To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, Enlighten film society will organize Tagore Film Festival in four cities of India in August. These cities are Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Bangalore.
The films that will be screened as part of this festival are Kabuliwala (Hemen Gupta,1961), Kshudishta Pashan (Tapan Sinha,1961), Teen Kanya (Satyajit Ray,1961), Charulata (Satyajit Ray, 1964), Ghaire Baire (Satyajit Ray, 1984, ), Char Adhyay (Kumar Shahani, 1997), Choker Bali (Rituparno Ghosh,2003), Chaturanga (Suman Mukhopadhyay, 2008) and Naukadubi (Rituparno Ghosh,2010).
Rabindranath Tagore, a documentary made by Satyajit Ray in 1960 will also be presented as part of this film festival.
In addition to the screenings, a recital in Rabindra sangeet as well as a commemorative lecture by Kumar Shahani will also be held in Delhi. Shahani’s lecture will focus on Tagore, his literature, to eventually signify Tagore as a modernist through a screening of Shahani’s masterwork Char Adhyay.
The screenings in other...
The films that will be screened as part of this festival are Kabuliwala (Hemen Gupta,1961), Kshudishta Pashan (Tapan Sinha,1961), Teen Kanya (Satyajit Ray,1961), Charulata (Satyajit Ray, 1964), Ghaire Baire (Satyajit Ray, 1984, ), Char Adhyay (Kumar Shahani, 1997), Choker Bali (Rituparno Ghosh,2003), Chaturanga (Suman Mukhopadhyay, 2008) and Naukadubi (Rituparno Ghosh,2010).
Rabindranath Tagore, a documentary made by Satyajit Ray in 1960 will also be presented as part of this film festival.
In addition to the screenings, a recital in Rabindra sangeet as well as a commemorative lecture by Kumar Shahani will also be held in Delhi. Shahani’s lecture will focus on Tagore, his literature, to eventually signify Tagore as a modernist through a screening of Shahani’s masterwork Char Adhyay.
The screenings in other...
- 5/9/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Click above for more movie stills The lovely Sen sisters, Riya and Raima, are caught in a dilemma. The bone of contention between Ghai and Ghosh, and by extension involving Riya and Raima is the film that brings the two sisters together, a wide-screen adaptation of Rabindranath Tagore's controversial novel Nauka Dubi which casts Raima and Riya in a bold wife-swapping tale. In the novel, as too in Ghosh's Hindi-Bengali adaptation, the two women protagonists played by Riya and Raima never come together, not even for a passing shot. Apparently, Ghai who has produced the film, feels the audiences specially in the Hindi belt would feel cheated if the two hotties are not brought together at least once in the film. Says a source, "Ghai belongs to the hardcore commercial school of filmmaking whereas Rituparno Ghosh's sensitivities are far more arty. This is the first time that the...
- 11/16/2010
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
The lovely Sen sisters, Riya and Raima, are caught in a dilemma. The bone of contention between Ghai and Ghosh, and by extension involving Riya and Raima is the film that brings the two sisters together, a wide-screen adaptation of Rabindranath Tagore's controversial novel Nauka Dubi which casts Raima and Riya in a bold wife-swapping tale. In the novel, as too in Ghosh's Hindi-Bengali adaptation, the two women protagonists played by Riya and Raima never come together, not even for a passing shot. Apparently, Ghai who has produced the film, feels the audiences specially in the Hindi belt would feel cheated if the two hotties are not brought together at least once in the film. Says a source, "Ghai belongs to the hardcore commercial school of filmmaking whereas Rituparno Ghosh's sensitivities are far more arty. This is the first time that the two sisters Raima and Riya are coming together.
- 11/16/2010
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
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