Vidhu Vincent hit the bull's eye with her debut feature film Manhole that won her the Kerala State Film Award for the best director. The director, journalist, writer and theatre activist has now moved on to her second film which she had earlier announced as dealing with the gender issue. She has now finalised on the cast for the film and reveals, “Rima Kallingal and Surabhi Lakshmi will be a part of this film.”
Vidhu’s debut film took a deviation from the oft trodden commercial subjects and she chose to look at a hard hitting subject — the manual scavenging in Kerala. This subject and the treatment impressed the jury and Vidhu became the first woman to win the award in its 47-year-old history. Seeing her track record, it would be interesting to see how she handles her second film.
