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The New York Indian Film Festival (Nyiff) announced the full lineup last night for their 16th year of celebrating independent, art house, alternate, and diaspora films from/about/connected to the Indian subcontinent (May 7 – May 14). Dedicated to bringing these films to a New York audience, the festival will feature 40 screenings (35 narrative, 5 documentary) –all seen for the first time in New York City. In addition, the festival will also feature five programs of short films.

The festival highlights various cinemas of India’s different regions. All the films are subtitled in English and some of the languages this year include Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Telegu, Assamese, Haryanavi and Urdu. This year’s festival will feature a couple of sidebars –Nfdc restored first films of filmmakers and a three-generations sidebar, films of Bimal Roy, Basu Bhattacharya and Aditya Bhattacharya.

The festival’s film lineup includes 2016 National Award winners A Far Afternoon,...

The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles has announced the juries and additional programming for the upcoming 14th edition, which runs April 6-10 in Hollywood.

Three films have been added to the line-up on April 10, including Lena Khan’s feature debut The Tiger Hunter, and a community screening of Sami Khan’s Khoya.

A restored version of Sujata, provided by the National Film Archive Of India, will screen as a tribute to director Bimal Roy on the 50th anniversary of his death.

The jury for the 2016 Narrative Film Competition includes:

· Shonali Bose, film-maker (Margarita, With A Straw & Amu);

· Shalini Dore, Variety; and

· Alesia Weston, international consultant to independent film-makers and film festivals.

The jury for the 2016 Short Film Competition includes:

· Rizwan Manji, actor (Jim Jarmusch’s upcoming Paterson);

· Aldo Velasco, director and editor (Chittagong); and

· Laura Nix, documentary film-maker (The Yes Men Are Revolting).

As previously announced, the festival will open with Angry Indian Goddesses (pictured) and the...

Eminent poet and film lyricist Majrooh Sultanpuri needs no introduction. He belonged to the legacy of learned lyricist like Sahir Ludhianvi, Kaifi Azmi, Shakeel Badayuni etc. who blossomed as literary poets but took to penning songs to make a decent earning.

List of songs penned by Majrooh Sultanpuri are long. They range from K. L. Saigal's Jab Dil Hi Toot Gaya.. (Shahjahan) to Aamir Khan's Pehla Nasha.. (Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar). Other hits songs include Jaane Walo Zara Mudh Ke Dekho Mujhe... (Dosti), Jalte Hain Jiske Liye... (Sujata), Kya Hua Tera Vada... (Hum Kisise Kum Naheen), Ek Din Bik Jayega Maati Ke Mol... (Dharam Karam) etc.

Once for the movie Chirag (1969), staring Sunil Dutt and Asha Parekh, film director Raj Khosla asked Majrooh Sahab to pen a song which could emphasize the beauty of eye because the film's plot centered on the heroine's attractive eyes and how her world goes...

The 5th Jagran Film Festival, to be held from September 22-28 in Mumbai, will host a Retrospective of Bimal Roy. His films, Sujata, Do Bigha Zameen, Madhumati, Devdas and Bandini will be screened at the festival.

This will mark the final leg of Jagran Film Festival which has traveled across 16 cities. The films will be screened at PVR Andheri and Cinemax Versova.

The festival will open with The Woods are Still Green, an Austrian feature film directed by Marko Nabersnik, set during the first World War.

The festival will present a special section of films on the First World War on the occasion of the war’s centennial. The films to be screened include Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion) directed by Jean Renoir, La France directed by Serge Bozon ​and Jules and Jim (Jules et Jim) directed by François Truffaut.

The Indian section of the festival will screen films like Highway,...

What:

Movie Fest – The Timeless Magic Of Bimal Roy

The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya will be screening some classic films of the master filmmaker Bimal Roy to celebrate the golden era of Indian cinema. The people of Mumbai get an opportunity to watch some of his absolute masterpieces such as Bandini, Sujata, Madhumati, Devdas and Do Bigha Zameen.

Bimal Roy memorabilia, that includes posters, photographs, costumes, contracts, song books etc., is also on display at the Curator’s gallery for two weeks.

When:

The screenings will be held on the weekends 11th-13th July and 18th-19th July.

Where:

Seminar Room, Extension building, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya

Entry:

One can buy a regular entry ticket to the museum and watch the films. Rs. 60 for Indians, Rs. 300 for foreign nationals.

Details:...

A new year brought out a new roster of young talent to watch out for. On April 13, as Grazia India celebrated its sixth anniversary with ‘crazy, sexy, cool’ party, they also hosted the graduation of a new lot of Grazia Young Fashion Award winners. The evening awarded nine designers and four fashion favourites over cocktails, bites and a perfect playlist.

A luminous gathering honoured a bunch of talented designers at The Leela, Mumbai, as a year’s worth of research and judging came crashing into a spectacular celebratory party, which included a brilliant musical performance by Anushka Manchanda.

The Grazia Young Fashion Awards are an annual property hosted by Grazia India, picking exceptional talents in the field of fashion and style. Besides the eight categories that recognise great work in fabric innovation, accessory design, creative labels etc, there was also a group of glamorous popular awards, to highlight stylish trendsetters.

Celebrities ko gussa kyon aata hai? That.s the big question, given the recent cases of Saif Ali Khan.s scuffle with an Nri businessman and Shah Rukh Khan.s brawl with Shirish Kunder. With status comes aggression and ego, say experts..Anger is present in each and everybody, but as people grow up and excel in their field, they become more egoistic. The aggression within them also increases. It just depends on how one handles that aggression,. Neelesh Tiwari, chairman and managing director, World Brain Center, told Ians.Earlier this week, Saif became the .bad man. for getting embroiled in a brawl with Iqbal Sharma, an Indian-origin businessman from South Africa, who filed a police complaint against the actor for allegedly assaulting him at Mumbai.s Taj Mahal Hotel.All this over an apparently trivial issue of lowering voices!Saif admitted he could have avoided the brawl.The incident...

Om Books International will be releasing Mohammed Rafi: Voice of Nation co-authored by his son Shahid Rafi and Sujata Dev, in December 2011. The biography is an account of the life and times of Rafi.Born the second youngest of six sons of Hajji Ali Mohammed at Kotla Sultan Singh, a village near Amritsar in Punjab (British India), Rafi, started singing by imitating chants of a fakir in his village. In the 1920s, Rafi’s father moved to Lahore. Elder brother Mohammed Deen’s friend, Abdul Hameed spotted the ...

New Delhi, July 31: The badshah of Bollywood playback singing, Mohammed Rafi, who gave Indian cinema 40 golden years of haunting melodies, was one of the few survivors in the industry who lived through its hard glitter with his soul in place, says his son and biographer Shahid Rafi.

Shahid, who is penning a book about his father with writer Sujata Dev, says he wants to explore the human side of his father.

'The book goes much beyond a conventional biography. It explores Mohammed Rafi the persona behind the musician, besides his musical.

Vikramaditya Motwane’s “Udaan”, the film that made it to Un Certain Regard at Cannes International Film festival after seven years has been the talk of the town lately. With Udaan, Indian cinema’s seven year long jinxed relationship with the premier film festival has come to an end. Murali Nair’s Arimpara was the last film to have made it to Un Certain Regard, the section that carries the second most prestigious award, in the year 2003. Prior to that, Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Devdas was presented as a special screening out of competition at the festival in 2002.

Come to think of it, India and Cannes have had a cordial relationship right from the start. 1946, the year one of the oldest film festivals began at Cannes, Chetan Anand’s Neecha Nagar was screened as a Feature film in competition. Neecha Nagar was a pioneering effort in realistic Indian cinema and...

It is the 44th death anniversary of one of the greatest directors that Bollywood has ever seen, Bimal Roy, fondly known as ‘Bimalda’. Born on July 12, 1909, he is particularly noted for his realistic and socialistic films like Do Bigha Zameen, Parineeta, Biraj Bahu, Madhumati, Sujata, and Bandini, making him an important director of Hindi cinema. He entered films as a cameraman with New Theatres Pvt. Ltd. where he photographed films like Devdas in 1935 and Mukti in 1937. His first film as director was Udayer Pathey in 1944 in Bengali, which was remade as Humrahi in 1945 in ...