Jul 30, 2009 0
“FROZEN” THE FILM

Frozen : The Movie Poster
by Shanker Raman
The married print was ready in July 2007. Two prints were struck from a color DI negative on to a black and white positive, made at Color by Deluxe in Los Angeles. It had its first public screening at the Osian Cinefan film festival end of July 2007. Since then it has travelled to numerous film festivals all over the world. It was an Official selection at Toronto, Pusan, BFI London, Thessaloniki, Mumbai and Rotterdam to name a few. It has won Best Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Actor and Best Music Awards. It got an official release in June 2009, nearly two years after the first print came out.
When the film was going to be released in Pune, I got a call from a reporter, asking me routine questions about the film- questions I had been asked before on numerous occasions. Most of them I had answered enthusiastically, wanting to be correct about my own reasons to the why and the how…

