Panaji: The 3,000-year-old language of Sanskrit may not be a part of everyone's daily discourse in India today, but a filmmaker has shot a feature film in the language, in 3D.Titled, 'Anurakthi,' the film is being touted as the world's first Sanskrit film in 3D.Directed by Asokan Ponnan Kadangot, the film throws light on the ancient theatrical tradition of Koodiyattam in Kerala. Made at a budget of Rs 50 lakh, it is likely to see a commercial release in March-April 2018."Sanskrit is a dead language, but it is still prevalent in various parts of the country besides being known in Germany, Russia and Scandinavia. Though it is a researchers' language that has been confined to scholars, the dialect we have used in the film is comparatively colloquial and can be easily grasped by the viewer," Kadangot said on the sidelines of the International Film Festival of India (Iffi) in Goa."Sanskrit in literature begins and ends with a certain shloka. Keeping this is mind, we have ensured that the film also starts and ends with shlokas," he said."Being a language that is thousands of years old, the spoken Sanskrit of today has different slangs and dialects. For the sake of the film, however, we have used the south Indian dialect of Sanskrit since the film is based in Kerala," the director said.A team of eleven Sanskrit scholars have shared their knowledge to check the semantics of the film dialogues, besides acting as dialect coaches to the actors."We had to verify the Sanskrit script from the film's angle, the language perspective and the synchronizing of dialogue delivery. It was a painstaking process that took us a lot of time," he said.

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