Inviting you all for a Telugu film screening of Chandamama Kathalu - a national award winning film for best film in regional language this year - by Praveen Sataru who will deliver a talk on 'People's aspirations in Cinema' followed by the film screening and interaction with the film maker from 6pm onwards on Sat 4th April.

'Poeple's aspirations' have been sparingly addressed in popular media like cinema and TV which have increasingly been catering to more niche, more urbane, more sophisticated life styles - in the process relegating the very masses from the mass media to second tier citizens. There is a clear need to cater to this void and take the cinema in a direction to address various issues concerning the middle and lower middle class and their aspirations.

Praveen Sattaru succeeds in doing that in his national award winnign 'Chandamama Kathalu'.

About the film: 'Chandamama Kathalu Volume 1' is a 2014 Telugu, anthology film directed by Praveen Sattaru and produced by Chanakya Bhooneti. The film has eight sub-stories revolving around love. The lives of the central characters in the sub-plots get intertwined with each other. Lakshmi Manchu, Aamani, Naresh, Krishnudu, Chaitanya Krishna, Abhijeet, Naga Shourya, Vennela Kishore, Amitha Rao and Richa Panai play the lead roles.

About the filmmaker: This is Praveen's 3rd feature film after Love Before Wedding (LBW), Oka Routine Love story.

Director Praveen Sattaru did Masters in chip designing in USA. Later he worked in USA for around 10 years as a SAP consultant in IBM. His passion towards Telugu culture and movies has made him come back and start penning scripts.

This is a part of Lamakaan Lecture Series discussion various topics like Art, Culture, Politics, Theater, Cinema, Media, Literature every week. Kick starting this series in this season is this year's national award winning filmmaker Praveen Sattaru. Thamma Reddy Bharadwaj, eminent Telugu Director and Producer will be moderating the event.

All are welcome. Entry - Free.