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 which there is 500 days of Summer and the closing night attraction – Unmade beds.
Two Indian films are being showcased today, both I have not had the opportunity to hear about previously. Mohandas and Chaturanga (Four Chapters). I have missed the first one but I will be catching the 2nd film later today.
The others that I have tickets are for:
1. The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle
2. Kabuli Kid
3. Moon
Following are the Indian films in contention:
1. Chaturanga
A young Bengali intellectual’s rebellion against conservative society takes him from atheism to mystical asceticism and relationships with two women in this story of love as both a game and a war of ideas, based on Tagore’s classic 1916 novella.
2. Mohandas
A Kafkaesque tale of identity theft becomes a searing indictment of bureacratic corruption and conspiracy as a poor but educated villager discovers that the white-collar job he was promised has been filled by someone using his name.
As always, exciting films but I have been let down quite a few times by these synopsis as they either are mind-blowingly good or downright boring. But I have my bias so let’s see how this yr goes.
So I am off, hopefully will tell you more about these films over the weekend and a couple that I had a chance to watch.
Tags: World Cinema
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
Good Luck Ravptor..hope to see your take on the films
i saw ‘mohandas’ at osians .it was interesting n moving tale about how a poor educated man’s identity is stolen from him and what system does to him.quite disturbing,provocative n interesting.check it out.
Looking forward to your insight on these films!
Missed Chaturanga at the Pune Film Fest this yr. Do write in @ the movie. Will know what i missed
…and @ the others too that you watch. Sharbani M looks so much like a younger Anita Kanwar here…