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| Mokashi inaugurates Cinefest 2011 yesterday, as Kohli and Pravasi officials look on |
The six-day festival was inaugurated by the opening film Harishchandrachi Factory’s director Paresh Mokashi. Indian embassy deputy chief of mission Sanjiv Kohli and other dignitaries were present.
The Marathi film, Mokashi’s 2009 debut, won him the best director award at the Pune International Film Festival and many other awards.
Selected as India’s official entry to the Academy Awards in the best foreign language film category the same year, the film depicts the struggle of the late Dadasaheb Phalke in making India’s first feature film, Raja Harishchandra, in 1913.
Nandu Madhav, Vibhavari Deshpande, and Mohit Gokhale are the main actors. Music is by Narendra Bhide, cinematography by Amelendu Choudhary, and editing by Amit Pawar.
Kannada film Gulabi Talkies (2008), written and directed by Girish Kasaravalli is to be screened today (October 15) at 8.30pm. Umashree, K G Krishna Murthy, and M D Pallavi are the main actors. The other credits are Vaidehi (story), Isaac Thomas Kottukapally (music), S Ramachandra Aithal (cinematography), and S Manohar and M N Swamy (editing).
Bengali film Kaalpurush (Memories in the Mist), written and directed by Buddhadev Dasgupta and released in 2005 is to be screened tomorrow (October 16) at 8.30pm.
Mithun Chakraborty, Rahul Bose, Sameera Reddy, Sudipta Chakraborty and Laboni Sarkar are the main actors. The other credits are Diswadep Dasgupta (music), Sudeep Chatterjee (cinematography) and Sanjib Datta (editing).
Kaushik Ganguly’s English film Just Another Love Story (2010) will be screened on Monday (October 17) at 8.30pm. Written by Ganguly and Rituparno Ghosh, the film has the latter as creative director as well as an actor. The other main actors are Indraneil Sengupta, Jisshu Sengupta and Raima Sen.
On Tuesday (October 18), Tamil film Pasanga (Children), written and directed by Pandiraj and released in 2009 will be screened at 8.30pm. Vimal, Vega Tamotia, Jayaprakash, Kishore and Sree Ram are the main actors. Music is by James Vasanthan, cinematography by Prem Kumar, and editing by Yoga Baskar.
Malayalam film Veettilekkulla Vazhi (The Way Home), which won the National Award in 2010 for the best feature film in Malayalam will be screened on Wednesday (October 19) at 8.30pm.
Written and directed by Dr Biju, the film has Prithviraj, Master Govardhan, Indrajith, Lakshmipriya and Malavika as the main cast.
Music is by Ramesh Narayan, cinematography by M J Radhakrishnan, and editing by Manoj Kannoth.
Three documentaries are also to be screened during the festival. They are Surang by Anurag Gowsami, Germ by Snehal Nair and The Postman by Manohar.