Zwigato
Directed by Nandita Das
How does one deal with life when it serves you juiceless lemons? You won’t find Nandita Das and her co-writer Samir Patil juicing the tragic circumstances of her delivery-boy Manas (Kapil Sharma) for tears in this gently effective drama of fringe employment, produced by Applause Entertainment..
This well-cut nugget has no room for tears. Kapil’s Zwigato delivery-boy delivers a performance that is keenly observant of reality: the languorous paunchy body language , the endless rounds on two-wheelers, handling difficult insulting customers at work , an invalid mother and two children at home… Kapil brings the entire force of destiny down on his character’s shoulder without making him a cry baby.
There is a beautiful moment where Manas put his head on his ailing mother’s lap. His wife Pratima walks in, sees the mother and son together, a walks out quietly.
This is my...
Directed by Nandita Das
How does one deal with life when it serves you juiceless lemons? You won’t find Nandita Das and her co-writer Samir Patil juicing the tragic circumstances of her delivery-boy Manas (Kapil Sharma) for tears in this gently effective drama of fringe employment, produced by Applause Entertainment..
This well-cut nugget has no room for tears. Kapil’s Zwigato delivery-boy delivers a performance that is keenly observant of reality: the languorous paunchy body language , the endless rounds on two-wheelers, handling difficult insulting customers at work , an invalid mother and two children at home… Kapil brings the entire force of destiny down on his character’s shoulder without making him a cry baby.
There is a beautiful moment where Manas put his head on his ailing mother’s lap. His wife Pratima walks in, sees the mother and son together, a walks out quietly.
This is my...
- 3/17/2023
- by Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
Director: Nandita Das. Cast: Kapil Sharma and Shahana Goswami.
Cinematography: Ranjan Palit. Music: Sagar Desai/Hitesh Soni.
Ians Rating: ****
New India is multi-faceted, multi-optional with many of the well-heeled being spoilt for choices while choosing a vocation. But despite all the so-called growth, several other categories of middle-class young men and women reel under pressure to find themselves age- and skill-appropriate employment.
For the Alpha generation, the e-commerce food delivery companies are a blessing, for they cater to the needs and orders of the customers who are more demanding and have more convenience and control over how and when they order their food. But that’s for the customers; the employees of such businesses face the brunt of it.
A double-edged sword for the unemployed in India, the sudden thriving numbers of delivery services have led to a Catch-22 situation. They have, in some ways, generated some income for those out of jobs,...
Cinematography: Ranjan Palit. Music: Sagar Desai/Hitesh Soni.
Ians Rating: ****
New India is multi-faceted, multi-optional with many of the well-heeled being spoilt for choices while choosing a vocation. But despite all the so-called growth, several other categories of middle-class young men and women reel under pressure to find themselves age- and skill-appropriate employment.
For the Alpha generation, the e-commerce food delivery companies are a blessing, for they cater to the needs and orders of the customers who are more demanding and have more convenience and control over how and when they order their food. But that’s for the customers; the employees of such businesses face the brunt of it.
A double-edged sword for the unemployed in India, the sudden thriving numbers of delivery services have led to a Catch-22 situation. They have, in some ways, generated some income for those out of jobs,...
- 3/17/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
The India programme explores the socio-political development of the country over the past 30 years.
US producer Christine Vachon and Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz are among the competition jury members for the 52nd edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Joining Vachon and Diaz is the director of Udine Far East Film Festival Sabrina Baracetti, Neptune Frost director Anisia Uzeyman and Mexican film critic Alonso Díaz de la Vega.
The jury are responsible for choosing the winner of the Tiger Award worth €40,000 as well as the Special Jury Awards worth €10,000. The competition line-up will be announced later this month.
India in...
US producer Christine Vachon and Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz are among the competition jury members for the 52nd edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Joining Vachon and Diaz is the director of Udine Far East Film Festival Sabrina Baracetti, Neptune Frost director Anisia Uzeyman and Mexican film critic Alonso Díaz de la Vega.
The jury are responsible for choosing the winner of the Tiger Award worth €40,000 as well as the Special Jury Awards worth €10,000. The competition line-up will be announced later this month.
India in...
- 12/8/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
After “Sunrise” in 2014 and a double whammy with “The Wayfarers” and “Nirvana Inn” in 2019, Indian thespian Adil Hussain is back at the Busan International Film Festival this year with two more films – “The Storyteller” in the Jiseok section, and “Max, Min and Meowzaki” in the Open Cinema strand.
Hussain, best known internationally for “Life of Pi” and “Star Trek: Discovery,” also won global plaudits for “What Will People Say” and “Hotel Salvation.”
Both of the actor’s Busan films this year are by festival alumni – “The Storyteller,” is by Ananth Narayan Mahadevan, whose “Bittersweet” was in Busan 2020 and “Max, Min and Meowzaki” is helmed by Padmakumar Narasimhamurthy, who was at Busan in 2016 with “A Billion Colour Story.”
In “The Storyteller” Hussain plays Goradia, a Gujarati businessman who believes that once physical wealth is accumulated, happiness will follow, but this proves not to be the case. The film is based on a story by the late,...
Hussain, best known internationally for “Life of Pi” and “Star Trek: Discovery,” also won global plaudits for “What Will People Say” and “Hotel Salvation.”
Both of the actor’s Busan films this year are by festival alumni – “The Storyteller,” is by Ananth Narayan Mahadevan, whose “Bittersweet” was in Busan 2020 and “Max, Min and Meowzaki” is helmed by Padmakumar Narasimhamurthy, who was at Busan in 2016 with “A Billion Colour Story.”
In “The Storyteller” Hussain plays Goradia, a Gujarati businessman who believes that once physical wealth is accumulated, happiness will follow, but this proves not to be the case. The film is based on a story by the late,...
- 10/8/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
What:
Screening of documentary films on the theme of “Road Trips”, curated by Paromita Vohra at Fd Zone, Mumbai
When:
May 31, 4 pm onwards
Where:
Rr 2 Theatre
6th floor
Stage 2 Building
Films Division
Pedder Road, Mumbai
Entry:
Free. Seating on first-come, first-served basis
Details of program:
Trip/ Udan
Pramod Pati, B/W, 35mm, 4 min, 1970
Day lapses into night, emptiness into frenzy and then rest again. The city wakes up, never really having slept. A time-lapse experimental film that chronicles Bombay’s breathless pace, its endless race of trains, cars and shadows.
Director – Pramod Pati
Camera – B. V. Dhawale
Editing – U. H. Rao
Music – Vijay Raghav Rao
Sound – S. D. Patil
Producer – Films Division
A Mercedes For Ashish /Aur Ashish Ke Liye Ek Mercedes
Ruchir Joshi, Digital Video, 31 min, 2006
The cruel city and its ruthless traffic run down love and other such delusions.
In `A Mercedes for Ashish’, an unseen man waits...
Screening of documentary films on the theme of “Road Trips”, curated by Paromita Vohra at Fd Zone, Mumbai
When:
May 31, 4 pm onwards
Where:
Rr 2 Theatre
6th floor
Stage 2 Building
Films Division
Pedder Road, Mumbai
Entry:
Free. Seating on first-come, first-served basis
Details of program:
Trip/ Udan
Pramod Pati, B/W, 35mm, 4 min, 1970
Day lapses into night, emptiness into frenzy and then rest again. The city wakes up, never really having slept. A time-lapse experimental film that chronicles Bombay’s breathless pace, its endless race of trains, cars and shadows.
Director – Pramod Pati
Camera – B. V. Dhawale
Editing – U. H. Rao
Music – Vijay Raghav Rao
Sound – S. D. Patil
Producer – Films Division
A Mercedes For Ashish /Aur Ashish Ke Liye Ek Mercedes
Ruchir Joshi, Digital Video, 31 min, 2006
The cruel city and its ruthless traffic run down love and other such delusions.
In `A Mercedes for Ashish’, an unseen man waits...
- 5/26/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
A still from Khayal Gatha
What:
A two-day festival of films about music.
Screening of
5th April, Saturday:
2:00 – 2:55 – Nilamadhaba Dir: Dilip Patnaik (2010)
3:00- 4:20 – Forever Young –Ranjan Palit (2008)
4:30 – 6:00- Partners in Crime – Paromita Vohra (2011)
6:30 – 6:50 Saa –Ramani R.V. (1991)
6:50 – 7:35 -Songlines- Vasudha Joshi (2011)
6th April, Sunday:
10:00 -11:40: Khayal Gatha- Kumar Shahani (1989)
11:50 -1:00: Koyil Nagaswaram – Soudhamini (2013)
1:45 – 3:00: Sabad Nirantar Dir: Rajula Shah (2007)
3:00 – 4:15: Rasayatra Dir: Nandan Kudiyadi (1994)
5:00 – 7:30: 11 Miles Dir: Ruchir Joshi (1992)
At fd Zone.
When:
5-6 April.
Entry:
Free and open to all.
Venue:
Rr Theatre
10th floor
Films Division
24, Pedder Road
Mumbai-400026
About the event:
Kumar Shahani’s Khaya Gatha is a seminal film to contemplate musical structure through film form. This film is an abstract exploration of the Khayal form of singing within Hindustani classical music. The film...
What:
A two-day festival of films about music.
Screening of
5th April, Saturday:
2:00 – 2:55 – Nilamadhaba Dir: Dilip Patnaik (2010)
3:00- 4:20 – Forever Young –Ranjan Palit (2008)
4:30 – 6:00- Partners in Crime – Paromita Vohra (2011)
6:30 – 6:50 Saa –Ramani R.V. (1991)
6:50 – 7:35 -Songlines- Vasudha Joshi (2011)
6th April, Sunday:
10:00 -11:40: Khayal Gatha- Kumar Shahani (1989)
11:50 -1:00: Koyil Nagaswaram – Soudhamini (2013)
1:45 – 3:00: Sabad Nirantar Dir: Rajula Shah (2007)
3:00 – 4:15: Rasayatra Dir: Nandan Kudiyadi (1994)
5:00 – 7:30: 11 Miles Dir: Ruchir Joshi (1992)
At fd Zone.
When:
5-6 April.
Entry:
Free and open to all.
Venue:
Rr Theatre
10th floor
Films Division
24, Pedder Road
Mumbai-400026
About the event:
Kumar Shahani’s Khaya Gatha is a seminal film to contemplate musical structure through film form. This film is an abstract exploration of the Khayal form of singing within Hindustani classical music. The film...
- 4/1/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
After Nobel Chor in 2011 featuring stars like Mithun Chakraborty and Soumitra Chatterjee; director Suman Ghosh returns to Mumbai Film Festival 2012 with a small-budget Bengali film Shyamal Uncle Turns Off the Lights, which is the story of an eighty year old pensioner who wants the street lights switched off during the day to save waste .
The film recently premiered at Busan International Film Festival where it was picked up by Global Film Initiative for North American distribution.
Suman Ghosh, in a conversation with Nandita Dutta, ahead of the Indian premiere of his film on October 21:
Who or what was the inspiration for the character of Shyamal Uncle?
Shyamal uncle is a real character and is played by Shyamal Bhattacharya himself. And this film is based on a real incident which was experienced by Shyamal Uncle. You see, Shyamal Uncle represents an entire generation. The generation who has seen the country...
The film recently premiered at Busan International Film Festival where it was picked up by Global Film Initiative for North American distribution.
Suman Ghosh, in a conversation with Nandita Dutta, ahead of the Indian premiere of his film on October 21:
Who or what was the inspiration for the character of Shyamal Uncle?
Shyamal uncle is a real character and is played by Shyamal Bhattacharya himself. And this film is based on a real incident which was experienced by Shyamal Uncle. You see, Shyamal Uncle represents an entire generation. The generation who has seen the country...
- 10/19/2012
- by Nandita Dutta
- DearCinema.com
Open Frame– the eleventh annual Film Festival & Forum of documentary films, workshops and discussions will be organized by the Public Service Broadcasting Trust (Psbt) from September 9-17, 2011.
The festival will take place in collaboration with and at the India International Centre, New Delhi.
“2011 marks a decade of Psbt’s work towards democratising the media and mainstreaming the independent documentary,” as stated in a press release.
Hence Open Frame 2011 will focus on Psbt Films produced over the last year and a retrospective of those produced over the last decade.
There will be Documentary Film Appreciation and Fiction Film Appreciation Workshops by Professor Suresh Chabria, Film and Television Institute of India, on 9 and 12-13 September respectively.
There will be Workshops on Filmmaking by Paromita Vohra (Script Writing), Avijit Mukul Kishore (Camera), Suresh Rajamani (Sound) and Sankalp Meshram (Editing) from September 14-17, 2011.
The films to be screened include:
Eer…Stories in Stone by...
The festival will take place in collaboration with and at the India International Centre, New Delhi.
“2011 marks a decade of Psbt’s work towards democratising the media and mainstreaming the independent documentary,” as stated in a press release.
Hence Open Frame 2011 will focus on Psbt Films produced over the last year and a retrospective of those produced over the last decade.
There will be Documentary Film Appreciation and Fiction Film Appreciation Workshops by Professor Suresh Chabria, Film and Television Institute of India, on 9 and 12-13 September respectively.
There will be Workshops on Filmmaking by Paromita Vohra (Script Writing), Avijit Mukul Kishore (Camera), Suresh Rajamani (Sound) and Sankalp Meshram (Editing) from September 14-17, 2011.
The films to be screened include:
Eer…Stories in Stone by...
- 9/5/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Chalk up an absolute winner for the Vishal Bhardwaj-Priyanka Chopra team. They make a coherent vision out of an inconceivable marital crises. How do you make sense of a woman who's an incorrigible potentially-loathsome serial spouse-killer who when challenged about her weird passion for changing husbands by divine decree rather than the law of the land, turns around and says, 'This heart of mine, it's to blame.' Wicked laughter follows. And dammit, we are amused! How does one make head or 'tale' of such a woman? Well, the first thing a director with a canny sense and sensibility does is sign Priyanka Chopra to play the wretchedly unfulfilled, genetically incomplete woman, a living, throbbing warning against the institution of marriage! Priyanka, not for the first time, proves she is leagues ahead of all competition. She approaches this strange and sensual creature of the night from the outside...
- 2/18/2011
- Filmicafe
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