Payal Kapadia And Kani Kusruti To Co-Produce Malayalam Film 'Guptam' (Image-Instagram/kunjila)
Award-winning director Payal Kapadia and actress Kani Kusruti are teaming up as producers for an exciting Malayalam venture titled Guptam (The Last Of Them Plagues).
The All We Imagine As Light fame duo are all set to add feathers to their hats as producers as they begin their productional journey with Guptam, alongside director Jeo Baby and actors Ali Fazal and Richa Chadha.
The film, written and directed by Kunjila Mascilamani, will reunite Ali and Richa, who have previously worked with Kani in the film Girls Will Be Girls. The film is all set to be featured at CinéV Film Markets, Chandigarh, from March 20-23.
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Guptam was earlier selected for the NDFC Co-Production Market (2024), Kerala Film Market (2024), and Bangalore Literature Festival (2024). The film will also be presented at the CineV Film Markets, an event where investors will be connected with curated, pre-vetted film projects, fostering cross-industry investment opportunities and bringing compelling South Asian stories to life.
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The official logline of the film reads: “When her younger daughter disappears in a graveyard, a single mother is forced to move to a conservative, religious, small town in Kerala, India, where she launches a desperate search for the child. Soon, a series of mysterious and disastrous incidents plague the region, and the townsfolk turn against her, convinced she has brought god’s wrath upon them. Now, she must fight to clear her name while coping with grief and struggling to care for her surviving daughter.”
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Director Kunjila is known for Asanghadithar, which was the part of a Malayalam anthology, Freedom Fight. Her film also received a special jury mention at the 2023 Kerala State Film Awards, and in 2024, the University of Calicut included the film in its Bachelor of Arts curriculum.
