The New York Indian Film Festival (Nyiff) announced the full lineup last night for their 14th year of celebrating independent, art house, alternate, and Diaspora films from/about/connected to the Indian subcontinent (May 5 – 10) at the SoHo Tiffin Junction. Dedicated to bringing these films to a New York audience, the festival will feature 34 screenings (23 narrative, 11 documentary) –all seen for the first time in New York City.
The festival highlights various cinemas of India’s different regions – Marathi, Bengali and two films from the Northeast. In addition the festival covers cinemas from the neighboring South Asian countries – four films by Pakistani filmmakers, two from Sri Lanka – a feature and a documentary, and one from Nepal.
The festival’s Marathi films include Postcard and multiple-award winning films Astu and Fandry. Directed by Nagraj Manjule, Fandry received rave reviews in India, winning the grand jury prize at the Mumbai Film Festival in October...
The festival highlights various cinemas of India’s different regions – Marathi, Bengali and two films from the Northeast. In addition the festival covers cinemas from the neighboring South Asian countries – four films by Pakistani filmmakers, two from Sri Lanka – a feature and a documentary, and one from Nepal.
The festival’s Marathi films include Postcard and multiple-award winning films Astu and Fandry. Directed by Nagraj Manjule, Fandry received rave reviews in India, winning the grand jury prize at the Mumbai Film Festival in October...
- 4/10/2014
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
Moushumi Chatterjee and Sai Paranjpye inaugurate 3rd Kashish International Queer Film Fest in Mumbai
Veteran actress Moushumi Chatterjee and noted filmmaker Sai Paranjpye threw open the 3rd Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival at Cinemax Versova on Wednesday.
Moushumi Chatterjee also inaugurated an art exhibition “Celebrating the lost art of Bollywood billboards with a queer twist’’.
Sai Paranjpye said that she was part of the festival for the second consecutive year– in 2011 she headed the jury – and was impressed with the strides that the festival had taken in the last three years.
The opening ceremony was followed by the screening of Beginners starring Ewan McGregor and Christopher Plummer. Plummer won the 2012 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for Beginners in which he essays the role of an elderly man who comes out of the closet.
The jury for the festival comprises actor-director Renuka Shahane and Parvin Dabas, theatre actor Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal, television actress Mona Ambegaonkar, and film critic Mayank Shekhar.
This year the festival received...
Moushumi Chatterjee also inaugurated an art exhibition “Celebrating the lost art of Bollywood billboards with a queer twist’’.
Sai Paranjpye said that she was part of the festival for the second consecutive year– in 2011 she headed the jury – and was impressed with the strides that the festival had taken in the last three years.
The opening ceremony was followed by the screening of Beginners starring Ewan McGregor and Christopher Plummer. Plummer won the 2012 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for Beginners in which he essays the role of an elderly man who comes out of the closet.
The jury for the festival comprises actor-director Renuka Shahane and Parvin Dabas, theatre actor Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal, television actress Mona Ambegaonkar, and film critic Mayank Shekhar.
This year the festival received...
- 5/24/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Film: ‘Dunno Y…Na Jaane Kyun’; Cast: Zeenat Aman, Kabir Bedi, Helen, Kapil Sharma, Yuvraaj Parasher, Maradona Rebello, Rituparna Sengupta, Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal, Asha Sachdev; Director: Sanjay Sharma; Rating: **
As far as scrutinizing a gay relationship is concerned, this isn’t a patch on Ang Lee’s ‘Brokeback Mountain’. But still…it tries.
This fatally flawed look at the dark secrets of an Anglo-Indian family where the single mother sleeps with her cheesy boss for lack of choice and the elder married.
As far as scrutinizing a gay relationship is concerned, this isn’t a patch on Ang Lee’s ‘Brokeback Mountain’. But still…it tries.
This fatally flawed look at the dark secrets of an Anglo-Indian family where the single mother sleeps with her cheesy boss for lack of choice and the elder married.
- 11/12/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
Today, Shabana Azmi turns 60. She brought in her birthday last night after the premiere of her play, Seven, that wrapped up a three-day conference on women’s issues and rights in the Capital.“I started my career with Ankur that also touched on a woman’s issue. Now 36 years later, I’ve featured in a play that is a collation of powerful voices of women who have struggled against all odds to reach leadership positions. It’s a happy coincidence!” she exults, confident that her co-artistes, Urmila Matondkar, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Tanvi Azmi, Jayanti Bhatia, Mahabanoo Mody Kotwal and Mahira Kakkar who raised a ...
- 9/18/2010
- Hindustan Times - Celebrity
His elder brother Anil Sharma may have made period films like Gadar and Veer, but Kapil Sharma has penned a truly hatke film called Donno Y... Na Jaane Kyon?, which deals with the love affair of a gay couple, portrayed by Kapil himself and Yuvraaj Parashar. Co-starring hi-profile veterans like Zeenat Aman, Helen, Mahabanoo Mody Kotwal and Kabir Bedi, the film is directed by Sanjay Sharma, elder to Kapil, but younger to Anil Sharma. While Dostana wasn't a 'gay film' as such, Donno Y... Na Jaane Kyon? promises to be India's answer to Brokeback Mountain. That's a tall claim, isn't it? "We aren't comparing the two films. All we are saying is that like Brokeback Mountain, Donno Y... Na Jaane Kyon? also talks of two men who love each other unconditionally," Kapil clarifies. What was elder brother Anil Sharma's reaction when he heard the plot? "He was surprised, but...
- 5/25/2010
- by Taran Adarsh
- BollywoodHungama
As ‘Little Zizou’ unfolds, one gets to see a world as seen by the 11 year old protagonist – Xerxes (Jahan Bativala) – a boy who just loves his football and looks forward to meet his icon Zinedane Zidane – on whose name he got his nickname – Zizou.
A motherless child born Zizou is brought up in a typical Parsi surrounding. He is the son of Cyrus II Khodaiji (Sohrab Ardeshir) an extremist who proclaims to be a spiritual healer thereby misleading the Parsi community for his own sake.
Through the portrayal Cyrus II Khodaiji (Sohrab Ardeshir) and Boman Presswala (Boman Irani) of fundamental and liberal Parsis, Sooni Taraporevala, who makes her directorial debut with the flick, is successful in highlighting a long drawn dispute among the Parisis.
However, the film does not dwell much upon the origin of Parsis except for the fact that Parsis came to India when Persia was attacked by the Arabs.
A motherless child born Zizou is brought up in a typical Parsi surrounding. He is the son of Cyrus II Khodaiji (Sohrab Ardeshir) an extremist who proclaims to be a spiritual healer thereby misleading the Parsi community for his own sake.
Through the portrayal Cyrus II Khodaiji (Sohrab Ardeshir) and Boman Presswala (Boman Irani) of fundamental and liberal Parsis, Sooni Taraporevala, who makes her directorial debut with the flick, is successful in highlighting a long drawn dispute among the Parisis.
However, the film does not dwell much upon the origin of Parsis except for the fact that Parsis came to India when Persia was attacked by the Arabs.
- 3/13/2009
- by mihirkula
- India.com
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