Archive for the ‘News & Events’

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    Bangalore Screenwriting Workshop
    It all started when I couldn’t attend a workshop due to personal reasons. A wonderful experience I missed, which could have added a lot to my learning curve. And then I learnt that I wasn’t the only one, there were many more like me who couldn’t attend the workshop due to various reasons like other commitments or not getting selected/listed etc. Then the idea of...
    by Arvind kamath at November 5th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
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    Oye Ma$#… it’s a Reality Show baby!
    KRK (right) about to climb on Raju Srivastava (left) with Ismail Darbar in center I guess you, dear readers of PFC, may have seen or heard of this by now. Or Maybe not. I guess I’m the lone ranger following Reality shows (read: trash and loving it) these days. So we have Bigg Boss Season Three. Amitabh Bachchan’s hosting it. It perked my interest (ya ya ya,...
    by oz at October 21st, 2009 at 01:10 pm
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    Schrader’s ‘Xtrme City’ is Mumbai
    Paul Schrader – of Taxi Driver and Raging Bull screenplay fame – tying up with Mushtaq Shiekh – of Om Shanti Om, Billu and under-production Ra.1 screenplay fame – could be as interesting as mashing up chalk and cheese. But then, it’s happening for real. And soon. The two, along with Anubhav Sinha – of Cash, Dus, Ra.1 fame – will...
    by Runumi G at October 10th, 2009 at 02:10 am
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    Hindustan Times – Stop taking readers for granted!
    I refer to an interview of filmmaker Bhavna Talwar published in Hindustan Times about her National Award win for her debut film “Dharm”. First of all, let us congratulate Ms. Talwar for her win. Now on to the interview, which can be read at: http://epaper.hindustantimes.com/ArticleImage.aspx?article=09_09_2009_539_004&mode=undefined (You need to register...
    by Vijay at September 8th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
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    55th National Film Awards (2007) announced
    Very briefly main awards: Best Feature: Kanchivaram by Priyadarshan Best Director: Adoor Gopalakrishnan for Naalu Pennungal Best First Film of a Director (Indira Gandhi Award): Frozen by Shivajee Chandrabhushan Best Actor: Prakash Raj (Kanchivaram) Best Actress: Umashree (Gulabi Talkies) Best Non-Feature Film: Hope Dies Last in War (dir Supriyo Sen) Best Popular Film Providing...
    by Runumi G at September 7th, 2009 at 05:09 am
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    A part of me was born three years ago
    I grew up watching random things on sidewalks, tour abandoned buildings and places with no meaning, cried my insides when I knew I failed the history test and the same night read world famous mysteries at the end of a torch beam. I rode my bicycle at night to see a thousand fireflies mirroring on a canal, listening to silence and also mildly being aware of the ghost stories...
    by Kieslowski's Minion at September 4th, 2009 at 08:09 pm
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    PFC waalon! Get Serious / Get Lost!
    Mil baant ke khaao CineMaa Kasam, I will never be able to forget ‘yesterday’ for the rest of my life. Thanks to PFC, some of us authors got to meet Anurag Kashyap. It took me a while to let that feeling sink in, but it did, after a while, after some beer-therapy. So this post is not about how much fun we had or how much you missed being there. NO. So this meet...
    by Magik at August 17th, 2009 at 03:08 am
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    An open letter from Mr. Ram Gopal Varma?
    Received this letter in our inbox. I’m not sure if it is really RGV or someone impersonating him or perhaps this is a marketing ploy. It could be anything. I haven’t seen Agyaat yet, so have no idea why he is so mad about, assuming this email is sent by him and not an impersonator. It could be one of his fans though, chewing through reviewers like meat through...
    by oz at August 8th, 2009 at 01:08 pm
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    Reality & Parliament ?
    This is an open letter for our respected Member of Parliament Respected MP Sir ,         Have you really run out of issues . That too at a time when problems like floods , power & water shortage , kidnappings , terrorism , murders & Global recession has plagued the country . There are umpteen problems that the country is facing & all you have to discuss...
    by proneet dutta at August 4th, 2009 at 12:08 am
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    Seminar On Careers in Film and Television – Anurag Kashyap and Sankalp Meshram
    A friend who knew of my admiration (read fanaticism) for Anurag Kashyap messaged me that a talk on Careers in Film and Television is scheduled on Saturday (18 July) at Mumbai University, Kalina. Digital Academy has tied up with good old Mumbai University to provide a P.G. Diploma in Film & Television and hence the event (Folks interested can go to http://www.dafilmschool.com/mumbaiuniversity.html...
    by akas90 at July 22nd, 2009 at 08:07 pm
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    Gabhricha Paus Releases Today
    After getting some real good reception from the festival circuit Gabhricha Paus (The Damned Rain) releases today in Pune, India. This is the second movie from the Valu team. And surprise surprise, it is the First Film from India to get distribution funding from the Hubert Bals Fund of the Rotterdam Film Festival, where it was screened in competition earlier this year. For...
    by oz at July 16th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
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    Madan Mohan The Unheard: Give Me More
    Remember the music of Woh Kaun Thi? Or of Haqeeqat? Or of Mera Saaya? Or of Aashiana, Adalat, Anpadh, Bhai Bhai, Manmauji, Sanjog, Dekh Kabira Roya, Sharabi, Ghazal, Jahanara, Heer Ranjha, Hanste Zakhm, Chirag, Dastak, Mausam And Laila Majnu? The man behind all this, the legendary Madan Mohan, passed away 34 years ago, on July 14, 1975. And this June 25 will be his 85th...
    by Runumi G at June 20th, 2009 at 03:06 am
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    Sound, Camera, Action, Action! The making of Koga
    Himanshu Bhatnagar won the PFCOne 2008 award sponsored by Hansal Mehta, wherein Hansal would sponsor to remake the winner’s one minute movie using professional equipments and settings and market it worldwide. Well, the movie is complete and Hansal is busy distributing it to various theaters and multiplex groups in India. We present here for the first time the remade...
    by PFCdesktop at May 18th, 2009 at 06:05 pm
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    Frozen: The Cold Colours of Life
    Sneaking by that bylane, those deep dark eyes having so much to convey, the starkling innocence awaiting corruption, and that naïve beauty, it all was innocently real, it had nothing false about it, it was innocence packed in a plain package of innocence. The name of the movie instantly conjured up images of either awe, shock, magic and ironically pain, bondage and obviously...
    by Jehan Handa at May 12th, 2009 at 06:05 am
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    Fire Still Burns
    iView Author: Manu Warrier (Mumbai, India) Email: warrierm [at] gmail [dot] com Fire Still Burns Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. ~Honoré de Balzac Every waking hour and day of my vacation immediately after my board exams was spent listening to a collection of some Tamil songs that seemed to be the rage...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at May 8th, 2009 at 10:05 am
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    Chronicles of World Cinema I: The Man Without A Past
    (Been home for a full five days now….. time to kick-start the blog again) When we finally got rid of the friendly neighbourhood cable guy and his spider-web of wires, hooks and assorted paraphernelia; and switched to a DTH service, the best thing which came with it was the World Movies channel. Now, this was a channel dedicated to showing quality cinema from around...
    by Aditya Mani Jha at May 5th, 2009 at 07:05 pm
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    ‘Lahore’ wins jury award at Houston WorldFest
    Lahore, debutant director Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan’s story of two sportsmen brothers in the backdrop of India-Pakistan tensions has won the Jury Award for the Best Feature Film at the recent 42nd WorldFest International Film Festival at Houston in the United States. The film had its world premiere at the festival which was attended by Sanjeev Arora, Consul General...
    by Runumi G at May 3rd, 2009 at 12:05 pm
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    Indian Films at SF Intl Film Festival
    Here we go again, another film festival. My second yr at the annual SF film festival has taken off to a slow start with just a couple of films this week thanks to all my savings and energy vaporizing at IFFLA ;). As always, I am told, this ground breaking festival has brought some really amazing films which have hardly been shown around. I have only heard of a few among...
    by ravptor at May 1st, 2009 at 04:05 pm
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    The Year Of The Graphic Novel
    (It’s been a weird kind of semester. Starting off at full steam, it seemed like it’ll all be over and done with in two shakes of a dog’s tail… but it’s ended up dragging on and on. Mercifully, it’ll be over soon… my exams are starting in a week, and this will be the last entry in this blog for 15 days.) Every year, around this...
    by Aditya Mani Jha at April 13th, 2009 at 04:04 am
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    Salman Khan: The Real Superstar
    iView Author: SATYENDRA JHA (Pune, India) Email:satyendrajha30 [at] gmail [dot]com SALMAN KHAN: THE REAL SUPERSTAR ———————————————– Disclaimer : The views presented in the article are personal views of the author. ———————————————— Can...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at April 10th, 2009 at 06:04 pm
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    Persistence Resistance 2009
    If you are in Delhi, it’s a great chance for you to watch some of the most interesting documentaries with political themes during April 17-19. The forum is Persistence Resistance 2009, the festival of documentaries (and a few features too). Magic Lantern Foundation of Gargi Sen is organizing the festival – its 2nd edition – in collaboration with India International...
    by Runumi G at April 10th, 2009 at 08:04 am
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    8 X 10 Tasveer Film Review : Nagesh goes Kuku..
    ……says his fan Mr Noor. I havent seen Nagesh Kuknoor’s film 8 x 10 Tasveer yet. Will watch it on sunday. But a freind who is Nagesh Kuknoor fan saw it first day first show and sent this mail…. Never thought I’d say this, but in light of Bombay to Bangkok and now Tasveer, being a Nagesh Kukunoor fan seems like an embarassment. Can’t believe...
    by Phoenixnu at April 3rd, 2009 at 03:04 am
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    War Of The Worlds: Producers V/S The Multiplex Owners
    From April 4th, the producers have threatened to stop screening their movies in the multiplexes if the multiplex owners don’t agree to have a fixed revenue sharing model of 50:50 for all the movies irrespective of the quality or the banner. The Producers’ Stand: The way things work with the multiplexes is that all the movies are graded by multiplex into categories....
    by Sudhir Nair at April 2nd, 2009 at 10:04 am
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    Movies to look forward for in 2009
    2009 has started on a sluggish note as far as the Hindi film industry is concerned. After 2 months we have yet to come across a certified hit. The mega hyped up movie of January, Chandni Chowk to China failed like one of those spurious Chinese products and didn’t make an impact at the box office. Raaz2, Dev.D and to a certain extent Luck By Chance & Delhi 6...
    by Sudhir Nair at March 10th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
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    2nd Women’s International Film Festival at Chennai
    iView Author: Jibin (Chennai,India) Email: jeeka.mj [At] gmail.com ‘ 2nd Women’s International Film Festival – An Overview‘ The 2nd Women’s International Film Festival in Chennai just concluded and I feel bad. No, not because it ended, but because my college has re-opened after a holiday for the entire duration of the festival. Nevertheless,...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at March 9th, 2009 at 09:03 am
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    Manjha in Slumdog Blu-ray disc
    If you have not yet got a chance to watch Manjha by Rahi Anil Barve (http://passionforcinema.com/this-manjha-comes-with-a-sharp-edge/#more-3513) – chances are you haven’t, because after the 10th MIFF it has not been shown anywhere – here’s a chance to get hold of it. The Blu-ray disc of Slumdog Millionaire will have Manjha as an exclusive feature...
    by Runumi G at March 8th, 2009 at 08:03 am
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    META 2009: Rajat Kapoor’s play shines
    Rajat Kapoor is shooting somewhere in Sikkim (for an Amol Palekar film?). He has just finished shooting for another English film in Shillong. The post-production of his Rectangular Love Story is on. Amidst all this, his first love is flourishing. That first love is no physical being, but theatre, and his play that swept the 4th Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards (META)...
    by Runumi G at March 7th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
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    Armani does not sell Grace
    iView Author: Nadi (Pune, India) Email: withheld ‘ It’s a pity Armani doesn’t sell Grace.‘ The local Mirror carries pictures of a very beautiful actress kissing a star-son’s cheek, hugging his wife too. Then there is a picture of a scurrying superstar. And while it is none of our business to speculate about the past Reason, his reality...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at March 6th, 2009 at 03:03 pm
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    14th EU Film Fest in India
    Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Kozhikode, Jamshedpur – cinelovers in these five cities will have a busy time the 5th onwards. The reason: the 14th EU Film Festival, in these cities, one after another, during March 5-April 22. The films are from 19 of the 27 EU nations. The Film Festival is being organized by the Directorate of Film Festivals, in collaboration with the Delegation...
    by Runumi G at March 4th, 2009 at 08:03 am
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    One Man’s No Is Another’s Jai Ho!
    Yes this post is post Oscarmania and much awaited celebration of Indian talent therein! And it is a post that celebrates the unknown, the mysterious, the chance in the high stake world of movies!One twist of fate and the whole scenario changes! And when one looks with hindsight at these twists,there seems no real cut and dried explanation except that destiny beckoned...
    by krysh at February 28th, 2009 at 02:02 am
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