Bengaluru, May 21 (Ians) Newbie director Shashank Soghal’s Kannada campus comedy “Daredevil Mustafa”, which was released last week, has received rave reviews from critics and the audience has shown its love by thronging cinemas.
Kannada popular hero Dali Dhananjay has supported the movie and appealed to cinema goers to back the new talent. The movie, shot in picturesque Chikkamagaluru, is based on the noted Kannada litterateur, the late Poornachandra Tejaswi’s popular work.
The team has made posters of the author for the film’s promotions, which is unprecedented as a way to promote a movie.
The film stars Poornachandra Mysore, Karthik Pattar, Aditya Ashree, Abhay, Supreeth Bharadwaj in lead roles. Navneeth Sham has scored the music and background score. Raghavendra Mayakonda and Anantha are the producers.
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Kannada popular hero Dali Dhananjay has supported the movie and appealed to cinema goers to back the new talent. The movie, shot in picturesque Chikkamagaluru, is based on the noted Kannada litterateur, the late Poornachandra Tejaswi’s popular work.
The team has made posters of the author for the film’s promotions, which is unprecedented as a way to promote a movie.
The film stars Poornachandra Mysore, Karthik Pattar, Aditya Ashree, Abhay, Supreeth Bharadwaj in lead roles. Navneeth Sham has scored the music and background score. Raghavendra Mayakonda and Anantha are the producers.
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- 5/21/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
OpinionAt one point in the film, Musthafa wonders why his classmates, who had never heard of him until recently, are decidedly against him – a question often repeated during incidents of communal violence in the state. With a few exceptions, Kannada newspapers and news channels are known to refer to Muslims and Christians in Karnataka as anya Komu (the others). News channels are known to pit communities against each other while reporting sensitive issues. Whether it was the media spectacle during the hijab protests or the amplification of Muslim stereotypes during the pandemic, the idea often portrayed is that Hinduism is the principal faith of the land, and ‘the others’ have to adapt. Against this backdrop, the release of Daredevil Musthafa, a crowd-funded film by Shashank Soghal about a lone Muslim student in a Hindu-majority college, reflects the times we live in. The film is an adaptation of a short story...
- 5/19/2023
- by Prajwal
- The News Minute
ReviewThe film, based on litterateur and humanist Poornachandra Tejaswi’s short story, is a wholesome, precious watch in today’s world filled with division and hate.Sometime in 1973, when the world in retrospect seems way better than it was today, Poornachandra Tejaswi wrote a short story about a Muslim boy entering a Hindu-only government college in a place called Abachur. He’s seen as an alien, someone whose culture stands out, in a college filled with Hindus. The village is pretty and everything looks picture perfect, but there’s a deep undercurrent of resentment between the Hindus and Muslims there after a Hindu girl and a Muslim boy eloped. How will Musthafa (a fabulous Shishir Baikady) fit in? The teacher struggles to pronounce his name — Jamal Abdullah Mustafa Hussain — and director Shashank Soghal builds up every trope of Muslims that we have been fed over the years before breaking each...
- 5/18/2023
- by MariaR
- The News Minute
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