Release and Reception
The film was released in the United States on 31 August 2007. After being screened at over 100 film festivals in 49 countries, Vanaja has won 24 international awards and 2 nominations. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the body that governs the Oscars, invited the screenplay to be placed in the permanent archives of the Margaret Herrick Library. The DVD, which released on 8 March 2008, has subtitle options in English. Besides interviews with Domalpalli and Bhukya, unedited dance sequences and several short films of Domalpalli, the DVD is available in 16:9 Anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, widescreen and NTSC format. While reviewing it, Jeffrey Kauffman from DVD Talk observed that though most of the film was made using natural lighting situations, the color and saturation quality was excellent. Further, the reviewer was quite favourable about the use of exotic sounds right from birds to the instruments.
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