Under the weekly film screening of children’s movies, a Bollywood movie Katt Katt Kad Kaddu was screened on Thursday. The movie was screened under regular series of film screenings Ullas at Madhya Pradesh State Tribal Museum.
On Thursday, a huge crowd of schoolchildren visited tribal museum to watch the movie. It was a fun-filled day for the students as they enjoyed watching the movie. The movie was directed by Jayashree Kanal. The movie features Kamal Joshi and Mohan Agashe in the lead roles. The movie surrounds the faded life of retired naval officer Captain Hemant Joshi. Captain Hemant Joshi lives alone, tending to his garden where he is growing a pumpkin for a competition.
He dislikes noisy children so hates it when his 12-year-old nephew Saurab comes to stay with him. Saurab too is lonely till he befriends Chitki, Dilkhush and Pappu.
Together the kids explores communication through Morse code. When the Captain’s gold medal goes missing, he blames the kids and bans Saurab’s three friends. The kids use Morse code to communicate while attempting to trace the medal.
Meanwhile, the captain’s archrival steals his prized pumpkin.
It is now up to the kids to take over, recover the pumpkin and bring cheer to the depressed captain.
Jayashree debuted as a director with the film Kaat Kaat Kad Kaddu for CFSI and followed it up by co-directing Chota Sipahi. Besides writing and directing TV programmes, she also teaches direction and acting at FTII.