NCC Grounds Osmania University

Akhil Bonagiri 17 months ago

Sometimes cinema is at its most potent and engrossing when it’s stripped down to the essentials. Playground, the accomplished, uncomfortably powerful first feature from the Belgian writer-director Laura Wandel, is a lean 72 minutes in length, with no score and a lithe, instinctive, handheld camera that rarely leaves the face of seven-year-old Nora (Maya Vanderbeque, superb). It is piercingly insightful without ever labouring the point.

The film Nora’s well-meaning attempt to intervene when she sees her older brother Abel (Günter Duret) targeted, exploring the way that bullying spreads like a stain through a primary and middle school community; how the taint of victimhood can override the bonds of friendship and family; and how doing the right thing can backfire catastrophically.
Playground’s French title, Un monde, translates as “a world”, and the school is just that: the squat, blocky buildings and treacherous strip of asphalt are a hostile and inescapable environment. There is no respite – either for the audience or for the kids who find themselves outcasts in the semi-feral pack dynamic of childhood.

Frédéric Noirhomme’s camera is virtually a character in the story. It hovers at children’s eye level, nervy in an unforgiving bluish, bruised colour palette, only occasionally allowing an adult to slip fully into focus. A sympathetic teacher (Laura Verlinden) is one; Nora and Abel’s father and, we assume, main carer (Karim Leklou) is another. But equally impressive is the sound: with the camera locked on Nora’s tearful saucer eyes, much of the tension is created, vividly, outside the frame. It’s a remarkable achievement.
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krishna mohan 16 months ago

Good ground to play.

sandhya kotte 48 months ago

This ground is used to give practice and clasess will be done for NCC students of osmania university. All other off-campus students can book in advance this ground for cricket also.