Fresh off the Sundance-winning “Girls Will Be Girls,” Indian actor-producers Richa Chadha and Ali Fazal have unveiled a further slate from their Pushing Buttons Studios.
Directed by Shuchi Talati, “Girls Will Be Girls” is the debut production from Pushing Buttons Studios, in collaboration with Crawling Angels, Blink Digital and Dolce Vita Films. It bowed at Sundance in January and won the audience choice award for best film and the jury award for best actor for lead Preeti Panigrahi. The film earned a rave review from Variety.
The upcoming slate includes crime thriller “Papita” by Akash Bhatia (Netflix’s “Run Lola Run” adaptation “Looop Lapeta”), which follows Porus Bisht, a Mumbai paparazzi photographer with a knack for voyeurism who aspires to transcend his profession and become a respected photographer. His story takes a turn when he captures a pivotal moment involving a renowned celebrity, altering both his career and life.
The...
Directed by Shuchi Talati, “Girls Will Be Girls” is the debut production from Pushing Buttons Studios, in collaboration with Crawling Angels, Blink Digital and Dolce Vita Films. It bowed at Sundance in January and won the audience choice award for best film and the jury award for best actor for lead Preeti Panigrahi. The film earned a rave review from Variety.
The upcoming slate includes crime thriller “Papita” by Akash Bhatia (Netflix’s “Run Lola Run” adaptation “Looop Lapeta”), which follows Porus Bisht, a Mumbai paparazzi photographer with a knack for voyeurism who aspires to transcend his profession and become a respected photographer. His story takes a turn when he captures a pivotal moment involving a renowned celebrity, altering both his career and life.
The...
- 2/26/2024
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
All That Breathes.When Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh decided to mount an Oscar campaign in October 2021 for their film Writing with Fire, they were attempting a historic first. Until then, no Indian documentary feature had ever been on the radar for the Academy Awards. The general assumption has always been that India had only one category to gun for: Best International Feature Film. Every year since 1957, the Film Federation of India (Ffi), an apex body comprising Indian film producers, exhibitors, distributors, and studio owners, has appointed a committee to select the country’s official submission from the year’s releases. These selections have often proved to be arbitrary decisions, rarely standing a chance at even making the shortlist, primarily due to a vague selection process that lacks credibility. In the last six decades, only three Indian submissions—Mother India (1957), Salaam Bombay (1988), and Lagaan (2001)—actually ended up with a nomination.
- 4/10/2023
- MUBI
Parallel cinema cuts loose from the musicality of Bollywood and the common perception of Indian cinema at large. Coming out of West Bengal in the 1950s, parallel cinema appeared as an alternative to the glamour and dance; socially conscious and experimental in style and mood, it maps the origins of art cinema in India, and for the first time, the rest of the world was looking at India as an innovator of film language (Satyajit Ray’s 1955 train sequence Pather Panchali is one of the most celebrated in film history). In this movement, which followed in the wake of Italian neorealism, life's diegetics became the soundtrack, real life movement over set up musical numbers. This mix traces some choice moments in Parallel Cinema’s sound. Many songs and soundtracks from this period have a lofi quality to them—due in part to the quality of audio recording equipment throughout the years of the movement,...
- 10/29/2021
- MUBI
“Om Dar-b-Dar” is a true cult-classic that deserves to be counted among the best films that India has ever produced. In an attempt to carve out his own place in the vast landscape of Indian cinema, auteur Kamal Swaroop managed to create a timeless masterpiece that has no real predecessors in the country’s cinematic tradition but is now seen as an endlessly influential masterpiece which has inspired contemporary directors like Imtiaz Ali and Anurag Kashyap on their own filmmaking journeys. Due to complications with the relevant authorities, “Om Dar-b-Dar” was not commercially released in the country at the time but it achieved critical acclaim at foreign film festivals and even earned the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie in 1989.
One of the most impressive things about “Om Dar-b-Dar” is that it resists any restrictive categorisations. It is extremely easy to label it with dismissive tags like a ‘coming-of-age’ film,...
One of the most impressive things about “Om Dar-b-Dar” is that it resists any restrictive categorisations. It is extremely easy to label it with dismissive tags like a ‘coming-of-age’ film,...
- 3/29/2021
- by Swapnil Dhruv Bose
- AsianMoviePulse
Mubi's series The Inimitable Image: An Amit Dutta Retrospective is showing summer and autumn 2020 in India.Above: NainsukhBlinking is a matter of rhythm, and so is staring—rhythms perhaps more crucial to cinema than to any other medium. By withholding perspective, or by rendering it immobile, blinking and staring introduce duration to a cinematic frame, allowing the camera to grasp the very tactile rhythm of its own gaze and that of its object. Amit Dutta’s is a cinema that is built around such rhythms, around the purely ocular movement of the eye, where gazing is everything—it is the source of both meaning in the story and of truth, if there is one. The rhythm of his cinema alternates between rapid disturbances, like in the tilt of a head, and long stretches of stillness where a landscape, such as sloping mountain road, is introduced even before it is inhabited by characters.
- 8/11/2020
- MUBI
Before Tapsee Pannu quits acting or Neena Gupta, Surekha Sikri or Shabana Azmi (god forbid) go out of job there is something beyond this age related debate surrounding the casting of this movie that needs to timelessly addressed.
Thanks to the marvelous insight of debutant director Tushar Hiranandani and producers like Anurag Kashyap, Reliance Entertainment and Nidhi Parmar. The extraordinary story of real courage, bravery and tremendous determination of octogenarian sharp shooters ? shooter dadi and revolver dadi - Chandro and Prakashi Tomar, will be on silver screen this Diwali to inspire and motivate millions. Badhai Ho (congratulations).
A few decades ago, cinema was divided into three prime categories ? mainstream, art (avant - grade) and middle.
Mainstream was dominated with people like Kapoor, Khosla, Samantha, Desai. Mehra, Chopra etc.? The avant-garde was claimed by Kamal Swaroop, Mani Kaul, Kumar Shahani and the ?middle? cinema saw the advent of Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani,...
Thanks to the marvelous insight of debutant director Tushar Hiranandani and producers like Anurag Kashyap, Reliance Entertainment and Nidhi Parmar. The extraordinary story of real courage, bravery and tremendous determination of octogenarian sharp shooters ? shooter dadi and revolver dadi - Chandro and Prakashi Tomar, will be on silver screen this Diwali to inspire and motivate millions. Badhai Ho (congratulations).
A few decades ago, cinema was divided into three prime categories ? mainstream, art (avant - grade) and middle.
Mainstream was dominated with people like Kapoor, Khosla, Samantha, Desai. Mehra, Chopra etc.? The avant-garde was claimed by Kamal Swaroop, Mani Kaul, Kumar Shahani and the ?middle? cinema saw the advent of Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani,...
- 10/5/2019
- GlamSham
A strong selection of Indian films is among the highlights of the 21st Mumbai Film Festival. The festival, which runs Oct. 17-24, announced its lineup on Thursday.
The festival’s Spotlight strand boasts of five world premieres, including Arati Kadav’s much awaited sci-film “Cargo,” actor Seema Bhargava Pahwa’s directorial debut, the family drama “Ram Prasad Ki Tehrvi,” Deepti Gupta’s document of a female artist’s fight for equality in modern India “Shut Up Sona,” Kamal Swaroop’s portrayal of a theatre troupe staging a mythological play “Samudra Manthan” and R.V. Ramani’s “Oh That’s Bhanu.” The strand also includes Goutam Ghose’s “The Wayfarers” that has its world premiere at the Busan International Film Festival.
The Mumbai festival’s India Gold competition features further Busan titles, Gurvinder Singh’s “Bitter Chestnut” and Kislay’s “Just Like That,” and Gitanjali Rao’s hand drawn animation festival favourite...
The festival’s Spotlight strand boasts of five world premieres, including Arati Kadav’s much awaited sci-film “Cargo,” actor Seema Bhargava Pahwa’s directorial debut, the family drama “Ram Prasad Ki Tehrvi,” Deepti Gupta’s document of a female artist’s fight for equality in modern India “Shut Up Sona,” Kamal Swaroop’s portrayal of a theatre troupe staging a mythological play “Samudra Manthan” and R.V. Ramani’s “Oh That’s Bhanu.” The strand also includes Goutam Ghose’s “The Wayfarers” that has its world premiere at the Busan International Film Festival.
The Mumbai festival’s India Gold competition features further Busan titles, Gurvinder Singh’s “Bitter Chestnut” and Kislay’s “Just Like That,” and Gitanjali Rao’s hand drawn animation festival favourite...
- 10/3/2019
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The ancient city of Pushkar lies in the middle of the Rajasthan plains and deserts. Not a travelogue but an engaging philosophical meditation, Kamal Swaroop’s Pushkar Puran revisits its sacred stories and myths in a unique documentary that is at once atmospheric, gripping and communicative. Confirming Swaroop’s cult status as a wide-ranging director who thinks outside the box, it should earn him new festival fans after its unveiling in Montreal and Mumbai.
Swaroop has made an art house reputation in India around a handful of unique films, from his 1988 avant-garde montage of images Om Dar B Dar, which was...
Swaroop has made an art house reputation in India around a handful of unique films, from his 1988 avant-garde montage of images Om Dar B Dar, which was...
- 10/20/2017
- by Deborah Young
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Nfdc has announced the selection for Film Bazaar recommends (Fbr) section of Film Bazaar 2014. Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s Labour of Love, Bikas Mishra’s Chauranga, Kamal Swaroop’s Dance of Democracy, Shlok Sharma’s Haraamkhor, Khushboo Ranka and Vinay Shukla’s Proposition for a Revolution feature among the list of 25 selected films.
Film Bazaar Recommends is a curated section of the market. The selected films are seeking finishing funds, world sales, distribution partners and film festivals.
Here is the complete list of Film Bazaar Recommends section:
12 Acres
Director – Rajesh Thind
Asha Jaoar Majhe
(Labour of Love)
Director – Aditya Vikram Sengupta
Bokul
Director – Reema Borah
Chauranga
(Four Colours)
Director – Bikas Ranjan Mishra
Crd
Director – Kranti Kanade
Dance of Democracy
Director – Kamal Swaroop
For the Love of a Man
Director – Rinku Kalsy
Foreign Puzzle
Director – Chithra Jeyaram
Gaalibeeja
(The Floating Seed)
Director – Babu Eshwar Prasad
Haraamkhor
(The Wretched)
Director – Shlok Sharma
Island...
Film Bazaar Recommends is a curated section of the market. The selected films are seeking finishing funds, world sales, distribution partners and film festivals.
Here is the complete list of Film Bazaar Recommends section:
12 Acres
Director – Rajesh Thind
Asha Jaoar Majhe
(Labour of Love)
Director – Aditya Vikram Sengupta
Bokul
Director – Reema Borah
Chauranga
(Four Colours)
Director – Bikas Ranjan Mishra
Crd
Director – Kranti Kanade
Dance of Democracy
Director – Kamal Swaroop
For the Love of a Man
Director – Rinku Kalsy
Foreign Puzzle
Director – Chithra Jeyaram
Gaalibeeja
(The Floating Seed)
Director – Babu Eshwar Prasad
Haraamkhor
(The Wretched)
Director – Shlok Sharma
Island...
- 11/11/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
A still from True Love Story
Gitanjali Rao’s True Love Story won the Best Animation film at the 7th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala that concluded recently.
Tamaash (The Puppet) by Satyanshu and Devanshu Singh was adjudged the best short film. Special Mention went to Jaadui Machchi (Fishy Magic) directed by Ektara Collective.
Babai directed by Kavita Datir and Amit Sonawane won the best documentary award while Special Mention went to Kolkatar Guptokatha directed by Sougata Bhattacharyya.
Chronicles of a Temple Painter directed by Shravan Katikaneni won the best long documentary. Two special mentions in the long documentary category went to: Candles in the Wind directed by Kavita Bahl and Nandan Saxena; and Goonga Pehelwan directed by Vivek Chaudhary, Prateek Gupta and Mit Jani.
The Best Campus Film award went to Salt Water directed by Ma Students of Sjcc College (Ammu S. Rajasekharan, Anju S. Raj,...
Gitanjali Rao’s True Love Story won the Best Animation film at the 7th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala that concluded recently.
Tamaash (The Puppet) by Satyanshu and Devanshu Singh was adjudged the best short film. Special Mention went to Jaadui Machchi (Fishy Magic) directed by Ektara Collective.
Babai directed by Kavita Datir and Amit Sonawane won the best documentary award while Special Mention went to Kolkatar Guptokatha directed by Sougata Bhattacharyya.
Chronicles of a Temple Painter directed by Shravan Katikaneni won the best long documentary. Two special mentions in the long documentary category went to: Candles in the Wind directed by Kavita Bahl and Nandan Saxena; and Goonga Pehelwan directed by Vivek Chaudhary, Prateek Gupta and Mit Jani.
The Best Campus Film award went to Salt Water directed by Ma Students of Sjcc College (Ammu S. Rajasekharan, Anju S. Raj,...
- 7/24/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The 9th Rome Film Festival, to be held from October 16-25, is calling for entries.
The festival will only consider feature length films as submissions. All submitted films must be recent productions completed not prior to 1st December 2013. They must not have been presented in any other format or length, not even as works-in-progress, for submission to previous editions of the Festival. With the exception of Out of Competition films, films that have had prior public screenings, have participated in other international festivals or are available on the Internet, cannnot be presented at the Rome Film Festival.
Entries are open in the following categories: New International Cinema (A selection of a maximum of 14 feature films of young or already successful directors, priority to world premieres); Gala (A selection of some of the year’s most important films, for a maximum of 11 titles. Only feature films that are world premieres, international...
The festival will only consider feature length films as submissions. All submitted films must be recent productions completed not prior to 1st December 2013. They must not have been presented in any other format or length, not even as works-in-progress, for submission to previous editions of the Festival. With the exception of Out of Competition films, films that have had prior public screenings, have participated in other international festivals or are available on the Internet, cannnot be presented at the Rome Film Festival.
Entries are open in the following categories: New International Cinema (A selection of a maximum of 14 feature films of young or already successful directors, priority to world premieres); Gala (A selection of some of the year’s most important films, for a maximum of 11 titles. Only feature films that are world premieres, international...
- 7/2/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The 3rd edition of Ladakh International Film Festival (Liff) will open with Kamal Swaroop’s Rangbhoomi. The festival will be held in Leh from June 27-29, 2014.
Anurag Kashyap’s Ugly will have its Indian premiere at the festival.
Korea is the country in focus at the festival this year. Liff will also pay tribute to Hindi film industry veterans Farooq Sheikh and Nanda.
This year, the jury for the fest includes film critic Klaus Eder, general secretary of International Federation of Film Critics (Fipresci) and Maxine Williamson, head of Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
The lineup of films in competition:
Competition – Feature
1. The Return - Home Coming (Venezuela)
2. Q – (Hindi) India, 96 Minutes
3. Kafiron Ki Namaaz (Hindi, English, Kashmiri) , India, 149 Minutes
4. Tourist (Iran)
5. Wet Letters (Iran)
6. Good Fellows (Iran)
7. Gem Of Seven Seas (Iran)
8. All Alone (Iran)
Competition – Documentary
1. Not Anymore
2. Roque Dalton – Lets Shoot The Night
3. The Genius Of Sreenivasan Ramanujan...
Anurag Kashyap’s Ugly will have its Indian premiere at the festival.
Korea is the country in focus at the festival this year. Liff will also pay tribute to Hindi film industry veterans Farooq Sheikh and Nanda.
This year, the jury for the fest includes film critic Klaus Eder, general secretary of International Federation of Film Critics (Fipresci) and Maxine Williamson, head of Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
The lineup of films in competition:
Competition – Feature
1. The Return - Home Coming (Venezuela)
2. Q – (Hindi) India, 96 Minutes
3. Kafiron Ki Namaaz (Hindi, English, Kashmiri) , India, 149 Minutes
4. Tourist (Iran)
5. Wet Letters (Iran)
6. Good Fellows (Iran)
7. Gem Of Seven Seas (Iran)
8. All Alone (Iran)
Competition – Documentary
1. Not Anymore
2. Roque Dalton – Lets Shoot The Night
3. The Genius Of Sreenivasan Ramanujan...
- 6/17/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The third edition of the Ladakh International Film Festival will again be hosted in the town of Leh, in the mountainous northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. Said to be the highest-altitude film festival in the world at over 11,000 feet, Liff will open with director Kamal Swaroop's Rangbhoomi. The film is based on a semi-autobiographical play by Dadasaheb Phalke, considered the father of Indian cinema, who made the country's first full-length feature, Raja Harischandra, in 1913. Photos: Summer's Big Movies Reimagined With Donald Sterling, Sultan of Brunei Liff will also host the “green carpet” Asian
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- 6/17/2014
- by Nyay Bhushan
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The 7th International Documentary & Short Film Festival of Kerala (Idsffk), to be held from July 18-22 at Thiruvananthapuram, has unveiled its selection. The 99 films that will be screened in competition section have been shortlisted from 916 entries received.
Competition lineup:
Long Documentaries:
Candles In The Wind, Kavita Bahl / Nandan Saxena Goonga Pehelwan, Vivek Chaudhary / Prateek Gupta At The Crossroads: Nondon Bagchi Life And Living, Rajdeep Paul / Sharmistha Maiti Rangbhoomi, Kamal Swaroop The Last Adieu, Shabnam Sukhdev Chronicles Of A Temple Painter, Shravan Katikaneni The Red Data Book An Appendix, Sreemith N Deepu This Land Belongs To The Army, Maga. Thamizh Prabhagaran
Short Documentaries:
In The Wake Of The Hill, Isha Pungaliya Lali, Subhadipta Biswas Wall Stories, Shashwati Talukdar Padmini My Love, Sriram Mohan I Am A Muslim, Vikram Kumar Kandimalla Songs Of A Free Bird, Samiran Datta Towards The Silver Lining, Bhabanita Muli Silent Sounds, Arun Radhakrishnan In Search Of Black God,...
Competition lineup:
Long Documentaries:
Candles In The Wind, Kavita Bahl / Nandan Saxena Goonga Pehelwan, Vivek Chaudhary / Prateek Gupta At The Crossroads: Nondon Bagchi Life And Living, Rajdeep Paul / Sharmistha Maiti Rangbhoomi, Kamal Swaroop The Last Adieu, Shabnam Sukhdev Chronicles Of A Temple Painter, Shravan Katikaneni The Red Data Book An Appendix, Sreemith N Deepu This Land Belongs To The Army, Maga. Thamizh Prabhagaran
Short Documentaries:
In The Wake Of The Hill, Isha Pungaliya Lali, Subhadipta Biswas Wall Stories, Shashwati Talukdar Padmini My Love, Sriram Mohan I Am A Muslim, Vikram Kumar Kandimalla Songs Of A Free Bird, Samiran Datta Towards The Silver Lining, Bhabanita Muli Silent Sounds, Arun Radhakrishnan In Search Of Black God,...
- 6/13/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
What:
Screening of Kamal Swaroop’s national award winning film on Dadasaheb Phalke, “Rangbhoomi”, by Fd Zone, Delhi
When:
June 6, Friday, 7:00 pm
Where:
Stein auditorium, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
About Rangbhoomi
Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, popularly known as Dadasaheb Phalke (April 30, 1870 – February 16, 1944) was an Indian producer/ director/ screenwriter, widely regarded as the father of Indian Cinema. His debut film Raja Harishchandra was made in 1913 and is recognised as India’s first full-length feature film. In his career, spanning 19 years, he made 95 movies and 26 short films. His most noted works are Mohini Bhasmasur (1913), Satyavan Savitri (1914), Lanka Dahan (1917), Shri Krishna Janma (1918) and Kaliya Mardan (1919).
In 1920, after disputes with his partners, he resigned from his company Hindustan Films and shifted to the holy city of Benaras and renounced the world of cinema. At Benaras he wrote a semi-autobiographical play Rangbhoomi. This film is an invocation from that text.
About Kamal Swaroop
Swaroop is a film,...
Screening of Kamal Swaroop’s national award winning film on Dadasaheb Phalke, “Rangbhoomi”, by Fd Zone, Delhi
When:
June 6, Friday, 7:00 pm
Where:
Stein auditorium, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
About Rangbhoomi
Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, popularly known as Dadasaheb Phalke (April 30, 1870 – February 16, 1944) was an Indian producer/ director/ screenwriter, widely regarded as the father of Indian Cinema. His debut film Raja Harishchandra was made in 1913 and is recognised as India’s first full-length feature film. In his career, spanning 19 years, he made 95 movies and 26 short films. His most noted works are Mohini Bhasmasur (1913), Satyavan Savitri (1914), Lanka Dahan (1917), Shri Krishna Janma (1918) and Kaliya Mardan (1919).
In 1920, after disputes with his partners, he resigned from his company Hindustan Films and shifted to the holy city of Benaras and renounced the world of cinema. At Benaras he wrote a semi-autobiographical play Rangbhoomi. This film is an invocation from that text.
About Kamal Swaroop
Swaroop is a film,...
- 5/28/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
In the precious biographical details of Dadasaheb Phalke’s life that we know, he gave up on cinema after making some 95 films and scores of shorts and went to Banaras. He wrote a play called Rangbhoomi, with a strong autobiographical slant. Kamal Swaroop’s documentary on this phase of Phalke’s life, he says, is an “invocation of that text.” It comes as a puzzle, an intriguing and challenging ontological rebus of various phases of cinema and of representation.
It is a multilayered palimpsest of what cinema was and has become, with none- too-resolute conclusions. It is an exercise in artistic humility as it is a profile of a pupil who takes the threads of his teacher to move the discourse forward. If you are a filmmaker, this is a must-see. If you are a film student, it is an essential learning phase before you move on. If you are a cinephile,...
It is a multilayered palimpsest of what cinema was and has become, with none- too-resolute conclusions. It is an exercise in artistic humility as it is a profile of a pupil who takes the threads of his teacher to move the discourse forward. If you are a filmmaker, this is a must-see. If you are a film student, it is an essential learning phase before you move on. If you are a cinephile,...
- 5/17/2014
- by Shekhar Deshpande
- DearCinema.com
Medient Studios and producer Manu Kumaran are backing Kamal Swaroop’s documentary The Battle Of Banaras, which follows the on-going Indian elections.
The film focuses on the how the election is playing out in Banaras, a city that represents India’s social diversity and also has significant mythological relevance. Both present-day politics and Indian history are explored in the film. Scheduled to wrap on May 20, the film is scheduled for Indian release on August 15.
“I read Elias Canetti’s book, Crowds And Power, about 30 years ago and have been hooked on to it since then. So, when [Arvind] Kejriwal challenged [Nahendra] Modi in Banaras, I thought I was at the best event, at the best place and the best time to apply my learning from the book,” said Swaroop.
“There is tremendous global interest in the 2014 Indian elections. This year’s battle for the Banaras seat will determine India’s destiny and who better than Indian cinema’s enfant...
The film focuses on the how the election is playing out in Banaras, a city that represents India’s social diversity and also has significant mythological relevance. Both present-day politics and Indian history are explored in the film. Scheduled to wrap on May 20, the film is scheduled for Indian release on August 15.
“I read Elias Canetti’s book, Crowds And Power, about 30 years ago and have been hooked on to it since then. So, when [Arvind] Kejriwal challenged [Nahendra] Modi in Banaras, I thought I was at the best event, at the best place and the best time to apply my learning from the book,” said Swaroop.
“There is tremendous global interest in the 2014 Indian elections. This year’s battle for the Banaras seat will determine India’s destiny and who better than Indian cinema’s enfant...
- 5/12/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Independent films swept the 61st National Film awards in all the major categories. Anand Gandhi’s Ship of Theseus was named the Best Feature Film.
The award for Best Director went to Hansal Mehta for Shahid. Shahid also won Rajkummar Rao the award for Best Actor which he shares with Suraj Venjaramoodu for Malayalam-film Perariyathavar.
The National Award for Best Actress went to Geetanjali Thapa for Liar’s Dice. The film also won the Best Cinematography award for Rajeev Ravi.
Fandry won the award for Best Debut Film of a Director. The award for Best Child Actor went to Somnath Avghade for Fandry which he shares with Sadhana for Tamil film Thanga Meengal.
The National award for Best Production Design went to Ashim Ahluwalia, Tabsheer Zutshi and Parichit Paralkar for Miss Lovely. The film also won the Special Jury award.
Best Children’s Film went to Batul Mukhtiyar’s Kaphal.
The award for Best Director went to Hansal Mehta for Shahid. Shahid also won Rajkummar Rao the award for Best Actor which he shares with Suraj Venjaramoodu for Malayalam-film Perariyathavar.
The National Award for Best Actress went to Geetanjali Thapa for Liar’s Dice. The film also won the Best Cinematography award for Rajeev Ravi.
Fandry won the award for Best Debut Film of a Director. The award for Best Child Actor went to Somnath Avghade for Fandry which he shares with Sadhana for Tamil film Thanga Meengal.
The National award for Best Production Design went to Ashim Ahluwalia, Tabsheer Zutshi and Parichit Paralkar for Miss Lovely. The film also won the Special Jury award.
Best Children’s Film went to Batul Mukhtiyar’s Kaphal.
- 4/16/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
A still from Sulemani Keeda
The 14th New York Indian Film Festival, to take place from 5-10 May, has unveiled its full line-up of films which comprises of a mix of 23 narrative features and 11 documentaries.
Anurag Kashyap’s Ugly is set to open the festival while Geethu Mohandas’ Liar’s Dice will be the centerpiece film. The festival will also present a retrospective of Gurinder Chaddha’s documentaries and will close with Aparna Sen’s Goynar Baksho.
Karan Bali’s 80 minute documentary, An American in Madras, based on American-born filmmaker Ellis R. Dungan’s travails in the Tamil film industry will get a screening alongside the recently released Gulabi Gang by Nishtha Jain.
Nagraj Manjule’s Fandry, Sumitra Bhave and Sunil Sukthankar’s Astu and Gajendra Ahire’s Postcard are the three Marathi features which will screen at the festival. Assamese feature As The River Flows (Ekhon Nodir Xipare), by Bidyut Kotoky,...
The 14th New York Indian Film Festival, to take place from 5-10 May, has unveiled its full line-up of films which comprises of a mix of 23 narrative features and 11 documentaries.
Anurag Kashyap’s Ugly is set to open the festival while Geethu Mohandas’ Liar’s Dice will be the centerpiece film. The festival will also present a retrospective of Gurinder Chaddha’s documentaries and will close with Aparna Sen’s Goynar Baksho.
Karan Bali’s 80 minute documentary, An American in Madras, based on American-born filmmaker Ellis R. Dungan’s travails in the Tamil film industry will get a screening alongside the recently released Gulabi Gang by Nishtha Jain.
Nagraj Manjule’s Fandry, Sumitra Bhave and Sunil Sukthankar’s Astu and Gajendra Ahire’s Postcard are the three Marathi features which will screen at the festival. Assamese feature As The River Flows (Ekhon Nodir Xipare), by Bidyut Kotoky,...
- 4/11/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The New York Indian Film Festival (Nyiff) announced the full lineup last night for their 14th year of celebrating independent, art house, alternate, and Diaspora films from/about/connected to the Indian subcontinent (May 5 – 10) at the SoHo Tiffin Junction. Dedicated to bringing these films to a New York audience, the festival will feature 34 screenings (23 narrative, 11 documentary) –all seen for the first time in New York City.
The festival highlights various cinemas of India’s different regions – Marathi, Bengali and two films from the Northeast. In addition the festival covers cinemas from the neighboring South Asian countries – four films by Pakistani filmmakers, two from Sri Lanka – a feature and a documentary, and one from Nepal.
The festival’s Marathi films include Postcard and multiple-award winning films Astu and Fandry. Directed by Nagraj Manjule, Fandry received rave reviews in India, winning the grand jury prize at the Mumbai Film Festival in October...
The festival highlights various cinemas of India’s different regions – Marathi, Bengali and two films from the Northeast. In addition the festival covers cinemas from the neighboring South Asian countries – four films by Pakistani filmmakers, two from Sri Lanka – a feature and a documentary, and one from Nepal.
The festival’s Marathi films include Postcard and multiple-award winning films Astu and Fandry. Directed by Nagraj Manjule, Fandry received rave reviews in India, winning the grand jury prize at the Mumbai Film Festival in October...
- 4/10/2014
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
This Friday, 17th January PVR Director’s Rare brings to you Kamal Swaroop’ s cult classic Om Dar-b-Dar – digitally restored and releasing for the first time.
Check out the trailer and the new awesome poster!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBXl7ATSlug
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- 1/16/2014
- by BollySpice Editors
- Bollyspice
Kamal Swaroop
D irector Kamal Swaroop, by answering a volley of questions by his associate Cuckoo, explains his film Om- Dar-Ba-Dar which has already been written about as an ‘entertaining’ and ‘eccentric’ film.
What does ‘Om- Dar-b-Dar’ signify?
I am door by door. Like a moon-frog in a well. Provincial as a TV set. Home on wheels. On a mass level, a train. Travel and rest at once- hold all.
What are the sounds on the titles?
Brass and band. Roadside rehearsal. In the end music.
And the image after?
Outside a travelling cinema. Women deciding to watch or not watch. In a hamlet, Jai Santoshi Maa.
What is before the titles?
Om and ice cream is the dessert, and petrol fumes. And an astrologer who said, “If you make ‘Om- Dar-b-Dar’, the image won’t come. No motor for you ever.” He had a big nose.
And inside the theatre?...
D irector Kamal Swaroop, by answering a volley of questions by his associate Cuckoo, explains his film Om- Dar-Ba-Dar which has already been written about as an ‘entertaining’ and ‘eccentric’ film.
What does ‘Om- Dar-b-Dar’ signify?
I am door by door. Like a moon-frog in a well. Provincial as a TV set. Home on wheels. On a mass level, a train. Travel and rest at once- hold all.
What are the sounds on the titles?
Brass and band. Roadside rehearsal. In the end music.
And the image after?
Outside a travelling cinema. Women deciding to watch or not watch. In a hamlet, Jai Santoshi Maa.
What is before the titles?
Om and ice cream is the dessert, and petrol fumes. And an astrologer who said, “If you make ‘Om- Dar-b-Dar’, the image won’t come. No motor for you ever.” He had a big nose.
And inside the theatre?...
- 1/12/2014
- by Kamal Swaroop
- DearCinema.com
A still from Gulabi Gang
Vikalp Bengaluru and Everest Talkies has announced Doc@Everest, an initiative to show world class documentaries on the last Thursday of every month at Everest Talkies, one of the last surviving single screen theatres of Bengaluru. A discussion with the filmmakers or associated crew members will take place post the screenings whenever possible.
A group of documentary filmmakers have come together to form Vikalp Bengaluru to bring the best of documentaries to the city. Their efforts are complimented by the famous single screen theatre in Frazer Town, Everest Talkies. Its young proprietor Yogi, continuing his father Purushotam Kshatriya’s dream of keeping the independent cinema theatre going, is keen to make Everest Talkies a cultural hub in the city.
Nishtha Jain’s Gulabi Gang will be the first film to be screened on January 23 at 7 pm, followed by Sourav Sarangi’s Char…The No Man...
Vikalp Bengaluru and Everest Talkies has announced Doc@Everest, an initiative to show world class documentaries on the last Thursday of every month at Everest Talkies, one of the last surviving single screen theatres of Bengaluru. A discussion with the filmmakers or associated crew members will take place post the screenings whenever possible.
A group of documentary filmmakers have come together to form Vikalp Bengaluru to bring the best of documentaries to the city. Their efforts are complimented by the famous single screen theatre in Frazer Town, Everest Talkies. Its young proprietor Yogi, continuing his father Purushotam Kshatriya’s dream of keeping the independent cinema theatre going, is keen to make Everest Talkies a cultural hub in the city.
Nishtha Jain’s Gulabi Gang will be the first film to be screened on January 23 at 7 pm, followed by Sourav Sarangi’s Char…The No Man...
- 1/11/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
W hile fans are ecstatic about cult film Om-Dar-Ba-Dar‘s release after twenty-five years, love is pouring in from all directions for the helmer Kamal Swaroop. His Facebook timeline has been flooded with posters of the film designed by a motley bunch of professional designers, students and cinephiles, all of whom are united by their admiration for his film.
DearCinema asked Kamal Swaroop to choose the posters he liked the most, and he zeroed in on eight of them.
So, here’s presenting Kamal Swaroop’s eight favourite posters of Om-Dar-Ba-Dar:
Poster by Sreejith Karanavar
Poster by Nitesh Mohanty
Poster by Kabir Chowdhry
Poster by Garima Sharma
Poster by Sourabh Thakur
Poster by Mehdi Jahan
Poster by Saagar Gavri
Poster by Jayakrishnan Subramanian...
DearCinema asked Kamal Swaroop to choose the posters he liked the most, and he zeroed in on eight of them.
So, here’s presenting Kamal Swaroop’s eight favourite posters of Om-Dar-Ba-Dar:
Poster by Sreejith Karanavar
Poster by Nitesh Mohanty
Poster by Kabir Chowdhry
Poster by Garima Sharma
Poster by Sourabh Thakur
Poster by Mehdi Jahan
Poster by Saagar Gavri
Poster by Jayakrishnan Subramanian...
- 1/10/2014
- by Editorial Team
- DearCinema.com
Kamal Swaroop’s Om-Dar-Ba-Dar, an avant-garde film made in 1988, is all set to hit the theatres in India on January 17, for the first time in 25 years under PVR Director’s Rare label.
The National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc) digitally restored the film after which it was screened out of competition at Rome Film Festival last year.
Kamal Swaroop said, “I never thought it would see the light of the day. These are good times when with such new distribution channels, a film like this can also get a release alongside big budget Bollywood films. There was a lot of mystery around the film and that will now be over.”
The film is releasing on approximately 8-10 screens of PVR across four cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore.
Shiladitya Bora of PVR Director’s Rare said, “We are releasing Om-Dar-Ba-Dar because it is a unique cult film that everybody has...
The National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc) digitally restored the film after which it was screened out of competition at Rome Film Festival last year.
Kamal Swaroop said, “I never thought it would see the light of the day. These are good times when with such new distribution channels, a film like this can also get a release alongside big budget Bollywood films. There was a lot of mystery around the film and that will now be over.”
The film is releasing on approximately 8-10 screens of PVR across four cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore.
Shiladitya Bora of PVR Director’s Rare said, “We are releasing Om-Dar-Ba-Dar because it is a unique cult film that everybody has...
- 1/8/2014
- by Amit Upadhyaya
- DearCinema.com
2013 proved to be yet another exciting year for Indian documentaries: they screened at numerous international film festivals and took home awards. In a small but significant step, a few of them even found their way into theatres in India. Though the domestic funding and distribution scenario still remains gloomy, there’s much to rejoice in the international acclaim that these documentaries have found in the last year.
We have compiled a list of the 10 most successful documentaries of 2013, taking into account factors such as film festivals, awards, popularity, reviews and distribution.
Special Mention for Shivendra Singh Dungarpur’s Celluloid Man that has recently been selected for its fiftieth festival, Saurav Sarangi’s Char..The No Man’s Island and Nishtha Jain’s Gulabi Gang for still being hot on the festival circuit and Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam’s When Hari Got Married for its theatrical release in August. All...
We have compiled a list of the 10 most successful documentaries of 2013, taking into account factors such as film festivals, awards, popularity, reviews and distribution.
Special Mention for Shivendra Singh Dungarpur’s Celluloid Man that has recently been selected for its fiftieth festival, Saurav Sarangi’s Char..The No Man’s Island and Nishtha Jain’s Gulabi Gang for still being hot on the festival circuit and Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam’s When Hari Got Married for its theatrical release in August. All...
- 1/3/2014
- by Editorial Team
- DearCinema.com
Mumbai, Dec 18: Veteran actress Waheeda Rehman will be honoured with an Excellence in Screen Acting Award at the 12th edition of Third Eye Asian Film Festival, which she will inaugurate Jan 3.
The festival will open with Vietnamese film "Koan of Spring", directed by Lou Ma Ho.
It will also have a special Marathi package of six films premiering in India, said a statement.
The highlight of the festival is Kamal Swaroop's "Rangbhoomi", a documentary on the life of Dadasaheb Phalke, called the father of Indian cinema.
The festival will close with the Chinese film "Aftershock".
Ians...
The festival will open with Vietnamese film "Koan of Spring", directed by Lou Ma Ho.
It will also have a special Marathi package of six films premiering in India, said a statement.
The highlight of the festival is Kamal Swaroop's "Rangbhoomi", a documentary on the life of Dadasaheb Phalke, called the father of Indian cinema.
The festival will close with the Chinese film "Aftershock".
Ians...
- 12/18/2013
- by Lohit Reddy
- RealBollywood.com
The 12th edition of the Third Eye Asian Film Festival will be inaugurated by veteran actress Waheeda Rehman on January 3, 2014 at the Ravindra Natya Mandir complex in Mumbai. The actress will also be honoured with the ‘Excellence in Screen Acting Award’ in recognition of her achievements in playing a variety of roles with grace and subtlety.
The festival will open with Vietnamese film Koan of Spring directed by Lou Ma Ho.
A special Marathi cinema package of six films will be shown at the festival, all of which will be Indian premiers.
Rangbhoomi, a documentary on the life of Dadasaheb Phalke by Kamal Swaroop, will be screened as the Centre Piece of the festival.
Chinese film Aftershock will be the closing film of the festival.
Delegate registrations will start from December 25 at the Ravindra Natya Mandir between 1 p.m. to 8.p.m. everyday.
The festival will open with Vietnamese film Koan of Spring directed by Lou Ma Ho.
A special Marathi cinema package of six films will be shown at the festival, all of which will be Indian premiers.
Rangbhoomi, a documentary on the life of Dadasaheb Phalke by Kamal Swaroop, will be screened as the Centre Piece of the festival.
Chinese film Aftershock will be the closing film of the festival.
Delegate registrations will start from December 25 at the Ravindra Natya Mandir between 1 p.m. to 8.p.m. everyday.
- 12/18/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Kamal Swaroop
A new project by Indian director Kamal Swaroop (Om-Dar-Ba-Dar) titled “Omniyam”, a mystical journey into contemporary hell, will be presented at the New Cinema Network (Ncn). Ncn is the International Project Workshop of the Rome Film Festival to be held from November 13-17, 2013.
“Ncn is proud to present the new project by the cult Indian director Kamal Swaroop, whose film Om-Dar-Ba-Dar is considered a milestone of the local Nouvelle Vague,” mentioned an official press release of the festival.
This year Ncn will present a roster of 24 projects selected from around the world.
Besides, Kamal Swaroop’s Rangbhoomi, produced by Films Division, is in competition in the CinemaXXI section of the festival. The film is based on the autobiographical play written by Dadasaheb Phalke, considered as the father of Indian cinema, titled Rangbhoomi.
Also read: Ashim Ahluwalia on Rome CinemaXXI Jury
Amit Dutta’s The Seventh Walk to close...
A new project by Indian director Kamal Swaroop (Om-Dar-Ba-Dar) titled “Omniyam”, a mystical journey into contemporary hell, will be presented at the New Cinema Network (Ncn). Ncn is the International Project Workshop of the Rome Film Festival to be held from November 13-17, 2013.
“Ncn is proud to present the new project by the cult Indian director Kamal Swaroop, whose film Om-Dar-Ba-Dar is considered a milestone of the local Nouvelle Vague,” mentioned an official press release of the festival.
This year Ncn will present a roster of 24 projects selected from around the world.
Besides, Kamal Swaroop’s Rangbhoomi, produced by Films Division, is in competition in the CinemaXXI section of the festival. The film is based on the autobiographical play written by Dadasaheb Phalke, considered as the father of Indian cinema, titled Rangbhoomi.
Also read: Ashim Ahluwalia on Rome CinemaXXI Jury
Amit Dutta’s The Seventh Walk to close...
- 11/6/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
A total of 24 co-production projects and sections devoted to China, digital and remakes help make up Rome’s industry events.
The 8th Rome Film Festival (Nov 8-17) has revealed details of its International Film Market ahead of its launch next week.
Rome’s key industry initiatives – the informal The Business Street (TBS) screenings market and the New Cinema Network (Ncn) co-production market – will run from Nov 13-17.
Organisers are expecting distributors and producers from 45 countries and 700 accredited visitors as well as 24 selected projects, a China Day and a new initiative dedicated to remakes as well as meetings, panel discussions and conferences.
Single venue; digital focus
For its eighth edition, TBS will take place once again in Via Veneto, the street famously featured in Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita.
But for the first time both TBS and Ncn will be held in a single venue, the Hotel Bernini Bristol.
The Terrace will host the buyers and sellers...
The 8th Rome Film Festival (Nov 8-17) has revealed details of its International Film Market ahead of its launch next week.
Rome’s key industry initiatives – the informal The Business Street (TBS) screenings market and the New Cinema Network (Ncn) co-production market – will run from Nov 13-17.
Organisers are expecting distributors and producers from 45 countries and 700 accredited visitors as well as 24 selected projects, a China Day and a new initiative dedicated to remakes as well as meetings, panel discussions and conferences.
Single venue; digital focus
For its eighth edition, TBS will take place once again in Via Veneto, the street famously featured in Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita.
But for the first time both TBS and Ncn will be held in a single venue, the Hotel Bernini Bristol.
The Terrace will host the buyers and sellers...
- 11/4/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The Nfdc Film Bazaar has announced “Market Recommendations” for 2013. Market Recommendations showcase select films looking for gap finance, distribution partners and world sales.
Film Bazaar 2013 will be held from 20 – 24 Nov, at Marriott Resort, Goa, alongside Iffi (International Film Festival of India – 20 – 30 Nov). Read Work-in-Progress Lab projects 2013
Below are the “Film Bazaar Recommends” films for this year:
Attihannu Mattu Kanaja
(Fig Fruit and The Wasps)
Director – M S PrakashBabu
Chaurya
(Theft)
Director – Sameer Patil
Chikka Putta
(Small Things, Big Things)
Director – Saumyananda Sahi
Coffee Bloom
Director – Manu Warrier
It’s not about the Cycle
Director – Achyutanand Dwivedi
Jai Ho – A Film On A.R. Rahman
Director – Umesh Aggarwal
Jayjaykar
(Triumph of Life)
Director – Shantanu Ganesh Rode
Kutchi Vahan Pani Wala
(From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf)
Director – Shaina Anand, Ashok Sukumaran
Lajwanti
(The Honor Keeper)
Director – Pushpender Singh
M Cream
Director – Agneya Singh
Margarita, With A Straw
Director – Shonali Bose
Mrs. Scooter...
Film Bazaar 2013 will be held from 20 – 24 Nov, at Marriott Resort, Goa, alongside Iffi (International Film Festival of India – 20 – 30 Nov). Read Work-in-Progress Lab projects 2013
Below are the “Film Bazaar Recommends” films for this year:
Attihannu Mattu Kanaja
(Fig Fruit and The Wasps)
Director – M S PrakashBabu
Chaurya
(Theft)
Director – Sameer Patil
Chikka Putta
(Small Things, Big Things)
Director – Saumyananda Sahi
Coffee Bloom
Director – Manu Warrier
It’s not about the Cycle
Director – Achyutanand Dwivedi
Jai Ho – A Film On A.R. Rahman
Director – Umesh Aggarwal
Jayjaykar
(Triumph of Life)
Director – Shantanu Ganesh Rode
Kutchi Vahan Pani Wala
(From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf)
Director – Shaina Anand, Ashok Sukumaran
Lajwanti
(The Honor Keeper)
Director – Pushpender Singh
M Cream
Director – Agneya Singh
Margarita, With A Straw
Director – Shonali Bose
Mrs. Scooter...
- 11/4/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The Archival Research Centre ( Arc) at Films Division, Mumbai will be inaugurated at 4 pm on 26th October 2013, Saturday by filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan and film archivist P.K.Nair.
Since its inception in 1948, Films Division has maintained a visual record of India’s socio-political and cultural happenings. This visual archive will now be housed at Arc at Films Division, Mumbai, where it will be accessible to all. Newsreels, documentaries and other productions of Films Division will be available for students, artists, academics and film-makers.
I am 100 Years Young, a 24-minute film by Yashpal Chaudhary that provides a flashback on the landmark Indian films from the beginning till today will be screened.
Portrait of a Film Director by K.K. Chandran, a documentary about Adoor Gopalakrishnan will also be screened on this occasion.
Films Division will also screen Kamal Swaroop’s Rangbhoomi, a documentary that follows Swaroop as he attempts to trace the...
Since its inception in 1948, Films Division has maintained a visual record of India’s socio-political and cultural happenings. This visual archive will now be housed at Arc at Films Division, Mumbai, where it will be accessible to all. Newsreels, documentaries and other productions of Films Division will be available for students, artists, academics and film-makers.
I am 100 Years Young, a 24-minute film by Yashpal Chaudhary that provides a flashback on the landmark Indian films from the beginning till today will be screened.
Portrait of a Film Director by K.K. Chandran, a documentary about Adoor Gopalakrishnan will also be screened on this occasion.
Films Division will also screen Kamal Swaroop’s Rangbhoomi, a documentary that follows Swaroop as he attempts to trace the...
- 10/26/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
New Delhi, Oct 24: The digitally restored version of 1988 film "Om-Dar-Ba-Dar", directed by Kamal Swaroop, will be screened at the Rome Film Festival and commemorate 100 years of Indian cinema.
The 10-day film festival will commence Nov 8. The post modernist avant garde film will be showcased as a part of the out-of-competition section of Cinema Xxi.
"I am very happy to have 'Om-Dar-Ba-Dar' make a comeback, now in it's restored version, reaching out to newer audiences! It's an honour that the film will be a part of the well attended Rome Film Festival," Swaroop said in a statement.
The film, starring Anita Kanwar, Aditya Lakhia and Gopi Desai, has been produced by National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc).
Nfdc's.
The 10-day film festival will commence Nov 8. The post modernist avant garde film will be showcased as a part of the out-of-competition section of Cinema Xxi.
"I am very happy to have 'Om-Dar-Ba-Dar' make a comeback, now in it's restored version, reaching out to newer audiences! It's an honour that the film will be a part of the well attended Rome Film Festival," Swaroop said in a statement.
The film, starring Anita Kanwar, Aditya Lakhia and Gopi Desai, has been produced by National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc).
Nfdc's.
- 10/24/2013
- by Smith Cox
- RealBollywood.com
Ashim Ahluwalia
Ashim Ahluwalia will sit on the Jury of the CinemaXXI section of the Rome Film Festival to be held from November 8 to 17, 2013.
The Jury, chaired by American director and artist Larry Clark, is composed of Ashim Ahluwalia (India), Yuri Ancarani (Italy), Laila Pakalnina (Latvia) and Michael Wahrmann (Uruguay).
On the occasion of the 100 Years of Indian Cinema, a restored version of Kamal Swaroop’s 1988 cult classic Om Dar Ba Dar will be screened out of competition in CinemaXXI.
Two Indian films are in competition in the CinemaXXI section: Prantik Basu’s Makara and Kamal Swaroop’s Rangbhoomi.
The Seventh Walk (Saatvin Sair) by Amit Dutta will be the closing film of CinemaXXI.
CinemaXXI is the Rome Film Festival competitive section devoted to new trends in world cinema and focuses on works that reflect the continuous reinvention of cinema in the contemporary audiovisual landscape. CinemaXXI hosts feature-length, medium-length, and short films.
Ashim Ahluwalia will sit on the Jury of the CinemaXXI section of the Rome Film Festival to be held from November 8 to 17, 2013.
The Jury, chaired by American director and artist Larry Clark, is composed of Ashim Ahluwalia (India), Yuri Ancarani (Italy), Laila Pakalnina (Latvia) and Michael Wahrmann (Uruguay).
On the occasion of the 100 Years of Indian Cinema, a restored version of Kamal Swaroop’s 1988 cult classic Om Dar Ba Dar will be screened out of competition in CinemaXXI.
Two Indian films are in competition in the CinemaXXI section: Prantik Basu’s Makara and Kamal Swaroop’s Rangbhoomi.
The Seventh Walk (Saatvin Sair) by Amit Dutta will be the closing film of CinemaXXI.
CinemaXXI is the Rome Film Festival competitive section devoted to new trends in world cinema and focuses on works that reflect the continuous reinvention of cinema in the contemporary audiovisual landscape. CinemaXXI hosts feature-length, medium-length, and short films.
- 10/24/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Czech comedy The Don Juans directed by Jiri Menzel will open the 44th International Film Festival of India (Iffi), Goa. The veteran director best-known for films like Closely Watched Trains and My Sweet Little Village, will also be bestowed the Lifetime Achievement award of the festival.
Academy award winning Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon (Thelma & Louise, Dead Man Walking, The Rocky Horror Picture Show) is expected to open the festival along with Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi.
The focus of the festival will be on the north-eastern states of India wherein their films and culture will be promoted. The festival will screen films from 70 countries this year.
Malayalam film Kanyaka Talkies by K. R. Manoj will open the feature film category while Kamal Swaroop’s Rangbhoomi will open the non-feature category of Indian Panorama at the festival. Read full Indian Panorama lineup here.
The 44th International Film Festival of India (Iffi) will...
Academy award winning Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon (Thelma & Louise, Dead Man Walking, The Rocky Horror Picture Show) is expected to open the festival along with Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi.
The focus of the festival will be on the north-eastern states of India wherein their films and culture will be promoted. The festival will screen films from 70 countries this year.
Malayalam film Kanyaka Talkies by K. R. Manoj will open the feature film category while Kamal Swaroop’s Rangbhoomi will open the non-feature category of Indian Panorama at the festival. Read full Indian Panorama lineup here.
The 44th International Film Festival of India (Iffi) will...
- 10/23/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Malayalam film Kanyaka Talkies by K. R. Manoj will open the feature film category while Kamal Swaroop’s Rangbhoomi will open the non-feature category of Indian Panorama at the International Film Festival of India (Iffi) 2013.
Indian Panorama will screen 26 Feature films and 16 Non-Feature films.
The jury for Feature films, headed by filmmaker and editor B. Lenin, selected 25 films out of a total of 210 eligible entries. Paan Singh Tomar by Tigmanshu Dhulia which won the Best Feature Film award at the 60th National Film Awards has been selected by virtue of direct entry.
The Non-Feature films Jury, chaired by director Raja Sen, picked 15 films out of 130 eligible entries. Kashmiri film Shepherds of Paradise directed by Raja Shabir Khan which won Best Non – Feature Film award at the 60th National Film Awards has also been selected by virtue of direct entry.
Complete list:
101 Chodyangal by Sidhartha Siva
Ajana Batas by Anjan Das...
Indian Panorama will screen 26 Feature films and 16 Non-Feature films.
The jury for Feature films, headed by filmmaker and editor B. Lenin, selected 25 films out of a total of 210 eligible entries. Paan Singh Tomar by Tigmanshu Dhulia which won the Best Feature Film award at the 60th National Film Awards has been selected by virtue of direct entry.
The Non-Feature films Jury, chaired by director Raja Sen, picked 15 films out of 130 eligible entries. Kashmiri film Shepherds of Paradise directed by Raja Shabir Khan which won Best Non – Feature Film award at the 60th National Film Awards has also been selected by virtue of direct entry.
Complete list:
101 Chodyangal by Sidhartha Siva
Ajana Batas by Anjan Das...
- 10/15/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Rangbhoomi by Kamal Swaroop and The Seventh Walk (Saatvin Sair) by Amit Dutta have been selected in the CinemaXXI section of the Rome Film Festival 2013. The festival will take place from November 8 to 17, 2013.
The CinemaXXI section, dedicated to new trends in world cinema, will feature 16 Feature-length films, 6 Medium-length films and 13 Short films. The complete line-up of CinemaXXI will be announced on October 23, 2013. A preview of the section was announced on October 14.
Kamal Swaroop’s Rangbhoomi, produced by Films Division, is in competition in the CinemaXXI section of the festival. The film is based on the autobiographical play written by Dadasaheb Phalke, considered as the father of Indian cinema, titled Rangbhoomi.
Amit Dutta’s The Seventh Walk will play as the closing film of CinemaXXI Section, out of competition.
An International Jury, chaired by American director and artist Larry Clark, will give the following awards: – CinemaXXI Award (reserved for feature-length...
The CinemaXXI section, dedicated to new trends in world cinema, will feature 16 Feature-length films, 6 Medium-length films and 13 Short films. The complete line-up of CinemaXXI will be announced on October 23, 2013. A preview of the section was announced on October 14.
Kamal Swaroop’s Rangbhoomi, produced by Films Division, is in competition in the CinemaXXI section of the festival. The film is based on the autobiographical play written by Dadasaheb Phalke, considered as the father of Indian cinema, titled Rangbhoomi.
Amit Dutta’s The Seventh Walk will play as the closing film of CinemaXXI Section, out of competition.
An International Jury, chaired by American director and artist Larry Clark, will give the following awards: – CinemaXXI Award (reserved for feature-length...
- 10/15/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
A Retrospective of Experimental Indian cinema and video titled “Hundred Years of Experimentation (1913- 2013)” will be held at Films Division from June 28-30, 2013. Curators Ashish Avikunthak and Pankaj Rishi Kumar share with us the thought behind putting together the Retrospective:
Curatorial Concept
A still from “Raja Harishchandra”
T his retrospective is a celebration of the spirit of experimentation in Indian cinema; from the moment of its mythic birth in 1913, with Phalke’s Raja Harishchandra, to the innovative and challenging moving images produced and exhibited today. The films brought together chart the transformation of experimentation, from early celluloid spectacle to contemporary digital adroitness. The curatorial impetus of this retrospective is marked by an emphasis on tracing the chronology of experimentation through the history of Indian cinema. It halts at pit stops of radical moments of experimentation and underscores it.
The idea of ‘experimentation’ rather than the experimental or avant-garde drives the...
Curatorial Concept
A still from “Raja Harishchandra”
T his retrospective is a celebration of the spirit of experimentation in Indian cinema; from the moment of its mythic birth in 1913, with Phalke’s Raja Harishchandra, to the innovative and challenging moving images produced and exhibited today. The films brought together chart the transformation of experimentation, from early celluloid spectacle to contemporary digital adroitness. The curatorial impetus of this retrospective is marked by an emphasis on tracing the chronology of experimentation through the history of Indian cinema. It halts at pit stops of radical moments of experimentation and underscores it.
The idea of ‘experimentation’ rather than the experimental or avant-garde drives the...
- 6/26/2013
- by Ashish Avikunthak and Pankaj Rishi Kumar
- DearCinema.com
A still from Phalke’s “Kaliya Mardan”
Films Division is hosting a Retrospective of Experimental Indian cinema and video titled “Hundred Years of Experimentation (1913- 2013)” from June 28-30, 2013.
The Retrospective has been curated by Ashish Avikunthak and Pankaj Rishi Kumar.
Screening Schedule
Venue:
Rr Theatre, 10th floor, Films Division
24, Pedder Road, Mumbai – 400026
Day One
28 June, 2013, Friday
28 June, 2013, Friday: 10.00-12.30 pm
Session 1: Experiments with Gods
A collection of early films made by D.B. Phalke between 1913 and 1935.
1. Raja Harishchandra (20 mins, 35mm, 1913)
2. Lanka Dahan (9 mins, 35mm, 1917)
3. Shree Krishna Janma (6 mins, 35mm, 1918)
4. Kaliya Mardan (50 mins, 35mm, 1919)
28 June, 2013, Friday: 1.15- 3.45 pm
Session 2: Experiment in the State
The earliest robust experimentation in India begins under the imaginative tutelage of Jean Bhownagary while he headed the Films Division in 1965.
1. Explorer – Pramod Pati (7 mins, 35mm, 1968)
2. Claxplosion – Pramod Pati (2 mins, 35mm, 1968)
3. Trip – Pramod Pati (4 mins, 35mm, 1970)
4. Koodal – Tyeb Mehta (16 mins, 35mm, 1970)
5. Abid – Pramod Pati (5 mins, 35mm,...
Films Division is hosting a Retrospective of Experimental Indian cinema and video titled “Hundred Years of Experimentation (1913- 2013)” from June 28-30, 2013.
The Retrospective has been curated by Ashish Avikunthak and Pankaj Rishi Kumar.
Screening Schedule
Venue:
Rr Theatre, 10th floor, Films Division
24, Pedder Road, Mumbai – 400026
Day One
28 June, 2013, Friday
28 June, 2013, Friday: 10.00-12.30 pm
Session 1: Experiments with Gods
A collection of early films made by D.B. Phalke between 1913 and 1935.
1. Raja Harishchandra (20 mins, 35mm, 1913)
2. Lanka Dahan (9 mins, 35mm, 1917)
3. Shree Krishna Janma (6 mins, 35mm, 1918)
4. Kaliya Mardan (50 mins, 35mm, 1919)
28 June, 2013, Friday: 1.15- 3.45 pm
Session 2: Experiment in the State
The earliest robust experimentation in India begins under the imaginative tutelage of Jean Bhownagary while he headed the Films Division in 1965.
1. Explorer – Pramod Pati (7 mins, 35mm, 1968)
2. Claxplosion – Pramod Pati (2 mins, 35mm, 1968)
3. Trip – Pramod Pati (4 mins, 35mm, 1970)
4. Koodal – Tyeb Mehta (16 mins, 35mm, 1970)
5. Abid – Pramod Pati (5 mins, 35mm,...
- 6/24/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Kamal Swaroop’s illustrated book on Dadasaheb Phalke is a labour of love. It started as a short biography but gradually acquired a life of its own. Swaroop’s quest to find out everything about Phalke’s life drove him crazy and he often found himself wandering around with a pair of scissors and glue to cut and paste material on Phalke in his scrapbook. The identification with his idol became so intense that at one point he started thinking of himself as Phalke. In a conversation with Bikas Mishra, Swaroop talks about his eccentric way of writing scripts, Phalke, Om Dar Badar and the lost hope of cinema in digital era.
How did the journey begin?
I was thinking about something to do with Phalke. After reading up about him I discovered that his father was an astronomer, a ritual storyteller and a Sanskrit scholar. Phalke studied at the J.
How did the journey begin?
I was thinking about something to do with Phalke. After reading up about him I discovered that his father was an astronomer, a ritual storyteller and a Sanskrit scholar. Phalke studied at the J.
- 5/3/2013
- by Bikas Mishra
- DearCinema.com
The National Film Development Corporation produced the maverick director’s path-breaking first feature film Om Dar Badar. The pure Indian masterpiece of existential cinema by Kamal Swaroop won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Film in 1989 and is regarded as a cult classic by the students of cinema. The fantastic absurdist cinematic collage has inspired many a filmmaker since then. Some believe that a song in ‘Om Dar BA Dar’ inspired the brass band song ‘Emotional Aatyachar’ in Anurag Kashyap’s Dev D Read More...
- 5/2/2013
- Bollywood Trade
The National Film Development Corporation produced the maverick director's path-breaking first feature film Om Dar Badar. The pure Indian masterpiece of existential cinema by Kamal Swaroop won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Film in 1989 and is regarded as a cult classic by the students of cinema. The fantastic absurdist cinematic collage has inspired many a filmmaker since then. Some believe that a song in 'Om Dar BA Dar' inspired the brass band song 'Emotional Aatyachar'...
- 5/2/2013
- GlamSham
Kamal Swaroop’s introduction to “Tracing Phalke”, an illustrated book on the father of Indian cinema Dadasaheb Phalke
To win 5 Free copies of “Tracing Phalke” click here
It was the late 1980’s. I had made a jail break of a feature film. Quite like jabbing away at hard earth with a metal spoon, feeling for dents, I had jabbed away at conversations and language, played with its sounds, pushed at the rocks of a known landscape with bare fingers and nails.
We had attached ourselves to the eye of the camera and burned our minds making bricolage on the edit table, till first sporadic laughter leaked out and then the remembered city exploded under what seemed to have become my joyous landmine: I stood alone where the firecrackers subsided.
As the price of this heresy, I became Om, without the protection of his adolescence.
I needed a large rest.
A psychoanalyst friend suggested education,...
To win 5 Free copies of “Tracing Phalke” click here
It was the late 1980’s. I had made a jail break of a feature film. Quite like jabbing away at hard earth with a metal spoon, feeling for dents, I had jabbed away at conversations and language, played with its sounds, pushed at the rocks of a known landscape with bare fingers and nails.
We had attached ourselves to the eye of the camera and burned our minds making bricolage on the edit table, till first sporadic laughter leaked out and then the remembered city exploded under what seemed to have become my joyous landmine: I stood alone where the firecrackers subsided.
As the price of this heresy, I became Om, without the protection of his adolescence.
I needed a large rest.
A psychoanalyst friend suggested education,...
- 5/1/2013
- by Kamal Swaroop
- DearCinema.com
A limited edition copy of Kamal Swaroop’s book on Dadasaheb Phalke “Tracing Phalke” could be yours by answering a simple question. DearCinema.com in association with the National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc) is running a contest. Five winners of the contest will receive copies of the illustrated book on the father of Indian cinema.
The special edition of the book is co-sponsored by the Nfdc.
Swaroop’s book “Tracing Phalke” is an eponymous compilation tracing Dadasaheb Phalke’s life span with rare details right through his schooling, places he visited, people he met and experiences that lent value to his innate genius and imagination that eventually lead to the birth of Indian Cinema.
Compiled by filmmaker Kamal Swaroop, the book is put together as a text-based visual treat that lends a magnified view into Dadasaheb’s life.
To participate, answer a simple question:-
[contact-form]...
The special edition of the book is co-sponsored by the Nfdc.
Swaroop’s book “Tracing Phalke” is an eponymous compilation tracing Dadasaheb Phalke’s life span with rare details right through his schooling, places he visited, people he met and experiences that lent value to his innate genius and imagination that eventually lead to the birth of Indian Cinema.
Compiled by filmmaker Kamal Swaroop, the book is put together as a text-based visual treat that lends a magnified view into Dadasaheb’s life.
To participate, answer a simple question:-
[contact-form]...
- 4/30/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
September is here again, and it's time to delve into the cinematic bounty of the Wavelengths section of the Toronto International Film Festival, that rambunctious and idiosyncratic corner of the Reitman Machine largely cordoned off from commercial concerns and set aside for lovely and sometimes difficult film art. Despite the ever-changing profile of Tiff, stalwart programmer Andréa Picard has [cue needle-scratching-record sound] What? Yes, last year at this time, the avant-garde community thought we were seeing Ms. Picard leaving this position behind. Fortunately for us all, Tiff won her back.
And this is where things get interesting. Starting with this 2012 edition of the festival, the Wavelengths section is a much more broadly based, festival-wide category. In essence, it now subsumes the old Visions designation, which was Tiff’s home for formally challenging, feature-length arthouse fare. This merger, which may seem like a bit of a shotgun wedding to some, does in fact make sense.
And this is where things get interesting. Starting with this 2012 edition of the festival, the Wavelengths section is a much more broadly based, festival-wide category. In essence, it now subsumes the old Visions designation, which was Tiff’s home for formally challenging, feature-length arthouse fare. This merger, which may seem like a bit of a shotgun wedding to some, does in fact make sense.
- 9/11/2012
- MUBI
Films that gained a ‘cult following’ over the years,despite being unnoticed on release
Silsila
Yash Chopra is looked upon as the grandfather of candyfloss romance, an antithesis to the more ‘artistic’ genre of films. One wonders why. Here’s what his early films were about:
Unwed mothers and illegitimate children – Dhool ka Phool (1959)
Partition and the rise of Hindu fundamentalism – Dharmputra (1961)
Taut, song less thriller about a fugitive, a lone woman and a corpse – Ittefaq (1969)
A man who lives with his wife and the ‘other woman’, Hindi Cinema’s first Ménage à trois- Daag (1973)
In 1981, we had another of his equally risqué works, Silsila. Expectedly, sparks flew when the Screen God of the time shared screen space with the reigning diva. Rekha and Amitabh were quite an item on screen and allegedly, off screen too. The grapevine has it that Chopra was inspired to make Silsila on this relationship...
Silsila
Yash Chopra is looked upon as the grandfather of candyfloss romance, an antithesis to the more ‘artistic’ genre of films. One wonders why. Here’s what his early films were about:
Unwed mothers and illegitimate children – Dhool ka Phool (1959)
Partition and the rise of Hindu fundamentalism – Dharmputra (1961)
Taut, song less thriller about a fugitive, a lone woman and a corpse – Ittefaq (1969)
A man who lives with his wife and the ‘other woman’, Hindi Cinema’s first Ménage à trois- Daag (1973)
In 1981, we had another of his equally risqué works, Silsila. Expectedly, sparks flew when the Screen God of the time shared screen space with the reigning diva. Rekha and Amitabh were quite an item on screen and allegedly, off screen too. The grapevine has it that Chopra was inspired to make Silsila on this relationship...
- 9/5/2012
- by Amborish Roychoudhury
- DearCinema.com
Issue 8 of IndianAuteur, which can also be read as a full-screen E-magazine, features an interview with Kamal Swaroop, "the director of the greatest Indian film to have never been seen, Om Dar Ba Dar," as well as Adrian Martin on Miguel Gomes's second feature, Our Beloved Month of August, Ignaity Vishnevetsky on James Lee, "probably Malaysia's greatest filmmaker," Srikanth Srinivasan on the Berlin School, Jit Phokeaw's introduction to 20 young independent Thai directors and more.
- 1/24/2010
- MUBI
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