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Actor (2016)

Actor poster
Directed by
Dayal Padmanabhan
Genre
thriller film
Country
India

How it feels

A successful movie star's career declines and he falls into trauma. He is consoled by his home-maid, who shares stories from her own life.

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What happens

Actor is a 2016 Indian Kannada psychological thriller film written, produced by KM Veeresh and co-produced and directed by Dayal Padmanabhan. The film features Naveen Krishna and Sihikahi Geetha as the only two characters appearing on screen. K. M. Veeresh has produced the film for Chitraloka Movies banner. The film re-collaborates director Dayal with actor Naveen after their critically acclaimed previous venture Haggada Kone. The film's uniqueness is that it is shot at a single location for a stretch of 100minutes involving only two characters. The plot revolves around a successful movie star (Naveen Krishna) whose success rate falls down over a period of time and he gets into a trauma only to be consoled by his home-maid (Geetha) who recites him the stories of her own experience. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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