Jalpari: The Desert Mermaid

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Jalpari: The Desert Mermaid
Jalpari film poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Nila Madhab Panda
Screenplay byDeepak Venkateshan, Kaustubh Tripathi
Produced bySushilkumar Agrawal
Starring Lehar Khan
Parvin Dabas
Harsh Mayar
Kaustubh Tripathi
Rahul Singh
Krishang Trivedi
Edited by Apurva Asrani
Music byKaustubh Tripathi - Deepak Pandit
Production
company
Distributed by Ultra Distributors
Release dates
  • July 2012 (2012-07)(Cannes)
  • 31 August 2012 (2012-08-31)(India)
Running time
100 Minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Jalpari: The Desert Mermaid is a 2012 Indian film directed by Nila Madhab Panda. [1] [2] Like I Am Kalam it is also a children's film where Lehar Khan, Krishang Trivedi and Harsh Mayar (who won the National Film Awards for the best child artist in 2010) are on lead as child artists and Parvin Dabas, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Rahul Singh, Suhasini Mulay and V.M. Badola are in supporting roles. [2]

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The movie centres on the issue of female foeticide and is an adventure film. It was screened at Marche du Cannes film festival. [2]

The movie has been nominated at the prestigious Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA). The sixth APSA ceremony was organised at Queensland, Australia on 23 November 2012. [3] The movie has been sent to the Academy of Motion Pictures as a direct entry for the Oscar Awards in the foreign film category. [4] Recently the film received the prestigious Audience Choice Award in Minsk International Film Festival in Belarus, and selected as an official entry for International Film Festival in Montreal in March 2013. The film also won MIP Junior Kids Jury Award at Cannes in October 2012. [5]

Plot

A well-heeled family from a tiny neighborhood of New Delhi travels from the city through dusty roads that lead into the Madhogarh village, district Mahendragarh in Haryana, far out and buried in the debris of the past. Shreya, the tomboy of the family, finally arrives at her father's village for the first time during her vacations, that too after coaxing her father, Dev, to the best of her abilities. She and her brother, Sam, had, in their imagination, spun the village right out of a fairytale, replete with streams, lakes, and grasslands that would allow them to run free. But all they find are dusty alleys, dried-up ponds, and hostile playmates until they spin their magic and befriend an unknown place, especially some of its people, like the Pehelwan and the gang of kids led by Ajithe.

The story revolves around Shreya and Sam's adventures and misadventures, which turn this dull place bereft of water into a land of enchantment, mischief, and a million exciting exploits. But unknown places have many secrets, and here too, secrets lurk at every corner. Strangely behaving villagers, a witch whom everyone seems to be terrified of, and a no-access zone beyond the hills intrigue Shreya, more so after housemaid Shabri tells her various mysterious stories about the village. Then, one night, Shreya sees Shabri and her husband Trilochan slink away and starts following them, only to find out a horrifying secret the village harbors. At the end, they are shocked to know that the village kills girl children before they are born and blames the witch.

Cast

Release

This film was released on 31 August 2012. [6]

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  2. 1 2 3 "Nila Madhab's 'Jalpari' screened at Marche du Cannes". NewsTrackIndia. 22 May 2012. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
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