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Indian Cinema
The Head hunter
The Head hunter
2015 - 109’- Arunachali - Colour - India
Director: Nilanjan Datta
Producer: Splash Films Private Ltd.
Cast: Nokshaa Saham, Mrigendra Narayan Konwar
Screenplay: Nilanjan Datta
Cinematographer: Maulshri Singh
Editor: Nanvita Sen Datta
Sound Designer: Anmol Bhave
Production Company: Splash Films Private Ltd.
Festival/Awards:
International Film Festival of India, Goa
The Head Hunter revolves around an old man from a forgotten tribe of India, dreaded for
its practice of head hunting. When the government decides to build a road through the
Old Man’s forest, he becomes a nuisance for administration. A city-bred young official,
who belongs to the same tribe, tricks him into spending a few days in the city. When he
comes back everything has changed. The film questions the creation of homogenous
culture of existence and morality.
Director’s Biography
Nilanjan Datta is a National Award-winning director. He has made several
documentary films and shorts. He is currently the Associate Professor of
Film Editing at the Film and Television of India, Pune.
Director’s Filmography
The Head Hunter (2015)
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Birds With Large Wings
Valiya Chirakulla Pakshikal
2015 - 116’- Malayalam, English, French - India
Indian Cinema
Director: Dr. Biju
Producer: Dr.A.K.Pillai
Cast: Kunchacko Boban, Nedumudi Venu, Suraj
Venjaramoodu, Salim Kumar, Prakash Bare
Screenplay: Dr. Biju
Cinematographer: M. J. Radhakrishnan
Editor: Karthik Jogesh
Sound Designer: Jayadeven Chakkadath
Music Composer: Santosh Chandran
Production Designer: Santosh Raman
Production Company: Maya movies
Festival/Awards:
World Humanitarian event, Jakarta, September (2015)
World Humanitarian Award
International film festival of India , November (2015)
The film is a partly fictionalized presentation of the great tragedy that occurred in
Ksaragod district of kerla in India, consequent upon the aerial spraying of Endosulfan a
highly toxic pesticide on cashew plantation. The spraying affected the people as well as
environment continuously for two and a half decades. The film depicts the after effects
of pesticide spraying through the eyes of photographer, who finally realizes that the
apathy towards the plight of the victims will not end.
Asia Pacific screen awards, Australia, November (2015)
United Nations, Geneva, November (2015)
International Film Festival Kolkata, Novemberm, 2015
Director’s Biography
Dr. Biju is a self taught filmmaker and director whose films have been
sent to several film festivals and have won multiple national
international awards.
Director’s Filmography
Perariyathavar (2013)
Akashathinte Niram (Color of Sky) (2012)
Veettilekkulla Vazhi (The Way Home) (2010)
Raman (2008)
Saira (2005)
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City Pride
Presents
Marathi
Cinema Today
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Aakrandan
Aakrandan
2015 - 154’ - Marathi - Colour - India
Marathi Cinema
Director: Shashikant Deshpande
Producer: Govind Aaher
Cast: Sharad Ponkshe, Upendra Limaye, Ganesh Yadav, Bal
Smita, Pradeep Velankar, Uday Tikekar, Tejashree Pradhan,
Pallavi Wagh
Screenplay: Shashikant Deshpande, Milind Inamdar
Cinematographer: Damodar Naidu
Editor: Manoj Samkla
Sound Designer: Akki Suresh Chandra
Music Composer: Devdutt Sable
Production Designer: Ganesh Raukhande, Vishal Tapsundar
Production Company: Parvati Putra Productions
Festival/Awards: Delhi International Film Festival 2015
The film puts light on burning issue of discrimination and racism. It is a story of a poor farmer
of a backward class from a remote village of Maharashtra, who is living happily with his family.
But corrupt leaders try to grab his land and harass him. His family decides to stand against the
monarch power.
Director’s Biography
Shashikant Deshpande is a writer and director. He has directed many T.V
serials and telefilms.
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Anurag
Anurag
Marathi Cinema
Director: Dr. Ambarish Darak
Producer: Aparna Darak
Cast: Mrunmayee Deshpande , Dharamendra Gohil,
Kundan Roy
Screenplay: Dr.Ambarish Darak
Cinematographer: Suresh Deshmane
Editor: Rajesh Rao
Sound Designer: Vijay Bhope
Production Company: RRP Corporation Pvt.Ltd
A poetic film of midlife crisis, where a couple is desperately trying to repaint and revive
their picture of love on the verge of decay.
Director’s Biography
Dr. Ambarish Darak is one of the leading and successful Refractive
Surgeons from India. During his college days, Dr. Darak was very active in
theatre and received state level awards for screenplay and direction. He
had also produced a theatrical play titled “Wo Jo Shayaar Hai”as a tribute
to the legendary GULZAAR which gained much critical acclaim. He did
with his debut feature film ÄNURAAG”, as a director, screenplay and
dialogue writer.
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Bho Bho (A dog bark)
Bho Bho
2015 - 111’ - Marathi - Colour - India
Marathi Cinema
Director: Bharat Gaikwad
Producer: Bharat Gaikwad
Cast: Prashant Damle, Subodh Bhave, Ashwini Ekbote
Screenplay: Bharat Gaikwad, Jayanta Bordoloi
Cinematographer: Anil Chandel
Editor: Mukesh Timori
Sound Designer: Akki Sureshchandra
Music Composer: Parth Thakkar
Production Designer: Dinesh Satpute
Production Company: Sumukhesh Films
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: Bho Bho is a story of 'Sandy', a pet dog, who is accused of having attacked and killed his
master and is to be put to sleep. Vyankatesh, a private eye is asked to inquire into this case.
Director’s Biography
Bharat Gaikwad is a director who has worked as a director in Marathi and
Hindi serials. Marathi film 'Dhava Dhav' was his debut feature film.
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Director’s Filmography
Dhava Dhav (2011)
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Ganvesh
2015-117’ - Marathi - Colour - India
Marathi Cinema
Director: Atul Jagdale
Producer: Atul Jagdale
Cast: Dilip Prabhavalkar, Mukta Barve, Kishore Kadam,
Smita Tambe, Jayant Sawarkar, Suha Palshikar, Ganesh
Yadav, Nagesh Bhosle, Sharad Ponkshe, Guru Thakur,
Tanmay Mande, Kalpak Mane
Screenplay: Tejesh Ghadage
Cinematographer: Atul Jagdale
Editor: Rajesh Rao
Sound Designer: Shishir Chausalkar
Music Composer: Mangesh Dhakde
Costume Designer: Smita Koli
Production Designer: Dnyandeo Indulkar
Production Company: Vijayate Entertainment
'Ganvesh' revolves around a couple working at the brick manufacturing unit and
somehow manage to run their house and send their little child to school. However, their
real test begins when the child is selected for the 15th August cultural programme in the
school and is asked to be present in school uniform. Not able to afford a school uniform for
their child, the couple works harder to buy the uniform so that they can meet the
requirement of school authorities.
Director’s Biography
Atul Jagdale has worked as a cinematographer in Marathi and Hindi film
industry.
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Marathi Cinema
The Silence
The Silence
2015 - 91’ - Marathi - Colour - India
Director: Gajendra Ahire
Producer: Ashwini Sidwani, Arpan Bhukhanwale, Navneet
Hullad
Cast:Raghuvir Yadav, Anjali Patil, Nagraj Manjule, Kadambari
Kadam, Mugdha Chaphekar, Vedashree Mahajan
Screenplay: Ashwini Sidwani, Gajendra Ahire
Cinematographer: Krishna Soren,
Editor: Mayur Hardas
Sound Designer: Vijay Bhope
Music Composer: Indian Ocean
Production Designer: Manoj Bijlwan
Production Company: SMR films
Late at night on a local train in Mumbai, young Chini witnesses a woman being sexually
abused. This experience forces her to face up to demons from her past. Based on a true story,
the narrative revolves around a little girl growing up in poverty with her father in a rural area.
Director’s Biography
Gajendra Vitthal Ahire (1969) is an Indian film maker and screenwriter.
Tillnow, he has 42 movies on his name in all of which he has contributed as
Director, Story, Screenplay, Dialogues and Lyrics. He is noted for his work in
Marathi cinema, including a 2003 'Not Only Mrs. Raut', 2007 biopic about
Vasudev Balwant Phadke and has also worked as a television screenwriter
for programs such as Shrimaan-Shrimati
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Director’s Filmography
Shevri
Touring Talkies
Not Only Mrs. Raut
Anumati
Bayo
National Film
Archives Of India
Presents
Gems of
NFAI
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National Film Archive of India, NFAI is the Premier Organization under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting,
Government of India with a mandate to Preserve and Promote the rich filmic heritage of the Country. Established in
February, 1964, NFAI is one of the largest film archives in the world. It is the principal custodian of one of the most
prolific and diverse film patrimonies in the world. NFAI's charter includes the promotion of film scholarship and
research on cinema, furthering the global outreach of Indian cinema and showcasing the wealth of India's cinematic
legacy to audiences across the country and the globe.
It is an ongoing job at the Archive to trace and acquire national and international films to enrich its existing collection.
The Research and Documentation Centre has a large collection of ancillary items on Indian Cinema like photographs /
stills, song-booklets, wallposters, pamphlets and other publicity material and innumerable press-clippings. The wellstocked library of nearly 30,000 books on Cinema is a boon to serious students of Cinema in India and abroad. Over
40,000 film scripts both Indian and foreign are also preserved in the Archive.
As a part of its activities of disseminating film culture, NFAI supplies films to film societies, educational institutions and
cultural organizations in the country. It is a major source of films for international film festivals in India and abroad.
NFAI also organizes Exhibition of Wallposters on various themes at different venues thus bringing Indian Cinema to the
doorsteps of one and all.
NFAI has been conducting its Annual Film Appreciation Course of four weeks duration at Pune in collaboration with FTII
for the last four decades. Participants from different professions from all over India are exposed to the best of Indian
and World Cinema. The Archive also conducts short-term courses on similar lines in collaboration with educational
institutions and cultural organizations in other parts of the country as well.
NFAI is India's leading cultural heritage management institution. NFAI has been a member of the International
Federation of Film Archives since May 1969, which enables it to get expert advice and material on preservation
techniques, documentation etc. The Archive has its own state-of-the-art film vaults designed to International film
preservation standards.
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Report to Mother
Amma Ariyan
1986 - 115’- Malayalam - Colour - India
Gems Of NFAI
Direction: John Abraham
Cast: Joy Mathew, MajiVenkitesh, NilamboorBalan,
Harinarayanan, KunhulakshmiAmma, Iringal Narayani,
Nazim
Screenplay: John Abraham
Cinematography: Venu
Editing: Beena Pawl
Sound: Krishnanunni
Music: Sunitha
Production: Odessa Movies
Abraham's last and most complex film unfolds in the form of an open letter from a son,
Purushan, to his mother, interweaving fact and fiction with fragments of memory.
Purushan sets out for Delhi after meeting his friend Paru, who is researching a thesis on
Durga, the mother goddess. Along the way he finds a hanged man who seems hauntingly
familiar. Reconstructing the identity of the corpse takes Purushan, and a group of young
men who all have a stake in the youth's history, from the northern Kerala to South Cochin,
ending with a re-evaluation of a generation's radical past. Abraham manages to endow
both the journey and the central character with broader historical resonances in a manner
reminiscent of the director's master, Ritwik Ghatak. In Amma Ariyan the fictional is
embedded in a documentary style deploying high contrast black and white photography
and florid camera movements and self-conscious compositions.
Director’s Biography
Malayalam director who studied economics at a college near Kottayam.
His grandfather educated him and gave him his first camera. He worked
as an insurance salesman in Bellary. Then he went to FTII (Film and
Television Institute of India) and studied under Bengali director Ritwik
Kumar Ghatak. He started with a student film. His first film was
Vidyarthikale Ithile Ithile (1971) made in Tamil. He also wrote his own
films.
Director’s Filmography
Cheriyachante Kroora Krithyangal (1979)
Donkey In A Brahmin Village (1977)
Trisandhya (1972)
Vidhyarthigale Ithile Ithile (1971)
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Bhuvan Shome
Bhuvan Shome
1969 - 96’- Bengali - Black and White
Direction: Mrinal Sen
Producer: Mrinal Sen Production
Cast: Utpal Dutt, Suhasinin Mulay, Sadhu Meher, Shekhar
Chatterjee
Screenplay: Mrinal Sen
Cinematogrphy: K.K.Mahajan
Sound: Loken Bose, Devaprasad Dutta
Editing: GangadharNaskar
Music: Vijay Raghava Rao
Production Company: Mrinal Sen Production
Adelightfully subdued and amusing film about a middle aged stiff-necked bureaucrat,
whose jaunt down a countryside brings about a sea change in him for the better.Bhuvan
Shome, a senior officer of the Indian Railways, decides to take a holidaywhere he can also
pursue his hobby of bird-watching in the peace and tranquil village atmosphere.The stay
in the village becomes a soothing humanizing influence.When Bhuvan Shome returns to
his desk, he is no longer the same man.The film is a technically exciting work with its
deliberate breaking up of the narrative illusion.'BhuvanShome' uses an episodic,
consistently wayward style, the shades of which return again and again in Sen's later
films.The film uses controlled improvisation, which in its more overt form, will distance
the audience from the immediate drama and make the process of viewing a conscious
intellectual exercise.
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Mrinal Sen is one of his nation's most politically active film-makers. In
1956 Sen made his debut with Raat Bhore (1956). Although it was openly
political, he achieved national status as the director of a comedy, Bhuvan
Shome (1969). Influenced by Italian neo-realism, Sen used location
shooting and non-professional casts in his early films. By the 1970s he
was making wider use of symbolism and allegory. Sen's films have won
numerous international awards. The Case Is Closed (1982), a scathing
look at the hypocritical reaction of a bourgeois Calcutta family to the
death of a servant boy, took home the Jury Prize from the 1983 Cannes
Film Festival.
Director’s Filmography
Aamaar Bhuvan (2002)
Ek Din Achanak (1989)
Chaalchitra (1981)
Mrigayaa (1977)
Ek Adhuri Kahani (1972)
Akash Kusum (1965)