What:
Screening of Kamal Swaroop’s national award winning film on Dadasaheb Phalke, “Rangbhoomi”, by Fd Zone, Delhi
When:
June 6, Friday, 7:00 pm
Where:
Stein auditorium, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
About Rangbhoomi
Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, popularly known as Dadasaheb Phalke (April 30, 1870 – February 16, 1944) was an Indian producer/ director/ screenwriter, widely regarded as the father of Indian Cinema. His debut film Raja Harishchandra was made in 1913 and is recognised as India’s first full-length feature film. In his career, spanning 19 years, he made 95 movies and 26 short films. His most noted works are Mohini Bhasmasur (1913), Satyavan Savitri (1914), Lanka Dahan (1917), Shri Krishna Janma (1918) and Kaliya Mardan (1919).
In 1920, after disputes with his partners, he resigned from his company Hindustan Films and shifted to the holy city of Benaras and renounced the world of cinema. At Benaras he wrote a semi-autobiographical play Rangbhoomi. This film is an invocation from that text.
About Kamal Swaroop
Swaroop is a film,...
Screening of Kamal Swaroop’s national award winning film on Dadasaheb Phalke, “Rangbhoomi”, by Fd Zone, Delhi
When:
June 6, Friday, 7:00 pm
Where:
Stein auditorium, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
About Rangbhoomi
Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, popularly known as Dadasaheb Phalke (April 30, 1870 – February 16, 1944) was an Indian producer/ director/ screenwriter, widely regarded as the father of Indian Cinema. His debut film Raja Harishchandra was made in 1913 and is recognised as India’s first full-length feature film. In his career, spanning 19 years, he made 95 movies and 26 short films. His most noted works are Mohini Bhasmasur (1913), Satyavan Savitri (1914), Lanka Dahan (1917), Shri Krishna Janma (1918) and Kaliya Mardan (1919).
In 1920, after disputes with his partners, he resigned from his company Hindustan Films and shifted to the holy city of Benaras and renounced the world of cinema. At Benaras he wrote a semi-autobiographical play Rangbhoomi. This film is an invocation from that text.
About Kamal Swaroop
Swaroop is a film,...
- 5/28/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
May 3, 1913 went down in history as the release date of the first Indian film Raja Harishchandra by Dadasaheb Phalke. Exactly 100 years later releases a documentary Celluloid Man by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur that leads us to the man responsible for finding and preserving whatever remained of India’s first film and the films that were made thereafter. The man who gave us our cinematic history by building the National Film Archive. DearCinema.com reproduces a detailed interview with P.K Nair. This interview was recorded in Pune in 2008 for Asian Film Foundation to mark his felicitation with Satyajit Ray Memorial Award.
What memories do you have of watching your first film?
It was in the early forties, at the height of war. I must have been hardly eight years old.
The venue: a Tent Cinema in Thiruvnanthapuram Putharikandam Maidan, almost the same venue of the present Padmanabha Theatre. Nearly half the...
What memories do you have of watching your first film?
It was in the early forties, at the height of war. I must have been hardly eight years old.
The venue: a Tent Cinema in Thiruvnanthapuram Putharikandam Maidan, almost the same venue of the present Padmanabha Theatre. Nearly half the...
- 5/2/2013
- by Bikas Mishra
- DearCinema.com
A still from Dadasaheb Phalke’s “Kalia Mardan”
You can watch films by early pioneers of Indian cinema like Dadasaheb Phalke and Franz Osten in a specially set up tent cinema in New Delhi’s Siri Fort Auditorium Complex.
Gulshan Mahal, a tent cinema set up by Films Division, has a seating capacity of 25 and is equipped with carpets and benches instead of plush cushioned seats.
Gulshan Mahal runs four shows daily till April 30th. Entry is free on first come first served basis.
The tent cinema is part of the Centenary Indian Film Festival (click here for detailed program) which is being held in New Delhi.
Program details:-
Sunday, 27 April
2-2:30pm
Indian News Reel about India Becoming a Republic, 1948
Shree Krishna Janme by D.G. Phalke
3:30 – 4pm
Banga Darshan, Silent, 11 mins
Raja Harishchandra by D.G. Phalke
5 – 5:30pm
Home Minister Sardar Patel at Jamnagar (a News Reel...
You can watch films by early pioneers of Indian cinema like Dadasaheb Phalke and Franz Osten in a specially set up tent cinema in New Delhi’s Siri Fort Auditorium Complex.
Gulshan Mahal, a tent cinema set up by Films Division, has a seating capacity of 25 and is equipped with carpets and benches instead of plush cushioned seats.
Gulshan Mahal runs four shows daily till April 30th. Entry is free on first come first served basis.
The tent cinema is part of the Centenary Indian Film Festival (click here for detailed program) which is being held in New Delhi.
Program details:-
Sunday, 27 April
2-2:30pm
Indian News Reel about India Becoming a Republic, 1948
Shree Krishna Janme by D.G. Phalke
3:30 – 4pm
Banga Darshan, Silent, 11 mins
Raja Harishchandra by D.G. Phalke
5 – 5:30pm
Home Minister Sardar Patel at Jamnagar (a News Reel...
- 4/27/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
During a year when Indian Cinema is celebrating 100 years since the first moving picture was made, the writers of BollySpice have decided to put together a feature series which pays tribute to this phenomenal and charismatic industry. Titled ‘Framing Movies’, this special series during the course of 2013 will chronicle and assess some of the greatest and most significant films that Hindi Cinema has ever produced during its 100 year history. They will attempt to persuade film lovers across the world why specific films deserve recognition, why you should watch them if you have never encountered them before, as well as why they deserve to be remembered for another 100 years. Whether it is Raja Harishchandra (1913), Mother India (1957) or Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), these feature articles will illustrate the best of Hindi cinema. This series will Only explore Hindi cinema in the last 100 years and we acknowledge that by no means is the...
- 4/21/2013
- by Katherine Matthews
- Bollyspice
Shivendra Singh Dungarpur’s documentary film on P.K. Nair, the founder-director of the National Film Archive of India (Nfai) premieres at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles on April 14.
“You can see a hundred years from now; you can see a certain aspect of life which was there only at the time, on that day. It means a lot. It means more than Greek Tragedy where everything is heightened beyond compare. But those very small things get so beautifully manifest (on film). It is the very, I think, soul of art of any kind.”
-Kumar Shahani
For anyone who has spent time on the campus of the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune and visited the National Film Archive of India only a couple of blocks away, it is impossible to not think of the omnipresent influence of P. K. Nair, the long-serving director and founder of the Archive.
“You can see a hundred years from now; you can see a certain aspect of life which was there only at the time, on that day. It means a lot. It means more than Greek Tragedy where everything is heightened beyond compare. But those very small things get so beautifully manifest (on film). It is the very, I think, soul of art of any kind.”
-Kumar Shahani
For anyone who has spent time on the campus of the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune and visited the National Film Archive of India only a couple of blocks away, it is impossible to not think of the omnipresent influence of P. K. Nair, the long-serving director and founder of the Archive.
- 4/14/2013
- by Shekhar Deshpande
- DearCinema.com
“Why should P.K.Nair not be a recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award? After all, whatever we have of Phalke’s Raja Harishchandra, meaning just the first and last reels of the film, are there due to Nair’s unwavering vision and his endless efforts. Again, the only complete Phalke film available to us, namely, Kaliya Mardan (1919), is there because of Nair. If someone like him is not deserving of the Phalke Award, one wonders, who is?”
In mid-November, when the Calcutta air is cooler than in the preceding several months, I had the delightful experience of watching a 150-minute documentary film in a small auditorium in the company of no more than a dozen other people. What added to the delight was the fact that those who were there for the film’s first shot were in his or her seat till the last. This is not a small thing,...
In mid-November, when the Calcutta air is cooler than in the preceding several months, I had the delightful experience of watching a 150-minute documentary film in a small auditorium in the company of no more than a dozen other people. What added to the delight was the fact that those who were there for the film’s first shot were in his or her seat till the last. This is not a small thing,...
- 12/12/2012
- by Vidyarthy Chatterjee
- DearCinema.com
Mumbai, Oct 24: Eleven silent films from the 1920s, including "Raja Harishchandra" and "Sati Savitri", were screened Wednesday at the 14th Mumbai Film Festival. One film, "A Throw Of Dice", was accompanied by a live orchestra.
"The highlight this year was restored silent films. 'Throw Of Dice' was screened with a live orchestra. It was an 80-minute film and it was outstanding," Swati Rohatgi, a film enthusiast, told Ians.
To mark 100 years of Indian cinema, four films of Dadasaheb Phalke -- "Kaliya Mardan" (1919), "Shri Krishna Janma".
"The highlight this year was restored silent films. 'Throw Of Dice' was screened with a live orchestra. It was an 80-minute film and it was outstanding," Swati Rohatgi, a film enthusiast, told Ians.
To mark 100 years of Indian cinema, four films of Dadasaheb Phalke -- "Kaliya Mardan" (1919), "Shri Krishna Janma".
- 10/24/2012
- by Leon David
- RealBollywood.com
One of the spectatorial pleasures of K.M. Madhusudanan’s Bioscope (2008) was its revelatory glimpse into Indian Cinema’s silent film corpus, by way of Dadasaheb Phalke’s 1918 Hindi “mythological” Shri Krishna Janma (Birth of Lord Krishna). Bioscope screened at the 2008 3rd i South Asian Independent Film Festival, where I wrote it up, and initiated a volley of emails between myself, New Delhi journalist Jai Arjun Singh (Jabberwock), and Anuj Vaidya, Associate Festival Director for 3rd i, anticipating a seminar on the history of Indian Silent Cinema. Short of a year later, that seminar has finally arrived.
This coming Friday, July 24, 2009, 3rd I and the San Francisco Silent Film Festival will co-present a lecture by Anupama Kapse: “Snakes, Sirens and Vamps: A Short History of Early Indian Cinema.” Kapse’s lecture, illustrated with clips, and with live musical accompaniment by Robin Sukhadia for select clips, will provide a welcome opportunity...
This coming Friday, July 24, 2009, 3rd I and the San Francisco Silent Film Festival will co-present a lecture by Anupama Kapse: “Snakes, Sirens and Vamps: A Short History of Early Indian Cinema.” Kapse’s lecture, illustrated with clips, and with live musical accompaniment by Robin Sukhadia for select clips, will provide a welcome opportunity...
- 7/21/2009
- by Michael Guillen
- Screen Anarchy
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