Posts Tagged ‘Chak De India’

Production designer Sukant Panigrahy turns director and needs money to complete ‘Atlas’

Posted: November 25, 2009 by moifightclub in bollywood, cast & crew, cinema, first look, News, songs & videos, Story / Plot / Synopsis, Thoughts
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Its always nice to bump into someone whose work you are familiar with and about whom you have heard some good stories. Met Sukant Panigrahy at Film Bazaar (IFFI Goa) today. Though I had never met him but we had some movie connection too. A box of dvds (from USA) sent to me by a common freind of ours landed up at his place because I was too lazy/busy to collect. And Sukant knew that the second box of dvds sent by the same freind reached my place.  Ok, time to barter then.

Sukant started out as a production designer and has worked on some big budget films (Gangajal, Tashan, Chak De India, Jhoom Barabar Jhoom among others. Click here for the IMDB list). He candidly admits that its all bullshit for Bread & butter. His last release which got noticed was Anurag Kashyap’s Dev D. And now he has turned director with a film titled Atlas.

Atlas is the story of a waiter in a beach side bar, who has a fragmented isolated existance. His lonely life is alieviated by an obsession with Laila, a free spirited woman of the night. Satish Kaushik &  Helen Jones are in lead roles. With whatever funds he could manage, Sukant has shot some portion of the film and has cut a trailer out of it. He is now looking for a producer who can help him complete the film. Do check out the trailer and if you like it, do spread the word.

 

National Film Awards list is out!

Posted: September 7, 2009 by moifightclub in bollywood, cinema, News, Regional, Simbly South
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The National Film Awards list is finally out. Earlier we confirmed few winners including Prakash Raj For Best Actor on this post. And like always, we were right. Check out the other winners.

Best Actor – Prakash Raj( Kanchivaram )

Best Actress – Uma Shree ( Gulabi Talkies )

Best Film – Kanchivaram

Best Director – Adoor Gopalakrishnan ( Naalu Pennungal – Four Women )

Best Child Actor – Sharad Goyekar ( Marathi film Tingya ) 

Best Supporting Actor – Darshan Zariwalla ( Gandhi My Father )

Best Supporting Actress – Shefali Shah (The Last Lear)

Best Lyrics – Prasoon Joshi ( Taare Zameen Par)

Best Playback Singer(Male) – Shankar Mahadevan ( Taare Zameen Par )

Best Playback Singer (Female) – Shreya Ghoshal

Best Film on National Integration – Dharam

Best Film On Family Welfare – Taare Zameen Par

Best Film For Overall Entertaintment – Chak De India

Best Screenplay – Feroze Abbas Khan ( Gandhi My Father)

Best Music – Ousepacham for Ore Kadal

Best Film (Hindi) – 1971

Best Film (English ) – The Last Lear

Best Special Effects – Sivaji

Best Art Direction – Om Shanti Om

Best Choreography – Ye Ishq Hai (Jab We Met)

Best Cinematography – Frozen ( Shanker Raman)

Best Audiography – 1971

Best Editing – Naalu Pennungal ( Malyalam)

Best Film on Social Issues – Antardwanda ( Dir – Sushil Rajpal )

Special Jury Award – Gandhi My Father

Indira Gandhi Award for Best First Film – Shivajee Chandrabhushan for Frozen

Best Book on Cinema – From Raj To Swaraj : The Non Fiction Film In India by B D Garga

Best Film Critic – V K Joseph ( Malyalam )

In the non-feature/short films category, mentioning only those few which am aware of (read friends or friends’ friend) –

Best Educational/Motivational/Instructional Film – Prarambha (Santosh Sivan)

Short Fiction Film – Udhed Bun ( Siddharth Singh)

Best Cinematography – Kramasha ( Savita Singh )

Best Audiography –  Kramasha ( Ajit Singh Rathore )

Best Music Direction – Echoes of Silence ( English/ Khasi – Zubin Garg)

For the full list of entries and winners click here.

The jury was headed by Sai Paranjpe and members included Ashok Viswanathan and Namita Gokhale. About 102 films and 106 non-feature films were considered.

Ranbir Kapoor as Rocket Singh – First look

Posted: May 4, 2009 by moifightclub in bollywood, cinema, first look, News
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Here is the first look of Rocket Singh – Salesman of the Year. Ranbir Kapoor plays the lead role in this Yashraj Films production. The film is directed by Shimit Amin (standing, right) and written by Jaideep Shani ( sitting, left). The duo delivered the blockbuster hit Chak De India.

Rocket Singh – Salesman Of The Year will release by year end.

Shah Rukh Khan starts blogging

Posted: April 25, 2009 by moifightclub in bollywood, News
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Finally! After criticising every celeb blogger for doing the job what journalists should be doing, Shah Rukh Khan has finally joined the club. As the owner of Kolkata Knight Riders, who have been facing criticism from all quarters, Shah  Rukh Khan has finally decided to make his views public. His blog can be found at www.kkr.in. The first two posts read more like motivational speeches and less of blog! Looks like he is still playing the role of Kabir Khan from Chak De India!

Well we can understand why.  Firstly, the bad performance of the team and add to that, the mayhem created by  fakeiplyplayer who is leaking out every possible detail about the team. Khansaab must be going insane. Too much to handle!

For those of you who love lil’ bit of philosophy, here is Theodore Roosevelt’s quote as put up by Shah Rukh Khan on his blog…

It is not the critic who counts;

    Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles,

    Or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

    The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,

    Whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;

    Who strives valiantly;

    Who errs, who comes short again and again,

    Because there is no effort without error and shortcoming;

    But who does actually strive to do deeds;

    Who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions;

    Who spends himself in a worthy cause;

    Who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,

    And who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly,

    So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who

    neither know

    Victory nor Defeat.