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Film / Asian Cinema Competition / NAM SAALI

NAM SAALI

OUR SCHOOL

ANEELKUMAR

INDIA / KANNADA / 2025 / 90 mins

Gangya is asked to read his essay "On the school" aloud in class. With innocence and honesty, he speaks of broken classrooms and missing facilities, truths that expose a system built on negligence. Offended teacher beats him, forcing him to promise a rewritten, proper version. At home, hope briefly returns when his impoverished parents speak of migrating to the city for a better future. Trusting this promise, Gangya skips school the next day without rewriting the essay. But poverty decides otherwise. His parents leave the village in silence, another unseen migration. Abandoned and cornered, Gangya returns to school. This time, he suppresses his truth and reads a safe, obedient essay. The teacher is pleased. The system succeeds.

ಗಂಗ್ಯನು ಶಾಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ತನ್ನ ಪ್ರಬಂಧವನ್ನು ಓದುವಾಗ, ಮುರಿದ ತರಗತಿಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ಸೌಲಭ್ಯಗಳ ಕೊರತೆ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಸತ್ಯವನ್ನು ಹೇಳುತ್ತಾನೆ. ಇದರಿಂದ ಕೋಪಗೊಂಡ ಶಿಕ್ಷಕ ಅವನನ್ನು ಹೊಡೆದು, ಸರಿಯಾದ ಪ್ರಬಂಧವನ್ನು ಮರುಬರೆಯಲು ಹೇಳುತ್ತಾನೆ. ಮನೆಯಲ್ಲೇ, ಉತ್ತಮ ಭವಿಷ್ಯಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ನಗರಕ್ಕೆ ಹೋಗುವ ಮಾತನ್ನು ತಂದೆ-ತಾಯಿ ಹೇಳುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಆ ನಂಬಿಕೆಯಿಂದ ಗಂಗ್ಯ ಪ್ರಬಂಧ ಮರುಬರೆಯದೇ ಇರುವುದಲ್ಲದೆ, ಶಾಲೆಗೂ ಹೋಗುವುದಿಲ್ಲ. ಆದರೆ ಅವರು ಮೌನವಾಗಿ ಊರನ್ನು ತೊರೆಯುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಒಂಟಿಯಾದ ಗಂಗ್ಯ ಮತ್ತೆ ಶಾಲೆಗೆ ಬಂದು, ತನ್ನ ಸತ್ಯವನ್ನು ಮರೆಸಿ ವಿಧೇಯ ಪ್ರಬಂಧವನ್ನು ಓದುತ್ತಾನೆ. ಶಿಕ್ಷಕ ಸಂತೋಷಪಡುತ್ತಾನೆ, ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆ ಗೆಲ್ಲುತ್ತದೆ.

Producer(s) or Production Company:

Jangama Creations

Screenplay:

Aneelkumar

Director of Photography:

Arun Alexander, Karun Prasad

Editor :

Aneelkumar

Music :

Munna

Aneelkumar is a Banglore Based Kannada Film and theatre director with a B.A and a Diploma in Theatre, he has directed nemerous plays across karnataka and seved as an Associate Director for films like THE RYTHEM OF DAMMAM and GODRA. He Edited BURLI, ABSURD DREAM and recently directed the feture film NAM SAALI. Currenrly he is the Managing Director of Jangama Studio and founding member of the jangama Collective.