Balloons: Loaded with a message on Gen Z and drug abuse

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Gen Z doesn’t have time for advice. Even in another case, a murals does not preach. Sajan Kalathil is conscious of this successfully. 

Sajan’s “Balloons” a quick film gained the Best Cause-Driven Film Award, on the world’s oldest film competitors, Cannes.

“Balloons” uncover the theme of drug abuse and the devastation it causes. The movie has no dialogue. 

“The key strategy of this film, which I tried, is to remain silent throughout the film. Because I’m fully aware that advising the new generation will only help trigger their skepticism and drive them away from the movie,” the cinematographer-cum-commercial film director says.

Speaking to The New Indian Express Online, about his problem which could be launched shortly, Sajan talked about, “I visualized the film in such a way that Gen Z could conceive the film in their own way. As a trial… to support this thought, I used drawing instead of writing movie headlines “Balloons”.

“To balance the emotional weight of storytelling… more focus was given to the narrative side in the first step of designing the topic. The structure was kept pretentious to have an international outlook, realizing that the social cause is global.  Everything was implemented including, storytelling, conceiving a character, designing a character, finding and treating the space, conceiving filmic time for its narrative structure was predesigned and executed. I also experimented to get a drama viewing angle for the audience and utilized a filmic way of narration. In Lighting and cinematography, I planned to get fresh air, fresh light, and lovely nature with lots of colors against the white sky adding the positive mood of the character in the past. In the end, nature was made cloudy, crushed, and dense, to depict the depressive nature of the character,” he talked about.

“I felt that this matter needs to be addressed from my side, the only way to do so was to make a movie to address the adolescents and children to get them out of this menace”, he talked about.

Sajan talked about that no evaluation has gone into the making of the movie. “Everything came to me out of my experience and observations. I have noticed that evil vibrations tempted children and adolescents to their final Disaster”, he says. 

Guru Somasundaram

“Balloons” choices Tamil actor Guru Somasundaram inside the lead perform. When requested about that, the director replied, “I personally didn’t have any experience with guru sir. But when I came to know about his theatre experience, very flexible body language, and understanding his fabulous range of emotional expressions by which he could communicate within a short span of time. I got really impressed and wanted him to do my Film…”

When requested regarding the qualities he appears for in his performers, he talked about, “I always try to compress the duration of the film to the minimum, just necessary to communicate a story or topic with its emotional feelings. Perhaps because I am more into advertising and cinematography of advertising films, when I search for artists, I also put an eye on their mode of expressional skills in communicating within a shorter span of time. I think that as a filmmaker, I have to be very sharp in all the technical and aesthetic aspects to make a story communicable in a short time. In this film Guru sir’s commitment after conceiving the story and coming to the location with a bearded face helped a lot in communicating the needed time graph.”

Awards & SJCC

Sajan Kalathil has gained plenty of worldwide awards resembling Indie Short Fest Los Angeles and Independent Shorts Awards Los Angeles along with Best Cause Driven Film at Cannes World Festival.

He says he was haunted by this social problem for a really very long time. However, he on no account thought-about making a film about it. The willpower acquired right here in a short while when Fr. Antony Ethacad, the Managing Director of St Joseph College of Communication (SJCC) equipped to make a film on this problem. Fr Ethacad may also be the Executive Director of Media Village Group of Institutions, Changanassery in Kerala.

On the Title

Life is type of a balloon. Inflate it with goodness- it soars extreme. The second you traumatize it – the entire attraction and colour is gone and it whithers off into nothing.

Gen Z doesn’t have time for advice. Even in another case, a murals does not preach. Sajan Kalathil is conscious of this successfully. 

Sajan’s “Balloons” a quick film gained the Best Cause-Driven Film Award, on the world’s oldest film competitors, Cannes.

“Balloons” uncover the theme of drug abuse and the devastation it causes. The movie has no dialogue. googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

“The key strategy of this film, which I tried, is to remain silent throughout the film. Because I’m fully aware that advising the new generation will only help trigger their skepticism and drive them away from the movie,” the cinematographer-cum-commercial film director says.

Speaking to The New Indian Express Online, about his problem which could be launched shortly, Sajan talked about, “I visualized the film in such a way that Gen Z could conceive the film in their own way. As a trial… to support this thought, I used drawing instead of writing movie headlines “Balloons”.

“To balance the emotional weight of storytelling… more focus was given to the narrative side in the first step of designing the topic. The structure was kept pretentious to have an international outlook, realizing that the social cause is global.  Everything was implemented including, storytelling, conceiving a character, designing a character, finding and treating the space, conceiving filmic time for its narrative structure was predesigned and executed. I also experimented to get a drama viewing angle for the audience and utilized a filmic way of narration. In Lighting and cinematography, I planned to get fresh air, fresh light, and lovely nature with lots of colors against the white sky adding the positive mood of the character in the past. In the end, nature was made cloudy, crushed, and dense, to depict the depressive nature of the character,” he talked about.

“I felt that this matter needs to be addressed from my side, the only way to do so was to make a movie to address the adolescents and children to get them out of this menace”, he talked about.

Sajan talked about that no evaluation has gone into the making of the movie. “Everything came to me out of my experience and observations. I have noticed that evil vibrations tempted children and adolescents to their final Disaster”, he says. 

Guru Somasundaram

“Balloons” choices Tamil actor Guru Somasundaram inside the lead perform. When requested about that, the director replied, “I personally didn’t have any experience with guru sir. But when I came to know about his theatre experience, very flexible body language, and understanding his fabulous range of emotional expressions by which he could communicate within a short span of time. I got really impressed and wanted him to do my Film…”

When requested regarding the qualities he appears for in his performers, he talked about, “I always try to compress the duration of the film to the minimum, just necessary to communicate a story or topic with its emotional feelings. Perhaps because I am more into advertising and cinematography of advertising films, when I search for artists, I also put an eye on their mode of expressional skills in communicating within a shorter span of time. I think that as a filmmaker, I have to be very sharp in all the technical and aesthetic aspects to make a story communicable in a short time. In this film Guru sir’s commitment after conceiving the story and coming to the location with a bearded face helped a lot in communicating the needed time graph.”

Awards & SJCC

Sajan Kalathil has gained plenty of worldwide awards resembling Indie Short Fest Los Angeles and Independent Shorts Awards Los Angeles along with Best Cause Driven Film at Cannes World Festival.

He says he was haunted by this social problem for a really very long time. However, he on no account thought-about making a film about it. The willpower acquired right here in a short while when Fr. Antony Ethacad, the Managing Director of St Joseph College of Communication (SJCC) equipped to make a film on this problem. Fr Ethacad may also be the Executive Director of Media Village Group of Institutions, Changanassery in Kerala.

On the Title

Life is type of a balloon. Inflate it with goodness- it soars extreme. The second you traumatize it – the entire attraction and colour is gone and it whithers off into nothing.