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Ek Hota Vidushak
Once There Was a Clown
1992 | 145 mins. | Colour | Marathi | Social
Aburao, the once well-known Songadya, a folk theatre clown, is lured by the glittering world of cinema. Seduced by an actress, he betrays his beloved, who is pregnant with his child. Finally Aburao fills his own life with humour, he had always missed. He gains a new and charming life thanks to the daughter born of his beloved.
Director | Story: Jabbar Patel
Camera: Harish Joshi
Editor: Anil-Vishwas
Music: Anand Modak
Cast: Laxmikant Berde, Varsha Usgaonkar, Dilip Prabhavalkar and Mohan Agashe
Awards
National Award for Best Marathi Film & Choreography - 1993
Maharashtra State Award for Best Marathi Film, Screenplay, lyrics, choreography, best male singer & Script - 1992
Festival Participation
Indian Panorama, International Film Festival of India - 1993
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Five By Four
2003 | 90 mins. | Colour | English | Social
Five By Four is the story of five women. All smart, intelligent and very aware.The film is laid out like a novel; it has a prologue, main story and epilogue. The main story is broken into four small stories. While each story concentrates on individual characters, it also follows the lives of the girls. As each story flows into the next, each of the girls take turns at becoming the protagonist, while the others play a guest role.
Director: Roopa Swaminathan
Producer: NFDC & Doordarshan
Cast: Carey Edwards, Divya Darshini, Eashwar, Hardeep Minhas, Preetha, Sapna, Sujata Panju, Usha, Venkat
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Gaman
1988 | 114 mins. | Hindi | Drama
GAMAN is a poem of the dispossessed of this country; of those who are forced by circumstances beyond their control to leave their families and their homes thereby destroying the social and cultural fabric of their environment themselves. It is the story of a young man from U.P., Ghulam Hasan, who has little education, less land and no opportunity in his own village and has, therefore, to migrate to Bombay, leaving behind his old mother and young wife, Khairun. With his departure, life for these women comes to a standstill the present is unbearable, the future uncertain. In the city, Ghulam finds refuge with his friend from the village, Lallu Lal Tewari who is a taxi-driver.
Director: Muzaffar Ali
Producer: Integrated Films
Cast: Bhim Farooq Shaikh, Smita Patil, Jalal Agha, Nana Patekar, Gita Siddharth
Awards
1979 Best Music Director, National Award
1979 Best Playback Singer (Female)
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Gandhi
1982 | 191 mins. | Biography | Drama | History
Biography of Mohandas K. Gandhi, the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of non-violent protest.
Director: Richard Attenborough
Writer: John Briley
Cast: Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud and Candice Bergen
Awards
55th Academy Awards
The film won eight Academy Awards and was nominated for three more:
Best Picture (won)
Best Director (Richard Attenborough)
Best Original Screenplay (John Briley)
Best Film Editing (John Bloom)
Best Actor in a Leading Role (Ben Kingsley)
Best Art Direction
Best Cinematography
Best Costume Design(Bhanu Athaiya)
Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film
David di Donatello for Best Foreign Film
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Gangoobai
2013 | 106 mins. | Hindi party Marathi | Social
Gangoobai, a childless, elderly widow, has lived her whole life in the tiny colonial hill station of Matheran, set in the spectacularly beautiful Sahyadri mountain range about four hours drive from Mumbai. Her world consists of tending to her beloved flowers and working as domestic help in a few homes, among them that of the wealthy Hodiwala family who own a weekend bungalow in Matheran, an eco-sensitive zone where no vehicles are allowed, not even bicycles.
Gangoobai’s quiet life is suddenly disrupted when, one day, she sees the Hodiwala’s teenage daughter wearing a magnificent designer Parsi sari of white Chinese motifs embroidered on a background of purple silk. The old woman falls instantly in love with this exotic, expensive, custom-made creation – and longs to own one herself.
Driven by this unlikely obsession, Gangoobai manages, against all odds, to save the money over four years of hard work and despite some wrong judgments, and finally finds herself in the big, polluted, overcrowded city of Mumbai – an urban nightmare she is utterly unprepared for. Here, filled with fears and misgivings, she is pleasantly surprised to find that people are the same everywhere, despite all outward appearances to the contrary, and that even the hardest heart can be transformed by kindness and love.
Finally, one day, Gangoobai collects her designer sari and attains her dream, only to face ultimate failure and betrayal at home by one whom she holds closest to her heart. Yet, her essential goodness and unfailing generosity to life redeem the destruction of her dreams, and set her life on a path that surpasses anything that she could ever have imagined...
Director: Priya Krishnaswamy
Producer: NFDC Ltd.
Cast: Sarita Joshi, Purab Kohli, Meeta Vasisht, Raj Zutshi, Gopi Desai, Rushad Rana, Nidhi Sunil, Behram Rana
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Godam (The Warehouse)
Own Production
1984 | 124 mins. | Colour | Hindi | Social
The film opens with a wedding procession followed by the ritual sacrifice of a sheep and invocation to God. A teenage bride, Yesu has been married to the mentally retarded son of a lecherous old man. On the night of the wedding, the father-in-law tries to rape Yesu and in the ensuing scuffle he is killed. A frightened Yesu runs away and hides in an abandoned warehouse. The very next day a new warehouse keeper Edekar and his attendant Dharma, take charge of the warehouse. Yesu is discovered hiding behind some old bags of wheat. They feed her and let her stay for the night, but Edekar is afraid of giving refuge to the girl. As time passes, Dharma becomes friendly with her and develops a protective attitude. His head office decides to send truckloads of food grain to the warehouse. Edekar is scared of the girl being found out. He starts drinking heavily and losing his sanity. Finally, in a fit of drunken fury, he asks Yesu to leave immediately. Back to his room he suffers from hallucinations about Yesu and the impending arrival of trucks.
Director | Screenplay | Music: Dilip Chitre
Camera: Govind Nihalani
Editor: Sanjeev Naik
Cast: K. K. Raina, Satyadev Dubey, Trupti
Awards
UNESCO Award
Festival Participation
Festival Des 3 Continents Nantes 1984
Prix Special du Jury -- Cannes Film Festival
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Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron
1983 | 110 mins. | Colour | Hindi | Comedy
A photographer-duo start a studio, only to find wrong things happening right from its launch. However, their photographic assignments lead them to expose shady facts about the city's builders, municipal officers and others. The film exposes many evils through its hilarious style, which weaves into its narrative slapstick comedy, as well as epic (a la Mahabharata) episodes to incisive effect.
Director: Kundan Shah
Camera: Binod Pradhan
Editor: Renu Saluja
Music: Vanraj Bhatia
Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Ravi Vaswani, Neena Gupta, Om Puri, Bhakti Barve, Pankaj Kapur, Satish Shah
Awards
National Award for Best Editing - 1992
National Award for Best First Film of a Director - 1984
Film Fare Award for Best Comedy - 1985
UP film Journalist Association for Best Film - 1984
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Jaya Ganga
1996 | 85 mins. | Colour | English-French-Hindi | Social
Nishant is an Indian living in Paris. He meets an unusual woman, Jaya in a cemetery. She claims to live two lives, her own and that of Nadja, the 1920s beauty, who had inspired Andre Breton to write a book on her. The woman disappears mysteriously, and Nishant undertakes a journey to the Ganga, for which Jaya had an obsessive love. On the river he meets Zehra, a poet and dancer who reminds him of Jaya. He persuades her to leave her brothel and join him on his journey down the Ganga.
Director | Writer: Vijay Singh
Camera: Piyush Shah
Editor: Renu Saluja
Music: Vanraj Bhatia
Cast: Asil Rais, Smriti Mishra, Paula Klein, Jean-Claude Carrier, Benwari Taneja,
Gopal Singh
Award Nominations
World Film Festival, Montreal for Best Film - 1996
Festival International des Films, Amiens (France) for Best Film - 1996
Stockholm International Film Festival 1996 - Best Film
Fortaleza International Festival, Brazil 1998 - Best Film
Festival Participation
Vancouver International Film Festival
Ghent International Film Festival (Belgium)
International Film Festival, Québec
Mar del Plata International Film Festival (Argentina)
Cinéquest, San Jose (California)
IFFI, New Delhi
Munich Film Festival, Munich
Festival des Films Romantiques, Cabourg (France)
Rencontres Cinématographiques, Une Certaine Idée du Cinéma, Pantin, Paris, (Opening Film)
Norton Palm Springs International Film Festival (California)
Festival des Femmes, Guadeloupe
Films from the South Film Festival, Oslo
Ciné Franeze, Rome
BAFTA special screening, London
Barcelona 2000, Barcelona
Paris Film Festival
Phnom Penh
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Kali Salwar
2002 | 112 mins. | Colour | Hindi | Social
Sultana, a small town prostitute and her pimp Khudabaksh migrate to the metropolis, bringing with them their dreams and meagre belongings. Sultana goes about her bright and artful seductions but somehow misses her targets. Her business collapses. Desperately, Khudabaksh too tries his hand at many jobs but is unsuccessful. Sultana's loneliness and despair get objectified in her desire for a 'salwaar' that she needs to complete her black ensemble for the observance of mourning for Moharram.
Director: Fareeda
Cast: Sadiya Siddiqui, Irfan Khan, Jeetu Shastri, Surekha Sikri, Vrajesh Hirjee, Kay Kay, Sheeba Chaddha.
Producer: NFDC & Andaz Production
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Kamla Ki Maut
Kamla's Death
1989 | 100 mins. | Colour | Hindi | Social
Kamla, a 20-year old girl in love with a young man, is seized by panic when she discovers that she is pregnant. She lives in a one-room flat in a five-storey building teeming with middle class families. Seeing no way out of the problem and overcome by feelings of guilt, she goes to the balcony and jumps down to her death. Neighbours come out to watch the tragedy. Among them are Sudhakar, his wife, and their two daughters. The incident sets them all thinking and looking into their own secret lives. They come to the nagging conclusion that Kamla was no more guilty than they themselves.
Director: Basu Chatterjee
Camera: Ajay Prabhakar
Editor: Kamal Saigal
Music: Salil Chowdhury
Cast: Pankaj Kapur, Roopa Ganguly, Supriya Pathak, Harshad Desai, Kavita Thakur, Dimple Arora, Irfan Khan and Devendra Khandelwal
Award Nominations
Filmfare Award for Best Script - 1990
BFJA Award for Best Bengali Feature Film & Best Director
Ritwick Ghatak Award for Best Film - 1990
Festival Participation
Cairo International Film Festival - 1990
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Katha Doan Ganpatraonchi
1996 | 140 mins. | Marathi | Drama
Located in a seaside villge in Maharashtra during the 60s, the film unfolds over two decades. It is a tragic tale of how the best of friendships can rupture over a trivial quarrel. Once a rupture takes place, there are always people who know how to turn a quarrel to their own advantage, even if the main adversaries are completely destroyed in the process.
This tale is told with a blend of absurd humour and touching pathos. It has memorable performances, beautiful locations, costumes and excellent cinematography held together by an imaginative mise-en-scène. It is as fresh today, as when it was made. It has gained layers of meaning by the events in our country in the last two decades.
Director: Arun Khopkar
Producer: NFDC
Cast:Dr. Mohan Agashe, Dilip Prabhavalkar, Uttara Baokar, Prashant Subhedar, Renuka Shahane, Kishor Kadam, Sanjay Mone, Sayaji Shinde, Atul Pethe
Festival Participation / Awards :
Maharashtra State Awards 1997 Best Comedian, Best Costumes
Beppu Asian Film Festival, Japan - 1998
Cairo International Film Festival, Egypt - 1999
Moscow International Film Festival - 1997 / Indian Panorama - 1997.
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