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Life in Metaphors
A Portrait of Girish Kasaravalli
Speaker
84 minutes | English & Kannada with English subtitles | India | 2015
When banker Om Prakash Srivastava attended a 2012 FTII master class with Girish Kasaravalli, one screening of Dweepa changed everything. Inspired, he abandoned his career to create this National Award-winning portrait of India’s most decorated filmmaker.
Srivastava brings together luminaries including Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Deepti Naval, Shyam Benegal, and U.R. Ananthamurthy, who illuminate Kasaravalli’s remarkable journey from Ghatashraddha (1975) to Koormavatara (2013). Across fifteen National Award-winning films, Kasaravalli has built a cinema of silence, metaphor, and moral inquiry.
Crafted with sensitivity and restraint, Life in Metaphors reveals how everyday life, memory, and folklore transform into enduring images on screen. It is both portrait and meditation on the art of seeing itself.
The screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker.
Speaker
OP Srivastava
O.P. Srivastava is a National Award-winning filmmaker, author, and cultural thinker who transitioned from senior leadership in technology-driven banking to cinema and writing. His documentary Life in Metaphors: A Portrait of Girish Kasaravalli brought him national recognition as a sensitive chronicler of Indian culture and parallel cinema.
His work spans documentaries exploring ecology and social change (Vanishing Vultures, Mangalachar, The Dirty Sky) and intimate fiction films (Missed Call, Banwari’s Mother). As an author, his books include Life in Metaphors: Portraits of Girish Kasaravalli, Banking on Technology, Krishna Calling, Pillars of Parallel Cinema, and Branding@Mythology, which examines how ancient archetypes shape modern brands and institutions.
Founder of Reelism Films and Oorjaa, a platform for impact cinema, Srivastava collaborates with filmmakers and cultural institutions globally. Based in Mumbai, he continues to work at the intersection of tradition and modernity, driven by the belief that stories told with integrity shape conscience and community.
