MUMBAI: Producer Pallavi Rohatgi‘s Greater Elephant has been rewarded with the Best Jury Award at the South Asian International Film Festival held at New York recently.

Directed by Srinivas Sunderrajan, known for film The Untitled Kartik Krishnan Project, Greater Elephant is a comical story about a lost Elephant in a big city. It‘s a nuanced tale which works at various levels as an allegory for a lost childhood, a skeptical society, and a much deeper meaning about one‘s search for self.

The film is a comedy, bordering on the farcical which unravels a deeper meaning beneath each layer. It is a wicked assembly of those who still haven‘t found what they‘re looking for: a purpose. A mahout has lost his elephant, theatre owner has lost her god who has lost his identity, a devil has lost his teeth, a constable has lost his faith and they‘ve all lost their marbles.

Greater Elephant, shot extensively across Mumbai and Pune, has been written by Omkar Sane and has Hussain Dalal, Naveen Kaushik, Saunskruti Kher, Rajiv Mishra, Shreyas Pandit, Shashi Nambiar playing the key characters in the film.

Incidentally, the film won top laurels among other highly acclaimed films like Deool directed by Umesh Kulkarni, Kshay directed by Karan Gaur and Stagnant.

The South Asian International Film Festival (SAIFF) is the largest film premiere destination for South Asian/Indian filmmakers in the United States.