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Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni

National award winning director Umesh Kulkarni will conduct the fourth edition of ‘Shoot a short’, a workshop on short filmmaking in Pune from December 26-29.

The workshop will be primarily aimed at guiding film enthusiasts to make short films. Translating an idea into a screenplay and working with a cast and crew are some of the core areas the workshop will deal with.

Umesh Kulkarni won his first national award for his diploma film titled Girni (The Grinding Machine) that he made as a student of the Film and Television Institute of India (Ftii). Even after making three critically acclaimed and successful feature films like Valu (The Wild Bull), Vihir (The Well) and Deool (Temple), Umesh continues to make short films.

He has served on the jury of festivals like Clermont Ferrand and International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala. Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival...

H ighway is one of the twenty-three films selected for the co- production market of Film Bazaar 2013. We spoke to the director Umesh Kulkarni:

Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni

Tell us about your project. What language will it be in?

Highway is a story of a journey- a journey of several characters from different walks of life from one metro city to another. Like every real journey, it changes something within. People start coming out of their shells to experience freedom. It is an attempt to look at ourselves in today’s time. It’s not a straightforward narrative and we are trying to question our own way of looking at things. The different colourful characters one will see in the film will try to find unknown paths, which they have not travelled. One will hear different dialects of Marathi language with a little bit of Hindi, English, Gujarati, Sindhi, Telugu, Punjabi and Tamil.

Mumbai, July 4: Marathi actor Satish Tare, known for his comedy roles, died here Wednesday, said a hospital source. He was 48.

The actor, seen in films like "Balak Palak", "Navra Maza Navsacha" and "Valu" reportedly had a severly damaged liver.

He died Wednesday afternoon at the Sujay Hospital here.

"He was hospitalised on July 1 and he passed away on July 3 at 12 p.m.," a source from the hospital told Ians.

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After successful screenings at festivals across the globe, Supermen of Malegaon is slated for theatrical release in India on June 29, 2012. The film has had an extraordinary journey since the idea was first mooted but its biggest hurdle was securing a theatrical release in India, which has now been achieved.

Supermen of Malegaon is a documentary that captures a motley bunch of cinema fanatics in Malegaon, Maharashtra who remake Bollywood and Hollywood films on miniscule budgets, which they shoot, star in and screen for their local audience in Malegaon. This time, they take on the challenge of making Superman. The film follows them on this journey-at times funny, tragic and contemplative.

Supermen of Malegaon took off when Director Faiza Ahmad Khan, along with co-producer Gargey Trivedi & Siddharth Thakur, won the Asian Pitch in Singapore. The Asian Pitch is organised by Mediacorp in Singapore, Nhk in Japan and Kbs in South Korea.

I don’t want to get caught into the notions about myself. I want to continue to experiment and make films the way I want to make them: Umesh Kulkarni

The magnificent Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque served as the perfect backdrop for the grand screening of Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni’s third feature film “Deool” (The Temple). The sea breeze from the Persian Gulf greeted an enthusiastic crowd at the Swiss Open Air theatre of Fairmont Bab Al Bahr hotel. The 5th Abu Dhabi International Film Festival hosted the international premiere of the film, close on the heels of its world premiere at the Mumbai Film Festival. DearCinema Editor Bikas Mishra chatted with Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni before the screening of the film.

Where did the journey for Deool begin?

When the shooting for my first feature film Valu got over in a Maharashtra village, we wanted to express our gratitude to...