The fifth edition of the Bengaluru International Film Festival will hold retrospectives of Girish Kasaravalli and Jahnu Barua among others. Five of Kasaravalli’s films: Tabarana Kathe (1986), Kraurya (1996), Thaayi Saheba (1997), Dweepa (2003) and Hasina (2004)will be screened. While Barua’s Halodhia Choraye Baodhan Khai (1987), Banani (1990), Firingoti (1992) and Hkhagoroloi Bohu Door(1995) will be screened.
Besides, three other sections are dedicated to Indian cinema. Chitrabharathi – Indian Cinema Competition, Kannada Cinema (competition and screening of films in other dialects in Karnataka) and 100 years of Indian Cinema (screening of 14 films).
Complete line up:
Retrospective
Chan-Wook Park (South Korea)
1. J.S.A.: Joint Security Area (Chan-Wook Park/110/2000/South Korea)
2. Sympathy for Mr Vengeance (Chan-Wook Park/129/2002/South Korea)
3. Old boy (Chan-Wook Park/120/2003/South Korea)
4. Lady Vengeance (Chan-Wook Park/112/2005/South Korea)
5. Thirst (Chan-Wook Park/133/2009/South Korea)
Fatih Akin (Germany)
1. Short Sharp Shock (Fatih Akin/100/1998/Germany)
2. In July (Fatih Akin/99/2000/Germany)
3. Solino (Fatih Akin/124/2002/Germany)
4. Head On (Fatih Akin/121/2004/Germany/Turkey...
Besides, three other sections are dedicated to Indian cinema. Chitrabharathi – Indian Cinema Competition, Kannada Cinema (competition and screening of films in other dialects in Karnataka) and 100 years of Indian Cinema (screening of 14 films).
Complete line up:
Retrospective
Chan-Wook Park (South Korea)
1. J.S.A.: Joint Security Area (Chan-Wook Park/110/2000/South Korea)
2. Sympathy for Mr Vengeance (Chan-Wook Park/129/2002/South Korea)
3. Old boy (Chan-Wook Park/120/2003/South Korea)
4. Lady Vengeance (Chan-Wook Park/112/2005/South Korea)
5. Thirst (Chan-Wook Park/133/2009/South Korea)
Fatih Akin (Germany)
1. Short Sharp Shock (Fatih Akin/100/1998/Germany)
2. In July (Fatih Akin/99/2000/Germany)
3. Solino (Fatih Akin/124/2002/Germany)
4. Head On (Fatih Akin/121/2004/Germany/Turkey...
- 12/7/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Filmmaker Girish Kasaravalli who was conferred the Padmashri this year has started shooting his new project titled Koormavathaara. This film is based on a novel by Kannada writer Kum Veerabhadrappa.
The film will depict the changes witnessed in the country in the last six decades, according to Kasaravalli.
Koormavathaara is being produced by Basanth Kumar Patil, former president of the Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce, who had produced Kasaravalli’s earlier films–Naayi Neralu and Kanasemba Kudureyanner.
Kasaravalli won the National Award for Best Film four times for — Ghatashraddha (1977), Tabarana Kathe (1986), Thaayi Saheba (1997) and Dweepa (2001).
The film will depict the changes witnessed in the country in the last six decades, according to Kasaravalli.
Koormavathaara is being produced by Basanth Kumar Patil, former president of the Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce, who had produced Kasaravalli’s earlier films–Naayi Neralu and Kanasemba Kudureyanner.
Kasaravalli won the National Award for Best Film four times for — Ghatashraddha (1977), Tabarana Kathe (1986), Thaayi Saheba (1997) and Dweepa (2001).
- 11/16/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Bangalore, Nov 15: Four times winner of the Swarna Kamal national award Girish Kasaravalli has started shooting for 'Koormavathaara', based on a novel written by Kannada writer Kum Veerabhadrappa.
Kasaravalli, described as a pioneer of new wave movement in the Kannada film industry, says the film will be contemporary and that it will depict the changes witnessed in the country in the last six decades.
'The film will remind you of my earlier film 'Tabarana Kathe', made in 1986. I have added a little bit of discourse about the relevance of Gandhi with a story which has lot of realistic overtones,' said Kasaravalli adding that.
Kasaravalli, described as a pioneer of new wave movement in the Kannada film industry, says the film will be contemporary and that it will depict the changes witnessed in the country in the last six decades.
'The film will remind you of my earlier film 'Tabarana Kathe', made in 1986. I have added a little bit of discourse about the relevance of Gandhi with a story which has lot of realistic overtones,' said Kasaravalli adding that.
- 11/15/2011
- by Arun Pandit
- RealBollywood.com
Vidyarthy Chatterjee, who wrote on cinema for leading publications like The Statesman and The Economic Times for over three decades writes on Ek Cup Chya by Sumitra Bhave and Sunil Sukhtankar, the 2nd in the series of Marathi Cinema-New Texts, New Contexts.
Seven years after Vastupurush, Bhave and Sukhtankar came up trumps once again, with a story of modern Indian showing the helplessness of an honest individual pitted against a polity gone to seed. Told more in hope than despair, albeit laced with sadness at the systematic damage caused by diverse elements to the promises enshrined in the Indian constitution, Ek Cup Chya (A Cup of Tea, 2009) is reminiscent of Kasaravalli’s Tabarana Kathe (Story of Tabara, 1987). But whereas the municipal employee Tabara’s story gets darker and darker with every passing frame till a document of unrelieved gloom is produced, the Marathi film never descends into such hopelessness as...
Seven years after Vastupurush, Bhave and Sukhtankar came up trumps once again, with a story of modern Indian showing the helplessness of an honest individual pitted against a polity gone to seed. Told more in hope than despair, albeit laced with sadness at the systematic damage caused by diverse elements to the promises enshrined in the Indian constitution, Ek Cup Chya (A Cup of Tea, 2009) is reminiscent of Kasaravalli’s Tabarana Kathe (Story of Tabara, 1987). But whereas the municipal employee Tabara’s story gets darker and darker with every passing frame till a document of unrelieved gloom is produced, the Marathi film never descends into such hopelessness as...
- 6/23/2011
- by Vidyarthy Chatterjee
- DearCinema.com
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