B. Selvi & Daughters

25min  |  Tamil  |  Drama

50-year old mom-trepreneur Selvi runs a small-time business selling saris on Whatsapp. When her fiercely independent daughter forces a sudden explosion of sari orders, Selvi must conquer her own fear, take the first step to building a full-fledged company, and learn to be financially and emotionally independent.
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Synopsis

B. Selvi & Daughters is the story of Selvi, a 50-year old woman in Chennai, India who is trying to get her fledgling online saree store off the ground. Like any Good Indian Mother, Selvi gave up her career aspirations for family life, and left all major decisions to her husband. Now, a year after his death, Selvi has taken her hobby of selling sarees door-to-door to the next level via Whatsapp, and is struggling with the confidence to build it into a real business. When Kavitha - Selvi's fiercely independent, idealistic daughter comes home for Pongal - she discovers her mother's secret with pleasant surprise, and runs an ad for the sari business without consulting her. Now, with close to a hundred orders to fulfill overnight, Selvi is overwhelmed. Can she do this? Is she capable of handling a business on her own? She needs to take the plunge in order to find out.

Filmmaker Bio

Drishya Gautham

Drishya Gautham

Director

Drishya is a writer and creative producer with the award-winning production house Stray Factory, based in Chennai. She spent her formative years performing and writing for theatre and was the editor-in- chief of a popular online magazine.

Credits

director: Drishya

writer: Drishya

producer: Tarana, Mathivanan Rajendran

cast: Kalairani, Gayathrie Shankar, Jeeva Ravi, Ashok Raj, Saranya Ravichandran, Mallika, Meenakshi, Varun, R v Radha, Lakshmi Devi, P Vijiya, S v Vaisshnavi

Executive Producer: Tarana, S v Vaisshnavi

Director of Photography: Juhi Sharma

Creative Producer: Adharsh Kalyanakumar

Asst. Director: Roshni Kalyanakumar

Production Designer: Saravanan Vasanth

Costume Designer: Varshini Natrajan

Editor: Adharsh Kalyanakumar

Sound Designer: Bhuvanesh Manivannan

Original Score: Aditi Ramesh

Live Sound: Keerthana Muralidharan

Additional Screenplay: Tarana

Dialogues: Saravanan Vasanth

Consultant Producer: Abbhinav Kastura

Head of Production: Arunachalam

Production Manager: Sridhar Raj, S Sivakumar

Production Assistants: Prabhakaran Gopal

Makeup Artist: Janani Rangadhurai

Associate Cinematographer: Udit Khurana, Kedar Sonigra

Camera Rental: Prime Cinemas Chennai

Camera Operator: Manohar, Arun, Prasad

Lights: Kumaravel & Team

Art Assistant: Roshan Vijay, Jenson Raj

Set Assistant: Veeramani, Subash

Sound Equipment Rental: Sound House Chennai

Sound Mixer: Anand Ramachandran

Sound Effects Editor: a Sathish Kumar

Foley: Maayavan, Nishok

Gayathrie's Assistant: Alex

Colourist: Mahak Gupta

Grading & Mastering Studio: Bridge PostWorks, Mumbai

VFX: Madan Thapa

Titles: Madan Thapa

BTS Photography: Jagrath

"Naveeni": Navz47

Make Up Assistant: Vandhana, Shenbagavalli

Supervising Producer: Pankul Gupta, Gaurav Raturi