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Tradition and The Individual Talent
To understand how Pankh emerged, it is essential to know where I come from. On the sets of 'Pankh' A Bong brat with a Post Graduate degree in English Literature and Diploma in Cinema from FTII, Pune. Career started at Kolkata and moved all over India—– a very successful stint in advertising, TV(both Hindi and Bengali), as writer producer, director of fiction...
by Sudipto Chattopadhyay at August 10th, 2009 at 07:08 pm
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Two anecdotes on Ray
These are two anecdotes on Satyajit Ray. Professor Subodh Chandra Sengupta was a famous professor of English literature of Calcutta’s hallowed institution , the Presidency College. From his autobiography “Te hi no dibasa gota” in Bangla I got this gem. One evening, in the early 1950’s Professor Sengupta was taking a walk in Maidan, Calcutta’s lungs. He met his...
by Biswa Prasun Chatterji at August 5th, 2009 at 08:08 am
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Antaheen – The Longs For Love
‘Antaheen’ is a collage of love stories, without saying the most abused phrase in Hindi (or Indian) cinema ‘I love you’ even once. Perhaps that is why I identified with it so much. The love shown here seems real, one that can happen in our lives and change them forever. Love comes in many different ways at various points of the lives of the characters in ‘Antaheen’....
by Aniruddha Chatterjee at August 4th, 2009 at 02:08 pm
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The Berlin Wall & Wagah Border
Supriyo Sen is someone whose name is familiar to only die-hard documentary lovers in India. But make no mistake – he is one young filmmaker in India whom we will hear a lot more about in the years to come. Let’s get introduced to him here on PFC: Sen’s can be expected to be an oft-heard name in next year’s Berlin International Film Festival. His project Wagah,...
by Runumi G at April 15th, 2008 at 06:04 am
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Weekend Watch – The Bong Connection
There are ways in which one follows a different culture, a different set of values, beliefs and mannerisms. It’s all highly subjective, but you do grow to be more inclined towards a particular way of life and less inclined towards the other. Your beliefs keep changing as you move through life. Lessons learnt, and stories heard. Similar is the case with me. I see Bengali...
by Tushar at March 15th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
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“24 Truths per Second” Godard said, Ghatak showed!
iView Author: Medha Dutt (Kolkata, India) E-mail: primidutt [at] gmail [dot] com “24 Truths per Second “ The famous French New Wave director, Jean-Luc Godard, was very right when he said of Cinema, that it is “24 truths per second”. And nowhere do we find it more so than in the films of Ritwik Ghatak. I know there are many others, like, Ray,...
by PROJEKT iVIEW at February 28th, 2008 at 03:02 pm
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The Darjeeling Limited: Musically yours!
Just saw Wes Anderson’s latest fratricidal fun-on-the-run The Darjeeling Limited! Totally loved it. Love the meandering (and seeking) nature of the narrative, which is similar in structure to the Coens’ comedy work but yet so different. And that’s got a lot to do with Anderson’s dialogues, which sound profound if put on paper but in the context...
by Pratim D. Gupta at February 28th, 2008 at 06:02 am
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AMOL GUPTE – THE CHILD SPEAKS …. AT BAISCOPE EVENT
AMOL GUPTE THE CHILD SPEAKS …. AT BAISCOPE EVENT “BAISCOPE ENTERTAINMENT Presents In Association with PVR CINEMAS Children in Cinema – Innocence & its Essence A workshop with Amol Gupte & Deepa Bhatia ( Creative Director, Taare Zameen Per & Editor, Taare Zameen Per ) And NO…… This is NOT about the TZP controversies !! An afternoon exploring...
by kartik krishnan at February 10th, 2008 at 03:02 am
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Parallel Narratives – Naseer & Rituparno follow the trend !
iView Author: SAWNYRIVER (Noida, India) E-mail: Withheld Parallel Narratives Recently our films have been replete with multiple storylines. Parallel narratives in both literature and films add a fascinating dimension. In its varying perspectives, this genre can make a work self-reflexive, layered, open ended and liberating. Because it disrupts the existence of a single...
by PROJEKT iVIEW at January 23rd, 2008 at 11:01 am
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Agantuk : Director of Directors “Satyajit Ray” says Adieu to the audience !
“Agantuk” is the last “cinematic discourse” of the Satyajit Ray, who got realisation in the medium of cinema. His cinema is never superficial and even his lightest film carries several levels of undertone. He was a fantastic writer also and its not a somewhat strange fact that he created his cinema on the pattern of a good literature only. The satisfaction and...
by Rk at January 21st, 2008 at 08:01 am
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No Sunglass in Ray land
Four years back just after passing out of college, I started writing a film script. It was initially meant to be in Hindi but in the 1200-odd days (of writing, thinking, deleting, more writing, more deleting) that followed I figured out that I was better off making my first film in my regional language, Bengali. Why? Well, because I have been a firm believer and I have...
by Pratim D. Gupta at January 8th, 2008 at 06:01 am
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Prroshant Narayannan speaks
Prroshant Narayannan – hey you, this new spelling of your name really confuses me about where to put the extra ‘r’ and ‘n’ everytime I start punching it in – the ‘Badmash Banna’ on PFC, is up to a lot of things. He wrote about it sometime back, but since then has been silent. Wake up man. Here’s a provocation -the full...
by Runumi G at December 19th, 2007 at 01:12 pm
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38th IFFI-Goa : Indian Panorama announced
The Indian Panorama for the 38th IFFI (Goa, Nov 23-Dec 3) has been just announced. Lenin Rajendran’s “Ratri Mazha” (Night Rain) in Malayalam and Samir Chanda’s “Ek Nadir Galpo” (Story of a River) will represent India in the Asian-African-Latin American Competition section. The Panorama section will open with another Malayalam film, Shyamaprasad’s “Ore...
by Runumi G at October 16th, 2007 at 06:10 am
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Laaga Chunari Mein Daag – the ‘inspirations’!
Laaga Chunari Mein Daag (dir Pradeep Sarkar) is an ‘inspirational’ work. That is what is being said in some sections of the media and the Net. Here are 4 films which have similar story backgrounds. Decide for yourself. 1. Doghi (Sisters) Marathi (1995) Dir: Sumitra Bhave & Sunil Sukhtankar; Cast: Renuka Daftardar, Sonali Kulkarni, Uttara Baokar, Sadashiv Amrapurkar,...
by Runumi G at October 13th, 2007 at 10:10 am
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Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles 2008 Call for Entries
IFFLA 2008 Announces Call for Entries The Sixth Annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) seeks narrative, documentary, music videos, experimental, children’s and animated films of any length and format. IFFLA will run April 22-27, 2008 at ArcLight Hollywood, a state-of-the-art facility located in the heart of Los Angeles. Jury and Audience Choice Prizes...
by Vijay at September 17th, 2007 at 11:09 pm
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What should be Indian entry to Oscars this time?
Pickle, an online journal on the entertainment industry, believed to be backed by one industry body, has reported that the Film Federation of India (FFI) has started the process to select the Indian entry for the Best Foreign Film Oscar in the 80th Academy Award. It says that a cross section of industry experts and critics contacted by it “squared in on” Feroz...
by Runumi G at September 4th, 2007 at 05:09 am
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Director or Editor or both :: Whose job is this ?
Some directors are editors also. Hrishikesh Mukharjee always enjoyed editing more than the direction. Tight editing is reflected in his films. Tight editing is the demand of the time also especially when film belongs to low budget category and there is no money to waste. But there are very few directors who are editors also. Shekhar Kapur believes that he should have a...
by Rk at August 28th, 2007 at 06:08 am
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SLB & Saawariya: Oppression of Opulence
First, a lot of firsts. The first teaser of Saawariya (saawariyafilm.com) is out. This is the first Indian co-production of Sony Pictures. This is the first film of Rishi Kapoor’s son Ranvir Kapoor and Anil Kapoor’s daughter Sonam Kapoor. And it is being billed the first international film from India. Oh, I forgot – it’s a Sanjay Leela Bhansali film. The man who...
by Pratim D. Gupta at August 25th, 2007 at 10:08 am
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Way of seeing
Way of seeing Francois Truffaut once said, “Every subject is a subject for cinema. It is only a matter of choice which subject suits which director.” It’s same with photography too. Everything that lies before my eyes is a possible subject of photography. I pick and choose what suits me. What is suitable for me may not be suitable for any other person. What suits...
by PROJEKT iVIEW at August 2nd, 2007 at 08:08 am
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RAINS–Slushy For Mumbai, Sexy For Bollywood
Mumbai rains played truant almost throughout July..Then suddendly today it started raining again..Not raining..But pouring..It hardly drizzles in Mumbai. Whether it becomes Shanghai or not one thing is for sure, Mumbai scores over it in terms of rainfall. It receives almost the double the amount in Shanghai.For your gyan the average annual rainfall of 2120mm is almost...
by krysh at July 27th, 2007 at 01:07 pm
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Voices from the Waters : Day Three & Four
The festival has concluded and has, like all the festivals, has left a warehouse of memories, experiences and conversations. Before I go into the films of Day Three and Four, I would like to confess that it gets telling on your reactive senses if you try to catch up with all the films, because a festival is lot more about than just films. In this particular one, they...
by Tushar at June 11th, 2007 at 02:06 pm
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Amu: Heart, Anger, and a Mirror
Orwell’s prediction of the horrors of 1984 would seem mellow compared to what humanity really saw. In Delhi at least, thousands were massacred, families destroyed forever, the scum of humanity exposed, as justice still remains to be served. It’s a disgusting piece of our history that our government, which still employs many of those directly responsible, chooses...
by Vijay at June 6th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
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Siddhartha(1972) :: Cinematic depiction of spiritual quest !
Background : Conrad Rooks had got involved in drugs and had visited France to get rid of his drug addiction. There he got to read the book “Sidhaartha” (written by Nobel Laureate, German author Herman Hess). He was greatly impressed by the book and he developed a wish to make a film on the book. He got the rights of making a film on the book with the help of son...
by Rk at May 29th, 2007 at 08:05 am
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Song of The Little Road – II
Satyajit Ray, as a rule, visited the movies every Saturday afternoon. In this he was accompanied by a handful of like-minded ‘film-buffs’ he met and befriended. One of them was Bansi Chandragupta, who was destined to be Ray’s Art Director [a relationship that went on to collaborate on the most remarkable of Ray's works upto Pratidwandi/The Adversary (1970),...
by PROJEKT iVIEW at May 5th, 2007 at 07:05 am
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Song of The Little Road – I
This post is born out of Manjeet’s article wherein he dwells in brief on obstacles faced by the legendary Satyajit Ray in completeing Pather Panchali. Well, how this excellent story by Bibhutibhushan Bannerjee made its way onto the celluloid is an engrossing, fascinating tale in itself. Here goes…. As most of us know, Ray started off as an Advertising professional....
by PROJEKT iVIEW at May 1st, 2007 at 05:05 am
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The Maverick: Ritwik Ghatak
In an age when film makers masquarade as reformers (read bullshitters), it is only apt that one remember the flag bearers of the REAL New Wave in Indian Cinema that had its inception in the early ’50s through the mid ’70s. A beacon of this New Wave was Ritwik Ghatak. The Anarchist. The Rebel. The quintessential Bengali Intellectual. The man who influenced a...
by PROJEKT iVIEW at April 28th, 2007 at 12:04 am
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For cinephiles in Mumbai: National Film Circle
Received from Worldwide Film Distribution yahoogroup… Please spread the word! Let me take this opportunity to introduce you about me and social activities of our organization. … I am working with a government organization, one of the most important & entertainment department called “NATIONAL FILM CIRCLE” is given to me and I am looking for...
by striker at April 26th, 2007 at 04:04 pm
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Arohan (1982) – Benegal’s Exemplary Dedication
When a movie doesn’t sell, my local desi DVD retailer places it on the FOR SALE shelf letting it go often for as low as $4. That’s often where I do most of my Indian DVD shopping, because ironically enough, that’s where one tends to find some of the most important films. I had never heard of Arohan (The Ascent), because for some odd reason, it is one...
by Vijay at April 9th, 2007 at 10:04 am
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A comment on Dada Mithun
Following is actually a comment on one of my post on great Dada, Mr. Mithun Chakraboty. It was written by a visitor named Dr. Usman Khawaja. The reason for me putting it up as a post is for all to read as I found it to be written by a very matured and knowledgeable person who possesses flair for writing in a smooth manner. Neither have I changed a single word of this nor...
by Muzzy at March 14th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
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Nayak : The Hero (1966) – A Journey Within
If you talk of Bengali movies there are directors whom you watch out and then there is The Director, whom you look up to. If you talk of Bengali movies there are actors whom you watch out and then there is The Actor[1], whom you watch with dropping jaws. And when these two gods of Bengali filmdom meet what you have is – “The Movie”. The orchestrated product...
by Bishu. at February 14th, 2007 at 11:02 pm