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Hari Viswanath vividly remembers his grandfather’s morning routine. “He would get up and immediately turn on the Murphy wall radio. It would keep singing as he read the paper, prayed, had breakfast… And then, once a particular tune was played, he would get up and leave for work. As a child, even my life revolved around the radio. One signature tune signalled it was time to eat, another that it was time to run to school,” he adds.
It was that memory that Hari, 36, tapped into, once he decided to make his first feature film, following a chance conversation with a friend. “I meant it as an ode to my thatha . He’s 89 now, and I’m his eldest grandson. I wanted to celebrate him when he’s still around. The film is partially my own story, and partially fictional,” he says of Radiopetti , that recently won the Audience Award in the New Currents competition section at Busan International Film Fest.
He wrote the film about three years ago, after he attended the IFFI. This year, his 83-minute film is the only Tamil film showing in the Panorama section. “It’s surreal. I never dreamt I’ll be back in Goa, that too with my film,” says Hari.
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