Mari Selvaraj’s Pariyerum Perumal wins
FCCI Award for Best Debut Film at Toulouse
Mari Selvaraj’s Pariyerum Perumal picked up three awards, including the independent film critics jury for the best debut film set up by the Film Critics Circle of India (FCCI), at the 7th Le Festival des Films Indiens de Toulouse/ Toulouse Indian Film Festival.
Winners
Jury prize for feature film: Ee. Ma. Yau by Lijo Jose Pellissery
Jury prize for short film: Unlock de Niru Nadarajah
Jury special mention: Doitto by Tathagata Gosh
Jury special mention: Pariyerum Perumal by Mari Selvaraj
Audience award: Pariyerum Perumal by Mari Selvaraj
FCCI Award for Best Debut Film: Pariyerum Perumal by Mari Selvaraj
Baradwaj Rangan (chair), Dalton L, Deepa Gahlot, Gautam Kaul, Johnson Thomas, Ratnottama Sengupta, and Utpal Datta comprised the 7-member FCCI jury.
Quotes by members of the FCCI jury
“A powerful, visually striking film that tackles a major social issue with practicality rather than idealism.”
-Baradwaj Rangan
“For once again focusing in an Indian miliu a social problem, with sympathy and devoid of flourishes and frills.”
-Gautam Kaul
For condemning caste inequality, realistically, in a mass entertainer that retains its architecture sans the traditional posturing associated with heroes.
-Ratnottama Sengupta
For offering a realistic comparative study on the behaviorism of traditionally unequal systems while also identifying the true attributes of honor and proposing a decent way forward towards suitable conditions.
-Dalton L
FCCI is a body of film -critics, -essayists, -academicians, -scholars, and -authors from all over India founded for, among other purposes, encouraging the production of cinema of high artistic and aesthetic value; establishing a library of Indian regional language screenplays; conducting film appreciation classes, and seminars on film criticism; and publishing/disseminating important literature on the history, art, craft, and theories of cinema.
Mari Selvaraj’s Pariyerum Perumal picked up three awards, including the independent film critics jury for the best debut film set up by the Film Critics Circle of India (FCCI), at the 7th Le Festival des Films Indiens de Toulouse/ Toulouse Indian Film Festival.
Winners
Jury prize for feature film: Ee. Ma. Yau by Lijo Jose Pellissery
Jury prize for short film: Unlock de Niru Nadarajah
Jury special mention: Doitto by Tathagata Gosh
Jury special mention: Pariyerum Perumal by Mari Selvaraj
Audience award: Pariyerum Perumal by Mari Selvaraj
FCCI Award for Best Debut Film: Pariyerum Perumal by Mari Selvaraj
Baradwaj Rangan (chair), Dalton L, Deepa Gahlot, Gautam Kaul, Johnson Thomas, Ratnottama Sengupta, and Utpal Datta comprised the 7-member FCCI jury.
Quotes by members of the FCCI jury
“A powerful, visually striking film that tackles a major social issue with practicality rather than idealism.”
-Baradwaj Rangan
“For once again focusing in an Indian miliu a social problem, with sympathy and devoid of flourishes and frills.”
-Gautam Kaul
For condemning caste inequality, realistically, in a mass entertainer that retains its architecture sans the traditional posturing associated with heroes.
-Ratnottama Sengupta
For offering a realistic comparative study on the behaviorism of traditionally unequal systems while also identifying the true attributes of honor and proposing a decent way forward towards suitable conditions.
-Dalton L
FCCI is a body of film -critics, -essayists, -academicians, -scholars, and -authors from all over India founded for, among other purposes, encouraging the production of cinema of high artistic and aesthetic value; establishing a library of Indian regional language screenplays; conducting film appreciation classes, and seminars on film criticism; and publishing/disseminating important literature on the history, art, craft, and theories of cinema.
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