Stumble is Prakash Belawadi

Prakash Belawadi

Prakash Belawadi is a journalist and a theatre person from Bangalore, India. He is a co-founder of Centre of Film and Drama which is set to launch Suchitra School of Cinema and Dramatic Arts at the Suchitra Cinema and Cultural Academy campus in Bangalore....

's debut film. It won the India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n National Film Award for Best Feature Film in English

National Film Award for Best Feature Film in English

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 in 2003. It depicts the new economy

New Economy

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, the dot-com bust

Dot-com bubble

The dot-com bubble was a speculative bubble covering roughly 1995–2000 during which stock markets in industrialized nations saw their equity value rise rapidly from growth in the more...

, stock market

Stock market

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 scams, mutual funds, and voluntary retirement.

The production team intended Stumble to be a film for the middle-class Ananth Nag and Suhasini

Suhasini Mani Ratnam

Suhasini Maniratnam is an Indian actress. She made her film debut in 1980 with the Tamil film Nenjathai Killathe for which she won the Best Actress award. Suhasini has won a National Film Award for Best Actress for Sindhu Bhairavi in 1986...

 are in the lead rôles, alongside Priya Ganapati and Allen Mandonca. Belawadi found his cast through the theatre

Theatre

Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

 world of Bangalore

Bangalore

Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...

, and was wholly filmed there . Jesu Domnic and Shyam Nanjundaiah were Editors for this movie. One of the editors Shyam Nanjundaiah also played a small part in the film, appearing alongside Ananth Nag for a brief scene.

The movie was featured at the international technical festival, Pragyan

Pragyan

Pragyan is the annual Science and Technology Festival of the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli, India. Since its inception in 2005, it has been held every year over a period of four days during either the month of January or February...

 at NIT Trichy in January 2006. It was also screened at the Mumbai National Film Festival.