Kanche aur Postcard directed by Ridham Janve

Miraj Entertainment Limited presents Kanche aur Postcard, a film by Ridham Janve
Produced by Madan Paliwal
Cinematography by Prahlad Gopakumar
Music by Samarth Janve
Art Direction by Saurabh Vyas
Production by Megh Joshi,  Mridul Joshi, Basim Abu
Language: Hindi
Starring: Pradhuman Singh Choudhary,
Co-starring: Mohd. Sahil, Yash Bhatnagar, Yug Bhatnagar
Sateesh Ashi, Usha Bhatnagar, Krishna Kate.

Kanche aur Postcard’ wins the best short film, the Rajasthan Award at the Jaipur International Film Festival.

Official Selection at 44th International Film Festival of India (IFFI)

Award winner at First Goa Short Film Festival, Panaji

Official Selection at 18th International Children’s Film Festival of India, Hyderabad.

The film was also selected for the Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF) in the best short film award category.

Official Selection at Madurai Film Festival 2013.

The songs of Kanche Aur Postcard Movie have been composed by Samarth Janve with Music Label.

Kanche Aur Postcard

Every holiday Bipin comes to his Mamaji’s home. Mamaji lives with the elderly grandmother in a modest locality, a small three storey apartment. The first floor of the apartment is occupied by people of very modest means, but the top floors have people who are better educated, Mamaji himself is a lawyer.

The entrance to this apartment is through an open courtyard where every day a hectic game of marbles is played by a bunch of schoolboys, who Mamaji calls ruffians. The game is extremely entertaining as there is a running commentary which not only concentrates on the players themselves but also on every person who crosses the courtyard, even the cow tied at a corner is not spared. All hell breaks loose one day, the commentator goes wild when Mamaji crossing the courtyard steps directly into a cow dung pat.

Although Bipin longs with every fibre of his little heart to join in the hearty game of kanche, Mamaji just will not have it. No matter how much Bipin begs and pleads, asks his grandmother to intercede, Mamaji will not yield. Mamaji has decided that the ruffians are not ‘good’ enough company for Bipin. Mamaji feels Bipin should have ‘better’boys around him. What Bipin feels or wants is not Mamaji’s concern. So one Sunday he takes Bipin for a tennis lesson. Bipin hates it; he wants a game of Kanche.

As the holidays near their end, Bipin gets desperate, he just needs a bag of kanche, so when his grandmother sends him to buy postcards Bipin just cannot resist it, with the change he buys a handful of kanche and for a precious half hour Bipin owns a bit of heaven. Those colourful kanche, glass globules of every boy’s childhood, glass globules of happiness, of colour. Every little boy has fought for them, earned them, yearned for them, dreamt of them and slept clutching those little globules.

But stolen goods do not last for long……… even if it is a handful of glorious marbles.

Quoting the Director Ridham Janve ‘Through its innocence and simplicity, Kanche aur Postcard explores deeper themes of class, caste, control and acceptance. The film also reminds us of the often overlooked yet very essential differences of perception and understanding between children and adults’

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