Indian actor and filmmaker Manohara has had an inspirational journey. Hailing from humble circumstances in Bengaluru, southern India, Manohara was picked out of college and forged by filmmaker Prithvi Konanur in “Railway Youngsters” (2016), which received him greatest youngster actor at India’s Nationwide Movie Awards.
Manohara went on to behave in supporting roles in Konanur’s Busan and Hainan choice “The place Is Pinki?” (2020) and Busan, Hong Kong and Goa title “Seventeeners,” on which he additionally assisted.
“Bird of a Different Feather” (“Mikka Bannada Hakki”) relies on Sonia S’s autobiography of the identical title. Written by Manohara and Sonia S, the movie is chosen on the Shanghai International Film Festival the place it has 5 nominations on the Asian New Expertise Awards.
“Chook of a Completely different Feather” is the coming-of-age story of Sonia, who has albinism. Sonia comes from a poor household from a small village close to Bengaluru. Her alcoholic father nearly disdains her for what she is. And her mom is helpless, though well-intentioned. Aged 12, Sonia is saved from suicide by her mom. Sonia is admitted to a brand new college within the metropolis with new classmates who’re discriminatory and hostile due to how she seems to be, and her lecturers are apathetic. The movie explores her transformation from a shy, self-pitying teenager to a mature younger girl who learns to stay in peace with herself and her environment.
“I wished to encourage the youth in my first movie. I regarded for a narrative in that path in lots of locations for a lot of weeks. After I instructed this to Prithvi Konanur, he gave me the autobiography of the then 14-year outdated Sonia about struggles with albinism. Even earlier than I began studying the novel, what me was the topic of albinism. Earlier than this, I didn’t know that there was such a situation as albinism. What impressed me past this can be a lady who at one time determined to take her personal life after getting rejected and abused by the society and pals, transforms herself positively and relate with the society in a extra optimistic method,” Manohara instructed Selection.
“If you wish to obtain one thing in life, all you want is perseverance, effort and a want, and no shortcomings in life can cease you,” Manohara says about what he needs to convey by means of the movie.
Manohara had labored with Konanur as an assistant in the course of the making of the kids’s documentary “Motion, Drama, Lower.” “I had seen him comfortably working with youngsters. And for his first movie, I felt he could be snug with a youngsters’s topic. So, when he wished to discover a topic, he visited just a few NGOs and different organizations who work with youngsters for a youngsters’s topic. Nevertheless, he was not happy with any of the themes and topics he got here throughout,” Konanur instructed Selection.
Round that point, Konanur learn Sonia S’s autobiography and felt that it might be a superb match for Manohara. “I additionally knew that it wouldn’t come from the novel alone. So, I made Manohara learn this and when he felt that there was one thing attention-grabbing within the story, Manohara and Sonia sat collectively to weave the script. So, in essence the screenplay is taken from each Manohara and Sonia’s lives,” Konanur stated.
A good portion of “Chook of a Completely different Feather” was shot in Manohara’s village. The movie is produced by Konanur’s Konanur Productions.
Manohara, 22, is now persevering with his research as a first-year grasp of commerce scholar in Bengaluru and was additionally concerned within the sowing of the ragi (finger millet) crop in his village within the run-up to Shanghai. “I wish to make movies that maintain a mirror to society. I’m engaged on such a screenplay. Having lived my life in the midst of center class – poor households each at house and at school, I intend to discover a love story of the poor. What it means to be that couple in love with no cash and the huge burden of the longer term on their heads,” Manohara stated.
Konanur has just a few scripts prepared, together with “Rashid” that was at Busan’s Asian Undertaking Market in 2022. As for his plans for Manohara, he says, “I might encourage him to make movies as effectively, however proceed to pursue his ardour for appearing in mainstream movies. As a result of, merely put, he is a superb actor. Among the finest on the market.”
Manohara, Prithvi Konanur
Konanur Productions
