2007 black-and-white Indian drama film
Frozen
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Directed by
| Shivajee Chandrabhushan
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Written by
| Shanker Raman (screenplay)
Shivajee Chandrabhushan (story)
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Produced by
| Shivajee Chandrabhushan
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Starring
| Danny Denzongpa
Gauri
Rajendranath Zutshi
Aamir Bashir
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Cinematography
| Shanker Raman
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Edited by
| Shan Mohammed
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Music by
| John P. Varkey
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Release date
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Running time
| 109 minutes
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Country
| India
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Languages
| Hindi
Ladakhi
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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.
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It was featured at the various international
film festivals
, including the 2007
London Film Festival
and
Dubai International Film Festival
,
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and was the official selection at 2007
Toronto International Film Festival
and 2008
San Francisco International Film Festival
, and
Palm Springs International Film Festival
.
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At the
55th National Film Awards
, it was awarded the
Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director
and
Best Cinematography
.
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Plot
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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.
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Cast
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- Danny Denzongpa
as Karma
- Gauri Kulkarni as Lasya
- Skalzang Angchuk Gultuk as Chomo
- Shakeel Khan as Romeo
- Rajendranath Zutshi
as Dawa
- Yashpal Sharma
as Sharma
- Aamir Bashir
as Commanding Officer
- Denzil Smith
as Tenzing
- Sanjay Swaraj as Salim
- Anuradha Baral as Sita
- Sonam Stobgias Gorky as Rinpoche
- Shilpa Shukla
as Karma's Wife
- Wangchuk Dorjey Mogul as Officer Wangchuk
- Stanzin Jordan as Vicky
- Manish Mathur as Performing Artiste
Production
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The film was shot in
Ladakh
, then part of
Jammu and 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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- Production company: Seagull Media Productions, Phat Phish Motion Pictures ( Shivajee Chadrabhushan, and Gauri Kulkarni and another person are the owners of Seagull media Productions and these two are frauds and cheated the third person. They have taken money for this film and the film "palak" and not even returned one rupee after receiving millions of rupees from the third partner. Please beware of these frauds and stake away from them)
- Production Design: Sonali Singh, Siddarth Sirohi
- Sound Design:
Vivek Sachidanand
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- Sound Editor:
Renganaath Ravee
- Art Direction: Dawa Tsering
- Costume Design: Loveleena Jain
- Editing: Shan Mohammed
Reception
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A review by Dennis Harvey of
Variety
, said that film's director's "background as a photographer and mountaineer, -- is evident in every frame of directorial debut "Frozen.".
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Though the film had been going through Film Festival circuit since 2007 when the film was ready, its commercial release however happened in May 2009, during the stand off between producers and multiplexes, which resulted in number of films coming out of cold storage.
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Awards and nominations
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The film has won (or been nominated for) the following awards:
- Won
- Nominated
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