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‘City of God’ in Mumbai and Pune! Hurry,theatres open till audience flocks!
For long we have lamented over the lack of great cinema in this country. How the most awarded films of the world are not even released in this country, neither in theatres nor on television. But winds of change seems to be blowing afresh now. We finally have the greatest cinema in the world, playing not just on TV, but also in the theatres, to be watched like the directors of the movies have envisioned it.
Fernando Meirelles’ 48 awards winning “City of God” has come to the big screen in mumbai and Pune from this Friday, the 13th at Metro Adlabs (6:15 & 8:30 pm), IMAX (5:30 pm), Huma (8:00 pm) and Gold Pune (6:30 pm).
MUMBAI
IMAX WADALA (5:30 PM)
HUMA ADLABS (8:00 PM)
METRO ADLABS ( 6:15 PM & 8:30 PM)
PUNE
GOLD (6:30 PM)
I feel extremely happy that the world cinema movement has picked up such momentum in Mumbai.Palador pictures has already released ‘City of God’ in theatres and is showcasing International classics on the t.v. channel Zee Studio every Sunday at 3 in the afternoon. Next up for theatrical release is ‘Tzameti 13′ followed by other great titles from all over the world. At the same time, one of my friends (Pranav Ashar) has started a film club titled ‘Enlightened’ with the support of film-makers like Anurag Kashyap and Farhan Akhtar and theatres like Cinemax which boasts of titles like ‘Wild Strawberries’, ‘Seven Samurai’, ‘Godfather’ and many more, all round the year for just rupees 1,500 per member.
I request all Mumbaiiyyas and Puneites to watch these great films in theatres and support as well as encourage the movement in the country.
P.S.: Watching ‘City of God’ on the big screen was a dream which has finally come true!Yippeeeeeeeee!
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the actual audience of these films is in the suburbs..huma and imax are too far..bring it to andheri and a lot more will go
A fabulous film - I never watched it on the big screen, but it should be even more fantastic.
I still remember how I was rooting for the chicken in the first scene and couldn’t give a crap about the chicken in the last scene!
Awesome….Havent watched City Of God in cinema hall as well…..njoi you mumbaikers and punerey log….
its a great pleasure to see a film like this to be released in indian theatres. Until now we have been enslaved by hollywood. Now the world cinema is here for good. i hope it stays for long. I recommend you all to go and watch it. I have seen it many times but for the first time i will have an oppurtunity to watch it on the silver screen.
wacthed it at Metro Adlabs last night. must have been about 70 people in the theatre. the movie plays awesomely on the big screen. I went even though I own a copy of the film on DVD. Sprawling, energetic, just the kind of film that needs to be made in India .
Unfortunately, those you can aren’t doing stuff like this and those who should are being hampered by ‘lack of funds.’
Still, I’m glad I got to experience this on the big screen. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
And Anurag,
People have gone far and wide to acquire the DVDs of these movies. Asked cousins and uncles to acquire them from the US or Hong Kong or Australia.
It’s time to stop bitching and go to wherever the films are playing. You wanted international cinema, and finally not just in a festival setting, you have it. Now patronize it and let the powers-that-be know that there is hope for ’stories’ instead of just ‘entertainment’.
A not to be missed movie… a brief review exists here
http://passionforcinema.com/recent-watch-pirates-1114-tickets-more/
= Thiranga, the movies have to also move to the people… this is the only way to create awareness… among the non cine-fanatics. No no no… not until the local media starts talking about these movies, the local theaters release this on at least one show, the mohallas, the chai dukaans, the dhabas start talking about this - all these form the pieces in the puzzle to create the awareness… about real cinema… passionate cinema… watching Children of Men on DVD with a few friends as I type this and my hair stands out even after the fourth watch… the rest of India doesn’t know what it’s missing.
more movies lined up. gr8 news for cinema lovers. I had watched city of god with Anurag sir when we were shooting for Gulal and I remember the cock chase with which the film begins. dont miss it for sure
Any idea if they are releasing in bangalore also?
Thirangaa you have an excellent point and I am so glad you brought this up! Ek tho Mumbai city mein aisa film aaya hai. How long does it take to go from Andheri to Wadala? 1 hour? 1.5 hours? Ek tho tumhare city mein dikha rahe hai, and you have people complaining that its too far. If you are really that passionate about cinema, and are interested in watching these films on the big screen, you will make time, and travel the distance to go watch these films. Show that you are interested. Here in the US, when there is a film fest showing films we want to see, we drive like 3-4 hours maybe more each way if needed to be able to watch these films. I remember when I was in Mumbai a few years ago, after Yuva had released, Adlabs in Mulund was showing the original Tamil version Aayutha Ezhutu, and my friends and I traveled 2 hours by train there to watch it. If people are interested and it is within accessible distance, they will go watch it.
Oz, I’ve watched Children Of Men. I know what you mean. While people were raving about Babel, Cuaron was making the far superior film. Now I await Pan’s Labyrinth.
I agree that the movies have to go to the people, as a struggling independent filmmaker I agree whole-heartedly but the movies will only go to the people when the people go to the movies first.
For the amount of energy wasted on bolstering Anurag Kashyap’s ego when he admits to have written crap like SLBB it would be nice if places like this one did more to promote the good work being done by the film houses.
I put my money where my mouth is, with my work and my consumption of art. Let’s stop pretending that the problems exist outside of ourselves.
Thiranga, again… the only point of yours I don’t agree with is “people go to the movies”
The pull should start from the external, it’s only then the internal push will have the people walking into the theater.
You are making many assumptions here when you “would like to see people come to the theater”… in my view I see the audience as ME. ie. Lazy, lying in bed, unable to move. Now how can we get this guy out to the theater, who will be the loudest clapper if the movie turns out to be good. That is the target.
Markets don’t form “just by themselves”… you have to create them. The advertisers understand it so clearly, the politicians understand it like their “guru mantra”… I would like this view in the cine-business of marketing too.
oh by the way Pan’s Labyrinth is mind blowing. I would say Children of Men and Pan’s Labyrinth were two of the best movies I’ve seen in the last six months.
hard-hitting movie…great cinematography…awesome direction…
oz, I have to disagree here. Obviously it makes it easier if the movies come to the people. And I think that the fact that this cinema has traveled far enough and come to Mumbai theatrically is something that needs to be appreciated to begin with. I also feel it may be unfair to say that the audience only exists in the suburban areas for these films. Educated people live in Wadala and other neighborhoods too, and are aware. I dont think one can judge the audience and say that people in that locality dont care for these films. Do people not travel there when they want to watch an Imax film? Similarly, I dont see why they cant go to watch City of God.
Yes no doubt in terms of marketing strategy, it helps to research the audience and program appropriately. However, when huge mainstream films, both Indian and American alike are constantly releasing back-toback with the screens continuously booked up in the richer areas like Andheri and Juhu, the fact that someone was able to find a quality screen for a foreign language film in the city itself is an achievement. So this is the time to show that the audience exists. And if the distributors and exhibitors see that through the numbers, then perhaps it may be worth their investment to book a screen in the demographically suitable localities.
So have any of you seen City of Men? erm, i think, i saw a bit of either City of God or City of Men but can’t recall it and anyway i thought, it was, erm, okay.
back to the article, so the aim is to create the awareness of World Cinema.., but what about creating awareness of the genuine Indian cinema? Are the Film houses doing enough about it?
City of Men is the sequel to City of God that was due to release this year. I have not heard that it has released yet.
no, it was a 9 episode drama series….
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/cinema/features/city-of-men.shtml
yes HG I just read up on it after posting my comment. It was indeed a series that ran from 2003-2005 following the success of City of God in 2002. However, they have completed production on a feature film called City of Men which is a sequel to City of God.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0870090/
i see. BBC Four, is one of the channel we have that shows World Cinema once a week. It comes at a time when MOTD (Football higlights) is on, so I don’t catch it.
HG, Vijay,
City of Men is not really a sequel. It’s a television series set in the same universe as the movie. Fantastic stuff again, when you consider that the material is for TV!!
Think about what we’re subjected to on the idiot box and then imagine what the (relatively) resource-poor Brazilians are doing.
Oz,
Markets were created when the film was made.
Like I said in an earlier post, people do whatever they can to source the content they want.
Way back when, before the Internet or even courier services, our much lauded screenwriters were copying an mish-mash of Westerns to create what is now being hailed as a masterpiece. You know the film I’m talking about. Back then it took a few years, now it takes a few months because of the shortening of the DVD window.
Hell, Apoorva Lakhia is on record as saying that he got the idea to make Man on Fire first because he watched the film in the US before it was released in India (WTF!!!)
Nah man, I think the job was done when the movie was released here. It’s just a small part of the business strategy of a corporation and they will only decide to spend more money on it if they think there’s money coming in.
Laziness and lack of motivation are not issues here, it’s the combined malaise of complaining when good stuff is unavailable and then lethargy when it does become available.
Case in point, the debate over Bheja Fry.
A remake, whether ripped off or bought out, is just that, a remake. No one gives Gore Verbinski points for remaking The Ring (nor should they) so nobody should be lauding a group of people who brought in a remake on a small budget. Also, unless the French are super cheap I find it difficult to believe that the rights for a film were bought AND the movie was made in around sixty lakhs. Colour me skeptical but this reeks of bullshit.
So if the new wave is one where remakes are bought instead of ripped off, we are as screwed as we used to be and the soullessness of Yash Raj is merely the tip of the iceberg.
I guess they don’t call it show business for no reason…
In the meantime countries with a fraction of our population and similar or fewer resources are generating world class cinema. I guess now that we’ve had our asses whupped by the Bangladeshis at cricket it’s time for one of theirs to come along and win an Oscar while we pat each other on the ass for another Filmfare victory.
PS: If it appears that I’m a shill for the Olive Collection I’d like to place on record that nothing could be further from the truth. These are the guys who won fame and glory for RDB, which is itself a rip-off of an older Oscar winner. I got no love for the Oscars either but come on! Appealing to the violent instincts of a nation growing increasingly intolerant is not heroic or exemplary. I still think it’s worth giving the Devil his due where due is called for.
:)
Thirangaa read comment #20. City of Men is a TV series but a feature film sequel to City of God called City of Men has been completed and is due for release this year. It is adapted from the TV series and is directed by Paolo Morelli, who directed 6 episodes of the TV series.
“theatres open till audience flock”….i like that
if there are very few spectators, these people do not show the film.
It happened to us when we went to see Kamal Hasan’s Veetayadu Vilayadu in PVR Mulund.
They said that they are not showing it because there were only 4-5 spectators.
I saw “city of god” yesterday at Huma. Fantastic film.
But here too….initially they told us that the print has not come. They were not ready to give the tickets.
I could see that there were only 4 of us who wanted to see that film….
After 10/15 min…they gave the ticket and we were able to see the movie…..altogether only 7 spectators were there.
We are at loss if there are few spectators.
@rising: That’s really sad man. I am interested to know a little more about how well the film was marketed. Other than the traditional ad in the movie listing page in the newspapers, were there any other outreach avenues the distributors explored?
@Vijay: I have not seen a single trailor also on TV. May be they are showing, but not as much other films do. Atleast i have not seen. Same case with radio. No ads on streets seen. Also i think if they are not showing the film at some theatre, they can atleast put a poster over there saying “showing at so and so theatre”. May be that will help a bit