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Movie Preview: “Welcome to Sajjanpur”

Movie Preview: “Welcome to Sajjanpur”

Banner: UTV Spot Boy
Director: Shyam Benegal
Producer: Chetan Motiwalla and Ronnie Screwvala
Star Cast: Shreyas Talpade, Amrita Rao, Ravi Kishen
Music Director: Shantanu Moitra
Lyricist: Ashok Mishra, Swanand Kirkire

The film “Welcome to Sajjanpur” is about an Indian village, a small region isolated from the hi-tech culture of India where the people are not computer savvy but they are very simple and many of them are uneducated to be unable to read a letter or a postal message. The film is about the humor generated from such situational incidents. The film aims to attract audience in multiplexes who have their roots in these kinds of rural towns of India but after arriving in metro cultural cities, they feel away from their roots.

The story of the film is about Mahadev who is one of the few people who are educated in his small village Sajjanpur and he wants to write a novel, a book but he makes money by reading the letters of the people, who are unable to read their postal letter by their own.
Mahadev is popular with other villagers and he finds that he can even control the activities of the village from his skills.

The film has Shreyas Talpade and Amrita Rao in lead roles and Shreyas said that he has been doing experimental roles, that suits his image and he gets popular from such movies. He said working with Shyamji is like going back to acting school.

The director of the film Shyam Benegal, who is internationally acclaimed bollywood director made many movies screened in some of the known film festivals around the world, said that he got the script of the film when he met his spot boy who was uneducated and his wife was educated .The spot boy used to bring letters written by his wife on sets to be read by somebody learned to read the letters. The film is a low budget venture and has the content to attract audience.

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By: Staff Reporter - NewzWatch September 16, 2008

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