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Director's Special (2013)

Director's Special poster
Directed by
Guruprasad
Country
India
Runtime
2h 05m
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A lonely rich man hires actors to pretend to be his family for his birthday. The film follows the humorous and awkward situations that arise from this strange arrangement.

satiricalhumorouslight-heartedquirkyoffbeatwhimsicalobservational

What happens

Director's Special is a 2013 Indian Kannada-language satire film written and directed by Guruprasad. It stars a debutant Dhananjay along with Rangayana Raghu. The storyline of the movie was also found in two more Kannada movies—Dasavala and Karodpathi. It was also reported that the concept of all these films could be traced back to the 1996 Spanish film Familia in which a lonely rich man hires actors to act as his family members on his birthday. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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