Award winning Rakkhosh (Best Director – Jury – RIFF 2019) now at OCIFF 2019 Nagpur on 10 Feb CineEye, February 7, 2019September 26, 2019 Award winning Rakkhosh (Best Director – Jury – RIFF 2019) now at OCIFF 2019 Nagpur on 10 Feb India’s first POV film (a film where the camera is rigged to see everyone and everyone is seen talking to the camera) Rakkhosh – set entirely at the Nagpur Mental Asylum, won the Best Director Award at the Rajasthan International Film Festival (RIFF) 2019 last week and will now show at OCIFF. Team Rakkhosh, consisting of Producer Sayali Deshpande, Creative Producer Prashen Kyawal, Writer and Director Sri Vinay Salian, actress Sonamoni Jayant were part of the award winning team. Deshpande accepted the award on behalf of the directors. “When I heard the script, I knew I wanted the world to hear this story. So I decided to bankroll it,” says Sayali. Sri Vinay Salian who was then supposed to be just the writer for the film, got a narration of this story called Patient No 302, by Narayan ‘Tummbbad’ Dharap, and was asked to write it. “I didn’t want to read the story and I said that I would write it first and if they didn’t like it, I would then read the book and then modify my script. Thankfully, they liked the story,” says Salian who has co directed the film along with Abhijit Kokate. Rakkhosh produced by Santosh and Sayali Deshpande also Sanjay Mishra, Priyanka Bose, Tannishtha Chatterjee among others with Prashen Kyawal as the Creative Producer and Dinesh Poojari as the editor. It also got full house response at Pune International Film Festival (PIFF) 2019 and is going to be screened at Orange City International Film Festival (OCIFF) 2019 on 10th Feb at Nagpur. Film News