Noted
Marathi
filmmaker
Sachin
Kundalkar,
whose
third
film
Gandh
(Smell)
won
rave
reviews
at
the
ongoing
Pune
International
Film
Festival
(PIFF)
for
his
impressive
scripts
and
direction,
said
that
Gandh
was
inspired
by
internationally
reputed
Malayalam
director
Adoor
Gopalkrishnan's
Naalu
Pennungal
which
revolves
around
four
women:
a
virgin
(Geetu
Mohandas),
a
prostitute
(Padmapriya)
a
housewife
(Manju
Pillai)
and
a
spinster.
Kundalkar
was
speaking
to
the
media
on
Monday.
"My
film
Gandh
is
an
ensemble
of
three
stories
and
all
are
interconnected
with
the
notion
of
smell.
The
three
stories
are
based
on
different
characters,
their
lives
and
problems.
While
the
first
half
of
the
script
was
written
by
my
mother,
I
wrote
the
rest," said
Kundalkar,
a
graduate
of
the
Film
and
Television
Institute
of
India
(FTII).
Naalu
Pennungal
is
the
adaptation
of
four
short
stories
written
by
Jnanapith
award
winner
Thakazhi
Sivasankara
Pillai.
It
has
already
been
screened
at
over
20
international
film
festivals.
Its
world
premiere
was
at
the
Toronto
International
Film
in
September
2007.
In
November,
it
was
released
in
a
selected
number
of
theatres
in
the
state.