[cyberhippie]

So we went shopping for a couple of films here's what we ended up with

Fire
Water
Earth
Siddartha
Mississipi Masala
Gandhi My Father
Himalaya Caravan
Dharm
Chaak de India
Ohm Shanti Ohm
Devdas
Paardes
Faalna
Bhool Bhulaiyaa
Goal
Yuva
Lakshya
Don
Khabhi khushi Kabhi Gham
Paheli
Mohabbatein
Khamosh Pani
Boothnath

From Satyajit Ray

Agantuk
Ganasatru
The Lonely wife
Aparajito
The World Of Apu
Pather Panchali



From

[jyotirmoy]

And I gifted you Subornorekha by Ritwik Ghatak

[cyberhippie]

Jyoti Da you've gifted me many things over the years, whether you've known it or not. This was just the latetest one.

So KABAARY Ji  and Jyoti Da I'll be waiting for the additions to this rather bare list of Indian cinema

What a treasur trove ther is out there for film buffs.

I wonder what became of the American guy on Indiamike who put together a site for this kind of stuff. Some years back it was fully informative and loaded with stuff on the world of Indian cinema.

A friend of Bijapuri Da is all I recall of the man's identity...........................

[dzibead]

I think you mean Byronic.  Bijapuri reports that Byronic has just finished making a documentary film in India.  I'll look it up because the film has a website.

As for Bollywood, Sudeer and Yash are goldmines of information.  And remember that "make your own Bollywood film" thingie they posted here?  Hilarious!  I'll do a search for it and post the link if I can find it.

Edit:  Found it:  http://www.gourmetin...?showtopic=1965

[noflylist]

A classic, Hindi movie of 1970s, based on Gujarati epic, "Saraswatichandra" if you can get it, you won't regret it.It has all the politics of little kingdoms in Raj times, social situation, love story, little nationalism (to avoid British censors when the novel was written in 1890s), love jealosy, self preservation, idealism, etc. Novel is in 4 massive volumes!

[Serena]

Well CH, Bollywood is my new passion!!
You went for shopping???? Wow!!  

[Hyderabadi]

Shyam Benegal:
http://en.wikipedia....gal#Filmography

Also Swades  is a favorite with us.

[noflylist]

H, I was wondering if you were familiar with Saraswatichandra!

[Hyderabadi]

!Noflylist, on Jun 23 2008, 04:09 PM, said:

H, I was wondering if you were familiar with Saraswatichandra!

No, I'm not.. Was the movie made with the same name?  

I'm also wondering if Jyoti da has missed mentioning 'Shatranj ke Khiladi'?

[noflylist]

Hyderabadi, on Jun 23 2008, 03:29 PM, said:

No, I'm not.. Was the movie made with the same name?  

I'm also wondering if Jyoti da has missed mentioning 'Shatranj ke Khiladi'?

Yes same name, Nutan and some unknown male actor. Songs were very famous though!

check this song



Fell in love with Nutan!

Edited by !Noflylist, 24 June 2008 - 02:23 AM.

[noflylist]

How can we forget

GUIDE

[Hyderabadi]

!Noflylist, on Jun 23 2008, 04:48 PM, said:

Yes same name, Nutan and some unknown male actor. Songs were very famous though!

check this song



Fell in love with Nutan!

Ah! I remember the songs but not sure I've seen the movie.

[jyotirmoy]

One of the most outstanding film makers of India is Shyam Benegal. Here are the films made by him:-

Ankur (1973)
Nishant (1975)
Manthan (1976)
Bhumika (1977)
Junoon (1979)
Mandi (1983)
Satyajit Ray (1984) Documentary.
Trikaal (1985)
Suraj Ka Satwaan Ghoda (1992)
Mammo (1994)
Sardari Begum (1996)
The Making of the Mahatma (1996)
Samar (1998)

Although Bhumika is considered to be his best film but in my opinion his debut film Ankur stands out.
The film is set in rural South India where Surya, a zamindar's(land owner’s)  son, arrives from the city to oversee his father's estate. Bored and sexually frustrated, he seduces his attractive maidservant, wife of a deaf-mute labourer. The discovery of the maidservant's pregnancy and the arrival of Surya's wife who senses her husband's involvement bring matters to a head. The film is memorable for its engrossing details of rural life and its exposure of the feudal system that is brutal and indifferent and is helped by a powerful film debut by Shabana Azmi as the maidservant.
To divert issues Surya mercilessly & brutally beat the deaf-mute husband while the maidservant helplessly looks on. No one dares to intervene. No one?  Not really,  a young school boy picks up a stone and smash the glass pane of the verandah and the screen turns red.
Ankur not only won several awards including the National Awards for Shabana for Best Actress and Sadhu Mehr for Best Actor, it also had a good showing at the Box Office.

Bengal's Bhumika that looks at an individual's search for identity and self-fulfillment. The film is broadly based on the life of well-known Marathi Stage and screen actress of the 1930s and 1940s, Hansa Wadkar who led a flamboyant and unconventional life to say the least. The film received rave reviews the world over. To quote film critic Derek Malcolm

"…What Benegal has done is to paint a magnificent visual recreation of those extraordinary days and one that is also sensitive to the agonies and predicament of a talented woman whose need for security was only matched by her insistence on freedom."


More later…….

[dzibead]

So many movies, so little time ...

[dzibead]

Here's the website for Byronic's film that I mentioned above:
http://chanderifilm.com/

[jyotirmoy]

Adoor Gopalakrishnan is another brilliant film maker.

Adoor Gopalakrishnan was very much influenced by the works of Satyajit Ray and his films borrowed Ray's technique of emphasizing the psychology of the characters through subtle gestures. His first feature film, Swayamvaram ("One's Own Choice", 1974), won the President's Gold Medal for best film, best director, best cameraman and best actress. It tells the story of two young rebels fighting the despair and realities of small town life. The film also tackled a sensitive topic by letting a woman play one of the rebels (so much Ray like) – thus the title, which is also an allusion to the ancient practice whereby women of royal birth selected a husband of their own choosing.

Kerala, like West Bengal, had always remained a hotbed of communism. Gopalakrishnan examined this movement and its conflict with the feudal sysytem in Mukha Mukham ("Face to Face") in 1987.

[Hyderabadi]

jyotirmoy, on Jun 24 2008, 12:51 AM, said:

One of the most outstanding film makers of India is Shyam Benegal. .............

............. in my opinion his debut film Ankur stands out. The film is set in rural South India .............

More later…….

The movie is set in the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh. It's such brutal feudal system that triggered the Naxalite movement in some parts of the state.

[jyotirmoy]

I agree with you Hyderabadi bhai, the school boy smashing the glass and the screen turning crimson points to that...