She clarifies that her films are not about dealing with the unspoken and that she does not even think in that direction. “What attracts me to stories, from ‘Fire’ onwards are the human struggles to be seen, and how the characters go about achieving their rightful place in the human struggle,” filmmaker Deepa Mehta tells an entertainment portal.
Currently her latest documentary ‘I Am Sirat’, is doing the rounds at various international film festivals. It profiles Sirat Taneja, a transgender woman based in New Delhi who lives and works as a woman in her professional career and as a social media personality, but holds the familial responsibilities of a son to her widowed mother.
Mehta, who first met Sirat five years ago on the sets of the web series ‘Leila’ where she was playing the part of a transgender guard, remembers: “I got to know her during the intensive rehearsals...
Currently her latest documentary ‘I Am Sirat’, is doing the rounds at various international film festivals. It profiles Sirat Taneja, a transgender woman based in New Delhi who lives and works as a woman in her professional career and as a social media personality, but holds the familial responsibilities of a son to her widowed mother.
Mehta, who first met Sirat five years ago on the sets of the web series ‘Leila’ where she was playing the part of a transgender guard, remembers: “I got to know her during the intensive rehearsals...
- 3/18/2024
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Popular Bollywood actor Parineeti Chopra has two projects based on real-life stories in the works.
“Chamkila” is a biopic on Punjabi singer-songwriter pop star duo Amar Singh Chamkila and Amarjot Kaur, who shot to fame in the 1980s recording and performing songs that were social commentaries or devotionals, and which became massive hits. The duo was gunned down in Mehsampur village, Punjab, in 1988. Their assassination remains an unsolved mystery and was the subject of Kabir Singh Chowdhry’s 2018 mockumentary “Mehsampur.”
“Chamkila,” produced by Reliance Entertainment, is directed by acclaimed filmmaker Imtiaz Ali, known for “Jab We Met” (2007), “Love Aaj Kal” (2009), “Rockstar” (2011) and “Highway” (2014). Pop star and actor Diljit Dosjanh (Netflix original film “Jogi”) plays Chamkila while Chopra plays Kaur.
“Diljit and I are going to be singing throughout the film. We’re doing like 12-15 songs because it’s a film on music. We’re doing live recordings on set.
“Chamkila” is a biopic on Punjabi singer-songwriter pop star duo Amar Singh Chamkila and Amarjot Kaur, who shot to fame in the 1980s recording and performing songs that were social commentaries or devotionals, and which became massive hits. The duo was gunned down in Mehsampur village, Punjab, in 1988. Their assassination remains an unsolved mystery and was the subject of Kabir Singh Chowdhry’s 2018 mockumentary “Mehsampur.”
“Chamkila,” produced by Reliance Entertainment, is directed by acclaimed filmmaker Imtiaz Ali, known for “Jab We Met” (2007), “Love Aaj Kal” (2009), “Rockstar” (2011) and “Highway” (2014). Pop star and actor Diljit Dosjanh (Netflix original film “Jogi”) plays Chamkila while Chopra plays Kaur.
“Diljit and I are going to be singing throughout the film. We’re doing like 12-15 songs because it’s a film on music. We’re doing live recordings on set.
- 2/6/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Manta RayThe week after the 20th Mumbai Film Festival (Mami) has been a busy one for the Indian festival calendar. The festival of cinema led us Indians seamlessly to the Festival of Lights: Diwali that lights up moonless city nights across India. It is only in the absence of the possibility of watching non-mainstream world cinema in our local theatres that one is reminded of the delirious days of a film festival. Even as the Mumbai Film Festival closed its curtains for the year, it signed off with a set of awards celebrating the best of the international and Indian fare. If there were bets for the international competition winner I would have gone with my hunch and placed my bets on Manta Ray by Phuttiphong Aroonpheng. The film went on to win the Golden Gateway Award; the highest laurel in Mami given in two categories, the International Competition and the India Gold.
- 11/14/2018
- MUBI
U.K.-based sales agent Alief has picked up world rights to two independent films that will play later this month in the India Gold section of the Mumbai Film Festival. Both are by first-time directors.
Kabir Chowdhry’s experimental “Mehsampur” is a mix of fiction, documentary and biopic, that kicks off with the murder of Punjabi folk singer Amar Singh Chamkila. The film had its premiere in Sydney in June. Chowdhry was creative producer of 2016’s “Hotel Salvation,” which played at the Venice and Busan festivals.
Ridham Janves’s ethno-mystery feature debut “The Gold-Laden Sheep & the Sacred Mountain” gets its world premiere in Mumbai. It tells the tale of a rescue mission after a plane crashes on sacred ground, and its pilot is found by an old shepherd.
The world sales deal was struck between Alief and the films’ Indian production company, Dark Matter Pictures, headed by producer-writer Akshay Singh...
Kabir Chowdhry’s experimental “Mehsampur” is a mix of fiction, documentary and biopic, that kicks off with the murder of Punjabi folk singer Amar Singh Chamkila. The film had its premiere in Sydney in June. Chowdhry was creative producer of 2016’s “Hotel Salvation,” which played at the Venice and Busan festivals.
Ridham Janves’s ethno-mystery feature debut “The Gold-Laden Sheep & the Sacred Mountain” gets its world premiere in Mumbai. It tells the tale of a rescue mission after a plane crashes on sacred ground, and its pilot is found by an old shepherd.
The world sales deal was struck between Alief and the films’ Indian production company, Dark Matter Pictures, headed by producer-writer Akshay Singh...
- 10/6/2018
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
In my dealings with Asian cinema, I have seen a number of strange, extreme and experimental films, but I have to admit “Mehsampur” left me quite perplexed, regarding both its nature (an experimental mockumentary one could say if the basic premise was not a real event) and its quality. Let us take things from the beginning though.
“Mehsampur” runs as part of the 9th edition of the Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival, that runs at 15 cinemas, across London, Birmingham and Manchester, from 21st June to 1st July, with 27 films, including features and short films, in competition. It is the largest South Asian film festival in Europe. Buy your tickets via this website, at respective cinema box offices: http://londonindianfilmfestival.co.uk/
The film functions as a very strange documentary, that has an eccentric filmmaker named Devrath arriving to Punjab to make a movie about the popular folk-singing duo Amar Singh Chamkila...
“Mehsampur” runs as part of the 9th edition of the Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival, that runs at 15 cinemas, across London, Birmingham and Manchester, from 21st June to 1st July, with 27 films, including features and short films, in competition. It is the largest South Asian film festival in Europe. Buy your tickets via this website, at respective cinema box offices: http://londonindianfilmfestival.co.uk/
The film functions as a very strange documentary, that has an eccentric filmmaker named Devrath arriving to Punjab to make a movie about the popular folk-singing duo Amar Singh Chamkila...
- 6/18/2018
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Film Bazaar: Films in rare languages, mockumentaries and a growing interest in genre filmmaking are some of the dominant themes in this year’s Film Bazaar Recommends.
Among the line-up are films such as The Gold Laden Sheep & The Sacred Mountain filmed in the Pahari language, spoken in the Himalayas, and The Golden Wing (Sonar Baran Pakhi) made in Rajbanshi, which is spoken in the northeast Indian state of Assam.
“The northeast of India and the lives of the people in the mountains seems to inspire directors from this region, as well as other parts of India, perhaps because the landscape is so cinematic,” says Film Bazaar Recommends and Wip Lab curator Deepti DCunha.
This year’s line-up also includes The Bioscopewala, loosely based on Rabindranath Tagore’s short story Kabuliwala, which is partly shot in the Dari language, spoken in Afghanistan. Produced by Mumbai-based Sunil Doshi, the film stars Danny Denzongpa, Gitanjali Thapa, Tisca Chopra...
Among the line-up are films such as The Gold Laden Sheep & The Sacred Mountain filmed in the Pahari language, spoken in the Himalayas, and The Golden Wing (Sonar Baran Pakhi) made in Rajbanshi, which is spoken in the northeast Indian state of Assam.
“The northeast of India and the lives of the people in the mountains seems to inspire directors from this region, as well as other parts of India, perhaps because the landscape is so cinematic,” says Film Bazaar Recommends and Wip Lab curator Deepti DCunha.
This year’s line-up also includes The Bioscopewala, loosely based on Rabindranath Tagore’s short story Kabuliwala, which is partly shot in the Dari language, spoken in Afghanistan. Produced by Mumbai-based Sunil Doshi, the film stars Danny Denzongpa, Gitanjali Thapa, Tisca Chopra...
- 11/21/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
W hile fans are ecstatic about cult film Om-Dar-Ba-Dar‘s release after twenty-five years, love is pouring in from all directions for the helmer Kamal Swaroop. His Facebook timeline has been flooded with posters of the film designed by a motley bunch of professional designers, students and cinephiles, all of whom are united by their admiration for his film.
DearCinema asked Kamal Swaroop to choose the posters he liked the most, and he zeroed in on eight of them.
So, here’s presenting Kamal Swaroop’s eight favourite posters of Om-Dar-Ba-Dar:
Poster by Sreejith Karanavar
Poster by Nitesh Mohanty
Poster by Kabir Chowdhry
Poster by Garima Sharma
Poster by Sourabh Thakur
Poster by Mehdi Jahan
Poster by Saagar Gavri
Poster by Jayakrishnan Subramanian...
DearCinema asked Kamal Swaroop to choose the posters he liked the most, and he zeroed in on eight of them.
So, here’s presenting Kamal Swaroop’s eight favourite posters of Om-Dar-Ba-Dar:
Poster by Sreejith Karanavar
Poster by Nitesh Mohanty
Poster by Kabir Chowdhry
Poster by Garima Sharma
Poster by Sourabh Thakur
Poster by Mehdi Jahan
Poster by Saagar Gavri
Poster by Jayakrishnan Subramanian...
- 1/10/2014
- by Editorial Team
- DearCinema.com
Still from Adaminte Makan Abu
Abu, Son of Adam (Adaminte Makan Abu), India’s official entry to the Oscars and winner of four national awards including Best Film will open the South Asian International Film Festival 2011. The film has been directed by Salim Ahamed.
The festival will take place from November 9-15, 2011.
Other Indian films that will screen at the festival are: Umesh Kulkarni’s Deool, Shlok Sharma’s Sujata, Amit Dutta’s Sonchidi, Karan Gour’s Kshay, Kabir Singh Chowdhry’s Good Morning, Sandeep Mohan’s Love, Wrinkle-Free, Srinivas Sunderrajan’s Greater Elephant, Chirag Arora’s Kharoch, Rafeeq Ellias’s Love you to Death, Jagannathan Krishnan’s Videokaaran, Aron Govil’s You are my Jaan, Gurvinder Singh’s Anhey Ghore Da Daan, Neeraj Ghaywan’s Shor, Mihir Desai’s Aakra-man, Bikramjit Gupta’s The Stagnant and Ajita Suchitra Veera’s Ballad of Rustom.
Praveen Kumar’s It’s Love...
Abu, Son of Adam (Adaminte Makan Abu), India’s official entry to the Oscars and winner of four national awards including Best Film will open the South Asian International Film Festival 2011. The film has been directed by Salim Ahamed.
The festival will take place from November 9-15, 2011.
Other Indian films that will screen at the festival are: Umesh Kulkarni’s Deool, Shlok Sharma’s Sujata, Amit Dutta’s Sonchidi, Karan Gour’s Kshay, Kabir Singh Chowdhry’s Good Morning, Sandeep Mohan’s Love, Wrinkle-Free, Srinivas Sunderrajan’s Greater Elephant, Chirag Arora’s Kharoch, Rafeeq Ellias’s Love you to Death, Jagannathan Krishnan’s Videokaaran, Aron Govil’s You are my Jaan, Gurvinder Singh’s Anhey Ghore Da Daan, Neeraj Ghaywan’s Shor, Mihir Desai’s Aakra-man, Bikramjit Gupta’s The Stagnant and Ajita Suchitra Veera’s Ballad of Rustom.
Praveen Kumar’s It’s Love...
- 10/22/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
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