Rima Amrapurkar, who shot into fame as a director with Marathi comedy film ‘Ara Ara Aaba Aata Tari Thamba‘, recently made a sensible short film ‘Janani’. The film was shown at the Goa International film festival and was adjudged as the best short film in the video format category. The film also won honours for the best story (Rima Amrapurkar) , besides Best editing( Sanjay Sankla) and Best actress( Darshana Kharat) . It is a great achievement by this young film maker, who thought of making this short film during the distribution of her debut film, when she witnessed the hardships of rural women.

Rima attributes the success of her film to all the artistes of this film. The film has also entered the competition at the Iran short Film festival.