Posts Tagged ‘Firaaq’

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    IFFLA 2010 Announces Call for Entries!
    IFFLA 2010 Call for Entries The Eighth Annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) seeks narratives, documentaries, shorts, music videos, experimental, children’s and animated films of any length and format for our 2010 festival taking place April 20-25 at ArcLight Hollywood, a state-of-the-art facility in the heart of Los Angeles. Jury and Audience Choice...
    by PFCdesktop at September 8th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
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    Firaaq: there are no easy truths
    iView Author: Ullas Marar (Bangalore, India) Email: ullasmarar [at] gmail.com Firaaq : there are no easy truths When I walked into the movie hall for the late night show, I knew very little about Firaaq. I typically don’t read any reviews; neither do I read synopses. To me, the best way to enjoy a movie is by being a part of the story and reacting to each situation....
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at March 27th, 2009 at 11:03 am
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    DEATH OF ORIGINALITY
    iView Author: Sonu Sureshbabu Malgee (Thane, India) Email: withheld DEATH OF ORIGINALITY “Nothing is original”, said Mahesh Bhatt. To which, Sudhir Mishra replied, “ARTH was original”. Yet he says “Nothing is original”. I don’t’ know how many of you believe in the definition of Mr. Bhatt., but I think his definition is...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at March 26th, 2009 at 01:03 pm
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    FIRAAQ : The Aftermath
    iView Author: Timtomlee (Thane, India) Email: withheld FIRAAQ : The Aftermath A mob is marching towards you. They have all the weapons, swords, guns, gas-cylinders, you name it. They are shouting slogans against your community. Now they have spotted you. You can’t run. You can’t hide. You just watch them, coming closer and closer and closer….FIRAAQ...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at March 25th, 2009 at 07:03 am
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    Barah Aana : Count you chillar before they change
    Last Friday was a deluge of low budget low key movie releases. There were Firaq (Directoral debut of Nandita Das), Barah Aana, Staright, Aloo Chat and Lottery (acting debut of the first Indian Idol Abhijit Sawant). Now, mentally I was still smeared with Gulaal and wanted to watch it again. After much planning and deliberation with wife, we settled for Barah Aana for Saturday...
    by ~uh~™ at March 24th, 2009 at 09:03 am
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    Firaaq: Cathartic Cinema
    The present decade has been the best for Hindi cinema in a long while. Nandita Das’ Firaaq joins the list of outstanding d'©buts made in the period. Firaaq is a day in the life of Ahmedabad in the aftermath of the Gujarat carnage of 2002. An ensemble narrative, Firaaq is peopled with stories that happen to converge on a particular day, of the ones who return from...
    by thani at March 23rd, 2009 at 03:03 am
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    Asian Fest of 1st Films Awards for Firaaq, Little Zizou
    Great news on Firaaq front. Nandita Das’ directorial debut has won the Best Film, Best Screenplay and the Foreign Correspondents Association Purple Orchid Award for Best Film awards at the The Asian Festival of 1st Films in Singapore. “Nandita successfully takes the theme of sectarian violence, something which is so apparent in today’s society, and looks...
    by Runumi G at December 10th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
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    Firaaq: In Such Times
    This is not a review. Almost every week I watch films that don’t evoke anything in me- thought, laughter, joy, happiness, pain, sadness- nothing. At the most, it is mild disgust. I force myself to react to them in some way, even as I actually feel nothing about them, and these reactions I puke out week after week, trying to be convincing in what they call ‘reviews’. So...
    by Jahan Bakshi at November 16th, 2008 at 06:11 am
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