Shireesh Khemariya: This is a good stage for independent cinema | Bollywood

After making three short films and working as an assistant on several feature films, young Sirish Kemaliyah directed his first independent project, traveling to various international film festivals. He also won Best Director at the Washington DC South Asian Film Festival (2022) and is currently gearing up for two big projects.

“We are a small team writing large-scale commercial films and comedy series. UP main film citywill be filmed in the province itself, ”said Kemaliyah, 22, from Kuchwada, a parliamentarian.

He adds:There may be so many lobbies and production houses, but the good thing is that you get a window where movies are released recently that weren’t before. Who am I is an independent film with good little-known actors, a producer I met on Facebook, and a crew all under the age of 25. Shot in the outback of Madhya Pradesh. It’s either coming out in theaters now, or it’s going to come out OTT.

This film is based on the book by Ashok Jamnani Aham Island“I have always been philosophical and when I read this book, I was convinced that I needed to make my debut film based on it. is related to.”

Kemaliyah started directing when he was just 13 years old.So I directed his first short film Uday It made it to the semi-finals at the Lake City Film Festival in Nigeria. That ignited my desire and eventually he joined Subhash Ghai’s institute. During that time, I started getting industry opportunities and became an Associate Creative Producer at a production company, working on films such as: habadi, Chaman Bahar, KDs When Camplier’ He also came up with a short film Kathu Satya When quabgar.