‘Greater Elephant’ receives best jury award at SAIFF
December 27th, 2011 - 6:50 pm ICT by IANSNew York, Dec 27 (IANS) “Greater Elephant”, a film produced by Pallavi Rohtagi, received the Best Jury Award at the South Asian International Film Festival (SAIFF) here.
Directed by Srinivas Sunderrajan, the comedy is about lost elephant in a big city wiht sub-plots talking about lost childhood, skeptical society and about one’s search for self.
Hussain Dalal, Naveen Kaushik, Saunskruti Kher, Rajiv Mishra, Shreyas Pandit, Shashi Nambiar feature in the cast of the film.
Shot extensively across Mumbai and Pune, “Greater Elephant” has been written by Omkar Sane and music of the film is by Swatharma.
SAIFF, a not-for-profit organisation, supports South Asian or Indian filmmakers in the US seeking maximum visibility and absolute distribution.
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