Vanaja
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A fifteen-year-old girl in rural India works for a powerful landlady to learn classical dance, but the landlady's son's advances pitch her into a battle of caste and survival.
Why watch: A Columbia MFA thesis film that won Best First Feature at Berlin. Cast entirely with non-actors.
Cast
Mamatha Bhukya as Vanaja
Urmila Dammannagari as Rama Devi
Ramachandriah Marikanti as Somayya
Krishnamma Gundimalla as Radhamma
Karan Singh as Shekhar
Bhavani Renukunta as Lacchi
Krishna Garlapati as Ram Babu
Prabhu Garlapati as Yadigiri
Crew
Rajnesh Domalpalli — Director
Rajnesh Domalpalli — Writer
Latha R. Domalapalli — Producer
Andrew Lund — Executive Producer
Milton Kam — Director of Photography
Robert Q. Lovett — Editor
Nagulu Busigampala — Production Design
Bhaskara S. Narayanan — Original Music Composer
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