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Nila Madhab Panda is a film producer. Panda has produced and directed over 70 diverse and cutting edge films, documentaries and shorts. These films are based on important social issues such as climate change, child labor, education, water issues, sanitation and many other developmental issues in India. His films have won him several awards and critical acclaim. Most of his films have unique insights drawn from his own life, the metaphorical distance that he has traversed from a small obscure village based in one of the remotest parts of India, to metropolitan cities across the globe. His films are entertaining, yet portray profusely socially relevant themes; driving home the point that films can be a powerful medium of positive social change.
00:14 Introduction to Nila Madhab Panda, Filmmaker, National and International awards, Born in Subarnapur, Orissa, Writer, Director, Producer, 'I am Kalam', Films on environmental change, education, health, child labour, water conservation
03:26 Interview begins
04:07 Art for society's sake, Wrote and narrated stories, Best way to tell stories through cinema, Cinema medium to showcase societal problems, 'Dabbang' also a social film but not looked like that, Double benefit from my cinema- entertainment and learning
07:08 I am there in some form in all my films, Born in Sonpur, Orissa, village, river, jungle enough for your survival, Delhi, Our generation went through identity crisis because no one knows who we are as people, city, village or state
10:16 Anger earlier that we were poor, but now pride that we went through all of that, Joint family, Father and his four brothers, Experienced all kinds of experience every day, Village cut off from the world in rainy season for four months, Wasn't a good student, Youngest child, Was put to agriculture, Read Marx and Lenin in 8th standard, Failed in graduation, Uncle bought TV, TV best way to tell good stories, Learnt about cinema from FTII graduate in his district, Came to Delhi, Learning began there
18:02 Local Doordarshan programs, Films on Child labour in India with Rabindra Manab, Learnt the American way of storytelling in films, An independent Documentary after that
19:33 'Jungle me mor naacha, kisne dekha', Important to understand audience response and reach out to them, Capture networks and then showed films, 'Aatmaja' a short film in 2003 dubbed in 12 languages and circulated it everywhere in the country, Production and Circulation skills are learnt in childhood and at home, Studied entrepreneurship course at IIM Bangalore, 'I am Kalam' after that, Film shown all over the world- China, Poland, Korea, Driver recognising him at Nagpur Airport
24:45 No one wants preaching, Preach with entertainment, Childhood aspirations in 'I am Kalam', Fear in 'Jalpari', Satire in 'Kaun Kitne Paani me', Medicine in a chocolate, Divorce drama in a film on air pollution
26:36 I look at people's faces wherever I travel, My films are character driven
28:26 Any change has to happen with people only, not by government policies, Cinema in depicting one person's emotions, brings about change in people [iDMRJwwuCQk] |