A Hindi film ‘Foto’, a story of a little boy with different approach towards life was screened at Madhya Pradesh State Tribal Museum on Thursday. The movie was screened at the museum under regular children’s film screenings ‘Ullas’.
The movie is directed by Virendra Saini that released in year 2006. The film won the Best Children’s Film award at the National Film Awards, 2007
The movie surrounds the life of a boy called Foto. Eleven year old Foto has a strong imagination and lives in his own world of fantasy. Other kids consider him strange since he does not interact with them.
One day, a film unit comes to his hilly town to shoot. Foto is mesmerized to see the magicians create rain and lightening, image and colour and sound and music at their will.
It is as if his fantasy is the reality of these magicians as a new world full of thrills, adventure and discovery opens up for him. The movie follows the story to reconcile his world of imagination with this real fantasy.
Virendra Saini has been intimately and consistently connected with the New Cinema Movement in India, working for both feature films and full-length documentaries with several major directors including Mani Kaul, Saeed Mirza, Sai Paranjpye, Kundan Shah and to name a few.
In 1990 he won the National award for Best Cinematography for the film, ‘Salim langde Pe Mat Ro’.
In 1999 he directed his first feature film, ‘Kabhi Pass Kabhi Fail’ production by CFSI which won the National Award, for the Best Children’s Film.