{
  "id": 8295435,
  "title": "Don Palathara’s Indian Drama ‘Monkey Play’ Selected for Vancouver’s Inaugural Works-in-Progress Lab (EXCLUSIVE)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/don-palatharas-indian-drama-monkey-play-selected-for-vancouvers",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-18T19:21:39.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/global/don-palathara-india-monkey-play-viff-business-hub-wip-lab-1236864034/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "“Monkey Play” (“Kurangukali”), the latest project by Indian filmmaker Don Palathara (“1956, Central Travancore,” “Family”), has been selected for the Vancouver Film Festival’s new Business Hub Works-in-Progress program, which showcases up to eight feature-length projects in the final stages of production. The film, which Variety unveiled last year, follows Sethu and Nikita, who, in the […]",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}