''Simply Kailawesome'' is a

Kannada Kannada () is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly in the state of Karnataka in southwestern India, and spoken by a minority of the population in all neighbouring states. It has 44 million native speakers, and is additionally a ...

short film A short film is a film with a low running time. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of not more than 40 minutes including all credits". Other film o ...

directed by M. G. Srinivas. The film was made on playwright

T. P. Kailasam Thyagaraja Paramasiva Kailasam (29 July 1884 – 1946), was an Indian playwright and prominent writer in the Kannada literature. Literary criticism in Kannada literature is said to have started for the first time by Kailasam in his works. His ...

and revolves around conversations between Kailasam and female protagonists from four of his plays. While MG Srinivas played T. P. Kailasam,

Chaya Singh Chaya Singh is an Indian actress who predominantly works in Tamil and Kannada films and television shows. She started her acting career in Kannada films and has worked in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Bengali and Bhojpuri films. She has a reputati ...

played all the four female characters: Paatu from ''Tollugatti'', Eeke from ''Gandaskathri'', Venkamma from ''Home Rule'' and Sule from the play ''Sule''. It is inspired by the classic play ''Typical Arathi'', written by A S Murthy. The film opened to rave reviews from critics and gained instant recognition when it was selected by the Jury of the Prestigious Platinum Remi Award at the 44th Annual WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival.

Plot

''Simply Kailawesome'' is an ode to yesteryear legendary

playwright A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes play (theatre), plays, which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between Character (arts), characters and is intended for Theatre, theatrical performance rather than just Readin ...

T.P. Kailasam. It has a quirky take on the characters created by Kailasam in the past and how they start complaining to him as soon as he lands in the present, trying to find their current status. Combining an auto-biographical tone with a fusion of thoughts within Kailasam's mind, the story of the short film is more of a congregation of his most famous female protagonists than a series of events. It also involves the playwright's own perspective about his first stint in drama, the way he picked his characters, his views on Anglo-Kannada and the events that inspired him to move away from traditional mythologies which was persistently found in most plays of the time.

Cast

* MG Srinivas as

as Paatu/Eeke/Venkamma/Sule

References

External links

* 2010s Kannada-language films 2010s Indian films 2010 short films Indian comedy short films 2010 films Indian drama short films {{short-film-stub