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A Saturday of 1965, at Greek Resto: The Lore of Rajiv And Sonia Gandhi s Love at First Sight in Cambridge
File photo of Sonia and Rajiv Gandhi
Funnily, for quite a while, Sonia had only a hazy idea of Rajiv’s political links and the premier position that the Gandhis enjoyed in India. It was only when, one day, a friend of Sonia’s showed her a photograph of the visiting Indian prime minister that she realised that the Gandhis were into the politics of India.
Revisiting Bengali films in the 100th year of Indian cinema May 20, 2013, 12:25 PM IST
Sharmistha Gooptu is a film scholar and has a PhD in history from the University of Chicago. She is a founder and managing trustee of the South Asia Research Foundation (SARF), and editor of the online South Asia Archive. She is also the joint editor of the journal South Asian History and Culture (Routledge) and the Routledge South Asian History and Culture book series. LESS. MORE
As Indian cinema celebrates its 100 years, attention, for a large part, has been centred on Bombay, where Dadasaheb Phalke’s mythological Raja Harishchandra- the ‘first’ full-length ‘Indian’ film- released in 1913. However, Calcutta, till 1911, the capital of British India, already had a nascent film industry in the 1910s, and was almost at par with Bombay in silent and first talkie eras– a history that is often forgotten. Over the years, Bengali cinema has had its own presence, producing
Chunibala Devi in Pather Panchali (1955) | Government of West Bengal/Criterion Collection is among the most assured filmmaking debuts in the annals of cinema. Ray’s adaptation of a portion of Bhibhuti Bhushan Bandyopadhyay’s novel of the same name was released in 1955. Sixty-six years later, the spell cast by the chronicle of a family in rural Bengal is intact.
Pather Panchali revolves around the hardscrabble lives of Harihar, his wife Sarbajaya and their children Durga and Apu. Harihar’s elderly cousin Indir Thakrun also lives with the family and is particularly close to Durga. Sarbajaya, weighted down by poverty, is often rude to Indir, causing her to temporarily seek shelter with another relative in the village.
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, pressed however that no official plans for what his next project is have been announced.
The filmmaker has said before that he’s a fan of Indian cinema, revealing that Satyajit Ray’s
Pather Panchali is one of his favourite films and one of the best films ever made [via
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Tenet late last year he was asked if he would want any of his films to be adapted into a game.
Nolan responded by comparing the filmmaking process to video game development, saying that while both are “complicated and [take] a long time”, the video game development process tends to be a more complex entity.
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Pintrest Another Round to be the opening film for the festival and Satyajit Ray’s classic Pather Panchali will be screened at the festival
With 50% occupancy, SOPs in place, shows with 1.5 hours gap, physical screenings will be organised at IFFI in Goa from January 16-24. Over 200 films will be screened under different sections at the festival which will be organised in a hybrid format.
Another round to open 51st IFFI
Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round , which is Denmark’s official entry for Oscars 2020 will be the opening film at IFFI. This film was also part of Cannes Film Festival’s official selection. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Japanese film Wife of a Spy (2020), will be the closing film at IFFI. Among others, Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali (1955), Stanley Kubrick’s Path of Glory (1957), Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Devdas (2002) will also be screened.