Lali Productions Short Films Showcased

Lali Productions, based in Birmingham, UK are to showcase two short films ‘Deeva’ and ‘Re-Born’, produced in 2005, which will be broadcasted on ‘RAJ TV’, Sky channel 187. The time and date they will be aired are 8 pm and 8.30 pm on Saturday 13th May 2006

(PRWEB) May 7, 2006 -- Lali Productions, based in Birmingham, UK are to showcase two short films ‘Deeva’ and ‘Re-Born’, produced in 2005, which will be broadcasted on ‘RAJ TV’, Sky channel 187.

The time and date they will be aired are 8 pm and 8.30 pm on Saturday 13th May 2006

Lali Productions are an innovative production company dedicated to making meaningful and creative films. The company was formed by film-makers Harvinder Sandhu and Lalit Dadrah, who had realised that mainstream media at times, does not give coverage to issues of concern, which is why, after combining their skills, they have sought to create and produce engaging, thought-provoking films surrounding important subject matters as drugs and other social issues.

The films to be aired are two such works they have produced, and the content of which, whilst it may encourage comment or response, is mainly geared to show a story, and to immerse the viewer in the short film, so that the reality can be told.

RAJ TV was chosen simply because RAJ TV is Britain’s premier South Asian channel in the English language and is free to air on Channel 187 (Sky Digital) with up to 7 million viewers in the UK and Europe. The channel, although new, will serve to promote and showcase our work, of which we feel we will address a wide ranging Asian audience to begin with, and upon successful broadcast, to then seek to, capture and transmit our films to a more widely ranging audience at a later stage. Further details on RAJ TV can be found on http://www.raj.tv/

“’For the film Re-Born our research and motivation was based upon press coverage, media and a well documented study carried out in the prestigious British medical journal ‘’Lancet’’ which makes the startling revelation that around ten million female foetuses may have been aborted in India over the last two decades. Lancet traced this unhealthy trend to the rapid proliferation of clinics and nursing homes offering foetus screening services all over the country and the excessive craving for the male progeny which is deep rooted in the Indian psyche, and is an issue which we believe also exists and is growing in the UK’”

“’And in the film Deeva, we aim to highlight the issues of drug use, and of Asian youth culture that have adopted the use of drugs as a recreational and socially accepted occurrence”

A brief synopsis of the two films to be aired, are set out below:

Re-Born

Is a short drama of a British Asian man’s emotional journey as he becomes a father for the fourth time. A disappointing result at first, as the baby is a girl, which brought on by cultural expectations and social patterns within the Asian community, may mean she will never have the same love a boy would have had. How does the father come to terms with this?

Re-Born is a statement made on the inferior position, in terms of status, that is associated with a girl when raised or born into some traditional Asian homes.

This mature drama tackles such issues without prejudice and instead tells a true tale of how such ethnic minority customs very much exist in the UK and abroad.

Deeva

It is a 30 minute drama, which invites you as a viewer, to watch a night out between close friends from British Asian backgrounds who routinely rendezvous for drug sessions.

Set on Diwali night in the outer reaches of Birmingham, the story begins with 23 year old Sunny, a once promising scholar, though now sidetracked by a drug addiction, being picked up by his friends. Using the cultural occasion as a reason to celebrate, they choose the most satisfying way they know how, through a drug binged session.

In line with the cultural event, taking heed of his Indian traditions, Sunny chooses to bring a Deeva with him, a holy symbol of light and life representative of Diwali, which soon becomes a silent, yet incandescently illuminating fifth member of the car, haunt-fully overlooking the nights events, that develops, into more then what was supposed to be just a regular outing for the ‘friends’

Only Sourav, a college boy visiting his cousins, soberly looks on in surprise as the guy that he’s known since childhood, under the influence of drugs turn the atmosphere from chumming camaraderie to all out paranoia and confrontation. Becoming isolated from the group, Sourav finds himself somewhere he doesn’t want to be no more, but can he defy peer pressure when all around him cannot.

Deeva presents a rare view of the drug lifestyle amongst young men from ‘closed communities’ that very much exist in today Britain.

If you would like more information, or to schedule an interview please contact LaliProductions direct by mobile on 07863119008 or email query or comments to: info@laliproductions.co.uk

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