Film on Python”s laying, hatching eggs to be screened in IFFI

Panaji, Oct 28 (PTI) This movie does not has Mallika Sherawat playing a role of ‘itchadhari nagin’ (a snake woman) in it. But for an average film lover, this flick is nothing less than bollywood hit movie ‘Hiss’. Assam’s reputed wildlife filmmaker, Gautam Saikia, is participating in this year’s edition of International Film Festival of India (IFFI) with a flick that would give hair-raising experience for the audience; a 25-feet-long Burmese rock python and its process of laying and hatching 87 eggs spread over 55 days. Saikia has captured every moment of the reptiles’ reproduction running into hundreds and thousands of tapes and later framed it into 23 minute long short film. Saikia, who in past has made it to Indian Panorama section of IFFI, is now competing in the Short Film Centre’s Environment award with his film ‘Unseen Beauty, Unhidden Truth’. “The film is shot in Manas region of Western Assam, which is veritably heaven of lush green forests that sustains an impressive variety of flora and fauna. Manas has everything. Mammals, birds and reptiles,” Saikia said. The filmmaker had raised a make-shift shed next to the place where the python had laid the eggs. “I shot every moment of the process. And later sat for editing,” the filmmaker said. .