Rasika Dugal is one of the most striking faces in the firmament of Indian entertainment and has a checkered career in cinema and on the small screen. Always eager to push boundaries, she now stars in award-winning director Karan Gour’s film ‘Fairy Folk’ which will hit Indian screens on March 1. The film has already won wide acclaim at the Sydney Film Festival, the Chicago International Film Festival, Mami (Mumbai), and the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne, and will now enjoy a theatrical release across Mumbai, Delhi, Goa, Kolkata, and Bengaluru.
Interestingly, this is the first time that Rasika is sharing screen space with her husband Mukul Chadda. The two play a couple caught in a rather surreal situation when a genderless being enters their life and turns it upside down. Rasika says the film that has a large helping of magic realism and explores human relationships from an unusual perspective,...
Interestingly, this is the first time that Rasika is sharing screen space with her husband Mukul Chadda. The two play a couple caught in a rather surreal situation when a genderless being enters their life and turns it upside down. Rasika says the film that has a large helping of magic realism and explores human relationships from an unusual perspective,...
- 2/18/2024
- by Editorial Desk
- GlamSham
Actress Rasika Dugal, who is awaiting the release of her upcoming film ‘Fairy Folk’, feels that working on an improvised film brings absolute delight to an actor as they get to push the envelope of their craft.
‘Fairy Folk’, which is an evocative film about human relationships, garnered a lot of positive response at the Sydney Film Festival, the Chicago International Film Festival, Mami Film Festival and the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne. The film also stars Rasika’s husband, Mukul Chadda, and has been directed by Karan Gour.
Sharing her opinion, the actress said in a statement: “Working on an improvised film is an actor’s delight. This style of shooting gave us the room to explore the many odd things that people do and say when they find themselves in unprecedented situations, the beautiful oddities that sometimes get lost in the need to write a ‘logical’ script. It...
‘Fairy Folk’, which is an evocative film about human relationships, garnered a lot of positive response at the Sydney Film Festival, the Chicago International Film Festival, Mami Film Festival and the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne. The film also stars Rasika’s husband, Mukul Chadda, and has been directed by Karan Gour.
Sharing her opinion, the actress said in a statement: “Working on an improvised film is an actor’s delight. This style of shooting gave us the room to explore the many odd things that people do and say when they find themselves in unprecedented situations, the beautiful oddities that sometimes get lost in the need to write a ‘logical’ script. It...
- 2/8/2024
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Two Indian films have been selected for Raindance Film Festival in UK. Kshay (Corrode) will screen at the Raindance Film Festival under the features section, while Unravel by Meghna Gupta will be screened under the shorts category.
The 20th edition of the festival will be held from 26th September – 7th October, 2012.
Featuring Rasika Dugal, Alekh Sangal and Sudhir Pednekar, Kshay is written, directed and co-produced by Karan Gour. “When young newlywed Chhai discovers a sculpture of the Hindu Goddess of fertility in a mysterious Bombay workshop she is immediately entranced by it and sets her heart on having it for herself. But with her husband Arvind struggling to make ends meet with a miserly and corrupt boss, she is faced with the reality that she cannot have the thing that she covets most. Her desire for the sculpture soon turns to obsession as we discover its tragic personal significance and...
The 20th edition of the festival will be held from 26th September – 7th October, 2012.
Featuring Rasika Dugal, Alekh Sangal and Sudhir Pednekar, Kshay is written, directed and co-produced by Karan Gour. “When young newlywed Chhai discovers a sculpture of the Hindu Goddess of fertility in a mysterious Bombay workshop she is immediately entranced by it and sets her heart on having it for herself. But with her husband Arvind struggling to make ends meet with a miserly and corrupt boss, she is faced with the reality that she cannot have the thing that she covets most. Her desire for the sculpture soon turns to obsession as we discover its tragic personal significance and...
- 9/24/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Black and white Indie psychological drama Kshay (Corrode) won the title of the Best Feature Film at the Asian New Talent Award of the 15th Shanghai Film Festival (Siff) held last week. The awards recognizing first or second-time directors from Asia saw Kshay compete with eleven other films nominated for the top honors. Upon announcing the award the jury commented, “We give this prize for Best Film of the 2012 Shanghai Film Festival’s Asia New Talent Award Competition to Corrode, directed by Karan Gour of India, for his achievement in capturing with sharp and fresh cinematic language one complicated and surreal story in the real world about the obsession of one young woman with one religious statue, without any direct reference to the economic conditions in his country or its roots in many different religions. Without any doubt, Karan Gour will make one New Wave for his generation in India.
- 7/3/2012
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
It’s not every day that a black and white Indie that has been in the making for over 4 years, helmed by a debutant director with constrained budget and unfamiliar names gets unanimous positive feedback from everyone who views it. Having done rounds of International film festivals, having won prestigious award, Kshay (which roughly translated means ‘Corrode’) finally opened in select theatres across India. The movie was riding on high expectations as almost everyone who had seen it spoke promisingly about it. Being released under the PVR Directors Rare Banner, does Kshay impress?
Across the country, millions live with trifling incomes, leading an inconsequential existence, coupled with powerful ambitions. The limited means vis-à-vis the growing desires, so much the heart hopes to achieve that the mind just can at most times not rationalize with. Amidst all this, the country is bound by superstitions, religious beliefs, relying on the Supreme Being...
Across the country, millions live with trifling incomes, leading an inconsequential existence, coupled with powerful ambitions. The limited means vis-à-vis the growing desires, so much the heart hopes to achieve that the mind just can at most times not rationalize with. Amidst all this, the country is bound by superstitions, religious beliefs, relying on the Supreme Being...
- 6/18/2012
- by Pooja Rao
- Bollyspice
Director-Writer: Karan Gour, Actors: Rasika Dugal, Alekh Sangal
Karan Gour’s debut feature Kshay marked a good start for a film career, winning several awards abroad before its theatrical release. The director wanted to portray a side of the human nature that few will feel comfortable about: it’s the obsession that can lead to destruction.
Chhaya, a young woman remains enchanted by a bright white, unpainted statue of Lakshmi. At the beginning there is only admiration for the work of art and its splendor and the young woman asks her husband to buy the statue as a gift for her. Since the couple can’t afford it, the husband postpones the grant of this unusual wish, but with the time passing, Chhaya gets more and more obsessed with the idea that that particular statue of Lakshmi will not just reestablish life in her body and make her fertile and capable of conceiving a child,...
Karan Gour’s debut feature Kshay marked a good start for a film career, winning several awards abroad before its theatrical release. The director wanted to portray a side of the human nature that few will feel comfortable about: it’s the obsession that can lead to destruction.
Chhaya, a young woman remains enchanted by a bright white, unpainted statue of Lakshmi. At the beginning there is only admiration for the work of art and its splendor and the young woman asks her husband to buy the statue as a gift for her. Since the couple can’t afford it, the husband postpones the grant of this unusual wish, but with the time passing, Chhaya gets more and more obsessed with the idea that that particular statue of Lakshmi will not just reestablish life in her body and make her fertile and capable of conceiving a child,...
- 6/12/2012
- by Boglarka Nagy
- DearCinema.com
For film lovers in India, the month of June seems to be a great month for indie-spirited cinema. Be it Dibakar Banerjee’s Shanghai or Anurag Kashyap’s Cannes pick Gangs of Wasseypur. Joining the bandwagon is a relatively obscure indie feature film which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles 2012. Karan Gour’s Kshay has been doing the festival rounds for the past 6 months bagging awards and high levels of critical acclaim. The film is scheduled for a theatrical release on the 15th of June under the ‘PVR Director’s Rare’ label.
The film revolves around a lower middle-class housewife’s obsession to possess an unfinished statue of the Goddess Lakshmi. And how this obsession infects everything around her – her home, her dreams and even the only family she’s got, her husband Arvind.
Kshay has been produced independently over 4 years with a...
The film revolves around a lower middle-class housewife’s obsession to possess an unfinished statue of the Goddess Lakshmi. And how this obsession infects everything around her – her home, her dreams and even the only family she’s got, her husband Arvind.
Kshay has been produced independently over 4 years with a...
- 5/21/2012
- by Pooja Rao
- Bollyspice
New Delhi, May 17: After wowing the international audience, debutant director Karan Gour's Indie film "Kshay", a black-and-white drama, is set for a theatrical release June 15.
The film revolves around a lower middle-class housewife's obsession with the statue of Goddess Lakshmi. And how this obsession infects everything around her - her home, her dreams and her husband. It features Rasika Dugal and Alekh Sangal in lead roles.
The film will be screened here under PVR Director's Rare initiative.
"Our film is in black-and-white and without any stars or songs.
The film revolves around a lower middle-class housewife's obsession with the statue of Goddess Lakshmi. And how this obsession infects everything around her - her home, her dreams and her husband. It features Rasika Dugal and Alekh Sangal in lead roles.
The film will be screened here under PVR Director's Rare initiative.
"Our film is in black-and-white and without any stars or songs.
- 5/17/2012
- by Amith Ostwal
- RealBollywood.com
Still from Kshay
Kshay directed by Karan Gour, the Grand Jury Prize winner at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles 2012 is scheduled for a theatrical release on June 15 under the ‘PVR Director’s Rare’ label.
The film revolves around a lower middle-class housewife’s obsession to possess an unfinished statue of the Goddess Lakshmi. And how this obsession infects everything around her – her home, her dreams and even the only family she’s got, her husband Arvind.
Kshay has been produced independently over 4 years with a two-man crew – the director Karan Gour and the Dop Abhinay Khoparzi. Karan Gour has also written, edited, co-produced and done the sound design of the film.
The film features Rasika Dugal (No Smoking, Agyaat) and Alekh Sangal (Summer of 2007).
The film will have a limited release in Mumbai and Delhi on the 15th of June, with plans to expand it to other cities.
Kshay directed by Karan Gour, the Grand Jury Prize winner at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles 2012 is scheduled for a theatrical release on June 15 under the ‘PVR Director’s Rare’ label.
The film revolves around a lower middle-class housewife’s obsession to possess an unfinished statue of the Goddess Lakshmi. And how this obsession infects everything around her – her home, her dreams and even the only family she’s got, her husband Arvind.
Kshay has been produced independently over 4 years with a two-man crew – the director Karan Gour and the Dop Abhinay Khoparzi. Karan Gour has also written, edited, co-produced and done the sound design of the film.
The film features Rasika Dugal (No Smoking, Agyaat) and Alekh Sangal (Summer of 2007).
The film will have a limited release in Mumbai and Delhi on the 15th of June, with plans to expand it to other cities.
- 5/17/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Kshay at Transilvania
Kshay (Corrode) directed by Karan Gour will be screened at the 11th Transilvania International Film Festival in Romania.
The film featuring Rasika Dugal, Alekh Sangal and Sudhir Pednekar will be screened in ‘Faith’ section of the festival.
The 11th edition of Tiff will take place from June 1st to June 10th 2012 in Cluj- Napoca, and between June 13th and June 17th 2012 in Sibiu.
‘Chhaya is a simple housewife who has an artistic bent of mind and a seemingly happy life with her husband Arvind. Money trickles in every month and life goes on for an unassuming Chhaya, until her eyes catch hold of an unfinished sculpture of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi. Her values and relationships as she knows them begin to decay day by day, surrendering to the clutches of an ugly obsession that feeds on her weaknesses and past disappointments. She must have the Lakshmi, as...
Kshay (Corrode) directed by Karan Gour will be screened at the 11th Transilvania International Film Festival in Romania.
The film featuring Rasika Dugal, Alekh Sangal and Sudhir Pednekar will be screened in ‘Faith’ section of the festival.
The 11th edition of Tiff will take place from June 1st to June 10th 2012 in Cluj- Napoca, and between June 13th and June 17th 2012 in Sibiu.
‘Chhaya is a simple housewife who has an artistic bent of mind and a seemingly happy life with her husband Arvind. Money trickles in every month and life goes on for an unassuming Chhaya, until her eyes catch hold of an unfinished sculpture of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi. Her values and relationships as she knows them begin to decay day by day, surrendering to the clutches of an ugly obsession that feeds on her weaknesses and past disappointments. She must have the Lakshmi, as...
- 5/14/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
India is currently witnessing a very small but powerful indie movement with many new films making it big at international film festivals. One film to join this bandwagon is Kshay, an intense psychological study of a woman’s obsession with an unfinished statue of the Goddess Lakshmi. The film just won the ‘Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Feature’ at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (Iffla). Shot in stark black-and-white, starring theatre actors Alekh Sangal and Rasika Dugal, the film has travelled to 4 international film festivals already with many more in the offing.
Says Shaan Vyas, producer of Kshay “Kshay has taken us 4 years to complete and was made with a two-man crew at most times – the director Karan Gour and Dop Abhinay Khoparzi. When I say a two-man crew, nobody can even come close to knowing how difficult that can be. It’s a film about obsession made by an obsessive person.
Says Shaan Vyas, producer of Kshay “Kshay has taken us 4 years to complete and was made with a two-man crew at most times – the director Karan Gour and Dop Abhinay Khoparzi. When I say a two-man crew, nobody can even come close to knowing how difficult that can be. It’s a film about obsession made by an obsessive person.
- 4/17/2012
- by Pooja Rao
- Bollyspice
Bollywood is big on romance, and with February being the month on Valentine’s Day we usually see releases of films that are particularly romantic, this year being no exception.
On February 10th we get our second Dharma Productions film of 2012, Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu (Me and You), starring Imran Khan and Kareena Kapoor, and directed by first timer Shakun Batra.
A series of events following his getting fired from his job, Rahul (Imran Khan) meets Raina (Kareena Kapoor) whose personality is the complete opposite. After a night of heavy drinking on Christmas Eve, they wake up to find they got married. The film follows the 10 days of their marriage between the rude-awakening, and finally getting an annulment.
The music, by Vishal-Shekhar isn’t great by Dharma Productions’ high standard, but the romantic comedy still shows potential to be a lot of fun.
The week after, on the 17th,...
On February 10th we get our second Dharma Productions film of 2012, Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu (Me and You), starring Imran Khan and Kareena Kapoor, and directed by first timer Shakun Batra.
A series of events following his getting fired from his job, Rahul (Imran Khan) meets Raina (Kareena Kapoor) whose personality is the complete opposite. After a night of heavy drinking on Christmas Eve, they wake up to find they got married. The film follows the 10 days of their marriage between the rude-awakening, and finally getting an annulment.
The music, by Vishal-Shekhar isn’t great by Dharma Productions’ high standard, but the romantic comedy still shows potential to be a lot of fun.
The week after, on the 17th,...
- 1/27/2012
- by Maahin
- Nerdly
Chhaya and Arvind are living a borderline middle-class life in modern day India, but circumstances are sliding them lower. Arvind (Alekh Sangal) can’t catch a break at his job managing a construction crew where he’s consistently pressured by his boss to speed things up and do more with less. Sitting across from the balding man with the crude 9/11 sculpture on his desk Arvind is forced to swallow his pride and accept the mistreatment if he wants to hang on to his job. Chhaya (Rasika Dugal) meanwhile spends her days at home doing chores, shopping for groceries, and falling quickly and quietly into depression. At least until an accident of questionable intervention leads her to find a sculpture of Lakshmi, the goddess of prosperity, that “even God couldn’t make more beautiful.” The statue sits in a young boy’s shop where he claims to be the sculptor and sets a very high price for it...
- 11/17/2011
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
The rushes of indie documentary Kshay by first-time filmmaker Karan Gour had been doing silent rounds of multiple blogs and forums over the past few months and I was highly impressed with the footage that was shared. So when I had the chance to interact with its lead actor, Alekh Sangal, I was more than keen to jump at the opportunity, happy to get an inside view of the project. While Alekh breezes thru preparations for his trip to Chicago for the world premiere of Kshay at the Chicago International Film Festival, I do a quick run-thru of his resume. With a professional experience spanning around 10 years, Alekh has some interesting stints dabbling in theatre, films, television as well as conducting workshops. Quite the jack of all trades I muse, even as he charmingly confesses “One never knows what his true calling can be unless he has been called upon by all the possibilities.
- 10/9/2011
- by Pooja Rao
- Bollyspice
Kshay revolves around the personification of an obsession, fueled by nothing more than intangible desires. Chhaya (Rasika Dugal) is a simple housewife who has an artistic bent of mind and a seemingly happy life with her husband Arvind (Alekh Sangal). Money trickles in every month and life goes on for an unassuming Chhaya, until her eyes catch hold of an unfinished sculpture of the Hindu Goddess, Lakshmi. Her values and relationships as she knows them begin to decay day by day, surrendering to the clutches of an ugly obsession that feeds on her weaknesses and past disappointments. She must have the ‘Lakshmi’, as if to make up for all that she has yearned for in her life.
Kshay takes an unforgiving look at obsession; how it eats at the frailty of our minds, corroding reasoning, reality and emotional fulfillment.
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Kshay takes an unforgiving look at obsession; how it eats at the frailty of our minds, corroding reasoning, reality and emotional fulfillment.
Check out their posters and trailer!
www.youtube.com/watch?v...
- 8/14/2011
- by BollySpice Editors
- Bollyspice
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