Pankaja

United States/India202514 minTelugu, Kannada

Pankaja, along with her daughter, Lalli, searches for her missing husband through the city slums of Bangalore to bring him back home.

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Pankaja, along with her daughter, Lalli, searches for her missing husband through the city slums of Bangalore to bring him back home.

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Credits

Director(s)
Anooya Swamy
Screenwriter
Anooya Swamy
Producers
Anooya Swamy
Nakirekanti Swamy
Archana Swamy
Vindhya Gupta
Director of Photography
Luke Kao
Composer
Bharath Kashyap
Original Music
JAAGO Lifafa
Editors
Anooya Swamy
Maria Belu Poncio
Costume Designer
Siri Lambu
Sound Designer
Anirban Borthakur
Colorist
Aaryaman Kutty
Principal Cast
Harshini Boyalla
Padmashree G.

Company
Indepedent
Contact
Anooya Swamy
as16488@nyu.edu
3329995977

Meet the Artist

Anooya Swamy

Anooya Swamy is a New York–based Indian filmmaker born and raised in Bangalore, pursuing her MFA in film/TV production at Tisch School of the Arts, where she served as Spike Lee’s assistant. She is an Ang Lee Scholar, a BAFTA Scholar, and a Sundance Ignite x Adobe fellow.

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