When ‘Miss Lovely’, centering around Mumbai’s C-grade porn and horror industry, released it did many things… most of all challenging the very grammar of Indian cinema. One had rarely seen a Hindi film crossing multiple genres, bringing into play different styles and playing on several narratives simultaneously… at once reminding the viewer of Wong Kar Wai and a certain suspended magic realism. Director Ashim Ahluwalia had arrived. And in style.
Cut to 11 years later as his series ‘Class’, adapted from the Spanish series ‘Elite’ currently being streamed on Netflix is hooking viewers. Exploring the dynamics at an elite school, and what happens when some ‘other’ students join the institution – a collision of two worlds – shaking up everything from the roots.
Ahluwalia says he wanted to make something about teenagers for a quite while – the strong, conflicted emotions of the young. “I could personally really relate to that struggle as I was a rebellious,...
Cut to 11 years later as his series ‘Class’, adapted from the Spanish series ‘Elite’ currently being streamed on Netflix is hooking viewers. Exploring the dynamics at an elite school, and what happens when some ‘other’ students join the institution – a collision of two worlds – shaking up everything from the roots.
Ahluwalia says he wanted to make something about teenagers for a quite while – the strong, conflicted emotions of the young. “I could personally really relate to that struggle as I was a rebellious,...
- 2/15/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
India is represented by four features, three shorts and one documentary at the 42nd International Film Festival Rotterdam that opens on January 23rd. While Amit Dutta’s Museum of Imagination, a twenty-minute short will compete for the prestigious Tiger Award for Short Film; four feature films Shanghai, Miss Lovely, Ship of Theseus and I.D will be shown out of competition in various sections. Two other short films Friday Night and 21 Chitrakoot, and documentary Celluloid Man will also be screened at the festival.
Two feature film projects will participate in industry sections of the festival. National Award winning (Anhey Ghorey da daan) director Gurvinder Singh’s second feature The Fourth Direction, produced by Kartikeya Singh, will participate in Rotterdam Lab 2013. Rotterdam Lab, in partnership with Nfdc, selects one South Asian project presented at Film Bazaar so that it can follow up on previously made connections. Bikas Ranjan Mishra’s Wild Fire will participate in Cinemart,...
Two feature film projects will participate in industry sections of the festival. National Award winning (Anhey Ghorey da daan) director Gurvinder Singh’s second feature The Fourth Direction, produced by Kartikeya Singh, will participate in Rotterdam Lab 2013. Rotterdam Lab, in partnership with Nfdc, selects one South Asian project presented at Film Bazaar so that it can follow up on previously made connections. Bikas Ranjan Mishra’s Wild Fire will participate in Cinemart,...
- 1/21/2013
- by Editorial Team
- DearCinema.com
Still from Umesh Kulkarni’s Girni
The 35th edition of the Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival will commemorate 100 years of Indian cinema with ‘Namaste India’, a sub – section that will screen 41 Indian shorts.
The sub-section that falls under Panorama section aims to offer “a broader historical and cultural overview of this giant country’s (India) film production.” For this festival has made a varied selection, keeping in mind the cultural and geographical diversity in the country. An inclusive list that includes works from film students to independent film makers on a variety of themes like the city, the country, native and religious communities, prostitution, theatre, tradition, borders, poverty, etc.
Out of these, five shorts will be part of a Retrospective of Umesh Kulkarni, who is also on the International Jury of the festival. His shorts: Darshan, Girni, Three of Us, Gaarud and Vilay will be screened at the festival.
The 35th edition of the Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival will commemorate 100 years of Indian cinema with ‘Namaste India’, a sub – section that will screen 41 Indian shorts.
The sub-section that falls under Panorama section aims to offer “a broader historical and cultural overview of this giant country’s (India) film production.” For this festival has made a varied selection, keeping in mind the cultural and geographical diversity in the country. An inclusive list that includes works from film students to independent film makers on a variety of themes like the city, the country, native and religious communities, prostitution, theatre, tradition, borders, poverty, etc.
Out of these, five shorts will be part of a Retrospective of Umesh Kulkarni, who is also on the International Jury of the festival. His shorts: Darshan, Girni, Three of Us, Gaarud and Vilay will be screened at the festival.
- 1/7/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
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