FTII students to strut their stuff at Goa fest

You never know where your destiny lingers, yearning to be discovered.

You never know where your destiny lingers, yearning to be discovered. Three students from Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) just found their destiny. Their films will be screened at the Goa International Film Festival.

Radhika Murthy (27), Anurag Goswami (28) and Arunima Sharma (26) are all geared up for their show-time in Goa. Murthy's film Motor Bike, Goswami's short film Surang and Shyam Raat Seher by Sharma are the three films which was made as a part of their diploma project.u00a0u00a0

Murthy, a final-year student sounded excited. "Obviously, it feels great, no need to ask," she said. "This was my last movie in FTII. So, it will always be special."

A student of political science from Fergusson College, she decided to try her luck in movie-making and eventually ended up at FTII.

Elaborating about her film, she said: "Motor Bike is about a girl who has a passion for bikes. Passion and bike metaphorically represent freedom here." Inspired from her own bike, Motor Bike is an everyday-life story about a girl who tries to extract money out of her parents after crashing her bike.

Murthy is praying that her movie appeals to the audience. "This festival is a gathering of the best cinemas and here you get to know your real standard," Murthy said.

Like Murthy, Goswami, too left his engineering job, because of his inclination towards movie-making. "This festival has a wider audience which any movie maker aspires for."

On his short-film, Surang, Goswami said: "It is about two prisoners who try to slip away from jail by digging a surang (tunnel). This is a dark movie, a satire basically."

Anurag thanks the Yerawada jail administration for the help in research.

Shyam Raat Seher, a serious drama by Sharma, tells the story of Lord Krishna in the present metaphorically.

She was able to rope in television veteran Ritu Raj for the project.u00a0 Last year, her film Foto, had won a national award in the best children film category.

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