Malaysian first-time director and former music and film producer Jin Ong was the superstar of the closing ceremony of Udine Far East Film Festival 25, last week, bagging three Mulberry Awards and a standing ovation from an overexcited audience, with his social relevant film “Abang Adik”. The film won the Audience Award, the Best First Film Award, and the best Screenplay Award; an additional ideal award could be added to the lot, as “Abang Adik” was also the first Malaysian film ever awarded at Feff.
“Abang Adik” screened at Udine Far East Film Festival
The post-pandemic trend of reflecting about family bonds, makeshift families, broken families, and their relevance in our lives has undoubtedly flavoured this year's line-up at Udine Far East Film Festival and “Abang Adik” is no exception. The film follows the lives of two young men, Abang (Wu Kang-Ren) and his brother (or is it him?) Adi (Jack Tan), in Pudu Pasar,...
“Abang Adik” screened at Udine Far East Film Festival
The post-pandemic trend of reflecting about family bonds, makeshift families, broken families, and their relevance in our lives has undoubtedly flavoured this year's line-up at Udine Far East Film Festival and “Abang Adik” is no exception. The film follows the lives of two young men, Abang (Wu Kang-Ren) and his brother (or is it him?) Adi (Jack Tan), in Pudu Pasar,...
- 5/9/2023
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
The nominations for this year’s Golden Horse Awards in Taiwan were unveiled Tuesday, with no Chinese films in contention amid the political fallout from last year’s ceremony.
Now in their 56th year, the awards have traditionally been seen as among the most prestigious for Chinese-language film. But tension bubbled over last year after Taiwanese filmmaker Fu Yue said onstage during an acceptance speech that she hoped Taiwan could be regarded as “independent.”
China classifies Taiwan as a renegade province rather than a separate country, and, according to various reports, authorities declared that China’s actors, directors and producers would not be allowed to submit to year’s Golden Horse Awards.
Instead, this year’s nominees list is largely composed of Taiwanese films, with a handful of features from Hong Kong and elsewhere also up for prizes. Taiwan’s Detention, John Hsu’s thriller, leads the pool with 12 noms including Best Narrative Feature,...
Now in their 56th year, the awards have traditionally been seen as among the most prestigious for Chinese-language film. But tension bubbled over last year after Taiwanese filmmaker Fu Yue said onstage during an acceptance speech that she hoped Taiwan could be regarded as “independent.”
China classifies Taiwan as a renegade province rather than a separate country, and, according to various reports, authorities declared that China’s actors, directors and producers would not be allowed to submit to year’s Golden Horse Awards.
Instead, this year’s nominees list is largely composed of Taiwanese films, with a handful of features from Hong Kong and elsewhere also up for prizes. Taiwan’s Detention, John Hsu’s thriller, leads the pool with 12 noms including Best Narrative Feature,...
- 10/1/2019
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
From the very first scene, we are introduced to the world of Saadat Hasan Manto in Nandita Das’ “Manto”. It is not his life that we are introduced το, but the world of ideas that constantly took shape in his fertile imagination; however, we do get into the world he lived in in the very next scene. It is the world of a colonized India on the brink of independence. After World War II, it seemed likely that India would get its independence, however people were still unsure about the circumstances it would come in.
In a emotionally moving scene from the movie, Manto, a free-thinking Indian Muslim looks on from the window of his bedroom the euphoria of people celebrating outside, there are fireworks all around and optimism about the future. He asks his wife to join him and look at the spectacle, he picks up his young infant and whispers,...
In a emotionally moving scene from the movie, Manto, a free-thinking Indian Muslim looks on from the window of his bedroom the euphoria of people celebrating outside, there are fireworks all around and optimism about the future. He asks his wife to join him and look at the spectacle, he picks up his young infant and whispers,...
- 12/16/2018
- by Vidit Sahewala
- AsianMoviePulse
Manto
Directed by Nandita Das
Starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Rasika Duggal,Tahir Raj Bhasin.
Jaane wohkaise log the jinke pyar ko pyar mila….Echoing the disenchantment of a post-Nehruvian generation trapped between Partition and modernization, Guru Dutt in Pyaasa epitomized the poet’s disenchanment with a world he never asked for.Yeh duniya agar mil bhi jaye toh kya hai?
Saadat Haasan Manto was poet posing as a prose writer. He thought and responded to social stimuli like a true poet, When his best friend Shyam (the matinee idol of the 1940s who died young after falling off a horse) blurts out that during the post-Partition communal riots he would have killed any Muslim, including Manto, Manto knew it was time to quit India.
When Nandita Das’s Saadat Haasan Manto leaves Mumbai for Lahore, the film and the protagonist falls into a melanlcholic, meditative mood mourning the passing of an...
Directed by Nandita Das
Starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Rasika Duggal,Tahir Raj Bhasin.
Jaane wohkaise log the jinke pyar ko pyar mila….Echoing the disenchantment of a post-Nehruvian generation trapped between Partition and modernization, Guru Dutt in Pyaasa epitomized the poet’s disenchanment with a world he never asked for.Yeh duniya agar mil bhi jaye toh kya hai?
Saadat Haasan Manto was poet posing as a prose writer. He thought and responded to social stimuli like a true poet, When his best friend Shyam (the matinee idol of the 1940s who died young after falling off a horse) blurts out that during the post-Partition communal riots he would have killed any Muslim, including Manto, Manto knew it was time to quit India.
When Nandita Das’s Saadat Haasan Manto leaves Mumbai for Lahore, the film and the protagonist falls into a melanlcholic, meditative mood mourning the passing of an...
- 9/21/2018
- by Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
Abhishek Bachchan along with co-stars Kangna Ranaut and Sarah Jane Dias shot for an end credits video( Kaun Hai Ajnabee track ) for Excel Entertainment.s next action thriller Game. Just like his well-received Right Here Right Now track in Bluffmaster (2005), the makers of Game feel this music video will also get the audience thumping. Explains the director Abhinay Deo,. It is extremely stylish and slick along with a mystical quality. It gels with Abhishek.s persona in the film. We have not made him do heavy duty dance steps; it is all about his attitude. And Kangana and Sarah match him in it..Shot at Mehboob Studios, the choreography for music video has been done by Shiamak Davar. Says Shiamak,. I loved working with Abhishek, who is my favourite person, Abhinay Deo a very talented director and Kangana and Sarah who are both adorable to work with. It was something...
- 3/6/2011
- Filmicafe
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