'Let’s Talk About It', a highly original eight-minute comic short revolving around budgetary woes besotting the city of London and directed by Pune-based director Deepti Ghatge, is to be screened at the 68th Cannes film festival that commences today, featuring its traditional slate of auteur –driven cinema.
Before her heady run to Cannes, the Kolhapur-raised and Pune-educated Ms. Ghatge had earlier worked as an assistant director on the Kannada film Dweepa directed by maestro Girish Kasaravalli and a national award winning documentary It’s Prabhat - on the legendary film company (defunct in 1953) founded in Kolhapur, Maharashtra by eminent filmmaker V. Shantaram among others.
Her debut project, ‘Let’s talk about it’ made on a shoestring budget of £3000, came to fruition while Ms. Ghatge was pursuing her diploma in film-making from London Film Academy (LFA). With barrow loads of droll humour, the film narrates the tale of a harried London Mayor named Thomas who chairs the meeting that decides budgetary figures for the quarter.
