Title – Sees Kaddi, Producers – Rathan Gangadhar, Sampath Shivashanker, Krithi Nanaiah.
Direction – Rathan Gangadhar, Music – KC Balasarangan, Cinematography – Sunil Narasimhamurthy, Cast – Sithin Appayya, BS Rama Murthy, Manvi Balagar, Nonavinakere Ramakrishnaiah, Pratham Raje Urs, Santosh Karki, Anushka Takkalai, Sanjay Gowda, Shresht Japthimath, Mahendra Gowda, Deepika Adthale, Raghavendra Bhat, Nagaraja Rao, Rekha Kudligi, Udaar, Jayanth Venkat, Amoghavarsha, Anoop BR, Sharmila Karthik, Abhilash Gowda, Gangadhar, Abhishek Akul and others.
Unless you stake your life, life will not be won. You can’t win, you can’t break even, or you can’t even quit the game of life. Life is short, live it up. Looking at a sensible and content-driven hyper anthology film ‘Sees Kaddi’ (Pencil), such thoughts trigger in the mind about life!
Life is not something you can write and rub it off. It lingers in the memory for a lifetime. The debutant director Rathan Gangadhar has shown exemplary skill in five anthologies. Each one competes on the screen and gets the admiration.
In addition to the brilliant execution, director effort in using the language, getting the natural performance, adding music to the film, and capturing with a very beautiful location marks the redeeming features of the film.
Undoubtedly, this ‘Sees Kaddi’ is the best of the recent past anthologies in Grahana Productions. Although the 151-minute narration is lengthy and it is a bit elastic in the first half, the second half scores superb with five tracks giving a tough competition to each other.
The excellence in background music and the song Anupama Ananya Beragina Vismaya Yee Jagaru… Arekshana Nillada Yee Baduku… deserves kudos via awards. The portions of Taufiq, Manji, and Nameless are fantastic tales with solid contents indeed!
Here is a director, Rathan Gangadhar, who has given contents of three films in one film and wins with flying colors. The script work, screenplay, and dialogues, besides the technicalities, are very well picked.
In the novelty factor, the dumb and deaf musician with a ‘Nameless’ actor is marvelous indeed. The mechanic and avid film watcher Taufiq portion is in fact a portion to discuss in the cinema industry. Watching the film and paying the ticket price theory is well thought out. The calligraphy Raveesha and his teacher support is another appreciable content, and the suffering of a hotel in the remote village of his parents is another pathetic state of affairs today.
The Manji track of looking after her ailing father, her reading habits, and her friendship with Fareed, a writer and photographer, touches your heart.
With some excellent background songs that are very meaningful and the cinematography giving a fine lift to the proceedings of this finest anthology makes you sit tight in the theaters and watch.
Rathan Gangadhar, in his debut, has showcased what exactly is a content-driven cinema with fine work in the script. A few of the artists in this film are sure to bag awards. Such as Taufiq, Nameless character singer, and Manji will be in the race for awards.
This is worth watching – Sees Kaddi.
