16 films recommended for IFFI
By Our Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI,
NOV.15.
Sixteen feature and 19 non-feature films have been recommended for the Indian Panorama section of the 31st International Film Festival of India to be held in New Delhi in January.
The feature films are: Shyam Benegal’s ‘Samar’ (Hindi), Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Hum Dii De Chuke Sanam (Hindi), Girish Karnad’s ‘Kanooru Heggadithi’ (Kannada), Jabbar Patel’s ‘Dr Baba Saheb Ambedkar’ (English).
Other films are Jayaraaj’s ‘Karunam’ (Malayalam), Aparna Sen’s ‘Paromitaar Ek Din’ (Bengali), Amol Palekar’s ‘Kairee’ (Hindi), Pankaj Butalia’s ‘Kaarvan’, Santosh Sivan’s ‘Mali’ (Tamil), Shaji N.Karun’s ‘Vaanaprastham’ (Malayalam), Ritupamo Ghosh’s ‘Asookh’ (Bengali), Sasat Misra’s ‘Biswaprakash’ (Oriya), Jahnu Barua’s ‘Pokhi’ (Assamese), Raja Sen’s ‘Atmiyo Swajan’ (Bengali), Chitrahaath’s ‘Shaheed Uddham Singh’ (Punjabi), and T.Rajeevnath’s ‘Janani’ (Malayalam).
The non-feature films include
Hemanta Das’ ‘Koihatir Dhulia’ (Assamese),
Sanjay Sahare’ ‘Breathless’ (English),
Aribam Syam Sharma’s ‘The Marams’ (English),
Samiran Dutta’s ‘Romancing the Stone’ (English),
Mainak Trivedi’s ‘The Shamin of Perpang’ (English),
V.Packirisamy’s ‘Sheikh Moullana’ (English),
Charudutt Acharya’s ‘Kajara Mohabbatwala’ (Hindi),
Sudhanshu Mishra’s ‘Lupt Akhet’ (Hindi),
Batul Malik’s ‘Nazar ka Dhoka’ (Hindi),
Shankar Patnaik’s ‘Birdman’ (Hindi),
Vinayan Kudoth’s ‘The Voices’ (Hindi),
J.Balaram’s ‘Thimmkka Mathu 284 Makkalu’ (Kannada),
Arun Gongade’s ‘Education only Her Future’ (music only),
Joshy Joseph’s ‘Status Quo’ (music only),
Putul Mahmood’s ‘You Who Never Arrived’ (music only),
Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s ‘Kalamandalam Gopi’ (Malayalam),
S.Sriram’s ‘Blind Folded’ (Tamil),
Deepak Prakash’s ‘Of Confucius’,
‘S-Spots and Toyguns’ (English, Marathi, Hindi,Tamil), and
Sanjay Kak’s ‘In the Forest Hangs a Bridge’ (English).
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