21 March 2010
Valmike Rampersad gets interviewed by Hollywood Hijack.
12 March 2010
The feature Kali Comes for Us All has been renamed Dark Justice.
5 February - 29 March 2010
Nimmi Harasgama tours with Rasa Theatre's Handful of Henna.
4 January 2010
Jonathan Rhodes plays Chief Agent Stark in Series 4 of M.I. High.
7 November 2009
...Val Rampersad's in Zee too...
Read interview
16 October 2009
Nimmi Harasgama features in the Autumn edition of Zee Magazine.
Read interview
27 July 2009
Mike Auger's Rhythm of London performance now on YouTube.
14 July 2009
Robert Gooch's stills from the Kali promo shoot are now online.
12 July 2009
Promo shoot for Kali Comes for Us All.
3 July 2009
Award-winning Sri Lankan actress Nimmi Harasgama joins the cast of Kali Comes for Us All.
23 June 2009
Communications agency Retina to provide production services for the Kali Comes for Us All promo shoot.
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Length: Feature
Format: (TBA)
Country: United Kingdom
Producers: Emma Stickland
Writer: Mike Hallett
Director: (TBA)
DoP: (TBA)
Editor: (TBA)
Main cast: Nimmi Harasgama, Valmike Rampersad,
Tim Barrow, Carla Chases
© 2010 Mica Films
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All hail to Kali May your black eyes shine All hail to Kali, Black Mother of Time May I be the head that hangs from your hand May I be the skull that lays upon your breast May your dark justice fall like rain Reign over me, Black Kali - till I live again! So prays Leila Kadar to Kali, the Hindu Goddess of Dying and Rebirth, at a temple in East London. Leila fled Sri Lanka three years ago with only the clothes on her back; now she's a qualified outreach nurse working with the immigrant community and engaged to Punit Selvarajoo, who is affluent, respectable and charming. But a ghost lurks in Leila's closet: she paid for her degree through prostitution. When Punit hires a ghatak (wedding middleman) to uncover her past, Leila's prayer takes on new meaning. For Kali is a hard taskmistress who doesn't tolerate false façades; to earn her absolution Leila must not only confront her own past choices but become Kali's puppet in helping to transform the lives of two traumatised individuals. Kali's unseen hand guides Leila into the orbit of Nikki Clancy, a young drug-addicted prostitute abandoned by her father at an early age and emotionally abused by her stepfather. Nikki's only possession of her father's is a battered copy of a vintage comic-book called 'Dark Justice'; in her drug-induced dreams Nikki fantasises about being rescued by a comic-book surrogate for her father. Dark Justice does indeed appear and save Nikki - except that it isn't her lost father; it's a troubled man called Adam Rowland, who prowls the backstreets of East London hunting for the brute that created him by raping his mother. Adam sees himself as a monster; he loathes his own sexual impulses from a fear that he will turn into his own father, failing to realise that it's his inability to express his sexual nature that drives him ever closer to committing the selfsame crime that he despises. In this tangled scenario Leila's nursing skills are of little use. It is her reverence for Kali, a goddess unafraid of her innate sexual power, which holds the key - though it also raises the chances of her own past being discovered. The ghatak delegates the unsavoury task of uncovering Leila's dirty laundry to Johnny Kapoor, an underworld middleman who, for a price, can arrange anything - except for the health of his ailing mother, a patient of Leila's who refuses all medicine bought with Johnny's dirty money. Leila finds herself at the centre of a web of interconnected people driven to the edge of reason as Kali weighs their lives in the scales of dark justice. They must all accept and release their past in order to be reborn into greater empowerment - or suffer as they cling to their worn-out selves. |
the story found its bearings. A script read-through was conducted in October 2007 with Guy Mott, Lisa Klevemark, Jonathan
Rhodes and Kirsty Malyon in the main roles. A second read-through in April 2008 showed significant progress in script
development and elicited a positive response from everyone involved. Jonathan Rhodes, Freya Parker, Mike Lousada and
Maeve Ryan read the main roles.
L-R: Kirsty Malyon, Scott Christie &
Megha Sharma
L-R: Mike Auger & Maeve Ryan
read-through, deservedly went on to appear in MJE Productions' version of Pirandello's
Six Characters at the Gielgud Theatre in the West End in September to November 2008,
directed by Rupert Goold. Freya plays 'The Girl' →
Emma Stickland joined as producer and prompty took Kali to the Cannes Film Festival. For details of Kali's Cannes one-sheet
click here. An audition was then arranged to cast the lead roles of Roddy Fotherington and Nikki Clancey for a test shoot.
