COURT
Directed By: Chaitanya Tamhane
Produced By: Vivek Gomber
Written by: Chaitanya Tamhane
Starring: Vira Sathidar
Vivek Gomber
Geetanjali Kulkarni
Pradeep Joshi
Usha Bane
Shirish Pawar
Vivek Gomber
Geetanjali Kulkarni
Pradeep Joshi
Usha Bane
Shirish Pawar
Music by : Sambhaji Bhagat
Cinematography: Mrinal Desai
Editing By: Rikhav Desai
Distributed By: Artscope – Memento Films (World sales)
Zeitgeist Films (United States)
Zeitgeist Films (United States)
Release Date(s): 17 Apr 2015
Country: India
Language: Hindi
Genre: Drama
Plot- Court is a 2014 multilingual major Marathi , Indian courtroom drama film, written and directed by Chaitanya Tamhane, in his directorial debut. Featuring a cast of newcomers, the film examines the Indian legal system through the trial of an aging folk singer in a lower court in Mumbai. Four languages — English, Marathi, Hindi, and Gujarati — are used in the film.
Court premiered at the 71st Venice International Film Festival on September 4, 2014, where it won the Best Film in the Horizons category and the Luigi De Laurentiis (Lion Of The Future) award for Tamhane. Jay Weissberg of Variety described the film as “an impressive debut that flays alive India’s judicial system thanks to an intelligent, superbly understated script.” The film went on to win 18 other awards at film festivals, including honours at the Mumbai, Vienna, Antalya, and Singapore film festivals. In 2015, the film won the Best Feature Film award at the 62nd National Film Awards.
