Excerpt from an interview with the director..

I re-watched this movie again only last week.
It flows like a beautiful poem to me.
Anyway, I thought I'd share this link to an interview with the director of Sancharram, in case anyone is interested.



Excerpt of interview with Ligy J. Pullappally - About what inspired her to make the movie:

On January 25, 2000, I received an email about a young woman at a university in the South Indian state of Kerala. She and her girlfriend had fled the school, presumably under the threat of expulsion as a result of the rumors of their love affair with each other. The women were recovered and sent back to their respective families. The next day, one of the young woman's body was found floating in the reservoir of a dam. It was a tragic loss of young life and potential, a suicide. It was, I would learn, an all too familiar circumstance in the South Indian state of Kerala.

I wanted to do something to draw attention to the alarmingly frequent incidents of gay suicide - to try to stem that tide; I knew that isolation was a factor in these incidents, so I considered creating a positive media representation of young gay people.

Check out the full link to the interview here:
http://www.desiclub.com/bollywood/bollywood_features/bolly_article.cfm ?id=253




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