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WATCH : Title Sequence of ‘Angry Indian Goddesses’ Which Censor Board Didn’t Want You To See

Posted: December 30, 2015 by moifightclub in cinema
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Among the many ways the Censor Board (CBFC) butchered Pan Nalin’s film Angry Indian Goddesses, this one was priceless. They had objection to the entire opening credits of the film. For us, a good opening title sequence is a thing of beauty. And lot of effort goes into making it. How to explain it to the board which believes that any reference to Gods should be wiped out. The makers had no option but to blur all the Gods in the entire film and the opening title sequence. So if you saw the film in the theatres, all you saw was the credits with a completely blur background.

Anyway, here’s the good news. The opening credit which was blurred is now online. Also, Art Of The Title site, which is great resource for title sequences of films/tv show, has featured it in their Top 10 title sequences of the year.

Click here to watch it on full screen or click here to go to Art Of Title page and scroll down to number 5.

Here is the credit list for the sequence

ANGRY INDIAN GODDESSES
Studio: Plexus
Creative Director / Motion Graphics Artist: Vijesh Rajan
Associate Motion Graphics Artist: Yashoda Parthasarthy
Music by: Ram Sampath
Edited by: Shreyas Beltangdy

Mumbai Film Festival, 2015 – What We Know So Far

Posted: October 5, 2015 by moifightclub in cinema, film, Film Festival, Mumbai Film Festival, News, World Cinema
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It’s that time of the year again when we do our annual religious pilgrimage. That’s Mumbai Film Festival, one of our favourite city event and the biggest film festival in the country. Since a film festival is always about the films, let’s get that sorted first. So this is what we know so far about this year’s edition.

FILMS

First, our exclusive dope.

Our sources have confirmed that Mumbai Film Festival will screen Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth and Gurvinder Singh’s Chauthi Koot.

Sorrentino’s last film The Great Beauty was a big hit at the festival in 2012. Youth premiered at Cannes this year. This one is a big catch.

Gurvinder Singh is probably one of the finest filmmakers we have that the country doesn’t know about. So its great that we will get to see his new film here. His latest film Chauthi Koot (The Fourth Dimension) premiered at Cannes this year. Click here to know more about the film.

– Hansal Mehta’s Aligarh will open the festival. The film just had its premiere at the Busan Film Festival and will be at London Film Festival. This is great news. A city fest needs to open it with a film from the city/country especially when we are produce the maximum number of films in the world. So congrats to everyone for pulling this one.

Here’s the official synopsis of the film –

Set in a small town in Uttar Pradesh from which the film takes its name, ‘Aligarh’ is the story of a professor (Manoj Bajpayee) fired for his sexuality and a young journalist (Rajkummar Rao) who tells his story to the world. Based on true events, the film follows Dr. S R Siras, a professor at the Aligarh Muslim University who, when discovered to be homosexual, was fired from his position.  The film depicts the unlikely friendship between Dr. Siras and a reporter investigating his first big story, a relationship that will change them both forever.

– Q’s Ludo will be in the newly introduced “After Dark” section

– The restored Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy will also be showing at the festival. Woah! Click here to watch the trailer of its restoration.

– Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan will be coming to the fest. It bagged the top award Palme d’Or at Cannes this year. And our very own Kartik Krishnan is also in it.

– Andrew Haigh’s critically acclaimed film 45 Years

– Raam Reddy’s Thithi which bagged two top awards at Locarno Film Festival this year. More details about the film is here.

– Jafar Panahi’s Taxi which picked up the Golden Bear and FIPRESCI Award at the Berlin Film Festival will be screened in World Cinema section.

– Pani Nalin’s Angry Indian Goddesses will be in “Special Screening”

WHAT  ELSE

– Ava Duvernay of ‘Selma’ fame will head the International Jury at the fest.

– A R Rahman has composed the signature tune of the fest. Yay!

– Guardian’s well known film critic Peter Bradshaw will mentor the young reviewers in “Young Critics Lab”

– Fest has announced a new award category – the Book Award for Excellence in Writing on Cinema. This is for film writing and publishing in South Asia, written by authors from the sub-continent and published by an Indian publishing house. The Award covers works of fiction, graphic novel, creative non-fiction, reportage, analysis and screenplay, written in English or translated into English. The Award carries a cash prize of Rs 5 lakhs.

So what are you waiting for? Click here and register for the fest.

See you at the movies.

 

Busan To Open With ‘Zubaan’, TIFF Adds ‘Angry Indian Goddesses’

Posted: August 26, 2015 by moifightclub in cinema
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A bunch of festival news about Indian films from across the world.

Busan International Film Festival will open with Mozez Singh’s debut feature, Zubaan this year. The film has Vicky Kaushal, Sarah Jane Dias, Manish Chaudhary, Meghna Malik and Raaghav Chanana in lead roles. For more details about the film, click here.

Aprt from Zubaan, Busan will also have a bunch of Indian films in various categories. In its ‘A Window On Asian Cinema’ section, there is Meghna Gulzar’s Guilty (Talvar), Hansal Mehta’s Aligarh, Bhaskar Hazarika’s Kothanodi, Biju Viswanath’s Orange Candy, Mani Ratnam’s O Kadhal Kanmani, Neeraj Ghaywan’s Masaan, and Suman Ghosh’s Peace Heaven.

The “New Currents” section has Hari Viswanath’s Radio Set and the “Cinekids’ section will screen Nagesh Kukunoor’s Rainbow (Dhanak). The fest also has few Indian films in docu and shorts categories. The festival will run from 1-10th October, 2015.

Also, Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap is on the Jury for “New Currents” section of the fest.

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Toronto International Film Festival has few more Indian titles to their 2015 edition. Apart from Meghna Gulzar’s Guilty (Talvar) and Leena Yadav’s Parched, it also has Pan Nalin’s Angry Indian Goddesses in the same ‘Special Presentations’ section. The film stars Tannishtha Chatterjee, Sandhya Mridul, Sarah Jane Dias, Pavleen Gujral, Anushka Manchanda, Rajshri Deshpande and Amrit Maghera

Here’s a short description of the film from the fest site – On the eve of their friend’s wedding in Goa, a group of women discuss everything under the sun — from their careers, sex lives, and secrets to nosy neighbours and street harassment — in this largely improvised and refreshingly frank depiction of contemporary Indian society from award-winning director Pan Nalin.

TIFF will also screen Shambhavi Kaul’s Fallen Objects, Shai Heredia & Shumona Goel’s An Old Dog’s Diary in “Wavelenths” section, and Megha Ramaswamy’s Bunny in “Short Cut” section.