R. Sarath

R. Sarath is an Indian film director and screenwriter working primarily in the Malayalam film industry.

Not to be confused with R. Sarathkumar.

R. Sarath
Malayalam film director
Born
Vilakkudy, Kollam, India
OccupationFilm director
Years active2000 – present
Websitehttp://www.sarathfilmdirector.com/

Career

Sarath's rendezvous with films started with Sayahnam (Twilight) in 2000.The film marked his debut as a director and script writer and he won accolades for both at the Kerala State Film Awards.[1][2] Sayahnam won seven awards at the State Film Awards and also the Indira Gandhi National Award for debut director. The film was featured at the Munich International Film Festival, 2001 in the competition section and was invited to many popular international film festivals.

In his next feature film Sthithi (Plight) Sarath told the tale of a middle-class couple who face the onslaughts of fortune.[3][1] The film premiered at the Bangkok International Film Festival in 2003. His third feature film Seelabathi (2006) a drama set in rural Kerala.[4][5] The film received both box-office success and positive remarks from critics and featured at the Asia Pacific film festival in Taiwan.

Sarath also scripted and directed a Hindi feature film, an Indo-Chinese co-production tilted The Desire - A journey of a woman (2011).

The Desire depicts the eventful journey of an Indian classical dancer and her love for a Chinese artist who she met during a travel assignment.[6]

In Parudeesa (2012) Sarath embraced new horizons of thought delineating the perpetual disagreement between orthodox and unorthodox paths of religion.[7]

His film Buddhan Chirikkunnu (Buddha Smiles) pays homage to Charlie Chaplin.

During the filming of his documentary The Painted Epics, Sarath discovered some rare mural paintings of Raja Ravi Varma in Kilimanoor temple. Sarath has studied murals in detail and received a junior fellowship from the Department of Culture, Government of India in 1996, for his research on murals. He is now involved in experimental non-feature films which covers contemporary themes.

Of date there are 10 documentaries and 5 short films also to Sarath's credit. Purani Dhun (Hindi), The Painted Epics, Divine Love, and Lasyangana mesmerised art lovers in India and abroad with its visual poetry and classic rendering. The docu-fictional Bhumikku Oru Charamagitam (A Requiem to Earth) is a short film on eco-feministic aesthetics based on the Malayalam poem of the same name by legendary poet O. N. V. Kurup.

He is currently working as Deputy Director at the Information and Public Relations Department, Government of Kerala. He previously served as the Director of MPCC and Secretary of Bharat Bhavan under the Kerala State Cultural department. Sarath also works as Visual Director in India's first multi-media project - Geet Govinda, a collaboration involving The Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, New Delhi and the multimedia design expertise of XEROX Palo Alto Research centre, USA. Dr Kapila Vatsyayan wrote the script for this multimedia venture in 1997. Sarath was the festival director of IUKFF 2007 in London. He also served as a jury member for the National Film Award in 2011 and was the jury Chairman of the Kerala State Television Award in 2012 and 2021.

Filmography

Feature films
Year Original title Story Screenplay
2000SayahnamYesYes
2002SthithiYesYes
2005SeelabathiYesYes
2011The Desire: A Journey of a WomanYesYes
2012ParudeesaNoNo
2014Buddhanum Chaplinum ChirikkunnuYesYes
2017 Swayam Yes Yes
2019 My Dear Krishna[8] Yes Yes

Awards

References
  1. "Sthithi". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 22 October 2012. Retrieved 8 April 2011.
  2. G. Jayakumar (10 February 2006). "Ode to nature". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 8 April 2011.
  3. "Sthithi". The Hindu. 14 October 2002. Archived from the original on 4 November 2002. Retrieved 8 April 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  4. "A mirror to society". The Hindu. 6 December 2005. Archived from the original on 7 September 2006. Retrieved 8 April 2011.
  5. "Seelabathi". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 3 June 2009. Retrieved 8 April 2011.
  6. "Shilpa Shetty to star in India-China flick The Desire". Hindustan Times. 25 March 2009. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
  7. Satyendran, Nita (25 October 2012). "A question of faith". The Hindu. Kochi, India. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
  8. "MY DEAR KRISHNA | WFCN". WFCN – World Film Communities Network. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  9. Awards in- South Asian film festival, new jersey [actress] Asian film festival London[best film] New York city international film festival[Actress] Jaipur international film festival[Actress] official selection in London film festival, [2012] Boston international film festival[2011] "The Desire makes waves". The Hindu. 22 April 2011. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
  10. Kurian, Shiba. "Parudeesa receives international honours - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
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