'Slumdog' on Blu-ray with another Indian film

Oscar winning director Danny Boyle has decided to incorporate Indian short film ‘Manjha’ along with ‘Slumdog’s Blu-ray release.

‘Manjha’, directed by Rahi Anil Barve, is a 40-minute short film about a nine-year-old boy who stays with his three-year-old mentally retarded sister and earns his living by making manjha (string used for flying kites). About the short movie, Danny Boyle is quoted as saying, “I'm delighted to include Manjha on the Blu-ray DVD release of ‘Slumdog Millionaire’. Manjha is an extraordinary film. It is everything a short film should be.”

Ironically, ‘Manjha’ is not the part of Slumdog’s Blu-ray disc release in India. It is believed to be an intensely dark film that Indian audience won’t be ready to accept. So with ‘Slumdog’ making its mark on the International circuit and gearing for Blu-ray release, some other Indian film has to be chosen for the package.


‘Manjha’ director Rahi Anil Barve also gets a lot of praise from Anurag Kashyap who thinks Barve has incredible imagination. Barve will make his debut in full-length feature films with ‘Tumbad’, which is based on folk tales of Maharashtra.

In fact, it was Kashyap who sent ‘Manjha’ to Danny Boyle, after seeing it at Mumbai International Film Festival.

Blu-ray disc is optical disc storage medium with better audio-visual quality and much high data storage capacity.



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