SHRISHTI LAKHERA’S FILM “EK THA GAON” WINS NON FEATURE FILM AWARD and Bittu Rawat in cinematography BY THE JURY OF 69 FILM FESTIVAL. HAILS FROM TEHRI GARHWAL !
The 69 th National Film Festival jury has selected a movie under non feature film category titled ” EK THA GAON’, directed by a graduate of Miranda House College of Delhi University and masters from Washington, US primarily hailing from Rishikesh, Tehri Garhwal, Shrishti Lakhera for the biggest non feature film, film festival award, with people of Uttarakhand feeling proud of her for this outstanding achievement. Another film festival award for best cinematography has gone to Bittu Rawat of Chopta Rudraprayag for the film “Pataal tee” made on the life of BHOTIA Community in their dialect. The film very magnificently depicted the story and scenes of a grandson fetching holy water for his grandfather from the himalayan terrains etc. Hailing from a modest family Bittu Rawat did his diploma in photography from Delhi lending hand of support to their family’s petty hardware business. On the other hand primarily hailing from from Semla Gaon, Kirti Nagar, Tehri Garhwal her father is a renowned child specialist at Rishikesh. She has sought her school education from Onkaranand convent school , Rishikesh via online where her father runs his clinic for children. “Ek Tha Gaon”, film is in GARHWALI dialect AND HINDI national language. Married to a South Indian Amrith Surendran, Shrishti after completing her graduation from Miranda house did her masters from Evergreen Olympia Washington, US. According to the news Amrith Surendran is a renowned cinematographer having worked with OTT. Hailing from an family with modest background though her father is a well known child specialist in Rishikesh running clinic called ” KILKAARI”, 35 year old SHRISHTI’S mother is a house wife and his brother running his business in Delhi. The 69 th Film Festival jury has announced the best feature film award to ROCKETRY THE BAMBI IMPACT and to EK THA GAON IN THE NON FEATURES FILM CATEGORY. Apart from this the movie of R.Madhvan renowned actor ” ROCKETRY, Sanjay leela Bansali’s GANGUBHAI KATGIWADI, SARDAR UDHAM SINGH OF VIKKI KAUSHAL, RRR of Rajamauli have attained several awards in the 69 Film Festival. Kindly recall that a controversial movie that has done business of more than 500 crores titled Kashmir Files on Kashmiri Pandits victimisation and brutal murder by terrorists termed as genocide was also adjusted as one of the best movies last year with the film winning Nargis Dutt award for national integration. The name of ” EK THA GAON” AND OTHER AWARDS WERE ANNOUNCED ON THURSDAY EVENING BY THE 69 TH FILM FESTIVAL JURY.
According to Rajendra Prasad, my close friend and relative of Srishti, Srishti is the daughter of Dr. Kushala Nand Lakheda ji of the village next to him and looks like my aunt in the relationship. An interesting detail related to the making of this film which has won several awards so far is that during the lockdown due to the Covid pandemic, Dr. Lakheda moved to his native village along with his wife and daughter Srishti. During this, he also inspired people for reverse migration by doing a lot of farming by growing pulses in their barren fields there. The plight of the deserted villages gave Srishti the idea of this film and she shot it in the adjacent village and made a wonderful film.
KUDOS.
