Koli Taal movie: An ode to childhood and grandparents

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By Prutha Chakraborty

February 16, 2023

Kannada filmmaker Abhilash Shetty’s directorial debut, Koli Taal (Chicken Curry), is peppered with nostalgia.

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The heart-warming story revolves around an elderly couple, played by the adorable duo of Prabhakar Kunder and Radha Ramachandra.

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The “most difficult part” about finding the right cast was finding actors who could speak Kundapura Kannada, a dialect spoken in Udupi district.

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Similar to the character of grandson in Koli Taal, Shetty, too, would visit his grandparents when he was working in Bengaluru.

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It was during one such visit, as a young man working for Capgemini in Bengaluru around mid-2019, that he hit upon the idea of making Koli Taal.

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Shetty was only two years into his job, but decided to quit, to chase his filmmaking dream. He was 23 at the time.

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Koli Taal premiered at the New York Indian Film Festival in 2021. It also did the rounds of other film festivals. In May 2022, it had a limited theatrical release in Karnataka.

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And yet, the film did not receive equal response from commercial platforms. Shetty has faced tremendous challenges to get an OTT platform to release the film in India.

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For instance, though Koli Taal is currently available on Amazon Prime, it is only for viewers in the US and the UK.

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Koli Taal is finally going to be released for the Indian audience by the end of this month on VOOT.

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