Sandhesh Kadur knew properly from the beginning what he wanted his feature documentary, Nilgiris: a shared forestTo get: Amazing in the hearts of your audience. The Bangalore -based award -winning award -winning filmmaker and the founder of the film production company Fellis Creations believes, “What does Awe love,” stirring this feeling can lead to action. “Vigilance has set a long way to change the perception of the people of the world, which they live,” they explain. “The final goal was to be able to make an impact.”
Nilgiris: a shared forestWhich was its dramatic release on July 18, fulfills this vision, a glimpse of the lush nilgiris landscape and the spelling of its wildlife, which is an indication for the amazing biodiversity of the region. Extensive shots of megafauna, such as tiger, elephant, and gaur, close-up and jacro shots with jostels, yet the organism-equally entered entrally entry-one basing nilgiris Salia, Endemic for the region, gliding with a deer with a dragonfly Malading, a vibrant malading, a vibrant malading, a vibrant malading, a vibrant malading, a vibrant malading, a vibrant mala in the inner part of the ancient mountains.
A great hornbill | Photo Credit: Sandesh Kadur/Felice Images
The film provides a deep dive into the modern human settlement in Niligiris, with the safety camera footage of animal shots of indigenous people, primary cave art as well as animal safety camera footage of man-made infrastructure. These views and sequence collectively emphasize this fact – this area is not only related to nature. “We wanted to show that whatever forest is to be shared; it could not be just for wildlife or just for humans.” The film showed culture through the same lens as nature, says Sandesh, because “we are part of nature and need to understand how to live together.”
Since its formal launch on 4 November, Nilgiris: a shared forestS has praised some of the world’s most prestigious film festivals, including Worldfest in Houston, Cannes World Film Festival, Ankara International Wildlife Film Festival, and Santiago Wild Film Festival. “This is a good part, because we want more people from different cultures to see it.”
A dull bear mother crosses the busy road with her cubs. Photo Credit: Sameer Jain/Felice Images
Sandesh has also been told that the film has finally made it on the big screen, giving a “heavy” response. “It is difficult to get a place and respect for a wildlife film in a flooded country with mainstream cinema.” Sandesh says that it is incredibly important to bring the stories of wildlife into the mainstream as it creates a new ambassador. “We need to promote beyond the singers, and the only way to do so is to bring it to theaters where people come from different areas of life.”
In love with nature
In the corner of Felice Creations Office in Sadashiva city in Bangalore, where we meet, the late father of Sandesh: Documentary filmmaker and Antomologist Dr. BN is a large frame -rich picture of Vishwanath, who also performed urban roof gardening in the city. “He was the one I met in photography,” he says, pointing to the camera, gifted him by his father at the age of 13. “The camera was 25 years old, and was more experienced than the way I was,” he smiles.
Despite the academics coming from a family, Sandesh did not academically excellently performed. “In India, you can be a doctor, engineer or insult to the family. I was number three,” he said. Therefore, he was sent to a college in Bronceville, Texas, where they would “accept anyone … to receive some diplomas.”
The college had a research center at Rancho del Sialo, Mexico, and it was here that he was the chief professor of this field station, Lawrence V. Met Loff. One day, talking to LOF, he mentioned that in India, there was a biosphere reserve similar to L Sielo, called Western Ghats, working with cloud forests at that time. “He was contradictory and said,” Why don’t we work on a documentary? ”
The plan was for him with Belgian filmmaker John Bax and had to learn the art of filmmaking from him. “I was so excited that I told everyone that I am going to be the apprentice of John Backs, and I am going to India,” he says. Then, he had to leave a week ago, John called him and said he could not travel to India. “My dream was shattered before it started,” he says.
Nilgiris Salia, which is spatial for this region. Photo Credit: Sandesh Kadur/Felice Images
However, LOF insisted that he proceeds with the documentary, even he would need to make a film to pay for the camera and the tripod. “This community college professor put $ 10,000 on a no-name on his personal credit card and said, ‘Okay, make your documentary’. Who will have that kind of trust?” Sandesh Miracle. Therefore, he moved forward and did exactly the same way that learn to use his camera and travel through all the ghats with it, instead of participating in classrooms, much more for the disappointment of his parents. “I went back and put it all together, and this is my first documentary, Sahyadris: Mountains of monsoon. ,
Released in 2002, the film was his portal in the world of visual storytelling, winning prizes and later worldwide awards. Sandesh said, “We received so much press and attention, and Discovery Channel picked up my documentary.”
Nilagiri Tahr, spatial for the Western Ghats. Photo Credit: Sandesh Kadur/Felice Images
An attempt with Nilgiris
Nilgiris: a shared forest About three years ago, while walking in the forests of Conur, evolved out of a conversation between the film’s executive producer, Sandesh and Philanthropist Rohini Nilekni. Sandesh remembers, “We were having an accidental discussion about Nilgiris, and one of the questions I asked was whether there was any documentary he could see about it,” Sandesh remembers. He says that he thinks long and difficult about it, but some small YouTube videos cannot miss anything other than videos. “Even though it was India’s first biosphere reserve and has been well documented in scientific literature,” there was not a single thing in the documentary format. ,
Sandesh says that when Rohini, who was in love with Nilgiris for the first time, said that he should make an educational documentary. “It is completely funded by Rohini Nilekani Philanthropy, an Indian philanthropy,” he says. “We created an Indian-funded project with a completely Indian team and worked almost in India, which we all are very proud of.”
Dholes or Asian wild dogs have complex social structures. Photo Credit: Rohan Mathias/Felice Images
While Sandesh had previously worked extensively in the Western Ghats, he says that the complexity and uniqueness of Nilgiris was only revealed when he started working on the project. “It is a bridge between the Western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats, one infection area, with a lot of species on one side and not the other,” they say, indicating that it is also with spatial species, which are unique to a specific geographical area.
The team first thinks Sandesh as a “hero character”, including strictly spatial and charismatic big cats for the region such as leopards, tigers and black panthers (melanistic leopards). Once when Hero Cast was identified, the questions were told about how to film three states: Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and one area spread in Kerala.
“Initially, we thought our title would be ‘natural nilgiris’, but if you go to Nilgiris, you will see that there is very little natural that has been left there.” Instead, animals have called Sandesh a modern forest. “A 21st -century forest that is very different from real forests,” they explain. “There is pressure on the land, and animals also need to adapt. How they adapt to this film.”
Nilgiris, which often appears blue from far away, is also called Blue Mountain. Photo Credit: Robin Daryas Conz/Felice Images
The team will spend the next two years in Nilgiris. “Some person of the crew was always out the whole time, day and day, which is why we can get such unique stories.” With all, Sandesh wanted to create a dramatic experience, and was filmed keeping the documentary in mind. Not only the shooting by the team, but also from the CCTV camera footage, which was “important, because we wanted to show that we are living in their scenario.”
The negative side of this approach, of course, was that they were finished with a material of about 500 hours, which were dropped for 75 minutes and then shaped into a harmonious story. “We write a script on the film that we do, but we go with the idea that we want to catch the behavior,” he says about the film, which is narrated by composer Sushila Raman, who has also worked on the soundtrack with Sam Mills and Neil Edhrari. “I love Sushila Raman as a musician, musician and voice artist,” he says, stating that a feminine voice would be best for this mountain ecosystem, where “I really felt maternal nature.”
Sandhesh Kadur | Photo Credit: Nakula Raj/Felice Pictures
Currently, in addition to the dramatic screening, the team is also running an impact campaign, with about 50 private screenings so far, many of which have been in educational institutions. They are trying to find a way out for the film to be released on OTT platforms and translated into local languages starting with Tamil to reach a wider audience.
Sandesh says, “We have personally reached around 15,000 people, and our team is entangled with people at each level,”, who plans to continue short views on Nilgiris, “some issues that we want to see-Perhable species, perhaps the status of garbage, probably nilgiris,” they say. “This can help spread the message to a different format.”
