Shimla youth wins ‘Best Director’ award for his short film in USA
Independent filmmaker from Shimla Siddhartha Chauhan has once again made the state proud by winning the ‘Best Director’ award in…
Pashi, a film directed by Himachal based writer and director, Sidharth Chauhan, has been nominated for five awards in World Music and Independent Film Festival in Washington DC, USA. The festival will be held from 29 January to 3 February and earlier, the film was premiered at the Oscar Qualifying: Rhode Island International Film Festival in USA.
It is second screening in US after travelling to China and Italy.
Pashi was recently also awarded Best Cinematography Award at Marietta International Film Festival in Georgia.
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The film was shot in 10 days at the Sunta Lodge, a beautiful wooden mansion of Khalwan village and some parts were filmed in Dhanoti village in Rohru area of Shimla district.
Set in a traditional Himachali village, an unusual love story unfolds as a visitor arrives and meets his neighbor after years. Simultaneously, a young boy learns about a technique of trapping birds from his wicked-old grandmother and begins to practice it.
Pashi is a ‘pahari’ laguage word literally meaning a trap and it was an old concept used by villagers and growing children for hunting birds and animals.
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