Mumbai: After the internationally acclaimed'Vihir', director Umesh Kulkarni has come up with another story from the heart of India in 'Deool' (Temple), which he says looks at the misguided youth energy in the villages and
how it is taking a toll on development.
"We have been travelling for one and a half year in Maharashtra and realised that villages have changed. We have an image of a village of the '80s but things are changing there. The youngsters there get degrees and are cut off from agriculture but at the same time they can't find a decent job anywhere, so there is lot of youth energy which has no channel and we have tried to look at this serious situation in our own hard-hitting, satirical and subtle way," Kulkarni told PTI in an interview on the sidelines of the Mumbai Film Festival.
The film boasts of some big names, with Nana Patekar playing the local politician, Sonali Kulkarni as his wife and Naseeruddin Shah in a cameo. The lyrics have been written by Swanand Kirkire.
The film, which was screened to a packed house at the Mumbai Film Festival is also travelling to Pusan, Abu Dhabi and CIFF film festivals. Kulkarni says that the film is not just one village's story but talks about what is happening with the country's youth at large and how we are being affected by globalisation
without understanding it.
"Youngsters in the village have the latest mobile phones, television sets and they are influenced by the lifestyle and want to have it but they don't have roads, electricity, hospitals or schools. It is a comment on the misguided
development," Kulkarni says about his film.
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