Film and Movie Schedule at the 2012 Kala Ghoda Festival
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FILM FEB 4 SATURDAY REGIONAL GEMS Max Mueller 2.30 pm - India’s Entry for the Oscars is about an Adaminte Makan Abu Bhavan 4.30 pm elderly couple yearning to go on Haj. Malayalam (101 min) (Courtesy: Salim Ahamed) Dir: Salim Ahamed TRIBUTE Max Mueller 6.30 pm- Shammi Kapoor as the quintessential Kashmir KI KALI (168 min) Bhavan 8.30 pm singing-dancing hero falling in love in Dir: Shakti Samant scenic Kashmir. Launch of The 48 Hr Music Museum 12.00 pm - Aspiring film makers get an opportunity Video project Viewing Centre 1.00 pm to shoot, edit and present a music video featuring the Kala Ghoda Festival in 48 hrs and win a prize. CULT FILMS Museum 2.30 pm - An early cult example of German- The Cabinet of Dr Caligari Viewing Centre 4.30 pm Expressionist films of the 1920’s, this Dir: Robert Weine silent horror film played in a French (71min) 1920 theatre for seven years straight besides begetting ‘film noir’ and fantasy genres. This film is presented by Enlighten. POPULAR Museum 6.30 pm- Three friends take a road trip in Spain ZINDAGI NA MILEGI DOBARA Viewing Centre 8.30 pm just before one of them is to get Dir : Zoya Akhtar( 155 min) married, little knowing that this trip will change their lives forever. FEB 5 SUNDAY Max Mueller 11.00 am - Written, directed, produced and acted CHILDREN Bhavan 01.00 pm by Charlie Chaplin, "The Kid" is a story The Kid (68 min) of a tramp adopting an abandoned baby. This film is presented by Enlighten. REGIONAL GEMS Max Mueller 2.30 pm - A National Award winning film about Kutty Srank Bhavan 4.30 pm the life and loves of a sailor. Malayalam (127 min) (Courtesy Reliance Entertainment) Dir: Shaji Karun FILM TRIBUTE Max Mueller 6:30 pm- Shammi Kapoor plays a singer who Teesri Manzil (172 min) Bhavan 8:30 pm is suspected of murder. Is considered Dir: Vijay Anand one of the great musicals of all times in Bollywood. TRIBUTE Museum 11.00 am - After an accident, the protagonist in the Kashmakash (125min) Viewing Centre 01.00 pm film discovers that the woman he has Dir: Rituparno Ghosh brought home with him is not his wife. (Courtesy Mukta Arts). CULT FILMS Museum 2.30 pm - Alfred Hitchcock’s last silent film The Manxman (90 min) Viewing Centre 4.30 pm before he transitioned to talkies with Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Blackmail. A key cult film especially for 1929 Hitchcock fans. This film is presented by Enlighten. POPULAR Museum 6.30 pm- A fresh coming of age tale, rated as one Bubblegum Viewing Centre 8.30 pm of the best films of 2011 Dir: Sanjivan Lal (Courtesy Sanjivan Lal) FEB 6 MONDAY Max Mueller 11.00 am - A tribute to Bhupen Hazarika who TRIBUTE Bhavan 01.00 pm scored memorable music for the film. Rudaali (128 min) A story about a professional mourner Dir: Kalpana Lajmi who through out her lifetime of misfortune has never cried. REGIONAL GEMS Max Mueller 2.30 pm - A tribute to Satyajit Ray’s classic Autograph Bhavan 4.30 pm "Nayak" in contemporary form. Bengali (120 min) (Courtesy: Madhu Mantena) Dir: Srijit Mukherji TRIBUTE TO DEV ANAND Max Mueller 6:30 pm- Dev Anand plays a double role in this Hum Dono (164 min) Bhavan 8:30 pm classic about an army captain who is Dir: Vijay Anand forced to impersonate a lookalike FILM TRIBUTE TO TAGORE Museum 11.00 am - A bed ridden child imagines life outside Dak Ghar Viewing Centre 01.00 pm his window. Hindi (61min) (Courtesy NFDC) Dir: Zul Vellani CULT FILMS Museum 2.30 pm - Perhaps the wildest of all classic science Bride of Frankenstein(75 min) Viewing Centre 4.30 pm fiction films, Bride of Frankenstein is Dir: James Whale 1935 morbid and sparkling at once. Sequel to the 1931 film Frankenstein the film expands on Mary Shelly’s subplot about the creation of a mate for Dr Frankenstein’s monster! This film is presented by Enlighten. CULT FILMS Museum 6.30 pm- The film that launched Billy Wilder Double Indemnity (107 min) Viewing Centre 8.30 pm as the most significant American Dir: Billy Wilder (1945) filmmakers of his time. A quintessential film noir about an insurance agent who gets caught in a labyrinth of duplicity when he attempts an insurance fraud with his girlfriend. This film is presented by Enlighten. DOCUMENTARIES & SHORTS BNHS 11.00 am - Whose Wadi?Dir:ShraddhaSakhalkar, 01.00 pm Khara Karodpati -Dir: Piyush Thakur Hamara Mazhab - Dir: Ashish Shrivastav Hot&Fast - Dir: Rajinder Singh FILMS ON MUSIC BNHS 2.30 pm - The film is based on Nazir Jairazbhoy’s Folk Music of Pakistan (64 min) 4.30 pm field trip to Pakistan in 1975. Dir: Amy Caitlin-Jairazbhoy FILM Whistling Woods Presents BNHS 6.30 pm- Films by the students of Whistling 8.30 pm Woods FEB 7 TUESDAY Max Mueller 2.30 pm - An ordinary man’s struggle to fulfill his REGIONAL GEMS Bhavan 4.30 pm son’s desire to experience 5 star luxury Taryanche Bait (Courtesy: Balaji Telefilms) Marathi (155 min) Dir: Kiran Yadnopavit TRIBUTE TO DEV ANAND Max Mueller 6:30 pm- Dev Anand plays Raju Guide whose Guide (183 min) Bhavan 8:30 pm love for the dancer Rosy takes him from Dir: Vijay Anand the depths of despair to sainthood TRIBUTE TO DICKENS Museum 11.00 am - Perhaps the best ever Dickens’ Great Expectations (118 min) Viewing Centre 01.00 pm adaptation for screen, the story Dir: David Lean (1946) focuses on Pip, a young boy of humble means whose life is dependent on a mysterious benefactor. Courtsey: British Council CULT FILMS Museum 2.30 pm - The political noir set against the Army of Shadows (140 min) Viewing Centre 4.30 pm backdrop of French Resistance was Dir : Jean Pierre Melville(1969 ) shunned by Cahiers du Cinema at the time of its release resulting in its lapse into oblivion. A reappraisal by them in the mid 90s however led to the film’s re-release in 2006 making it an instant cult hit of current times. This film is presented by Enlighten. CULT FILMS Museum 6.30 pm- The black-and-white independent Down by Law (107 min) Viewing Centre 8.30 pm film centres on the arrest and escape Dir : Jim Jarmusch (1986) of three jail convicts. The film stars musicians John Lurie and Tom Waits and Academy Award winning actor and director Robert Benigni. This film is presented by Enlighten. FILM DOCUS & SHORTS BNHS 11.00 am - Three lives & a beach. Three decades Revolution (76 min) 01.00 pm & a book. Dir: Mustafa Zaveri FILMS ON MUSIC BNHS 2.30 pm - The definitive film on RD Burman’s Pancham Unmixed: 4.30 pm music. Mujhe Chalte Jaana Hai (120 min) Dir: Brahmanand Singh FTII Films BNHS 6.30 pm- Shorts by students of FTII 8.30 pm FEB 8 WEDNESDAY REGIONAL GEMS Max Mueller 2.30 pm - A day in the life of six men changes Aranya Kandam Bhavan 4.30 pm everything. This critically acclaimed Tamil (153 min) film has been dubbed as one of the top Dir: Thiagarajan Kumararaja films of 2011. TRIBUTE TO MANI KAUL Max Mueller 6:30 pm- Remembering the filmmaker who Duvidha (82 min) Bhavan 8:30 pm passed away in 2011 with one of his Dir: Mani Kaul best known films based on a folk tale by Vijay Dan Detha TRIBUTE TO DICKENS Museum 11.00 am - An adaptation of Dickens’ first novel Pickwick Papers (109 min) Viewing Centre 01.00 pm about a bunch of oddballs running a Dir : Noel Langly (1956) newspaper. (Courtsey: British Council) CULT FILMS Museum 2.30 pm - Shot in 16 mm and black-and-white, (Mala Noche)Bad Night (78min) Viewing Centre 4.30 pm Gus Van Sant’s debut film is based Dir :Gus Van Sant (1986 ) on an autobiographical novel by an American poet Walt Curtis. This film is presented by Enlighten. FILM CULT FILMS Museum 6.30 pm- The film which brought director Wong Chungking Express (98min) Viewing Centre 8.30 pm Kar-Wai to international fame is set Dir : Wong Kar Wai (1994) in Hong Kong’s infamous Chunking Mansions from which it derives its name and its shabby setting. This film is presented by Enlighten. DOCUS & SHORTS BNHS 11.00 am - The story of a boy who runs an illegal Videokaaran (73min) 01.00 pm video parlour Dir: Jagannath Krishnan FILMS ON MUSIC BNHS 2.30 pm - This National Award film is about the Leaving Home: The Life & 4.30 pm path-breaking music band. Music of Indian Ocean (115min) Dir: Jaideep Verma Shamiana Short Film Club BNHS 6.30 pm- Selection 8.30 pm FEB 9 THURSDAY REGIONAL GEMS Max Mueller 2.30 pm - A compassionate look at farmer Goshta Choti Dongraevadhi Bhavan 4.30 pm suicides in rural Maharashtra Marathi (160 min) (Courtesy: Nagesh Bhonsle) Dir: Nagesh Bhonsle TRIBUTE TO SATYADEV DUBEY Max Mueller 6.30 pm- A film written by Satyadev Dubey, Junoon (141 min) Bhavan 8.30 pm based on a Ruskin Bond story about Dir: Shyam Benegal an Indian warrior’s forbidden love for a British girl, set during the freedom struggle FILM TRIBUTE TO DICKENS Museum 11.00 am - A television film adapts Dickens’s novel A Christmas Carol (75min) Viewing Centre 01.00 pm which centres on an unscrupulous Dir : Catherine Morshead (2000) Eddie Scrooge who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by three ghosts. (Courtsey: British Council) CULT FILMS Museum 2.30 pm - A supremely stylish sequel to Fallen Angels (90min) Viewing Centre 4.30 pm Chungking Express, this Wong Kar-Wai Dir :Wong Kar Wai (1995) film follows a paid hitman finding desperate measures to forget his love.