SAIFF Day 5, Sunday
By the time day 5 rolled around, I was quite tired. So, I only managed to go to see just one film, but what a brilliant film!
MYSTIC INDIA by Keith Melton is a 45-minute IMAX film. It was the most visually stunning film of the festival. Using the story of Neelkanth, who walked the length and breadth of India for seven years (from 1792 to 1799), the film reveals India’s amazing geographic diversity.
This quote for the film’s website states it best.
Mystic India takes you through icy peaks to the cool blue Lake Mansarovar, into the wild jungles of Sunderbans and the rainforests of Assam, through barren deserts and to the silent shores of South India. Explore and learn from the majesty and mysticism of India’s art and architecture, music and dance, faces and festivals, customs and costumes which are brought to life on the giant scree
Also, at no point in the film did they make it religious. It stuck to the realm of spirituality and this post (and discussion) on Sepia Mutiny confirms that.
If you have a chance to watch this film, do so – it is quite a moving experience to see the amazing diversity of India.
As an aside, Day 5 was also SAIFF’s Children’s day and they did a really good job. The theater was packed with kids. Excellent marketing idea to dedicate a day for kids.
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
@Shripriya:
Enjoyed your coverage of the festival.
Unrelated question: How has your enjoyment of movies (as a whole) changed after knowing the technicalities?
Thanks, randramble.
My enjoyment hasn’t changed. In fact, I am much more appreciative of how much effort goes into it. However, on occasion, I catch myself saying “that is a really cool shot” and getting away from the plot, but other than that, it’s enhanced the enjoyment. I will say that if I want to deconstruct a movie, I watch it twice — once to just go through it and then again to analyse the shots.