Posts Tagged ‘shyam benegal’

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    I VIEW FILM 2009 in NYC!
    I VIEW FILM Poster Engendered is an annual, New York-based transnational arts and human rights festival that brings together the best in contemporary South Asian cinema, visual arts and performance to explore the complex realities of gender and sexuality in modern South Asia, especially at the intersection of ritual and religion. The festival is designed not only to raise...
    by PFCdesktop at August 24th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
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    Manthan : Churning a revolution
    Manthan was second in the series of rural trilogy of Shyam Benegal, the other two being Ankur and Nishant. With the most unconventional idea and the most unconventional sources of fund at hand, Shyam Benegal made this rural drama showcasing the success of cooperative dairies in Gujarat. Inspired from the life of Varghese Kurien, Manthan talks of the life of Dr. Rao,...
    by Arjun Narayanan at June 30th, 2009 at 12:06 am
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    Shyam Benegal: Commitment Personified
    “Benegal has put up a model of committed film-making in a thoroughly professional manner that could be eminently useful for both the mainstream, with its recklessly expensive habits, and art cinema, with its holier-than-thou attitude and amateurism.” It is ironical that talking about Shyam Benegal is extremely easy as well as quite difficult at the same time. Considering...
    by Satyendra Jha at June 19th, 2009 at 01:06 pm
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    The Multiple Roles of Bhumika
    iView Author: Arjun Narayanan (UP, India) Email: arju1987 [at] hotmail.com The Multiple Roles of Bhumika How will it be for an actress to act like an actress? Effortless, one may think. But one gets used to ‘act’ different roles to such an extent that one often forgets to ‘live’ it. Shyam Benegal’s Bhumika is the tale of one such actress, who, in the course...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at June 1st, 2009 at 06:06 pm
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    Mammootty and the depth of emotions
    iView Author: Ram V (Bangalore, India) Email: Shrey.dna [at]gmail[dot]com Great Indian Actors-Part I : Mammootty and the depth of emotions ‘You should not limit this ceremony to just Hindi movies. You must recognize movies in other languages also. And you should stop identifying us as South Indian movie stars alone because we are Indians’ thundered Mammootty...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at April 17th, 2009 at 05:04 pm
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    Shyam Benegal and Anurag Kashyap : In conversation
    iView Author: Salik Shah (New Delhi, India) Email:salik.shah [at] gmail [dot]com Shyam Benegal and Anurag Kashyap : In conversation [ When I asked Benegal who were his favorite young directors, he said 'that young man' looking at Anurag's direction. And throughout the interaction @ IHC, he kept on shifting the focus to the young filmmaker] Excerpts from this conversation...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at April 10th, 2009 at 09:04 pm
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    No way to treat a lady..or women in the movies
    *Hear out the honcho. The movie production house COO (not even the CEO), says airily,“Please not another woman-oriented film.” The implication is that women are the second-rung gender out here. *A TV interviewer, a woman, asks tetchily, “But why always women?” To that you ask, in sheer despair, “Why not?” * A well-meaning producer...
    by Khalid Mohamed at March 14th, 2009 at 08:03 am
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    Shyam Benegal’s BHUMIKA (1977)
    BHUMIKA(The Role) Does a man’s philosophical perspective change with time?Does a man’s convictions change with time?Does a man’s view towards a piece of art change with time?.. for all the above questions my answer would be YES because few days ago i watched Shyam Benegal’s BHUMIKA for the second time,the first time i watched it was a couple of...
    by Krishna at March 6th, 2009 at 03:03 am
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    Mammo : A life burdened under the two nation experiment of Mr Jinnah
    Mammo was not the only one whose life was destroyed by this experiment of Mohammad Ali Jinnah and she merely represents several thousands of people who lost the most important aspects and joys of their precious lives because of Mr Jinnah’s cynical experiment based on two nation theory. Political leader Mr Jinnah was completely failed and so was his experiment....
    by Rk at January 22nd, 2009 at 08:01 am
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    Kalyug : Humanization of mythological characters and modernization of events of Mahabharata
    Son yells,”Kulta (Slut)”, and runs to hit his mother. * * * * * * People read or watch very easily that Kunti goes to Karna and tells him that he is her eldest son and asks for the lives of Pandava brothers. People read or watch with ease that Karna was born before Kunti was married. People take it easy to read or see that all the five Pandava brothers know...
    by Rk at December 23rd, 2008 at 03:12 am
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    WTS : How the hell Shyam Benegal could make this vast socio-political cinematic collage
    How Shyam Benegal has managed to handle such a vast and loosely scattered subject and presented such a fine piece of cinema? How he has managed to present so many differently looking and behaving characters in a single film? How he has managed to give so different physical gestures and psychological understandings to different characters? As its known he was born in...
    by Rk at September 29th, 2008 at 06:09 am
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    You will be welcomed to Sajjanpur, but be prepared to go out disappointed
    [random thoughts, totally opinionated rants] Well lets start with a brief story. Sunday afternoons were a pain for me for the first 12 years of my life. Of all the days, I hated this one the most. Not because it was the one day without school (I hated school too) but the incessant lecturing I used to receive from my uncle on every socio-political issue at that time. He...
    by Rusted rick at September 19th, 2008 at 02:09 pm
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    The Shells of Pride
    iView Author: Vishesh Mankal (New Delhi, India) Email: Vishesh_Mankal [at] hotmail [dot] com The Shells of Pride Even though cinema is a very young art form compared to its predecessors it has already been subject to many controversies and theories. Over the years, films have been divided into many camps but the most enduring battle has been fought between the “Artistic”...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at September 10th, 2008 at 05:09 am
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    Ardha Satya : Amrish Puri, a policeman 24X7
    It will not be suffice to say that Amrish Puri plays only a callous father of Anant Velankar (Om Puri) in the film, Ardha Satya or the film shows him as a cruel father only. It will not do a proper justice to this interesting character. Things are not so simple and straight with this character that we may define his character as a harsh father of AV. Its not possible for...
    by Rk at July 8th, 2008 at 04:07 am
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    Prakash Jha : Politically I am not biased & all filmwalla people are not perverted
    Final part of the interview of Director Prakash Jha(PJ), taken by Ajay Brahmatmaj (AB), is presented here. —————————————————————– [Following is the translation of the Hindi Interview and may not do full justice to the original interview...
    by Rk at July 4th, 2008 at 02:07 am
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    Online Critics Society
    iView Author:Krishna (Hyderabad, India ) Email:moviecentric [at] gmail [dot] com Online Critics Society The thought having an Online Critics Society came into my mind by looking at the present situation of the Indian Cinema. Many people might be under the delusion that Indian Cinema has a good reputation outside India,sorry to say that the present Indian Cinema does...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at June 16th, 2008 at 02:06 pm
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    Director is like a God walking on earth : Shyam Benegal
    Orson Welles, Jean Renoir, Ingmar Bergman, Alfred Hitchcock, Akira Kurosawa, David Lean, Andrei Tarkovsky, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Bernardo Bertolucci, Frank Capra, Francis Ford Coppola, Jean-Luc Godard, Fellini, Kubrick, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roman Polanski, Sydney Pollack, Steven Soderbergh, James Ivory etc etc and PC Barua, Sohrab Modi, Mehboob, Kedar Sharma, Bimol...
    by Rk at June 6th, 2008 at 06:06 am
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    Nishant : Vijay Tendulkar’s illustrious entry in to hindi cinema!
    Great, powerful and impressive writers possess one thing for sure and that is the art to present stories in their own words/ways/manners and though it’s very much possible that they are taking inspirations from mythology or stories, already told in the past, but they weave the plot in such a way that their stories remain successful in presenting issues prevalent...
    by Rk at May 19th, 2008 at 08:05 am
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    Gup-shup
    Its not everyday that a bunch of filmmakers I like, get together and converse on the medium. For such occasions I always had to depend on film festivals or even take a trip back in time during those glory days of DD. Most such occasion are fruitful when the moderator/interviewer is as well versed or at least someone who can hold his/her own amongst such august company. Imagine,...
    by DPac at April 11th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
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    MOVIES AND REAL LIFE
    MOVIES AND REAL LIFE Some days back, I saw an interview of Sudhir Mishra on Sahara Filmy by Mayank Shekhar. Mishraji told “Today’s film makers watch movies, not life” They are engaged in watching movies, discussing movies but they do not devote their time to watching, analyzing life. 100% correct. Some so called biggest filmmakers claim their film’s connectivity...
    by Shailesh Limbachiya at June 9th, 2007 at 03:06 am
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    A Leela Naidu film : Ya Raste hain Pyar ke
    Background : In the late 50s, Nanavati case – a criminal case, famously called as “Crime of passion”, brought a big change in Indian legal system and after this case Jury system was abolished from India. Accused was a Parsi naval officer Commander Kawas M Nanavati who was charged for killing the lover, Prem Ahuja- a sindhi businessman, of his Anglo Indian...
    by Rk at November 10th, 2006 at 05:11 am
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