Dollar Dreams


Dollar Dreams is a 2000 Indian bilingual drama film written, directed and produced by Sekhar Kammula. Primarily shot in Telugu and English languages, the film starred Anish Kuruvilla, Satya Krishnan, Priyanka Veer, Santosh Kumar, Anil Prashanth and Dashveer Singh. The film was screened at the 33rd International Film Festival of India.

Accolades

Dollar Dreams garnered the National Film Award for Best First Film of a Director for its "taking in a very natural manner the burning problem of brain drain to the technologically developed world" as cited by the jury at the 47th National Film Awards.
Reddiff.com cited Dollar Dreams as a take off from where Hyderabad Blues ends. Dollar Dreams explores the conflict between American dreams and human feelings. The film re-introduced Social realism to Telugu screen.

Cast