Posts Tagged ‘Toronto International Film Festival’

  • Laxmikant Shetgaonkar and the Ambitions of the Indian Film Maker
    We have been tired of the standard of cinema in India . An outcome of this has been to try and encourage film makers who are trying to push the paradigm of film making in India. This website/forum has been a vocal proponent to promote this movement and has played an active and important role. But the problem is, that a big mistake is being made in choosing the film makers...
    by Sandeep at September 21st, 2009 at 08:09 am
  • Konkani film in Discovery section of Toronto fest
    The media has widely reported about Ashutosh Gowariker’s What’s Your Rashee and Anurag Singh’s Dil Bole Hadippa having their world premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) this time. But it is one small film, in Konkani, that probably will become big at TIFF. We are talking about Paltadacho Munis (The Man Beyond The Bridge), directed by Laxmikant...
    by Runumi G at September 2nd, 2009 at 04:09 am
  • The Last Lear: Bachchan’s best? Maybe, may be not, but….
    In a Shakespearean tragedy, one cannot but get sucked into the emotional cauldron. Be it Othello or King Lear or Macbeth or Hamlet, its all about great emotional upheaval when it comes to the core of the Bard’s plays. In Rituparno Ghosh’s The Last Lear, Amitabh Bachchan’s (as well as most of the cast’s) first full-fledged English role, Harish ‘Harry’...
    by Runumi G at September 11th, 2008 at 11:09 am