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GURU DUTT (Classic among the classics)
FILMS SELECTED :
BAAZI (1951)
AAR PAAR (1954)
MR. & MRS. 55 (1955)
SAHIB BIBI AUR GULAM (1962)
These films will be shown in June 2015 at Spanish Film Institute.
Biography
Considered to be a man ahead of his time, Guru Dutt was one of the greatest icon of commercial Indian cinema. Although he made less than 50 films during his lifetime, they are believed to be the best to come from Bollywood’s Golden Age. They are known both for their ability to reach out to the common man and for their artistic and lyrical content, and they went on to become trendsetters that have influenced Bollywood ever since. But for all his genius, there was a shroud of tragedy that overshadowed his career and life.
BAAZI
BAAZI
Guru Dutt
Cast : Dev Anand, Geeta Bali, Kalpana Kartik
India. 1951. 143 min. Drama. Musical.
Venue :
Spanish Film Institute
3, 21 June
Madan comes from a poor family background. Unable to find employment, he takes to gambling in a big way. He makes a lot of money, and decides to open a gambling den, where he makes even more money. He meets with sophisticated and cultured Dr. Rajani, and both are attracted to each other. But Rajani’s dad does not approve of Madan nor of his background, and would prefer that Rajani marry Inspector Ramesh. Rejected, Madan meets with vivacious and outgoing Meena, and romances her. Then Inspector Ramesh arrests Madan and imprisons him for the murder of Meena, who was killed with a revolver with Madan’s fingerprints on it.
AAR PAAR
AAR PAAR
Guru Dutt
Cast : Shyama, Guru Dutt, Jagdish Sethi
India. 1954. 146 min. Romance. Musical.
Venue :
Spanish Film Institute
7, 23 June
Kalu is a taxi-driver in Bombay. He has two women who love him and would like to marry him. Kalu first wants to establish himself, and become rich, before he can even think of marriage. One of the women who loves him, has a father who is involved in gangster-type activities, and would like Kalu also to join him so that he can get rich soon. Kalu has now to decide to become rich quick or sleep better.
MR & MRS 55
MR & MRS 55
Guru Dutt
Cast : Madhubala, Guru Dutt, Lalita Pawar
India. 1955. 157 min. Romance. Musical.
Venue :
Spanish Film Institute
9, 25 June
A young, naive heiress, in custody of a martinet and flamingly feminist aunt is forced into a ‘marriage of convenience’ with an unemployed cartoonist in an attempt to save her millions – a move orchestrated by the scheming aunt. However, in the course of her ostensibly married life, she learns the true meaning of marriage and the deep significance of being an Indian wife, much to the dismay of her aunt, who, in adherence to her wayward beliefs, has been trying to instill every kind of anti-male sentiment in her niece’s ingenuous mind.
Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam
Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam
Guru Dutt
Cast : Meena Kumari, Guru Dutt, Rehman
India. 1962. 152 min. Drama. Musical.
Venue :
Spanish Film Institute
13, 24 June
A Zamindar neglects his wife and prefers the company of alcohol and dancing girls. The decadence of the Bengali Zamindar milieu and the raising bourgeoisie in the late 19th century, seen through the eyes of a young upward mobile rustic seeking fortune in Calcutta, and fascinated by the lady of the house.
Imagineindia 2009
20 – 30 May
CLOSING GALA : ATENEO DE MADRID , 30 – May 21.00h
VENUES
FILMOTECA ESPAÑOLA
ATENEO DE MADRID
CINE PALAFOX
INSTITUTO FRANCES
SALA TRIANGULO
CASA ASIA
LA BOCA ESPACIO CULTURAL LA ESCALERA DE JACOB
JURY
MARIA DE MEDEIROS (President)
ANTONIO SAURA
ALBERTO LUCHINI
MIGUEL LOSADA
NEETA JAIN DUHAUT
ISAKI LACUESTA
CHUS GUTIERREZ
GUILLERMO FESSER
ALEX BRANDEMUHL
KIRA MIRO
LUCIA HOYOS
AWARDS
Best Film
Best Director
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Music
SECTIONS
INDIAN SECTION
COMPETITION
FROZEN (Shivajee Chandrabhusan)
DEV D (Anurag Kashyap)
MUMBAI MERI JAAN (Nishikant Kamat)
A WEDNESDAY (Neeraj Pandey)
WELCOME TO SAJJANPUR (Shyam Benegal)
STORY OF THE RED HILLS (Remo d,souza)
ORE KADAL (Shyamaprasad)
GULABI TALKIES (Girish Kasaravalli)
THE PRISONER (Pryas Gupta)
4 WOMEN (Adoor Gopalakrishnan)
FILMS OF TAPAN SINHA
GALPO HOLEO SATTI
JATUGRIHA
RETROSPECTIVE OF SHAJI KARUN
PIRAVI
SWAHAM
VANAPRASTHAM
NISHAD
RETROSPECTIVE OF GIRISH KASARAVALLI
DWEEPA
HASINA
NAAYI NERALU
GHATASHRADDHA
GULABI TALKIES
RETROSPECTIVE OF SATYAJIT RAY
ASHANI SANKET
ABHIJAN
CHIRIAKHANA
PRATIDWANDI
KANCHENJUNGA
CLASSICS
JATUGRIHA (Tapan Sinha)
ASHANI SHANKET (Satyajit Ray)
ABHIJAN (Satyajit Ray)
PRATIDWANDI (Satyajit Ray)
KANCHENJUNGA (Satyajit Ray)
CHIRIAKHANA (Satyajit Ray)
GALPO HOLEO SATTI (Tapan Sinha)
DOCUMENTARIES
3 MEN and A BULB
PUNCHES and PONYTAILS
THE INDIAN KNOT
O BAI
STORY OF PATHER PANCHALI
SHORT FILMS
GOOD NIGHT
TUMSE MILKE
LITTLE TERRORIST
THE FOREST
OUT OF COMPETITION
DEVAKI (Bappaditya Bandhopadday)
MIRCH MASALA (Ketan Mehta)
IQBAL (Nagesh Kukunoor)
KANTATAAR (Bappaditya Bandhopadday)
ROAD TO LADAKH (Ashvin Kumar)
LITTLE ZIZOU (Sooni Taraporevala) THE RIVER (Jean Renoir)
INDIA (R. Rossellini)
ASIAN SECTION
COMPETITION
DREAMS FROM THE THIRD WORLD (Kan Lume) Singapoor
THREE WISHES THREE LOVES (Nan Achnas) Indonesia
RAMCHAND PAKISTANI (Mehreen Jabber) Pakistan
THE MOON AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WELL (Nguyen Vinh Son)Vietnam.
THE WAY WE ARE (Ann Hui) China
KOLORETE (Ruelo Lozendo) Phillipines
CALL IF YOU NEED ME (James Lee) Malaysia
THREE WOMEN (Manijeh Hekmat) Iran
WE WENT TO WONDERLAND (Xiaolu Guo) China
OUT OF COMPETITION
ELECTION 2 (Johnny To)
WAITING FOR THE CLOUDS (Yesim Ustaouglu)
THOSE THREE (Naghi Nemati)
WITH A GIRL OF BLACK SOIL (Soo il Jeon)
KEKA (Quark Henares)
THIS IS MY MOON (Asoka Handagama)
DENIAS, SINGING ON THE CLOUD (John de Rantau)
PYE DOG (Chin Kin Kwok)
CENTRE STAGE (Stanley Kwan)
AFTER THIS OUR EXILE (Patrick Tam)
AN AUTUMN,S TALE (Mabel Cheun)
ROUGE (Stanley Kwan)
THE FLOATING LANDSCAPE (Lai Miu Suet)
ISABELLA (Ho Cheung Pang)
RETROSPECTIVE OF WON KAR WAI
AS TEARS GO BY
DAYS OF BEING WILD
CHUNGKING EXPRESS
FALLEN ANGELS
HAPPY TOGETHER
RETROSPECTIVE OF EDUARD YANG
IN OUR TIME
A CONFUCIAN CONFUSSION
MAHJONG
GYPSY FILMS
CYMBALON LEGACY (Mano Camon)
SEARCHING FOR THE 4TH NAIL (George Eli)
AMERICAN GYPSY (Jassmine Dellal)
GYPSY CARAVAN (Jassmine Dellal)
DALLAS (Robert Pejo)
SONGE OF THE DUNES (Paula Fouce)
AUSTRALIAN FILMS
LANTANA (Ray Lawrance)
TWO HANDS (Gregor Jordan).
SWIMMING UPSTREAM (Russel Mulcahy)
LITTLE FISH (Rowan Woods)
JINDABAYNE (Ray Lawrance)
IRRESISTIBLE (Anne Turner)
ROMULUS MY FATHER (Richard Roxburgh)
NOISE (Mattiew Saville)
BLACK WATER (David Nerlich, Andrew Traucki).
SILENT ROOM (Rolf der Heer)
IMAGINEINDIA 2009 AWARDS
Best film : FROZEN (Shivajee Chandrabhusan)
Best director : NEERAJ PANDEY (A Wednesday)
Best actress : MEERA JASMINE (Ore Kadal)
Best actor : RAJAT KAPOOR (El Prisionero)
Mejor music : JOHN P. VARKEY (Frozen)
Best Asian Film : RAMCHAND PAKISTANI (Mehreen Jabber)
Best Asian Director : NGUYEN VINH SON (La luna en el fondo del pozo)
Imagineindia 2007
SECCTIONS and FILMS
COMPETITION
DOR (Nagesh Kukunoor) MAATY MAAY (Chitra Palekar) KYA TUM HO (Vaseem Ahmed Dehlvi) OM KARA (Vishal Bharadwaj) BAYO (Gajendra Ahire) PHALTU (Anjan Das) NOTTAM (Sashi Paravoor)
60 YEARS FROM INDIAN INDEPENDENCE
SAHEED BHAGAT SINGH (Manoj Kumar) VASTHUHARA (Govindan Aravindan) TRAIN TO PAKISTAN (Pamela Rooks)
IN MEMORY OF FRIENDS (Anand Patwardan)
RETROSPECTIVE OF MANI RATNAM
Bombay Yuva A peck on the cheek Dil Se Iruvar Mouna Ragam
RETROSPECTIVE OF SMITA PATIL
Giddh , the vulture (T.S. Ranga) Mirch Masala (Ketan Mehta) Chakra (R.Dharmaraj) Bhavni Bhavai (Ketan Mehta) Umbartha (Jabbar Patel) Bazaar (Sagar Sarhadi)
HOMAGE TO SHARMILA TAGORE
El mundo de Apu ( Satyajit Ray)
HOMAGE TO A.R.RAHMAN
Bombay ( Mani Ratnam)
PREMIERE
EKLAVYA ( Vidhu Vinod Chopra) LAGE RAHO MUNNA BHAI (Rajkumar Hirani)
SPONSORS
COCA – COLA CATAI TOURS TATA MOTORS EMBAJADA DE LA INDIA DIRECTORATE OF FILM FESTIVALS
Imagineindia 2008
23 May – 2 June
PRESENTATION
One more year the dates of ImagineIndia Madrid Indian Film Festival, 7th Edition, are nearer. Established in 1999 as a pioneering event for showing Indian , Asian and Arab films.
23rd may – 2nd june, 2008. This can be felt as all the workers of the organization seem to be nervious as it was the first day of the festival.
Will we get this film, will be coming that director, have been finished the translations, have we got those stills etc ?
An enourmous job done by these mens and womens searching films, directors, artists all over the world. But it,s an inmense pleasure having the oportunity to contact, to talk to peoples from the other end of the world, so different to us. If Cinema is these days an universal language, our festival ImagineIndia is the event where they meet all the caracters of this language for talking about projects, sharing a beer, thinking of the future. For 11 days this festival is a belonging to different cultures for exchanging their art, their hopes.
Making it posible to what once John Lennon said, ” Imagine there is no country, no religions too, Imagine all the people, living life in peace, hope someday you will join us” So as he sang, 80 films from India, Asia and Arab countries, many languages, original version or subtitled, laughs or tears, but viewing in a cinema hall in a total silent peace.
This is ImagineIndia, hope someday you will join us.
HISTORY OF THE FESTIVAL
It begins as far as 1999 with the sponsorship of M- 80 Radio and Gomaespuma, and has programmed the most important indian films and the most outstanding indian film directors have been through our event. Mira Nair, Aamir Khan, Sharmila Tagore, Deepa Mehta, Goutam Ghose, Adoor Gopalakrishnan have attended the fest. with their films in hand. Not less importance to be given to the participation of spanish directors as Fernando Colomo, Carlos Saura, Verónica Forqué, Goya Toledo, etc..
The type of films and the Retrospectives organized solely tell about the high level attained by the festival. To be noted among those the retrospectives : Mira Nair, Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Raj Kapoor, Rithwik Ghatak, Shyam Benegal, Adoor Gopalakrishnan , etc..
EDITION 2008
The next edition is full of new ideas, more sections, films, countries and venues.
37 indian films, 20 asian and 3 arab show itself the importance of the event.
In the Indian Section , It,s to be highlighted the Retrospectives of Buddhadeb Dasgupta, in the Spanish Film Institute, and that of Mani Kaul. If the first has won Venice Film Festival with the film Uttara, the second has won many awards with the feature Uski Roti.
In the Asian Section we can stress the Retrospectives of Hou Hsiao Hsien and Zang Ke Jia. And finally 3 films of Farida Belyazidincluded in Arab Section.
SECTIONS
INDIAN SECTION
Competition :
JAARA BRISHTITE BHIJECHILO
DHARM
TAARE ZAMEEN PAR
PARADESHI
DANSH
LIFE IN A METRO
JOHNNY GADDAR
CHAURAHEN
NO SMOKING
MITHYA
Retrospective of Shabana Azmi
MAKDEE
PATANG
HONEYMOON TRAVELS LTD
Retospective of Mani Kaul
USKI ROTI
DUVIDHA
SATAH SE UTHATA AADMI
MAATI MANAS
Retrospective of Buddhadeb Dasgupta
SWAPNER DIN
KALPURUSH
UTTARA
CHARACHAR
TAHADER KATHA
BAGH BAHADUR
Indian Classics
SAPTAPADI
SAAT PAKE BANDHA
SUJATA
BOW BARRACKS FOREVER
MEGHE DHAKA TARA
Documentaries
ASIAN SECTION
Competition
Fisherman’s Daughter (Sri Lanka) Salinda Perera
Pure Coolness (Kyrgystan) Ernest Abdyjaparov
Sankara (Sri Lanka) Prasanna Jayakody
Notebook of Life (Japan) Kihachi Itakura
Khuda Ke Lye (Pakistan) Shoaib Mansoor
Kuru (Malaysia) Woo Min Jin
Kagbeni (Nepal) Bhusan Dahal
Retrospective of Hou Hsiao Hsien
GOOD MEN GOOD WOMEN
DUST IN THE WIND
A TIME TO LIVE A TIME TO DIE
A SUMMER AT GRANDPA,S
ALL THE YOUTHFULL DAYS
CAFE LUMIERE
Retospective of Zang Ke Jia
Out of Competition
The House (Azerbaiyan) Asif Rustamov
Red Lion (Japan) Kihachi Okamoto
Welcome to DongMakgol (South Korea) Park Kwang Hyun
What Time is it there? (Taiwan) Tsai Ming Liang
The King and the Clown (South Korea) Lee Jun Ik
VENUES
Spanish Film Institute
Spanish Film Academy
Cines Renoir
Casa Asia
Cine Palafox
Centro Madrileño de Imágenes
La Boca del Lobo
JURY
VERONICA FORQUE ( President )
ANTONIA SAN JUAN
MYRIAM MEZIERES
GUILLERMO FESSER
SERGIO PAZOS
ISAKI LACUESTA
JOSE MARZILLI
AWARDS
Best Film
Best Director
Best Actor
Best Actress
Award to Lifetime Achievment
NETPAC Award to best Asian film
PRESS CONFERENCE. Presention of the Festival
Place : RANI MAHAL , C/ Ave María, 18. (Lavapiés).
Date : 14 – may – 2008. 12.00 h.
Participants :
Gran Wyoming, Sergio Pazos, Verónica Forqué, Guillermo Fesser, Myriam Mezieres, Qazi Abdur Rahim, Menene Gras, Guillermo Toledo, Javier Corcuera, Pilar Torre (ICAA), Hugo Silva, Carlos Iglesias.
CLOSING CEREMONY
Place : PALAFOX CINEMA , C/ Luchana 15.
Date : 2 – june – 2008. 21.00 h.
DEBATES
SPANISH FILM INSTITUTE :
28 May.
Hall 1 , 19.30 h
Theme : Participation of Women as changing force in our cinema.
Participants :
— Chus Gutierrez.
— Myriam Mezieres.
— Charles Tesson.
— Buddhadeb Dasgupta.
— Aruna Vasudev.
Moderator :
— Qazi Abdur Rahim.
CENTRO MADRILEÑO DE IMAGENES :
27 may. 19.00 h.
Theme : Hybrid and Transborder conception of Indian Culture.
Participants :
— Jorge Diego Sanchez.
— Charles Tesson.
Moderator :
— Qazi Abdur Rahim.
CENTRO MADRILEÑO DE IMAGENES.
29 may. 18.30 h.
Presentation : Of the film Jaara Brishtite Bhijechilo by Anjan Das.
ORGANIZATION
Founder – Director
QAZI ABDUR RAHIM
Brand Ambassador
SHARMILA TAGORE
Special Collaborator
ARUNA VASUDEV ALBERTO ELENA
Patrons
CARLOS SAURA
SERGIO PAZOS
ANTONIA SAN JUAN
GOUTAM GHOSE
ADOOR GOPALAKRISHNAN MANI RATNAM
A.R.RAHMAN
GRAN WYOMING
JAVIER CORCUERA
ANTONIO WEINRICHTER
TEAM IMAGINEINDIA 2008
WEBMASTER
Vikash Mehra ( ADSOLUTIONS S.A.) Ana Garrido
EDITING PHOTOS , DVD,s , TRAILERS , SPOTS , PRESS MATERIAL
Manuel Priede Monserrat de María
TRANSFER OF FORMATS
Asier Cine Asia
SYNOPSIS FOR WEB and OTHERS
Qazi Abdur Rahim Ana Belén García Mula Gabriela Garcés María José Izarra Juan José
LINE DESIGNER OF PUBLICITY
Manuel Priede Monserrat de María Manuela Sanhueza
TRANSLATOR
Karl Pedall Carolina Salgado Gallego Qazi Abdur Rahim Sara Qazi Salgado Virginia
SUBTITLING
Karl Pedall Carolina Salgado Gallego Gabriel
PROGRAMMING
Qazi Abdur Rahim Amalesh Dasgupta Sangeeta Dutta Lalit Mohan Joshi Aruna Vasudev Philip Cheah S. K. Ahamed Elena Aime Anne Doshi
PUBLICITY IN INTERNET
Víctor Losa Regañón
PRESS AND COMMUNICATION
DYP comunicaciones David Sánchez Piti
VENUE COORDINATORS
Marta Fernández Torres Virginia María Jesús Abad Carolina Salgado Gallego María Jesús
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Víctor Gato Abdullah Jorashan
HOSPITALITY
Rosa Cruz María José Izarra Carolina Salgado Gallego Mónica Herrero Paul Summers
BOLLYWOOD DANCING
Bailamos Bollywood Sunny and Suresh
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