What:
The Root Reel presents Anup Singh’s love essay, exploring the life and work of Ritwik Ghatak ~ Ekti Nadir Naam / The Name of a River, followed by an interaction with Amrit Gangar.
Ekti Nadir Naam
Directed by Anup Singh
Written by Anup Singh & Madan Gopal Singh
Cinematography: K.K. Mahajan
Language: Bengali (with English Subtitles)
Duration: 90 mins
When:
Tuesday 28th January,2014, 6:30pm
Entry:
Free, On a First-Come-First-Seated Basis
Venue:
Alliance Française de Bombay
Alliance Française Auditorium,
Theosophy Hall,
Near Nirmala Niketan,
New Marine Lines,
Churchgate. Mumbai.
About the Film:
Anup Singh’s debut feature, The Name of a River, is an ambitious, evocative docu-fictional essay exploring the life and work of the great Indian film-maker, Ritwik Ghatak (1925-1976).
Ghatak’s reputation as India’s most important film-maker has been steadily growing since the first major retrospective of his films was organised internationally in the 1980s. Satyajit Ray has described...
The Root Reel presents Anup Singh’s love essay, exploring the life and work of Ritwik Ghatak ~ Ekti Nadir Naam / The Name of a River, followed by an interaction with Amrit Gangar.
Ekti Nadir Naam
Directed by Anup Singh
Written by Anup Singh & Madan Gopal Singh
Cinematography: K.K. Mahajan
Language: Bengali (with English Subtitles)
Duration: 90 mins
When:
Tuesday 28th January,2014, 6:30pm
Entry:
Free, On a First-Come-First-Seated Basis
Venue:
Alliance Française de Bombay
Alliance Française Auditorium,
Theosophy Hall,
Near Nirmala Niketan,
New Marine Lines,
Churchgate. Mumbai.
About the Film:
Anup Singh’s debut feature, The Name of a River, is an ambitious, evocative docu-fictional essay exploring the life and work of the great Indian film-maker, Ritwik Ghatak (1925-1976).
Ghatak’s reputation as India’s most important film-maker has been steadily growing since the first major retrospective of his films was organised internationally in the 1980s. Satyajit Ray has described...
- 12/27/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
M antra – The Song of Scorpions is one of the twenty-three films selected for the co- production market of Film Bazaar 2013. We spoke to the director Anup Singh:
Anup Singh
Tell us about your project. What language will it be in?
There is an ancient legend, which says that the sting of the local scorpion in Rajasthan is bound to kill in 24 hours. The scorpion’s poison builds a feverish melody within the victim. The only cure is to find a sage singer who can read the melody in the victim’s wrist and then sing a counter-melody.
Mantra- The Song Of Scorpions is a contemporary tale of twisted love, revenge and the redemptive power of a song, which unfurls like a folktale. Nooran is a singer, a scorpion healer, a mid-wife and a medicine woman for the Manganiar community of Rajasthan. When Irfan, a camel trader in the desert community,...
Anup Singh
Tell us about your project. What language will it be in?
There is an ancient legend, which says that the sting of the local scorpion in Rajasthan is bound to kill in 24 hours. The scorpion’s poison builds a feverish melody within the victim. The only cure is to find a sage singer who can read the melody in the victim’s wrist and then sing a counter-melody.
Mantra- The Song Of Scorpions is a contemporary tale of twisted love, revenge and the redemptive power of a song, which unfurls like a folktale. Nooran is a singer, a scorpion healer, a mid-wife and a medicine woman for the Manganiar community of Rajasthan. When Irfan, a camel trader in the desert community,...
- 11/16/2013
- by Editorial Team
- DearCinema.com
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