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Miyar House is a film directed by Ramchandra PN
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Directed by Ramchandra PN
Miyar House (Kannada: ಮಿಯಾರು ಮನೆ), is a Kannada language feature film in the documentary genre directed and produced by the Mumbai-based director Ramchandra P. N.. It has been completed in 2011. It tells the personal story of the director as his ancestral house gets dismantled in a remote village called Miyar in Karkala Taluk in Udupi district in Karnataka, South India. The film has been produced by the director's own firm 'Sonk Films' and it features many of the members of the filmmaker's extended family. The film has a particular dialect of Kannada that is spoken by a few in that part of Karnataka.
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[[File:|thumb|200px|left|Miyar House]] The filmmaker’s 200-year-old ancestral house is dismantled, giving him an opportunity to undertake a journey into a past. It is a past that he shares not only with his extended family, but also with successive generations of India’s rural population. Armed with a cranky digital camera, he and his friend Ajay Raina sets out to document the dismantling process. They meet the four owners of the house – the uncles and aunt of the filmmaker - and gather from them what it means to undergo the process of change and migration. A sense of nostalgia and loss; as well as the excitement and the insecurity of the future accompany this process; the essence of which is transition. A realization of the inevitability of this transition marks this journey. It could well have been the journey of a country that has propelled itself into modernity. As plans are on for the house to get reconstructed elsewhere in an open-air museum, out of its original context – for the filmmaker, the fossilization seems to be complete. The film ends with the tile that says that the filmmaker's father has expired in Mumbai in 2010.Comments
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