For the Christmas holidays here is ‘Summer Holidays’ from national and international repute director Kavitha Lankesh. It is a home production film with message for all at the last ten minutes of the film.
The poster and trailer of this Kannada and English children film was screened on Monday on the eve of Children Day at SRV Theatre in Malleswaram. It is in this film late Gauri Lankesh has acted in two scenes. The dialogue was captured on the spot of shooting. Prakash Rai and Suman Nagarkar are also in the cast. The audio release of the film will be held soon. The film is set for December month release.
Illustrious writer and director P Lankesh and Indira Lankesh third generation – daughter of Kavitha Lankesh Esha and Indrajith Lankesh son Samarth are part of this children film. Esha and Samarth with the help of Ipad have made a documentary in the vacation. The film also touches on the technology usage more than its damage.
Kavitha Lankesh has made a precise study on what children do at the summer holidays. A workshop was conducted on this moods and moments. She has caught hold of the vacation time attitudes of children for this film. The teenage crush, excitement forms the crux of this film. Crush in this case is only mental but nothing physical she replied for a doubt. The film aimed at urban audience is purposefully done in English as all language students could see this film. Kavitha Lankesh previous film ‘Kariya Kanbitta’ captured 50000 audience but without releasing in theatre pattern.
Esha daughter of Kavitha Lankesh had seen shooting in progress with her mother but come before camera for the first time has enjoyed. She plays Jessie and anyone saying you are timid she gets angry. Sonia and Ansh were at the media meet of the film ‘Summer Holidays’.
AC Mahender has done cinematography; Rohit Gandhi worked on three scorings for this film.