Srinivas at MAMI Festival
I don’t know where Manjeet has disappeared! Where have you gone after posting MAMI FILM FESTIVAL 2008? I, in fact, everyone were relying on you to give us a daily update. I know. I know. it can be very hectic. but. Anyway, I will wait for your detailed report, but for time being, apna Srinivas has won the top prize for his short film “Vaapsi”, which stars D Santosh as a struggling actor:
In a new concept called Dimensions Mumbai, five-minute films based on different aspects of Mumbai were showcased by aspiring filmmakers under 25 years of age. A total of 82 entries had been received for this section.
And guess what, who do you think presented the award to Srinivas?:
Mrs Aishwarya Rai Bachchan who presented an award to Srinivas Sunderrajan for his film Vaapsi
Vaapsi (The Return): 4mins/Black and white/Mumbai
An introspective journey of a struggling film actor in the city of Mumbai.
Cast: D Santosh
Story-Screenplay/Camera/Edit/Producer/Director: Srinivas Sunderrajan
Dialogues: Irshad Ali
Music: Akshay Rajpurohit
I, on behalf of passionforcinema.com, would like to congratulate Srinivas, D Santosh and his team for winning the top prize in the short film category (Dimensions) at MAMI Festival. I hope you guys find a bit of space to write a bit about Vaapsi…
Dharmendra, Rishi Kapoor, Carlos Saura & Gulzar were also winners at MAMI Festival:
Veteran actor Dharmendra received the Lifetime Achievement award and Rishi Kapoor was acclaimed for his significant contribution to cinema for over 35 years at the concluding ceremony of the Mumbai Academy of Moving Images’ (MAMI) 10th International Film Festival, Mumbai.
The first Global Lifetime Achievement award was given to Carlos Saura, a renowned Spanish filmmaker, while lyricist-filmmaker Gulzar was conferred an award for outstanding contribution to Indian film music.
PS. Last year he won an award for his first short film ‘Tea Break’ at IFFLA 2007.
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
congrats Srinivas …keep up the good work ….
Fantastic work Srinivas….PFC and all the guys are proud of you. Keep up the good work….now, how about a post on Vaapsi?
Congrtas to D.Santosh and all the crew of Vaapsi
Congrats Srinivas!! MAMI must be a memorable for you dear with your win and the only AD for the Pool, which was screened at the fest! Keep up the good work!
HG, I am not privileged enough to attend the closing ceremony for MAMI:) Its by invitation only so had no clue of the happenings.
BTW, which film won the indian competition? anybody knows?
I still do not know which film won last year in Indian competition:-?
Manjeet, did you get to watch Vaapsi?
yes i did
‘Vaapsi’ exclusive post and pfc screening maaangta srinivasss
congrats srinivas
congrates srinivas:d/:d/:d/
That’s great Srinivas! Wow that must’ve been such an exciting moment! Congrats man.
And Congrats to D.Santosh as well!
Would love to see the film guys, get it posted on PFC! (sorry Oz Bhai, tera kaam aur badha diya!)
oh teri…mubarak mubaraka…now when r we going to c the film srini ?? and plz can we hav a post on this also. and here r other winners according to indiantelevision.com…
In the Indian feature film competition, Darsheel Safary was awarded for playing the dyslexic child Ishaan Awasthi in Taare Zameen Par, Swathee Sen for playing Janki in Antardwand while both the best film and International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) awards were bagged by the Marathi film Tingya by Mangesh Hadawale on the delicate issue of farmers’ suicides.
Frozen, which is the first full-length feature film to be shot in Ladakh, won the Special Jury Award for its director Shivaji Chandrabhushan.
and if m not wrong,antardwand’s lead actress’ name is swati sengupta.
congo bro!! hope u make many more films…aur dher saare awards aapke naseeb ho…:)
yes we done it again this year….im really greatful to all of you…for ncorejing shrinivas & me.
me & srinivas ll put our article on VAPASI…THE RETURN shortfilm very soon on PFC
i like to invite you all on 25th of march at Y.B. chwohan Auditorium At 6pm for Vapsi …the Return’s screening
same time they are screening all winning films of this year
c u on 25th
article on MAMI2008 winner Vapsi….the Return shortfilm is coming soon…by srinivas & DSantosh
fab work shrinivas and santosh:)>- we are expecting more great work now bravo!!