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 Kantara was praised at the UNHCR meeting

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New Delhi, March 20: The South blockbuster movie Kantara was praised at the United Nations high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR) meeting in Geneva for highlighting environmental issues in the form of a movie to make people understand the importance of the environment and its preservation.

 

On March 17th, the UNHCR meeting was conducted at the Pathé Balexert theatre in Geneva, where the South film Kantara was presented for an audience of about 220 people, including the UN representatives, heads of international organizations from Germany, Brazil, the WHO (World Health Organization), the ITUA (International Telecommunication Union), and the UNCTAR (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development), along with the migrants of different countries like Sri Lanka, Myanmar, and India, who were all presented at the screening of Kantara.

 

Kantara is a fictional movie representing the villages of Dakshin Kannada, talking about the story of the local culture of the village. It shows the internal fight between man and the forest. From an overall perspective, the film touches on environmental topics and inspires people to be more aware of their surroundings in terms of environmental challenges.

 

The director and writer of the film, Rishabh Shetty, who himself played the main role of the “Kambala champion” who fought with a forest range officer, As per the rishbh, “nowadays films are breaking language barriers, and all are accepting those changes”. He further added that” if content is connected with people, the audience, then the movie will be accepted, as all Indian movies, the more local content there is, the wider the audience will be created.”

 

Not only as good conceptual movies, but Kantara has also gained good responses at the box office. Moreover the compilation of movies in theaters for 100 days, the movie’s director, Rishabh, announced another part of the movie, but it will be pre-equal of Kantara.