DAMfest09 – Dibakar, Oye Lucky! Digital
Global warming has taken its toll even on our beloved film industry. With alarmingly declining green cover and rapidly multiplying population, dancing around the trees and fluttering translucent coloured dupattas in fertile fields is no longer an option for filmmakers. So what do they do?
Tough to answer. After all, this is the phase in which Hindi cinema had been stagnating since we were old enough to recognise our too-good-to-be-true heroes. It became so naturally ingrained that we could second-guess the dialogues before the characters move their lips.
But then, a new brand of daring filmmakers without any camp to protect decided to keep the critics, cultural scientists and audiences jumping through hoops with their innovative and unexpected storylines. While the surrealism that surrounded the typical Bollywood fare invokes nostalgia in many, the experimentations with plots, characters and production charmed audiences and took them by surprise.
Intelligent savvy directors such as Dibaker Banerjee have cracked the code of creating cinema that echoes life’s darker side in a light manner. His films Khosla Ka Ghosla and the recent Oye Lucky, Lucky Oye resonate with the idiosyncrasies that characterises the society, subtly engaging the viewer in introspection not forgetting to tickle his funny bone.
At DAM’09, we promised you a great experience. And true to our word, we have procured the exclusive rights to screen the latest digital cinematic venture of one of our speakers, Dibakar Banerjee’s ‘Oye Lucky, Lucky Oye’, before the official DVD release.
PassionForCinema.com is a sponsor of DAMfest09. For more information on the festival, visit the http://www.thedamfest.com.
Tags: Bolywood, Cinematography, Dibakar Banerjee, Digital filmmaking, film festival, Khosla Ka Ghosla, Medium, Movies, Oye Lucky Lucky Oye
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
DAM, I wish I could attend this. Will anybody from here report on it or post videos?
Hi evelyn,
nice pun! The DAM team will post regular updates everyday as the fest progresses. We are also planning a videodiary on our offical website www.thedamfest.com.
Hey, you can… u can participate in a lot of events that are going to happen here. We have screening competitions(fiction, non-fiction, animation etc), photography and art exhibitions, on the spot mobile film contests, photography marathons. You’d surely love it. We have super seminars with super ppl like Luke Kenny, Debakar Banerjee, Aanand Patwardhan, Prahlad Kakkar, Madhur Bhandarkar,Kunal Roy Kapoor… and many many more. Visit www.thedamfest.com to register with us. Our campus is on a hilltop, so its going to be gorgeous 3 day event. Accomodation will be arranged for.