Roudram (Anger| Images 1,2,3) and Karunam (Pathos| Images 4,5,6).
Two emotions that are often disguised as each other… Unexpressed grief often manifests as rage while unexpressed anger transmutes itself into sorrow. Both have their source in pain. But your default depends on what you have been permitted to show.
For a fortnight, sheltered from a world where the expression of these emotions is policed by gender, we learned to give voice to our anger and lend tears to our grief.
Thank you, Guruji.
@natanakairali ☀️
📷: @manojparameswaran
#natanakairali #navarasasadhana
Roudram (Anger| Images 1,2,3) and Karunam (Pathos| Images 4,5,6).
Two emotions that are often disguised as each other… Unexpressed grief often manifests as rage while unexpressed anger transmutes itself into sorrow. Both have their source in pain. But your default depends on what you have been permitted to show.
For a fortnight, sheltered from a world where the expression of these emotions is policed by gender, we learned to give voice to our anger and lend tears to our grief.
Thank you, Guruji.
@natanakairali ☀️
📷: @manojparameswaran
#natanakairali #navarasasadhana
Roudram (Anger| Images 1,2,3) and Karunam (Pathos| Images 4,5,6).
Two emotions that are often disguised as each other… Unexpressed grief often manifests as rage while unexpressed anger transmutes itself into sorrow. Both have their source in pain. But your default depends on what you have been permitted to show.
For a fortnight, sheltered from a world where the expression of these emotions is policed by gender, we learned to give voice to our anger and lend tears to our grief.
Thank you, Guruji.
@natanakairali ☀️
📷: @manojparameswaran
#natanakairali #navarasasadhana
Roudram (Anger| Images 1,2,3) and Karunam (Pathos| Images 4,5,6).
Two emotions that are often disguised as each other… Unexpressed grief often manifests as rage while unexpressed anger transmutes itself into sorrow. Both have their source in pain. But your default depends on what you have been permitted to show.
For a fortnight, sheltered from a world where the expression of these emotions is policed by gender, we learned to give voice to our anger and lend tears to our grief.
Thank you, Guruji.
@natanakairali ☀️
📷: @manojparameswaran
#natanakairali #navarasasadhana
Roudram (Anger| Images 1,2,3) and Karunam (Pathos| Images 4,5,6).
Two emotions that are often disguised as each other… Unexpressed grief often manifests as rage while unexpressed anger transmutes itself into sorrow. Both have their source in pain. But your default depends on what you have been permitted to show.
For a fortnight, sheltered from a world where the expression of these emotions is policed by gender, we learned to give voice to our anger and lend tears to our grief.
Thank you, Guruji.
@natanakairali ☀️
📷: @manojparameswaran
#natanakairali #navarasasadhana
Roudram (Anger| Images 1,2,3) and Karunam (Pathos| Images 4,5,6).
Two emotions that are often disguised as each other… Unexpressed grief often manifests as rage while unexpressed anger transmutes itself into sorrow. Both have their source in pain. But your default depends on what you have been permitted to show.
For a fortnight, sheltered from a world where the expression of these emotions is policed by gender, we learned to give voice to our anger and lend tears to our grief.
Thank you, Guruji.
@natanakairali ☀️
📷: @manojparameswaran
#natanakairali #navarasasadhana
From Ritubhedangal by @flying_asplif_ ✨
From Ritubhedangal by @flying_asplif_ ✨
I’ve always been a water baby. But one that didn’t know how to swim. Not from lack of trying, though. I signed up for coaching four times at various points from toddlerhood through adulthood. Unfortunately, something always went wrong and I never made it beyond one class. The last time I enrolled, the world shut down thanks to the pandemic. Talk about jinxes!
So here’s a picture of someone who after a lifetime of false starts, finally swam across the pool today.
#littlewins
Bhayanakam: Fear has always been a rather challenging emotion for me to explore/express. I attribute this to a combination of my temperament and good fortune. There aren’t many things I am instinctively afraid of. And I’ve been lucky not to have experienced situations where I have felt fearful for my life.
As a result, it is an emotion that I don’t have stored in my body as a somatic memory — an emotion that requires a real activation of imagination.
Indebted to Venu Maash and @natanakairali for having created a space where it felt safe to experience mortal danger, and to find myself in the throes of fear.
📷: @manojparameswaran
#natanakairali #navarasasadhana
Bhayanakam: Fear has always been a rather challenging emotion for me to explore/express. I attribute this to a combination of my temperament and good fortune. There aren’t many things I am instinctively afraid of. And I’ve been lucky not to have experienced situations where I have felt fearful for my life.
As a result, it is an emotion that I don’t have stored in my body as a somatic memory — an emotion that requires a real activation of imagination.
Indebted to Venu Maash and @natanakairali for having created a space where it felt safe to experience mortal danger, and to find myself in the throes of fear.
📷: @manojparameswaran
#natanakairali #navarasasadhana
Bhayanakam: Fear has always been a rather challenging emotion for me to explore/express. I attribute this to a combination of my temperament and good fortune. There aren’t many things I am instinctively afraid of. And I’ve been lucky not to have experienced situations where I have felt fearful for my life.
As a result, it is an emotion that I don’t have stored in my body as a somatic memory — an emotion that requires a real activation of imagination.
Indebted to Venu Maash and @natanakairali for having created a space where it felt safe to experience mortal danger, and to find myself in the throes of fear.
📷: @manojparameswaran
#natanakairali #navarasasadhana
Bhayanakam: Fear has always been a rather challenging emotion for me to explore/express. I attribute this to a combination of my temperament and good fortune. There aren’t many things I am instinctively afraid of. And I’ve been lucky not to have experienced situations where I have felt fearful for my life.
As a result, it is an emotion that I don’t have stored in my body as a somatic memory — an emotion that requires a real activation of imagination.
Indebted to Venu Maash and @natanakairali for having created a space where it felt safe to experience mortal danger, and to find myself in the throes of fear.
📷: @manojparameswaran
#natanakairali #navarasasadhana
Bhayanakam: Fear has always been a rather challenging emotion for me to explore/express. I attribute this to a combination of my temperament and good fortune. There aren’t many things I am instinctively afraid of. And I’ve been lucky not to have experienced situations where I have felt fearful for my life.
As a result, it is an emotion that I don’t have stored in my body as a somatic memory — an emotion that requires a real activation of imagination.
Indebted to Venu Maash and @natanakairali for having created a space where it felt safe to experience mortal danger, and to find myself in the throes of fear.
📷: @manojparameswaran
#natanakairali #navarasasadhana
Bhayanakam: Fear has always been a rather challenging emotion for me to explore/express. I attribute this to a combination of my temperament and good fortune. There aren’t many things I am instinctively afraid of. And I’ve been lucky not to have experienced situations where I have felt fearful for my life.
As a result, it is an emotion that I don’t have stored in my body as a somatic memory — an emotion that requires a real activation of imagination.
Indebted to Venu Maash and @natanakairali for having created a space where it felt safe to experience mortal danger, and to find myself in the throes of fear.
📷: @manojparameswaran
#natanakairali #navarasasadhana
Bhayanakam: Fear has always been a rather challenging emotion for me to explore/express. I attribute this to a combination of my temperament and good fortune. There aren’t many things I am instinctively afraid of. And I’ve been lucky not to have experienced situations where I have felt fearful for my life.
As a result, it is an emotion that I don’t have stored in my body as a somatic memory — an emotion that requires a real activation of imagination.
Indebted to Venu Maash and @natanakairali for having created a space where it felt safe to experience mortal danger, and to find myself in the throes of fear.
📷: @manojparameswaran
#natanakairali #navarasasadhana
Veeram: “Aa samayathu Ravana…” *
An incantation that prepares the actor to assume the role of Ravana, even as it reminds us that the actor and the character are separate entities.
The Indian tradition of acting distinguishes between the individual, the actor and the character. This distinction allows one to be a kadhapatra — a vessel for the character. It empowers the individual as an actor, allowing one to maintain a healthy separation from the psyche of the character.
To explore the sentiment of Veeram (Valour), Guruji taught us the choreography to an excerpt from Kailasodharanam. Here, the actor embodies the fierce and mighty demon king Ravana as he first appraises, then lifts, and finally tosses Mount Kailasa up into the skies.
* ”At that time, Ravana…”
@natanakairali ☀️
📷: @manojparameswaran & Vanikki Tyagi
#natanakairali #navarasasadhana #veeram
Veeram: “Aa samayathu Ravana…” *
An incantation that prepares the actor to assume the role of Ravana, even as it reminds us that the actor and the character are separate entities.
The Indian tradition of acting distinguishes between the individual, the actor and the character. This distinction allows one to be a kadhapatra — a vessel for the character. It empowers the individual as an actor, allowing one to maintain a healthy separation from the psyche of the character.
To explore the sentiment of Veeram (Valour), Guruji taught us the choreography to an excerpt from Kailasodharanam. Here, the actor embodies the fierce and mighty demon king Ravana as he first appraises, then lifts, and finally tosses Mount Kailasa up into the skies.
* ”At that time, Ravana…”
@natanakairali ☀️
📷: @manojparameswaran & Vanikki Tyagi
#natanakairali #navarasasadhana #veeram
Super excited to finally share a little glimpse of the surreal world Team Ennennum has been quietly creating. Ennennum (Now and Forever) is a project I auditioned for back in 2019. I got goosebumps when I read the script because it gave me a peek into the beautiful, brilliant mind of its writer-director. We had to wait four years to realise Shalini’s vision, and despite all the ups and downs through that period, this has been one of the most rewarding experiences in my journey as an actor. Ennennum will be premiering in the Malayalam Cinema Today section at IFFK in December 2023. More details to follow! ✨
Trailer out now! Link in stories ✨
@ennennummovie
Written, Directed & Produced by @shaliniusha
Cast : @santhybee @pikkoo @ajithlal_sivalal
@anumolofficial @sithara__vijayan @gibin_gopinath @bilaschandrahasanofficial
@sudipjomat
Cinematography: @sreekanthsinsta
Music: @rex_vijayan
Editing: Bina Paul
Sound Design: @murdrfce
Costume Design: @alexanderkaleekal
Chief Associate Director: @jayakrishnan4015
Assistant Directors: @praveeenmohan @riajogy
Associate Cinematographer : @i_the_vagabond_
Associate Editor: @malavika_vn
Associate Producer: @laze.gaze
Executive Producer: @sudipjomat
Creatives: @thoughtfactorydesign
#iffk #iffk2023 #malayalamcinematoday @iffklive #chalachitraacademy #ennennum
#iffk #iffk2023 #malayalamcinematoday @iffklive #chalachitraacademy
Ennennum is a Malayalam Sci-Fi movie written, directed and produced by Shalini Ushadevi.
CAST: SANTHY, ANOOP MOHANDAS, ANUMOL, AJITHLAL SIVALAL, SUDIP JOSHY, GIBIN GOPINATH
WRITTEN, DIRECTED & PRODUCED BY SHALINI USHADEVI
CO PRODUCERS : JERRY PHILIP, KURIAKOSE VARGHESE, SHYAMOHAN V
CINEMATOGRAPHER : SREEKANTH SIVASWAMY
EDITOR : BINA PAUL
SOUND RECORDING & SOUND DESIGN : NITIN R
MUSIC : REX VIJAYAN
SOUND MIXING : NILADRI SHEKAR ROY,
LOCATION : CHUZHI
ARCHITECT: VINU DANIEL
COSTUME DIRECTOR : ALAN ALEXANDER KALEEKAL SCRIPT CONSULTANT : DR. ARUN SURENDRAN EXECUTIVE PRODUCER : SUDIP JOSHY ASSOCIATE PRODUCER : ARAVIND RAMACHANDRAN
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR : JAYAKRISHNAN S
ASSISTANT DIRECTORS : PRAVEEN MOHAN, RIA JOGY ASSOCIATE CINEMATOGRAPHER : PRASHIL JADHAV ASSOCIATE EDITOR : MALAVIKA VN
PRODUCTION DESIGN : SHALINI USHADEVI
GRAPHIC & IDENTITY DESIGN : THOUGHT FACTORY
VFX : MOVIE LAND
ADDITIONAL VFX : FOXDOT MEDIA PVT. LTD.
MOTION DESIGN 2D : KARTHIK PRAKASH NAIR
DI : CHITRANJALI STUDIO KSFDC
COLORIST : B YUGENDHRAN DFTECH
TRANSLATION : GK MAYA
Every year, I go through a couple of intense bouts of reading when all I care to do is immerse myself in the pages of a book. I read furiously and feverishly. I am drunk with pleasure and power, intoxicated by the hubris of being a collaborator to the author — giving final touches to the worlds they have painstakingly created, the faces and places they have bled into existence.
And then comes the lull. My books wind up stacked carelessly on top of each other, gathering dust on unreachable shelves, becoming a playground for insects of all kinds. During these months of neglect, I can barely stand to look at them. The guilt of having spent money on tomes I may never read pricks me every time my eyes wander to my shelves. And then there’s mild panic; fear that I maybe cheating myself of some sliver of insight into the human condition by ignoring a classic I already own — forget the ones on my ever expanding wish lists.
I can never predict when these phases will switch.
For now, my books wait. Patiently. Sans judgement.
And I take to browsing through titles in secondhand shops, in the hope that one of them will break the spell, open up portals to new worlds again.
Every year, I go through a couple of intense bouts of reading when all I care to do is immerse myself in the pages of a book. I read furiously and feverishly. I am drunk with pleasure and power, intoxicated by the hubris of being a collaborator to the author — giving final touches to the worlds they have painstakingly created, the faces and places they have bled into existence.
And then comes the lull. My books wind up stacked carelessly on top of each other, gathering dust on unreachable shelves, becoming a playground for insects of all kinds. During these months of neglect, I can barely stand to look at them. The guilt of having spent money on tomes I may never read pricks me every time my eyes wander to my shelves. And then there’s mild panic; fear that I maybe cheating myself of some sliver of insight into the human condition by ignoring a classic I already own — forget the ones on my ever expanding wish lists.
I can never predict when these phases will switch.
For now, my books wait. Patiently. Sans judgement.
And I take to browsing through titles in secondhand shops, in the hope that one of them will break the spell, open up portals to new worlds again.
Every year, I go through a couple of intense bouts of reading when all I care to do is immerse myself in the pages of a book. I read furiously and feverishly. I am drunk with pleasure and power, intoxicated by the hubris of being a collaborator to the author — giving final touches to the worlds they have painstakingly created, the faces and places they have bled into existence.
And then comes the lull. My books wind up stacked carelessly on top of each other, gathering dust on unreachable shelves, becoming a playground for insects of all kinds. During these months of neglect, I can barely stand to look at them. The guilt of having spent money on tomes I may never read pricks me every time my eyes wander to my shelves. And then there’s mild panic; fear that I maybe cheating myself of some sliver of insight into the human condition by ignoring a classic I already own — forget the ones on my ever expanding wish lists.
I can never predict when these phases will switch.
For now, my books wait. Patiently. Sans judgement.
And I take to browsing through titles in secondhand shops, in the hope that one of them will break the spell, open up portals to new worlds again.
Thrilled to share that Ennennum (Now and Forever) directed by Shalini Ushadevi @shaliniusha will be screened at the International Film Festival of Kerala in December 2023.
Ennennum is a project very close to my heart, and I have lots more to share about how the film came to be and the sheer joy the whole process gave me. For now, I’m super grateful that we get to share our film with the wonderful audience at IFFK 😊
Big love to Team Ennennum, and congratulations to all the filmmakers heading to the festival! ✨
#shaliniushadevi #ennennum
Tags : Gulmohar movie actress, Gulmohar film heroine
