Duration: 100 Minutes
Language: Tulu (with English subtitles)
Post-screening discussion between Abhay Simha, the Director, and Sandeep Viswanath, Senior Consultant, IIHS Media Lab, followed by a Q&A session with the audience.
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Duration: 100 Minutes
Language: Tulu (with English subtitles)
Post-screening discussion between Abhay Simha, the Director, and Sandeep Viswanath, Senior Consultant, IIHS Media Lab, followed by a Q&A session with the audience.
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June screening

This June, IIHS Screens returns with the National Award-winning Tulu film Paddayi. Written and directed by Abhaya Simha, the film is a contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy Macbeth, reimagined in a small fishing village on the fringes of a rapidly expanding metropolis.

Film synopsis

PADDAYI is a contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy Macbeth, reimagined within a small fishing village on the fringes of a rapidly expanding metropolis. Rooted in the lives and traditions of an indigenous fishing community of South India, the film explores ambition, desire, and the devastating consequences of unchecked greed.

About the director

Abhaya Simha is a Film and Television Institute graduate. His first film Gubbachigalu, won the National Award for the Best Children’s film (2008) and was screened in several National and International Film Festivals. His second film, Shikari, was also screened in Kolkata and the Bangalore International Film Festival. He is also an avid documentary filmmaker who has made more than  20 documentaries on culture and environmental issues. He was a part of the Indian delegation of filmmakers at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2009.

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