Cinema Diary: ►Kerala Cafe - A Joint Effort of 10 Directors◄

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KERALA CAFE - Its Different [REALLY!]

Main Theme: Travel

Kerala Cafe: A Joint Effort of 10 talented directors. Each one directs 10-15 minute-long short films that will be later integrated into one singular project. The theme of the film is travel and all the parts are reflections on journeys in contemporary Kerala.

Producer: Renjith under the banner of Capital Theatres

Directors:

Lal Jose
Revathy
Shyamaprasad
Anjali Menon
M. Padmakumar
Shaji Kailas
Uday Ananthan
Shankar Ramakrishnan
B. Unnikrishnan
Anwar Rasheed

Actors: Mammootty, Prithviraj, Suresh Gopi, Jagathy, Kalabhavan Mani, Nedumudi Venu and others

More Details:

SHAJI KAILAS

He plans to do a story of a man caught in between two women titled
“LALITHAM HIRANMAYAM”

Cast – Suresh Gopi
Cinematographer – Sujith Sahadev

LAL JOSE

In Kerala Café Lal Jose adapts a story from C.v Sreeraman , the renowned writer. The title is
“Puram Kazchakal"

Cast - Mammootty
Cinematographer – Vijay Ulaganathan

B. UNNIKRISHNAN

His film is about a nuclear family affected by global recession.

Cast - Siddique.
Cinematography – Shamdatt

ANWAR RASHID

Salim Kumar, Kalpana
Cinematographer is SRFTI graduate Suresh Rajan.

SHYAMAPRASAD

Genre: Comedy

Cast - Suraj Venjaramood

M.PADMAKUMAR

His shortfilm is about the cliché of Nostalgia

Cast – Jayaram
Cinematographer - Manoj Pillai

REVATHY

Her film in Kerala Café deals with the issue of human trafficking

Cast – Kalabhavan Mani

ANJALI MENON

Anjali Menon is doing a story with a political layering to it.

Cast - Jagathy Sreekumar
Cinematographer – M.J.Radhakrishnan

UDAY ANANTHAN

He is doing a short film about the identity of an urban woman in a relationship.

Cast - Nayantara
Cinematographer – Thiru

SHANKAR RAMAKRISHNAN

Is the Associate Director of Capitol Theatre. This is his debut film
The film is a political statement

Cinematography- S.Kumar

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There is an eleventh element in the project which will be the integration of the ten stories. The story happens in a Railway cafeteria called “ Kerala Café” where there is an interaction among the characters of the different stories. This will be collectively shot by the participating Directors and the cinematography of this portion will be done by Prakash Kutty, an FTII product.

Ranjith is the compiler and the chief architect of the project.