{"id":2036575,"date":"2025-09-20T07:53:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T07:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2036575"},"modified":"2025-09-20T07:53:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T07:53:29","slug":"busan-title-dont-tell-mother-director-anoop-lokkur-draws-from-personal-experience-in-debut-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/busan-title-dont-tell-mother-director-anoop-lokkur-draws-from-personal-experience-in-debut-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Busan Title \u2018Don\u2019t Tell Mother\u2019 Director Anoop Lokkur Draws From Personal Experience in Debut Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">The title of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4109905\/\">Anoop Lokkur<\/a>\u2019s debut feature \u201cDon\u2019t Tell Mother\u201d proved prophetic in more ways than one. The writer-director-producer not only explored family secrets in his tender drama about 1990s Bangalore (as Bengaluru was known then), but kept the biggest secret of all from his own mother: that he was using his saved house deposit money to fund the film. The movie premiered in the Windows to Asian Cinema section at the Busan International Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring pre-production, it was revealed that Anoop was not telling his mother about the creation of this feature film, and the fact that he was using his saved up money for a house deposit to fund the feature film,\u201d says cinematographer <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1585568\/\">Matthew Jenkins<\/a>, who also served as producer on the project. \u201cHe told his parents that they were making a short film, knowing that they would not understand how long a short&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title of Anoop Lokkur\u2019s debut feature \u201cDon\u2019t Tell Mother\u201d proved prophetic in more ways than one. The writer-director-producer not only explored family secrets in his tender drama about 1990s Bangalore (as Bengaluru was known then), but kept the biggest secret of all from his own mother: that he was using his saved house deposit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2036576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2036575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Busan-Title-\u2018Dont-Tell-Mother-Director-Anoop-Lokkur-Draws-From.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2036575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2036576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2036575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2036575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2036575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}