2024 / 15' / English / India
✦ Shorts
Dear Chalam can be read as a eulogy for a dear friend, a journey through the landscape of cinema, and of making and sharing films. A poetic assemblage, the film dips into Chalam’s powerful documentary practice, his involvement with the Odessa Collective and commitment to cinema as a people’s movement, all of which come alive as potent strands in a letter that forms the central thread of the film which moves beyond a personal remembering of a singular life to think more widely about cinema.
Director(s) : Babu Eshwar Prasad
Producer(s) : Babu Eshwar Prasad
Cinematographer(s) : R. V. Ramani, B. R. Viswanath
Editor(s) : Babu Eshwar Prasad
Babu Eshwar Prasad is an artist and filmmaker based between Bengaluru and Delhi. Trained in painting and graphics, his practice spans painting, sculpture, sound, photography, and film. His films include Gaalibeeja (Wind Seed) (2014), Hariva Nadige Maiyella Kaalu (A Running River is All Legs) (2020), and Dear Chalam (2024). His work has been presented at MAMI, the Bengaluru International Film Festival, Kochi Biennale, Experimenta Bengaluru, the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, and other venues in India and abroad.
