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31-May-2024 12:00 AM
2021
Sashikanth is a cinematographer who has shot several films on the agrarian theatre form of Therukoothu over the past ten years. This grant supports Sashikanth in the making of a two-part film on the Draupadi Amman Mahabharata Koothu festival celebrated in around 200 villages in Tamil Nadu every year. The film looks at this festival through two groups of custodians of the festival: one, oral historians, theatre people and storytellers and two, the villagers themselves who sponsor and participate in the festival.
He is the recipient of the Raza Fellowship (2018) for his project “Mahabharata of the Mind”, which includes a trilogy of films ‘KELAI DRAUPADAI’, ‘NINAIVIN NAGARAM’, ‘KALPAVAASI’.