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Bombay to Bangkokz |
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Discovery section of the Toronto International Film Festival, which is described as showcasing "provocative feature films by new and emerging directors". Maati May is an adaptation of Mahasweta Devi's Marathi-language story "Baayen" ("Witch"). Nandita Das plays Chandi, a wild-haired outcast from a northern Maharashtra village, who is reduced to living like a savage on the outskirts of the community. |
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The Gondhal singers used the tuntuna (a one-stringed instrument) and manjeera (a pair of small metal cymbals). When the tamasha form was evolving, these two instruments were incorporated in it. The tuntuna and manjeera players sing the refrain. When the main singer stops, they take up the last line. Their voices jump to an astoundingly high pitch.
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Superstar |
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A film that explores the struggle of the people of the Narmada Valley against the big dams that threaten to submerge their lands and displace them from their homes, traditions and cultures
Kak’s new film joins the growing filmic documentation of the struggle of the people of the Narmada Valley against the big dams that threaten to submerge their lands, displace them from their homes and slowly but surely, cut them off from their traditions and their cultures. |
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This feature film by Ananya Chatterjee Chakraborti charts the evolution of an illiterate woman from a dummy panchayat president elected under the 73rd amendment to a committed, responsible and empowered leader
Ananya Chatterjee Chakrabortis maiden feature film, Dwitiya Paksha , shows how cinema can be used to make a powerful statement about a governance issue, in this case a constitutional amendment.
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Om Shanti Om |
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India’s metropolitan cities allow single women economic and professional freedom. But the five single women from New Delhi featured in this documentary find their personal freedom compromised
Five single women, differing somewhat in age and rather more in income, choose to live on their own in 21 st-century Delhi . This simple, effective film captures their hopes and dreams, their fears and anxieties as it simultaneously explodes the myth of our cosmopolitan capital city. |
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ANOLKHI HEY GHAR MAZE |
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Madhur Bhandarkar’s film reveals what goes on behind the gloss and glamour with such gloss and glamour that it inadvertently ends up glorifying the very ethos it sets out to critique
It about time it happened. An expose of the glitterati who fluff the pages of our dailies. Of their shallow preoccupations and single-minded pursuit of money, style and celebrity status. |
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