Girish Kasarvalli’s Kannada film wins top awards at Asiatica Fest

NEW DELHI: The Kannada film, Kanasembo Kudureyaneri, by renowned filmmaker Girish Kasarvalli, which is a part of the Indian Panorama of the 41st International Film Festival of India, has won the top awards at Asiatica Film Mediale Film Festival in Rome.

Kanasembo Kudureyaneri has won the Best Film of 2010 award given by the International Jury and also the award of the jury set up by the Network for Promotion of Asian Cinema.

Kasarvalli who is in Rome told indiantelevision.com that both the Juries were highly appreciative of the film.The film has already won several awards overseas.

The film is the story of Irya, the gravedigger of the village, who can foresee events. Whenever he sees Siddha, his guru, in a dream, someone in the village is sure to die. But Irya is shattered when one day he realises this power has vanished. This is reaffirmed when his wife’s dream too fails. All this puts his work as a gravedigger into a jeopardy.