week later I had the chance to interview its writer and director Shalini Ushadevi , so we sat down for a talk. ScreenAnarchy: Congratulations on your win. I was on that jury and it was the shortest deliberation ever, we all had your film as number one on our separate lists. Shalini Ushadevi: Thank you, that is great to know, that is very validating also.
I heard it took a See full article at Screen Anarchy. As a part of the Critic's Jury this year, we handed our award for best feature film to Shalini Ushadevi 's science fiction film Ennennum.
It was a unanimous decision: everyone in the jury had it on the top of their lists which made the jury deliberation very short indeed. There are several reasons why we loved it. In a festival selection filled with often depressingly serious films, this one managed to stand out by making its statements clearly, in a fairly brief running time, without resorting to heavy-handed tactics.
It shows that with a lean-and-mean script, dedicated actors and great use It is a solid entertainer about a man with the uni-focus of Arjun with that arrow and the fisheye. True, the basic story about the man who dreamt of making air travel affordable for the poor, remains unchanged. As it should. Director Sudha Kongara and her co-writer Shalini Ushadevi have transcreated the Tamil original into a Maharastrian milieu without ruffling too many feathers.
