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How Paddayi director Abhaya Simha worked with Mogaveera fishing community in Karnataka

National award-winning film Paddayi is shot in a rare dialect of Tulu spoken by merely 2-3 lakh people, mainly the fishing community called Mogaveeras.  Director Abhaya Simha, who was born and brought up in Mangaluru, wrote the script and dialogue in Kannada, but hired a dialect coach despite knowing Tulu, as the Mogaveeras speak a …

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