As the world customarily deliberates on a woman’s place in society this week, writer-director Jayant Somalkar shows us the mirror through a deceptively simple take on the patriarchal roots of the traditional matchmaking process and the attendant social churn in our villages. Structured like a coming-of-age story of a village girl struggling to find her way out of the dragnet …
Actor Sachin Pilgaonkar has come on board as a presenter for Jayant Digambar Somalkar's award-winning Marathi film Sthal. Sthal won the coveted NETPAC award for best film from the Asia-Pacific region at the 48th Toronto International Film Festival in 2023. The film stars first-time actors from Sonalkar's village -- Nandini Chikte as the protagonist Savita along with Taranath Khiratkar, Sangita …
It literally took a village for Jayant Digambar Somalkar to make his debut film Sthal, set in his childhood home in his native village, and starring non-actors from the region. The Marathi film, which earlier this year became the only Indian film to be chosen for the Toronto International Film Festival in the festival’s discovery programme, won the NETPAC award …
Writer- director Jayant Digambar Somalkar's confident and nuanced debut feature Sthal- A Match casts an unsparing look at the hypocritical nature of arranged marriages in India. The Marathi language film, which first premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival where it won the NETPAC award, shows with matter-of-fact detail, how a woman finds herself helplessly objectified and compared on the …
