The New York Indian Film Festival (Nyiff) announced the full lineup last night for their 16th year of celebrating independent, art house, alternate, and diaspora films from/about/connected to the Indian subcontinent (May 7 – May 14). Dedicated to bringing these films to a New York audience, the festival will feature 40 screenings (35 narrative, 5 documentary) –all seen for the first time in New York City. In addition, the festival will also feature five programs of short films.
The festival highlights various cinemas of India’s different regions. All the films are subtitled in English and some of the languages this year include Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Telegu, Assamese, Haryanavi and Urdu. This year’s festival will feature a couple of sidebars –Nfdc restored first films of filmmakers and a three-generations sidebar, films of Bimal Roy, Basu Bhattacharya and Aditya Bhattacharya.
The festival’s film lineup includes 2016 National Award winners A Far Afternoon,...
The festival highlights various cinemas of India’s different regions. All the films are subtitled in English and some of the languages this year include Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Telegu, Assamese, Haryanavi and Urdu. This year’s festival will feature a couple of sidebars –Nfdc restored first films of filmmakers and a three-generations sidebar, films of Bimal Roy, Basu Bhattacharya and Aditya Bhattacharya.
The festival’s film lineup includes 2016 National Award winners A Far Afternoon,...
- 4/13/2016
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
Kolkata, Feb 20: A new book on the late Bengali cinema icon Suchitra Sen offers a peep into the life of the elusive actress through rare photographs, replica of posters and insights offered by renowned filmmakers.
Titled 'Mahanayika' (great actress), the 500-page book was released Wednesday and has write-ups on Sen by director Ritwik Ghatak, Ajay Kar and Asit Sen, among others.
It also carries an article by Sen's biographer and friend Gopal Krishna Roy.
"Besides photographs and posters, there is a collection of news clippings reporting her death," Roy, who was present at the launch, told Ians.
The 82-year-old actress died at a nursing home here Jan 17 following a massive cardiac arrest.
Ians...
Titled 'Mahanayika' (great actress), the 500-page book was released Wednesday and has write-ups on Sen by director Ritwik Ghatak, Ajay Kar and Asit Sen, among others.
It also carries an article by Sen's biographer and friend Gopal Krishna Roy.
"Besides photographs and posters, there is a collection of news clippings reporting her death," Roy, who was present at the launch, told Ians.
The 82-year-old actress died at a nursing home here Jan 17 following a massive cardiac arrest.
Ians...
- 2/20/2014
- by Shiva Prakash
- RealBollywood.com
He broke all the rules of stardom and yet was a star, a romantic hero and an all-rounder par excellence. 47 was no age for one of Hindi cinema's brightest talents to go, but on November 6, 1985, Sanjeev Kumar passed away, leaving fans, friends and the Hindi film shell-shocked. Gulzar remembers Sanjeev Kumar "For me, he was the complete actor. I have always said that I had two anchors - one was Sanjeev Kumar, and the other was R.D.Burman. What most people do not know is that I knew Haribhai (as I called him) from the late 1950s. We were both with the Indian National Theatre where I would write for the plays and he was a stage actor. Sanjeev was a student of P.D.Shenoy, who was also teaching at the Filmalaya School of Acting and later turned film director. Sanjeev was just over 20 years old, and he was playing a father!
- 11/4/2010
- by Rajiv Vijayakar (Screen Weekly)
- BollywoodHungama
National Award winning Bengali actor Prosenjit Chatterjee is keen to wield the megaphone and follow in the footsteps of legends like Guru Dutt to make movies that have .intelligence and mass appeal...Direction is my next career choice. I would make movies of Guru Dutt, Asit Sen and Mani Ratnam style which would have intelligence and yet mass appeal. I would make movies for the mass not for myself,. Prosenjit told Ians on phone from Kolkata.The 47-year-old, known for his performances in Rituparno Ghosh.s .Chokher Bali. and .Dosar., cut his teeth in 1968 as a child artist with director Jagannath Chatterjee.s .Chhotto Jignasha., in which his father Biswajeet played the lead.Later in 1983, he returned as a full-fledged actor with .Duti Pata. and has remained on top of the Bengali film industry ever since.The actor describes his journey as challenging..Every moment of my journey since I started has been very challenging.
- 10/18/2009
- Filmicafe
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