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| "My favorite shorts were the ones so nuanced they felt like mini features, telling surprisingly complex stories in less than 20 minutes. Televisnu is an inventive fantasy that feels a little like an Indian Alice in Wonderland, in which a shy, sheltered girl who works at a call center gets exposed to a broader world that makes her question some of the assumptions with which she was raised." - BY Elise Nakhnikian |
| "The trippy and fantastical Televisnu from director Prithi Gowda delves into cultural issues like arranged marriages, outsourcing and conflicts between the old and the new"- Christian Gaines |
| "A bizarre, stream-of-consciousness journey through the life of a young Indian girl ...scenes unfold like flipping TV channels with only the slightest connection from one to the next, but there is a fascinating narrative and character arc that runs through it all...Televisnu is delightfully bizarre, and was easily my favorite of the category." |
| "Prithi Gowda's Televisnu is colorful romance about a woman working in a call center crawling through the floor to fix her computer and escape her arranged marriage. " |
| "Gowda's film, "Televisnu" skips from an urban call center to the Indian countryside, and ultimately follows its young heroine inside the mouth of Visnu, the Hindu God said to create the world from his dreams." |
| "An Indian version of what it's like to fall down a rabbit hole, Televisnu takes a young worker at an Indian call center on a wild journey through her computer and her own powers of imagination. Starring Janhavi Kamath as Mira, this delightful short comes the closest I've ever seen to capturing how dream sequences unravel in the mind as a rapidly evolving blur of confusing imagery that can be intensely personal and yet make no sense at all. Whether crawling through an aluminum air vent or a simulation of a computer's innards, whether following a group of cattle up a rudimentary staircase or happily hanging onto a new boyfriend while riding on his motorcycle, Mira's adventures in an alternate universe are far from dull." |
| "And award-winning independent filmmaker Prithi Gowda screens her captivating experimental short film Televisnu, about a young woman who finds work in a call center to ask the question, "What are the possibilities that arise when a moment of personal development converges with a moment of cultural liberation?" |
| "Prithi Gowda was honored with the Linda Mabalot New Directors/New Visions award for her film TELEVISNU." |
| Televisnu wins the Audience Award at The South Asian International Film Festival in New York City. |
| "Prithi Gowda was a supervisor on a pilot I was DPing when we met. She was rather quiet and professional, so instead of the instant comraderie one often has on film crews, it was a few days before we talked. But when we did, I was all ears." |
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