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56th National Film Awards function on 19th March
Mar 16th
For year 2008, the 56th National Film Awards will be presented by the President Pratibha Patil on March 19, in New Delhi. The cinematographerа V K Murthy will also receive the Dada Saheb Phalke Award,а the year 2008 in the ceremony. This is scheduled to be held at Vigyan Bhawan on Friday the 19th March
August 17 wins the Golden Conch
Feb 9th
СAugust 17Т won the Golden Conch for the Best Documentary. This film is directed by Russian director Alexander Gutman.а СThe SpellТ of Umesh Kulkarni won the best fiction film at the 11th Mumbai International Film Festival of Documentary, Animation and Short Films.а The festival is concluded at NCPA in Mumbai today. С17 AugustТ is GutmanТs
Shreeram Lagoo and Rajesh Khanna got Life Time Achievement Award in PIFF
Jan 9th
In the 8th Pune International Film FestivalаShreeram Lagoo and Rajesh Khanna got Life Time Achievement Award. Two stalwarts of the film industry felicitated yesterday. Dr. Shreeram Lagoo, is one of the few actors who held parallel control over theatre and cinema in both media. аThe veteran actor remembered, аУToday is a very special day. I
Fifth Gorakhpur Film Festival to begin from 4th Feb
Jan 5th
The fifth Gorakhpur Film Festival, Cinema of Resistance,to begin from 4th February. This will last on 7th February 2009. This time the premier of leading Indian filmmaker Ranjan Palit’s new film ‘IN CAMERA’ will take place in this Gorakhpur film festival. Besides this new film, Anupama Srinivasan’s movie ‘I WONDER’ and Debranjan Sarangi’sа ‘THE CONFLICT:
PIFF 2010 will be held from 7th to 14th January 2010
Jan 4th
PIFF 2010 will be held from 7th to 14th January 2010 and will display its cinematic universality to a host of film personalities, celebrities, press, technical delegates and movie buffs from across the world. According to the Pune International Film Festival webiste, PIFF 2010 is the official festival of Government of Maharashtra as a joint
Task Force set up on film, video, cable and music piracy
Dec 22nd
A Task Force to recommend measures to combat film, video, cable and video piracy has been set up in the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. The Task Force under the chairmanship of Special Secretary, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting will have S/Sh. Yash Chopra, eminent film producer; Manmohan Shetty, President, Film & Television ProducersтАЩ Guild
My actors always give me that little extra: Amol Palekar
Nov 30th
Amol Palekar, usually restrained and understated, was at his effusive best when he praised his actors for putting in extra efforts in his movies. тАШI find myself in a privileged position. May be I also goad, cajole or sometime scold but by the time film is complete we have such a beautiful bond. With completion
India is in my bones – Ben Kingsley
Nov 30th
India is home for me and one does not visit but come home, said Sir Ben Kingsley at a press conference at IFFI Goa today. He said that like a long lost melody or a forgotten perfume, the extraordinary welcome has assured him that the thread that was created in 1981-82 during filming of Gandhi
I have to be in love with story to make a film: Aniruddha
Nov 28th
It is your integrity, your love that reflects on the screen not any formula, said Director Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury at IFFI Goa today. AniruddhaтАЩs film Antaheen is part of Indian Panorama and he was addressing media along with the actors Rahul Bose, Mita Vasisht and Radhika Apte. тАШAll my films are very real, these are
God destined me to be a film star: Asha Parekh
Nov 28th
It was yesterday once more at IFFI-Goa today where Asha Parekh went down the memory lane and a formal press conference turned into a collective re-living of the days gone by. A gracefully resplendent Asha said unassumingly тАШperhaps god destined me to be a film star and I worked to fulfill that destiny.тАЩ That humility
Rajendra Yadav, Writer and Editor of 'Hans'
