#Killa marathi movie series#

The fear of being excluded has caught up with Chinmay a little too soon. Similar scenes follow soon: when Chinmay defeats Yuvraj in the bicycle race, Bandya can't help but complain that 'someone from Pune, and not Yuvraj (who's from his town), won the race' Bandya also frequently calls Chinmay 'scholarship from Pune'. And this small scene - of Chinmay being an outsider - encapsulates much of this boy's anxiety. Chinmay keeps looking at them, unmoved, trying to understand this cacophony of unfamiliarity. He stands at a considerable distance from his classmates, who appear happy and noisy. One such scene in the film has Chinmay stepping into the class on his first day at school. And these differences, meant to showcase Chinmay's isolation, come alive through quiet, contemplative scenes. He doesn't understand the kids at his school either - loud, jovial Bandya wealthy, uptight Yuvraj (Gaurish Gawade) testy Omkar (Atharva Upasni). He can't wrap his head around why his mother had to leave Pune, and why they can't go back soon. Chinmay, like most 11-year-olds, is oblivious to the mysterious ways of adult life. In Killa, these motifs come to life through the journey of its 'hero', Chinmay (Archit Deodhar), an 11-year-old who moves from Pune to a small Maharashtrian town on the Konkan coast with his mother. Time in Killa, much like our memories of growing up, is fluid.Д«ut Killa is not just about remembrance it's also about initiation into a new world - adolescence - and the difficult possibilities that come along with it: the strange sight and sound of unfamiliarity, the fear of being left out, the curious companionship of acquaintances. 'This is how it felt like to grow up in a small town in the early '90s,' they say, and you wonder about that wonderful drug called nostalgia. Arun's frames, meditative and quiet, do the talking for him. Maybe he doesn't need to, because the signs are clearly present: Besides Bandya breaking into that Chandrakanta song, Killa has characters who use landline phones, write letters and visit their neighbours. And yet, Arun never slots that period he doesn't resort to a title card that locks the film in a particular year.

#Killa marathi movie series#

But it's only fitting that the series resurfaces in Killa, a film that's as much about the bittersweet pains of growing up - of looking forward - as it is about peering into the past, a heartfelt missive to a time that no longer exists. Chandrakanta, a popular fantasy television series that aired on Doordashan nearly two decades ago, is barely remembered today. ' Chandrakanta ki kahaani maana hai pooraniВ (The story of Chandrakanta is indeed old),' he goes, while looking upwards at nothing in particular.

At one point in Avinash Arun's debut, Killa, Bandya (Parth Bhalerao), a seventh grader, disconnected from what's being taught in class, casually hums a song.