Frozen (2007 film)
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| Directed by | Shivajee Chandrabhushan |
| Produced by | Shivajee Chandrabhushan |
| Written by | Shanker Raman (screenplay) Shivajee Chandrabhushan (story) |
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Danny Denzongpa Gauri Rajendranath Zutshi Aamir Bashir |
| Music by | John P. Varkey |
| Cinematography | Shanker Raman |
| Edited by | Shan Mohammed |
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109 minutes |
| Country | India |
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Hindi Ladakhi |
Frozen is a 2007 black-and-white Indian drama film directed by Shivajee Chandrabhushan. The original screenplay written by Shanker Raman, based on a story by Chandrabhushan and starring Danny Denzongpa, Gauri, and Skalzang Angchuk. The film was shot entirely on location at Ladakh, India.
It was featured at the various international film festivals, including the 2007 London Film Festival and Dubai International Film Festival, and was the official selection at 2007 Toronto International Film Festival and 2008 San Francisco International Film Festival, and Palm Springs International Film Festival.
At the annual National Film Awards, it was awarded the 2007 Indira Gandhi Award for Best First Film of a Director.
The film is a sombre journey of imaginative and impulsive teenager, Lasya (Gauri), who lives with her father Karma (Danny), an apricot jam-maker and younger brother Chomo (Angchuk) in a remote village in the Himalayas. Pristine snow-capped mountains surround their tiny hamlet and barren harsh land stretches for miles into nowhere. One day the army moves in, settles a hundred yards across their doorstep. The last bit of comfort the family draws from their familiar surroundings changes into a harsh, ceaseless, irreversible conflict. The film depicts the life of this family whose dreamlike existence is interrupted by insurmountable odds, one after the other.
The film was shot in Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir, India in February 2006, over 34 days at an average height of 15,000 ft above sea level. The film was shot in colour and was digitally intermediated to black and white. The house where the film was picturised was built at Stakmo, behind Thiksey Monastery.
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