dollu produced by apeksha purohit and pavan wadeyar under their banner wadeeyar movies will release today directed by sagar puranik the film stars karthik mahesh and nidhi hegde in lead roles about choosing an unusual subject preserving folk arts for their first production apesha says when pavan and i decided to act on our dream of setting a production house it took us a couple of years to execute itread alsokannada films dollu taledanda win big at national awards 2022while dollu won two awards taledanda won an award girish kasaravalli won an award in the non feature film category as well in the arts and culture section the big winner for this year was tamil film soorarai pottru starring suriya in the lead which has won as many as seven awardspavan wadeyar speaks about why he backed dolluthe filmmaker speaks about his first production dolluwe wanted our very first production to display our culture thats how we embarked on making dolluapeksha further shares i look at cinema as cinema and i am not looking at slotting anything as bridge or commercial we didnt make dollu with the intention of winning the national award either the content won eventually it has a love story friendship emotions humour and culture so people shouldnt dismiss it but watch it to understand that national awardwinning films can also be a complete package of entertainment todays young directors are changing the flavour of films people need to watch and experience thisexplaining why one needs to experience the film in the cinema halls apeksha points out the highlight of the film is the dollu kunitha sequences one of the topmost art forms from here the scenes will automatically get ones feet tapping this film is our attempt to showcase karnataka to the world we are glad that we won 17 international recognitions and two national awards