Filmmaker Jayaprakash Radhakrishnan’s The Mosquito Philosophy, which recently had its premiere at the Chennai International Film Festival, has directly landed on pay-per-view OTT platform Cinemapreneur, skipping a theatrical run.
'Shot in 6 hours without any written scripts or dialogues, The Mosquito Philosophy does not have retakes either. Cinematographer Jathin Shaker Raj, also the co-producer, shot the entire movie impromptu with available lights. Besides the lead actor Suresh and the director, no one among the cast and crew knew about the story,' said a statement announcing the release on Cinemapreneur.
The Mosquito Philosophy is about Suresh, a mid-career professional who travels from Bengaluru to Chennai to invite friends to his ‘surprise’ wedding. What ensues is a longish chat over drinks, when a society’s attitudes towards beauty and ‘good looks,’ youth and ageing, and intimacy and love are slowly and subtly unravelled. What is perceived as right and wrong are coloured by the lens of his friends’ experiences. For one of them, marriage is the ‘mutual sucking of blood’. 'A feminist undertone poses questions the women might want to ask,' the synopsis read.
The Mosquito Philosophy is the first mumblecore film made in Tamil and borrows heavily from the dogme95 movement.
This is Jayaprakash’s second film. His debut film Lens (2017), which earned critical acclaim, went on to bag awards at several festivals.