Tiger’s Pond: Tale of power, caste
Updated On: 16 February, 2025 07:38 AM IST | Mumbai | Meenakshi Shedde
Natesh Hegde’s Vaghachipani (Tiger’s Pond), at the Berlin Film Festival, raises Kannada cinema’s international profile
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Natesh Hegde’s Vaghachipani (Tiger’s Pond, in Kannada), is selected in the Berlinale Film Festival’s Forum section for independent, more experimental features. Hegde’s is a precious voice in independent cinema, rooted in rural India, with keen observations of its dynamics between power and caste, as well as local myths. The film comes all guns blazing: it is an India-Singapore production, presented by Anurag Kashyap, with Creative Producer Jeremy Chua (of Potocol, Singapore, producer of Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell, winner of the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival), and French sales agent Loco Films attached. It is likely the first Kannada feature at the Berlinale, as the festival is called. All very impressive for a Kannada film, and for Hegde, a self-taught filmmaker based in Sirsi, a smallish town in Karnataka, son of an electrician, and who never went to film school.
Hegde is one of Kannada cinema’s many gifted new voices, including Raj B Shetty (Garuda Gamana Vrishabha Vahana), Rishab Shetty (Kantara), Rakshit Shetty (Ulidavaru Kandanthe), Pawan Kumar (Lucia), Prithvi Konanur (Hadinelentu) and more.
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