Actor Boman Irani, who has lent his voice to the documentary film ‘1947: Brexit India’, shared that it is an exploration of a human tragedy and called it a “pivotal moment” in India’s history.
‘1947: Brexit India’, which is an Indo-us production, has been officially selected to be showcased at the International Film Festival of India (Iffi) 2023 in Goa. The documentary presents a compelling exploration of the events surrounding Britain’s abrupt exit from India in 1947.
The film boasts an ensemble of distinguished personalities, including Shashi Tharoor, William Dalrymple, Ishtiaq Ahmed, Uday Bhaskar, Professor M. Rajivlochan, Allister Hinds, professor Tom Tomlinson, David Omissi and Gurharpal Singh. It has been written by Shama Zaidi, and directed and co-produced by Sanjivan Lal who previously helmed the acclaimed film ‘Bubble Gum’.
Talking about the film, Boman Irani shared: “As the narrator, I embraced the challenge of presenting a historical narrative to engage today’s audience.
‘1947: Brexit India’, which is an Indo-us production, has been officially selected to be showcased at the International Film Festival of India (Iffi) 2023 in Goa. The documentary presents a compelling exploration of the events surrounding Britain’s abrupt exit from India in 1947.
The film boasts an ensemble of distinguished personalities, including Shashi Tharoor, William Dalrymple, Ishtiaq Ahmed, Uday Bhaskar, Professor M. Rajivlochan, Allister Hinds, professor Tom Tomlinson, David Omissi and Gurharpal Singh. It has been written by Shama Zaidi, and directed and co-produced by Sanjivan Lal who previously helmed the acclaimed film ‘Bubble Gum’.
Talking about the film, Boman Irani shared: “As the narrator, I embraced the challenge of presenting a historical narrative to engage today’s audience.
- 11/20/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Actor Boman Irani, who has lent his voice to the documentary film ‘1947: Brexit India’, shared that it is an exploration of a human tragedy and called it a “pivotal moment” in India’s history.
‘1947: Brexit India’, which is an Indo-us production, has been officially selected to be showcased at the International Film Festival of India (Iffi) 2023 in Goa. The documentary presents a compelling exploration of the events surrounding Britain’s abrupt exit from India in 1947.
The film boasts an ensemble of distinguished personalities, including Shashi Tharoor, William Dalrymple, Ishtiaq Ahmed, Uday Bhaskar, Professor M. Rajivlochan, Allister Hinds, professor Tom Tomlinson, David Omissi and Gurharpal Singh. It has been written by Shama Zaidi, and directed and co-produced by Sanjivan Lal who previously helmed the acclaimed film ‘Bubble Gum’.
Talking about the film, Boman Irani shared: “As the narrator, I embraced the challenge of presenting a historical narrative to engage today’s audience.
‘1947: Brexit India’, which is an Indo-us production, has been officially selected to be showcased at the International Film Festival of India (Iffi) 2023 in Goa. The documentary presents a compelling exploration of the events surrounding Britain’s abrupt exit from India in 1947.
The film boasts an ensemble of distinguished personalities, including Shashi Tharoor, William Dalrymple, Ishtiaq Ahmed, Uday Bhaskar, Professor M. Rajivlochan, Allister Hinds, professor Tom Tomlinson, David Omissi and Gurharpal Singh. It has been written by Shama Zaidi, and directed and co-produced by Sanjivan Lal who previously helmed the acclaimed film ‘Bubble Gum’.
Talking about the film, Boman Irani shared: “As the narrator, I embraced the challenge of presenting a historical narrative to engage today’s audience.
- 11/20/2023
- by Agency News Desk
Awards
Siân Heder’s “Coda,” an Apple original film, has won the 2021 Sundance Film Festival: London Award presented by BIFA.
The award was voted for by 40 leading professionals from the British film industry assembled by the British Independent Film Awards.
The film follows Ruby, a Coda or Child of Deaf Adults, who is torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents. The film stars Emilia Jones, Eugenio Derbez, Troy Kotsur, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Daniel Durant, and Marlee Matlin, and is produced by Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi and Patrick Wachsberger.
It had its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival in the U.S., where it won best director U.S. dramatic, U.S. grand jury prize: dramatic and the audience award: U.S. dramatic. Walsh-Peelo attended the London event with Heder joining virtually for a Q & A.
The film will debut in cinemas and on Apple TV Plus on Aug.
Siân Heder’s “Coda,” an Apple original film, has won the 2021 Sundance Film Festival: London Award presented by BIFA.
The award was voted for by 40 leading professionals from the British film industry assembled by the British Independent Film Awards.
The film follows Ruby, a Coda or Child of Deaf Adults, who is torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents. The film stars Emilia Jones, Eugenio Derbez, Troy Kotsur, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Daniel Durant, and Marlee Matlin, and is produced by Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi and Patrick Wachsberger.
It had its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival in the U.S., where it won best director U.S. dramatic, U.S. grand jury prize: dramatic and the audience award: U.S. dramatic. Walsh-Peelo attended the London event with Heder joining virtually for a Q & A.
The film will debut in cinemas and on Apple TV Plus on Aug.
- 8/4/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Bollywood epic movie ‘Umrao Jaan’ director Muzaffar Ali is returning after three decades gap with his next outing ‘Jaanisaar’. As the movie’s releasing date is coming near, the promotional activities of the film are going full swing. The Jaanisaar team were recently spotted promoting the film. Lead actors Imran Abbas and Permia Qureshi were presented along with director.
Jaanisaar is a love saga of a revolutionary courtesan of Avadh, India, and a prince brought up in England, set 20 years after the first war of Indian independence of 1857. Written by Javed Siddiqui, Shama Zaidi and Muzaffar Ali, the film is scheduled to release on 7th August this year.
The post Promotion of Muzaffar Ali’s ‘Jaanisaar’ appeared first on BollySpice.com.
Jaanisaar is a love saga of a revolutionary courtesan of Avadh, India, and a prince brought up in England, set 20 years after the first war of Indian independence of 1857. Written by Javed Siddiqui, Shama Zaidi and Muzaffar Ali, the film is scheduled to release on 7th August this year.
The post Promotion of Muzaffar Ali’s ‘Jaanisaar’ appeared first on BollySpice.com.
- 7/27/2015
- by BollySpice Editors
- Bollyspice
The Mumbai International Film Festival (Miff) saw sparks fly when filmmaker Sajid Khan said .there are no stories left., triggering a tirade against him from scriptwriters and audience members.Scriptwriting and scriptwriters are indeed the eyesore of Bollywood. The .successful. filmmaker and TV funnyman Sajid.s first mistake was when he said: .There are no stories left. We have to rehash old wine and put it in new bottles..He made this comment at a discussion on scriptwriting and scriptwriters Sunday.This prompted the moderator, veteran writer Anjum Rajabali, to give the mike to another senior writer Shama Zaidi who not only talked about the scripting traditions of the country, but also pointed out its problems when during the first days of Indian cinema, writers were mostly munims (accountants).Rajabali was kinder in his retort to Sajid, when he politely said that .India has thousands of years of storytelling tradition...
- 10/25/2010
- Filmicafe
Mumbai, Oct 23 – After the lively debate on censorship on the second day of the Mumbai Film Festival (Mff), the third day Saturday saw a discussion on film scripts and their creative evolution.
The panel for the event, chaired by Atul Tiwari, included Shama Zaidi, Chetan Bhagat, Piyush Mishra, Deepa Gahlot and Romanian filmmaker Florin Serban.
Novelist Chetan Bhagat highlighted the difference between writing a book and a script. ‘Book is an author’s game, while film is not,’ he said.
He highlighted the changes that during the adaptation of his book for ‘3 Idiots’. ‘The.
The panel for the event, chaired by Atul Tiwari, included Shama Zaidi, Chetan Bhagat, Piyush Mishra, Deepa Gahlot and Romanian filmmaker Florin Serban.
Novelist Chetan Bhagat highlighted the difference between writing a book and a script. ‘Book is an author’s game, while film is not,’ he said.
He highlighted the changes that during the adaptation of his book for ‘3 Idiots’. ‘The.
- 10/23/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
Film and Television Institute of India (Ftii) in collaboration with Film Writers’ Association (Fwa) will organize a seminar on ‘The Uniqueness of the Indian Script’ on August 28 and 29. The venue of the seminar will be Ftii, Pune.
The schedule of the seminar is as follows:
28th Aug 2010
Session 1
11am-1pm
How it all Began: Genesis of and Influences on the Early Indian Script
Chair: Adoor Gopalkrishnan
Speakers: Shama Zaidi, Kaushik Bhaumik
Panel: Virchand Dharamsey, Suresh Chhabria, Atul Tiwari
Session 2
2-4pm
Dramatic Highs: Melodrama and our Cinematic Form
Chair: Salim Khan
Speakers: Ira Bhaskar, K. Hariharan
Panel: Christine Gledhill, Ravi Vasudevan, Kamlesh Pandey
Session 3
4:30-6:30pm
A Song and Dance About Everything: Music, Song and Lyrics in the Script
Chair: Javed Akhtar
Speaker: Vinay Shukla
Panel: Madan Gopal Singh, Swanand Kirkire
29th Aug 2010
Session 4
9:30-11:15am
Anger and Rebellion: The New Wave Cinema (plus the Angry...
The schedule of the seminar is as follows:
28th Aug 2010
Session 1
11am-1pm
How it all Began: Genesis of and Influences on the Early Indian Script
Chair: Adoor Gopalkrishnan
Speakers: Shama Zaidi, Kaushik Bhaumik
Panel: Virchand Dharamsey, Suresh Chhabria, Atul Tiwari
Session 2
2-4pm
Dramatic Highs: Melodrama and our Cinematic Form
Chair: Salim Khan
Speakers: Ira Bhaskar, K. Hariharan
Panel: Christine Gledhill, Ravi Vasudevan, Kamlesh Pandey
Session 3
4:30-6:30pm
A Song and Dance About Everything: Music, Song and Lyrics in the Script
Chair: Javed Akhtar
Speaker: Vinay Shukla
Panel: Madan Gopal Singh, Swanand Kirkire
29th Aug 2010
Session 4
9:30-11:15am
Anger and Rebellion: The New Wave Cinema (plus the Angry...
- 8/19/2010
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
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