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Medium Spicy

Medium Spicy

Original name:Medium Spicy
English name: Medium Spicy
Year: 2021
Run time: 140 min
Language: Marathi
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: India
Director:Mohit Takalkar
Producer:Vidhi Kasliwal
Cast: Lalit Prabhakar, Sai Tamhankar, Parna Pethe, Ravindra Mankani, Neena Kulkarni, Neha Joshi, Sagar Deshmukh, Pushkaraj Chirputkar
Screenplay: Irawati Karnik
Cinematographer: Raghav Ramadoss, Rahul Chauhan
Editor: Mohit Takalkar
Sound Designer: Anita Kushwaha
Music Composer:Hrishikesh – Saurabh – Jasraj
Costume Designer:Rashmi Rode
Production Designer: Ashish Mehta
Production Company: Landmarc Films
World Sales:Rajat Goswami
World Sales Phone: +91-9999474811
World Sales Email: rajat@panoramaspotlight.com

Festivals:

  • River To River Florence Indian FF 2021
  • Dallas South Asian FF 2021
  • Dhaka IFF 2022
  • Norway Bollywood FF 2021

Director’s Selected Filmography:

  • 2016 Chirebandi
  • 2012 A Bright Day

Director’s Biography :

Mohit Takalkar

An editor, scriptwriter for numerous features and documentaries, Mohit Takalkar has contributed to various aspects of theatre for 20 years, having directed more than 30 notable plays. He has worked in English, Hindi, Marathi, Rajasthani and Kannada languages. He is a recipient of the Homi Bhabha Fellowship, Shankar Nag Theatre Award, Aditya Vikram Birla Kalakiran Puraskar, Amrish Puri Award for contribution to experimental theatre, Sahitya Rangbhoomi Fellowship, Zee Gaurav Puraskar, Maharashtra State Award among others. Mohit is a Charles Wallace Scholar, having acquired a Postgraduate degree in theatre practice from the University of Exeter, UK with distinction under guidance from Prof. Phillip Zarrilli.

Synopsis :

30-something Nissim belongs to a typical middle-class Maharashtrian family. From the outside, Nissim's life looks quite sorted and uneventful. But all that is about to change. Professionally, he is a sous chef at a 5-star hotel and has recently been offered the opportunity to move to Paris as an executive chef. Nissim hasn't quite figured out how he feels about this. On the personal front, loneliness seems to have become an intrinsic part of his life, not due to lack of prospects, but an unwillingness to go for it. He is surrounded by relationships of all shapes and colours and each one looks like more work than play. The over-analyses of couples around him dissuade Nissim from taking the plunge with either Prajakta or Gowri, 2 potent choices he has. One is his colleague, the other his boss. Both radically different from each other. Mutual attraction with one and friendship with the other, Nissim shares a unique individual equation with them both. But this failure to take it to the next level with either, affects them all.