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Expert Committee on Upgradation of IFFI meets first time
Dec 23rd
The first meeting of the Expert Committee for up gradation of International Film Festival of India (IFFI) was held in New Delhi today. Sh Kamal Haasan was chosen to convene the next meeting of the experts to be able to give recommendations regarding up gradation of IFFI on lines of other reputed International Festivals and
Expert Committees to revamp National Film Awards and IFFI
Dec 10th
The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting has constituted two Expert Committees for up gradation of National Film Awards (NFA) as also for up gradation of International Film Festival of India (IFFI). The Expert Committee for National Film Awards would consist of following officials/non-officials members S/Sh. Shyam Benegal, Ashok Vishwanathan, Rajiv Mehrotra, Vishal Bhardwaj, Nagesh Kuknoor,
Taiwanese Film ‘I can’t live without you’ Bags Golden Peacock
Dec 3rd
The Taiwanese film, ‘I Can’t Live Without You” has bagged the coveted Golden Peacock Award for the Best Film at the 40th International Film Festival of India 2009, while the Silver Peacock Award for the Best Director has gone to “A Brand New Life’, a film from South Korea, directed by Ounie Lecomte. ‘The Other
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. ‘I 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. Aniruddha’s film Antaheen is part of Indian Panorama and he was addressing media along with the actors Rahul Bose, Mita Vasisht and Radhika Apte. ‘All 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 ‘perhaps god destined me to be a film star and I worked to fulfill that destiny.’ That humility
Corporate houses have a responsibility towards the cultural focus – Shaji Karun
Nov 27th
Corporate houses have a responsibility towards cultural focus of the country said veteran filmmakers at IFFI-Goa 2009 today. At the combined press conference of Shaji Karun’s Kutty Srank, Ijjodu of M S Sathyu and Rituparno Ghosh’s Shob Charitro Kalponik the directors expressed their views on working for projects of corporate film making organizations, in this
Where is wholesome family cinema in India asks Disney veteran
Nov 27th
Lamenting the absence of middle ground between the high brow ‘art films’ and big commercial ventures, Umakanth Thumrugoti, director of 7 Days in Slow Motion said that people want to see good movies which can be seen with entire family and we have to provide means to do that. Producer Ms. Soumya Sriraman also wondered
Film makers take themselves too seriously – Roland Reber
Nov 27th
‘Movie-making is like a conversation for me I pose questions to the audience and wait for the answers. Film makers take themselves too seriously, a nurse or a doctor is far more important, they behave like Gods while they are just having a conversation’ opined director Roland Reber here today. Reber’s six films are being
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