The crew was invited to share their experience.

CHENNAI: When they asked him why did the youth fight for `bulls' at the Marina in January , he explained to them that it was not just a fight for `bulls', but an attempt to recapture the traditional rights of the Tamil community.

“We shot the youth uprising in the Marina for seven days continuously. We kept ten cameras in various spots. I have more than 200 hours of footage with me now. It was not just a fight for bulls, it's the history of our youth uprising without any political tag,“ said Santhosh Gopal , director of “Jallikattu“, a two-hour-long feature film in Tamil, to be released in August.

The production crew of “Jallikattu“, a feature film based on the seven-day footage of the mass protest at Marina beach, on Tuesday participated in a youth conference held at the headquarters of the United Nations in Nairobi . The crew was invited for sharing their experience while making the film.

“It's the first attempt at combining the youth uprising at the Marina and drawing a feature film into it. We told the audience from various parts of the world what Jallikattu literally meant for the Tamil community. They were thrilled after listening to the challenges and situations that we faced,“ said the debut director of the movie.

Ateaser of the movie was unveiled to the guests there as a part of the conference. This is the first-ofits-kind move for a Tamil film to unveil its teaser at a Youth conference in UN . The mass gathering of more than 15 lakh people at Marina beach in January was a show for solidarity of Tamil pride. Considering the importance of the event, Santhosh and his team shot the event extenstively. “The plot has many stories that take place in the protest site. They are interconnected,“ said Santhosh. The first-look poster of this film was launched recently at the Wall Street right near the charging bull.

“Weshot extensively with several pioneers of this movement. It's the first experimental Tamil feature in a style wherein we combine real footage with the film and characters are all those were a part of the Marina uprising,“ he said.

It was with the movie's producers Nirupama and N Jayapal, Santhosh Gopal explained the challenges they faced while making the movie. “We told them about various aspects of the student uprising in Marina and the sentiments it echoed across the globe.And it was a great experience,“ he said.

