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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = O Friend, This Waiting!<br />
| image = Oh friend this waiting.jpg<br />
| caption = <br />
| director = Sandhya Kumar<br>Justin McCarthy<br />
| screenplay = <br />
| producer = Justin McCarthy<br />
| starring = Rama Ravi<br>Bharathi Penneswaran<br />
| music = R. Elangovan<br>Sudha Raghuraman<br />
| cinematography = Amit Mahanti<br />
| editing = Sandhya Kumar<br />
| distributor = India Foundation For The Arts<br />
| released = {{Film date|2012}}<br />
| runtime =<br />
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'''''O Friend, This Waiting!''''' is a 2012 [[Indian film|Indian]], bilingual [[documentary film]] in Telugu and English written and directed by Sandhya Kumar, based on the poetry of 17th century Telugu composer [[Kshetrayya]].<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2750206/ O Friend, This Waiting! (2012) - IMDb<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/between-sacred-and-profane/article4123378.ece Between sacred and profane - The Hindu<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> For its wholly unconventional investigation of the Devadasi tradition in [[Andhra Pradesh|Andhra]], combining an appreciation of this delicate and sensuous art form<br />
with a genuine sociological exploration, the non feature film has received the [[National Film Award for Best Arts/Cultural Film]] at the [[61st National Film Awards]].<ref>{{cite web |title=61st National Film Awards For 2013 |url=http://www.dff.nic.in/List%20of%20Awards.pdf# |publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals |date=16 April 2014 |accessdate=2014-04-16 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140416181218/http://www.dff.nic.in/List%20of%20Awards.pdf |archivedate=16 April 2014 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref>[http://www.timeoutbengaluru.net/film/o-friend-waiting Film | O Friend, This Waiting! | Bangalore International Centre | Time Out Bengaluru<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The film has received special mention at the ''Erasing Borders'' Festival of Classical Dance, [[Indo-American Arts Council]], New York, 2013.<ref>[http://magiclanternmovies.in/film/o-friend-waiting O Friend, This Waiting! | Magic Lantern Movies LLP<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><br />
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==Awards==<br />
;[[National Film Awards]]<br />
*[[National Film Award for Best Arts/Cultural Film]] (2013)<br />
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==International honor==<br />
*Mumbai International Film Festival, Mumbai 2014<br />
*International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, 2013<br />
*''Mudra'' Festival of Classical Dance, National Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA), Mumbai, 2013<br />
*''Erasing Borders'' Festival of Classical Dance, Indo-American Arts Council, New York, 2013<br />
*Red Poppy Art House, San Francisco, 2012<br />
*National Gallery of Modern Art, Bangalore, 2012<ref>[http://magiclanternmovies.in/film/o-friend-waiting O Friend, This Waiting! | Magic Lantern Movies LLP<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><br />
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