Recommended Watch: Dreaming of Words – A Documentary by Nandan

Team Kitaab recommends a multiple award-winning Indian documentary film on Njattyela Sreedharan.

Dreaming of Words is a 2021 Indian documentary film directed and produced by Nandan.

The documentary film is about Njattyela Sreedharan, a fourth standard drop-out, who compiled a dictionary connecting four major Dravidian languages. Travelling across four states and doing extensive research, he spent twenty-five years making the multilingual dictionary. This unique dictionary offers a comparative study of Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu. ‘Dreaming of Words’ traces Sreedharan’s life, work, love for languages and the struggles to get the dictionary published. The film also explores the linguistic and cultural diversity in India.

Dreaming of Words had its world premiere at the International Mother Language Day Celebrations 2021 organized by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts and the Ministry of Education (India) in partnership with UNESCO. It was an official selection at the DC South Asian Film Festival, RapidLion Film Festival and Micheaux Film Festival. It won the Kerala State Television Award for Best Educational Documentary. It was screened at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association and the annual conference of the Linguistic Society of America in January 2022.

Trailer

The film is now streaming on the following OTT platforms:

• Amazon Prime Video – https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B09ZKDT199/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r

• Gumroad – https://nandansdreamfactory.gumroad.com/l/DreamingofWordsEng

• MovieSaints – https://www.moviesaints.com/movie/dreaming-of-words

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Namrata is a published author who enjoys writing stories and think pieces on travel, relationships, and gender. She is a UEA alumnus and has studied travel writing at the University of Sydney.

She is also an independent editor and a book reviewer. Her writings can be found on various sites and magazines like the Asian Review of Books, Contemporary South Asia Journal of King’s College-London, Mad in Asia, The Friday Times, Daily Star, The Scroll, Feminism in India, The Brown Orient Journal, Inkspire Journal, Moonlight Journal, The Same, Chronic Pain India and Cafe Dissensus.

Her short stories have been a part of various anthologies . She has also published two short story collections of her own along with two solo titles as well. She is currently working on her debut novel. She loves travelling the length and breadth of the world and enjoys capturing the magic of life in her words. She is always in pursuit of a new country and a new story.

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