Gaami

A melancholic ascetic on an odyssey for a mythical cure, a captive adolescent subject to inhuman scientific procedures, a young child struggling against trafficking. Three fragile beings, divided by geography are united by destiny, in this operatic, larger-than-life mix of fantasy, sci-fi and melodrama. 

Shankar, mortally vulnerable to the faintest of human touches undertakes a herculean voyage in the Great Himalayas in search of a mythical cure. Near the Sino-Indian border, a young captive is a victim of secret conversion therapies at a scientific facility. While a child in a feudal village in Southern India runs the risk of being trafficked into an exploitative system.

In Gaami, debut filmmaker Vidyadhar Kagita pushes Telugu-language cinema into uncharted territory. The clash of opposing tones and textures – icy and warm, natural and artificial, claustrophobic and expansive – keeps viewers on their toes, prompting curiosity and wonder as to how these vastly disparate worlds might come together. 

The film’s creative editing techniques establish intimate, karmic connections among the characters who, despite waging their personal battles, find themselves bound together in their struggle for survival and healing. Gaami conjures a larger-than-life treatise on suffering and liberation. 

– Srikanth Srinivasan

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