Amoli (film)

Amoli: Priceless
Poster of documentary
Directed byJasmine Kaur Roy, Avinash Roy
Produced bySameer Pitalwalla
Narrated byVidya Balan
Music byTajdar Junaid
Release date
  • 30 May 2018 (2018-05-30) (India)
Running time
30 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguagesEnglish
Hindi

Amoli: Priceless is a 2018 English-Hindi documentary film on commercial sexual exploitation of children.[1][2][3][4] The film is directed by National Award-winning directors Jasmine Kaur Roy and Avinash Roy and produced by Sameer Pitalwalla.[5] The music was scored by Tajdar Junaid.[5] Vidya Balan narrated the documentary. The narration for the film is in English while the interviewees speak in Hindi. The film was released in May 2018.

The documentary was dubbed in several languages featuring the voices of: Rajkummar Rao (Hindi), Sachin Khedekar (Marathi), Jisshu Sengupta (Bengali)[6] Nani (Telugu), Kamal Haasan (Tamil), and Puneeth Rajkumar (Kannada)[7] lent their voices to the film.[5]

The film won the 66th National Film Award for Best Investigative Film. The jury citation for the award reads "For its gritty examination of why and how young girls are coerced into commercial sex work, destroying their lives and minds, and for depicting their courage to survive."[8]

  1. ^ Sinha, Sayoni (19 May 2018). "Have you seen my girl?". The Hindu. India. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  2. ^ "'Amoli: Priceless' - A film that captures the magnitude of child trafficking in India". thenewsminute.com. India: The News Minute. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  3. ^ "Kamal Haasan, Rajkummar lend voice to film on sexual exploitation". The New Indian Express. India. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  4. ^ "ಹೆಣ್ಣು ಮಕ್ಕಳ ಕಳ್ಳಸಾಗಣೆ ತಡೆಗೆ ಕೈಜೋಡಿಸಿದ ಪುನೀತ್‌". The Times of India (in Kannada). Karnataka, India: Vijaya Karnataka. 9 May 2018. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  5. ^ a b c "Kamal Haasan, Rajkummar Rao lend voice to film on sexual exploitation titled Amoli: Priceless". The Indian Express. India. 6 May 2018. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  6. ^ "These actresses only want to concentrate on films". The Times of India. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  7. ^ R, Shilpa Sebastian (7 May 2018). "Puneeth Rajkumar lends his voice for 'Amoli: Priceless'". The Hindu. India.
  8. ^ "66th National Film Awards for 2018 announced". Press Information Bureau.