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Frozen is a 2007 black-and-white Indian drama film directed by Shivajee Chandrabhushan. The original screenplay written by Shanker Raman, based on a story by Chandrabhushan and starring Danny Denzongpa, Gauri, and Skalzang Angchuk. The film was shot entirely on location at Ladakh, India.

It was featured at the various international film festivals, including the 2007 London Film Festival and Dubai International Film Festival, and was the official selection at 2007 Toronto International Film Festival and 2008 San Francisco International Film Festival, and Palm Springs International Film Festival.

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At the annual National Film Awards, it was awarded the 2007 Indira Gandhi Award for Best First Film of a Director.

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Plot

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The film is a sombre journey of imaginative and impulsive teenager, Lasya (Gauri), who lives with her father Karma (Danny), an apricot jam-maker and younger brother Chomo (Angchuk) in a remote village in the Himalayas. Pristine snow-capped mountains surround their tiny hamlet and barren harsh land stretches for miles into nowhere. One day the army moves in, settles a hundred yards across their doorstep. The last bit of comfort the family draws from their familiar surroundings changes into a harsh, ceaseless, irreversible conflict. The film depicts the life of this family whose dreamlike existence is interrupted by insurmountable odds, one after the other.

Cast

Danny Denzongpa- Karma

Gauri Kulkarni- Lasya

-Skalzang Angchuk Gultuk- Chomo

Shakeel kHan - Romeo

Rajendranath Zutshi - Dawa

Yashpal Sharma - Sharma

Aamir Bashir - Commanding Officer

Denzil Smith - Tenzing

Sanjay Swaraj - Salim

Anuradha Baral - Sita

Sonam Stobgias Gorky - Rinpoche

Shilpa Shukla - Karma's Wife

Wangchuk Dorjey Mogul - Officer Wangchuk

Stanzin Jordan - Vicky

Manish Mathur - Performing Artiste

Production

The film was shot in Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir, India in February 2006, over 34 days at an average height of 15,000 ft above sea level. The film was shot in colour and was digitally intermediated to black and white. The house where the film was picturised was built at Stakmo, behind Thiksey Monastery.

Production company: Seagull Media Productions, Phat Phish Motion Pictures

Production Design: Sonali Singh, Siddarth Sirohi

Sound Design: Vivek Sachidanand

Art Direction: Dawa Tsering

Costume Design: Loveleena Jain

Editing: Shan Mohammed

Reception

A review by Dennis Harvey of Variety, said that film's director's "background as a photographer and mountaineer, -- is evident in every frame of directorial debut "Frozen.".

Though the film had been going through Film Festival circuit since 2007 when the film was ready, its commercial release however happened in May 2009, during the stand off between producers and multiplexes, which resulted in number of films coming out of cold storage.