A Hindi-language movie is about to be screened at Yellowknife’s theatre for the first time, event organizers say.
Kalki 2898 AD – a science-fiction epic directed by Nag Ashwin and produced by Vyjayanthi Movies – was originally shot in Telugu, a South Indian language.
A Hindi version will be shown with English subtitles at Yellowknife’s Capitol Theatre on Tuesday, July 2 at 7pm.
The movie is being shown as a result of more than a month’s work by Sai Srikanth Chittajallu, Sai Sagar Nerella, Sai Kiran M and Priyanka Sharma.
Chittajallu said he wanted to bring the movie to Yellowknife because there are “lots of Indians who migrated to Yellowknife” and “lots of Indian movies that we’re missing.”
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He wanted to make Yellowknife a home, with nothing to be missed by the Indian community.
He had friends with experience buying movies and screening them at theatres in Vancouver and Toronto. They connected him to distributors of Indian movies in Canada.
“We had to convince them there are audiences in Yellowknife, an Indian community in Yellowknife who comes to the movies,” Chittajallu said. He then approached the Capitol Theatre, which agreed to show the movie.
Kalki 2898 AD is the first instalment in the Kalki Cinematic Universe. The film was made on a production budget of roughly six billion rupees (equivalent to $98 million at the time of writing).
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Chittajallu said that he chose this movie because its ensemble cast includes “actors from every part of India, like every culture of India.”
The movie’s Yellowknife screening was announced on Wednesday last week. By Friday afternoon, Chittajallu said almost 70 percent of tickets had been sold.
Sharma, who has been marketing and promoting the movie in Yellowknife, said the response has been “really good.” She said people had been messaging and calling her, asking for tickets and saying “thank you.”
The team had already discussed bringing more movies to Yellowknife if they had a “very good response” to this one.
“If demand is there, we’ll definitely be looking at bringing more Hindi-language movies to Yellowknife,” Sharma said.
