IFFI Goa 2011 features a rich sampling of Indian Cinema in the feature film section. The Indian Panorama will be opened with the screening of “Urumi’ and will host Indian movies like “Ranjana Ami Ar Asbo Na’, ‘Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara’. A jury headed by Sai Paranjpye has chosen 24 feature films for the section.
Urumi- a Malayalam film directed by Santosh Sivan is set in the backdrop of the fierce warrior clans of Northern Kerala in the sixteenth century and focuses on the cult of a hero Chirakkal Kelu Nayanar played by Prithviraj- a man with an epic mission. His target and mission is Dom Vasco da Gama, the Viceroy of Portuguese Empire in India. The film is spread between the second and third visit of Gama to India and chronicles events surrounding a conspiracy to kill Vasco da Gama in AD 1524. The narrative moves along the encounters that involve the conflicts within the kinsmen and also Kings, ministers, peasants and a warring warrior princess Ayesha played by Genelia D’Souza of the famed Arackal Sultanat. Kelu has a legendary golden Urumi (a curling blade). Kelu is supported by Vavvali, (Prabhudeva), his childhood friend and in a way his elder brother.
Kelu tracks his mission through the wily roads of treachery, treason and a hidden passion to reach a master plan to create his own army - an army of the people - against the mighty Empire.
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