| Putaani Party | |
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| Directed by | Ramchandra P. N. |
| Produced by | Children's Film Society, India |
| Written by | Ramchandra P. N. Dialogues: Jayalakshmi Patil Mayyur Dandewale |
| Music by | Vijay Prakash |
| Cinematography | Sameer Mahajan |
| Editing by | Arunabha Mukerjee |
| Distributed by | Children's Film Society, India |
| Release date(s) | 2009 |
| Running time | 78 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Kannada |
Putaani Party (Kannada: ಪುಟಾಣಿ ಪಾರ್ಟಿ, English: The Kid Gang) is a 2009 Kannada language feature film. Produced by Children's Film Society, India, the film was shot in a village called Honnapura situated near the town of Dharwad in South India. The film uses local actors, most of them first timers who are new to the medium of films. The film has a particular dialect of Kannada that is spoken by a few in that part of India.
This film has been scripted and directed by Ramchandra PN, a graduate of the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. His earlier film Suddha had won the best Indian film at the Osean Cinefan Festival of Asian Films, New Delhi, 2007. Putaani Party is his second feature film and his first in Kannada language.
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A Gram Panchayat (village governing body) in rural India facilitates the functioning of the Makkala Samiti (Children’s Committee) – a children’s body elected by the children themselves.
The committee acts as a pressure group in trying to get the local governance react to various social issues that it raises. Guided by a sympathetic school teacher, the children’s honesty and persistency ruffles many feathers among the adults, some of whom have been using the ‘Makkala Samiti’ for their own needs.
What follows is a subtle cat and mouse game, by the end of which the children hope to get their voice heard.
The film subtly speaks about the Children's rights to self governance and the pathetic attitude we adults have towards this issue.
The film has won the Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus) for the 57th National Film Award for Best Children's Film for the year 2009 constituted by the Government of India.[1]
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