Click to play videoMumbai: Filmmaker Priyadarshan is a happy man for he proved to one and all that he can comfortably straddle both commercial and realistic cinema. If films like Hulchul, Bhool Bhulaiya and Malamaal Weekly earned him the label of a slapstick comedy filmmaker, then his Tamil film Kanchivaram won him the Best Film National Award.
And Kanchivaram will have a pan India release two years after its completion.
"There is a belief that commercial filmmakers cannot do realistic films and realistic filmmakers cannot do commercial films. I proved them wrong," said Priyadarshan.
Set in the pre-independence era, Kanchivaram is the tale of a silk weaver and his conflict between his communist ideals and his dreams.
"Kanchivaram is not an anti-communist film, it's an analysis of communism, of how it fails when people who preach it don't practice it because they are then worried about their own personal objectives," he further said.
The film also won its lead actor Prakash Raj the Best Actor National Award for a role which was first offered to actor Mohanlal some nine-years-ago, but because of lack of willing producers back then the project was shelved. The film was revived years later, and by then the Malayalam superstar didn't have any dates to spare.
Eventually Tamil star Prakash Raj essayed the role. "Actors are not choosers, we are beggars, this film has added to my biodata," said Prakash Raj.
After having received National Awards and recognition, it's no wonder then that the film is finally set to hit theatres across India on the October 30.
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