This week we have an Indian short film to give you a refreshing taste of home grown cinema. Prarambha by Santosh Sivan is a short film in Kannada about a topic most Indians shy away from – AIDS. This short deals with the discrimination faced by HIV-positive patients.
The film was a part of Mira Nair’s noble project AIDS Jaago (AIDS Awake); a series of four short films, Prarambha (directed by Santosh Sivan), Migration (directed by Mira Nair), Positive (directed by Farhan Akhtar) and Blood Brothers (directed by Vishal Bharadwaj) in a joint initiative of Mira Nair’s Mirabai Films, voluntary organizations; Avahan and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with a view of generating awareness about HIV/AIDS. The film was made for Richard Gere’s AIDS foundation. It was entirely shot on location in and around Mysore.
The lead is played by a little boy Kittu who travels in search of his mother.
The film was a part of Mira Nair’s noble project AIDS Jaago (AIDS Awake); a series of four short films, Prarambha (directed by Santosh Sivan), Migration (directed by Mira Nair), Positive (directed by Farhan Akhtar) and Blood Brothers (directed by Vishal Bharadwaj) in a joint initiative of Mira Nair’s Mirabai Films, voluntary organizations; Avahan and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with a view of generating awareness about HIV/AIDS. The film was made for Richard Gere’s AIDS foundation. It was entirely shot on location in and around Mysore.
The lead is played by a little boy Kittu who travels in search of his mother.
- 5/23/2012
- by Archana Iyer
- DearCinema.com
Onir
He is a thinking man’s filmmaker. He is unafraid to touch upon taboo issues. He is the director of My Brother? Nikhil (2005), Bas Ek Pal (2006) and Sorry Bhai!(2008). Onirban Dhar aka Onir’s new and unusual film, I Am is due to release this week…
Each story in Onir’s I Am revolves around an issue like child abuse, homosexuality and even the Maoist movement, but there is something else about I Am that makes it unlike any other film made in India before. The film has almost 400 producers! Over the last few years, Onir has painstakingly raised money from contributors from around the world who support his vision.? Many of these ‘financiers’ donated different sums through social networking sites like Facebook and Orkut.
Chakpak’s? ?Dolanchapa Chakrabarty? spoke to Onir about the unconventional methods deployed to get his new film made, and the resistance he faced for choosing some taboo subjects.
He is a thinking man’s filmmaker. He is unafraid to touch upon taboo issues. He is the director of My Brother? Nikhil (2005), Bas Ek Pal (2006) and Sorry Bhai!(2008). Onirban Dhar aka Onir’s new and unusual film, I Am is due to release this week…
Each story in Onir’s I Am revolves around an issue like child abuse, homosexuality and even the Maoist movement, but there is something else about I Am that makes it unlike any other film made in India before. The film has almost 400 producers! Over the last few years, Onir has painstakingly raised money from contributors from around the world who support his vision.? Many of these ‘financiers’ donated different sums through social networking sites like Facebook and Orkut.
Chakpak’s? ?Dolanchapa Chakrabarty? spoke to Onir about the unconventional methods deployed to get his new film made, and the resistance he faced for choosing some taboo subjects.
- 4/26/2011
- Chakpak
My experience with Mira Nair is limited at best. I did not enjoy Vanity Fair and The Namesake bored me beyond measure, but that's where my time watching her films ended prior to Criterion's latest Blu-ray release of Monsoon Wedding, a spectacular dramedy surrounding a Punjabi wedding, which instantly reminded me of Jonathan Demme's 2008 effort Rachel Getting Married, but at least this one was fun to watch.
Monsoon Wedding was released in 2001 and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film by the Golden Globes, but if I'm not mistaken it wasn't her first knockout film, which I presume to be 1988's Salaam Bombay!, a film I now hope to see. One thing I have always noticed about Nair is her excellent use of color, Vanity Fair particularly stands out in this regard, but I have always been so bored by her work. To the contrary, Monsoon Wedding is a lively,...
Monsoon Wedding was released in 2001 and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film by the Golden Globes, but if I'm not mistaken it wasn't her first knockout film, which I presume to be 1988's Salaam Bombay!, a film I now hope to see. One thing I have always noticed about Nair is her excellent use of color, Vanity Fair particularly stands out in this regard, but I have always been so bored by her work. To the contrary, Monsoon Wedding is a lively,...
- 10/20/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Vivek Oberoi happily stepped into the powerful role of the terrorist in Rensil D'Silva's untitled directorial debut. A plum role that Irrfan Khan, just back triumphant from the Oscars in La 'reluctantly' turned down. "There was nothing reluctant about my decision not to do Rensil's film," Irrfan corrects me resolutely. "Yes the script and role were tempting. And it is a Karan Johar production. But it would take a lot more than just these factors to make me get into that dark seriously-conflicting space. The truth is, I won't play a terrorist even if the world's greatest director offered me the part," says the Khan, obviously because of his title and the political religious connections that would come into play and willy-nilly impinge on his creative liberty as an actor. Fearless enough to play a sadistic cop in Slumdog Millionaire and a closet gay leading a dual life in...
- 3/16/2009
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
Vivek Oberoi happily stepped into the powerful role of the terrorist in Rensil D'Silva's untitled directorial debut. A plum role that Irrfan Khan, just back triumphant from the Oscars in La 'reluctantly' turned down. "There was nothing reluctant about my decision not to do Rensil's film," Irrfan corrects me resolutely. "Yes the script and role were tempting. And it is a Karan Johar production. But it would take a lot more than just these factors to make me get into that dark seriously-conflicting space. The truth is, I won't play a terrorist even if the world's greatest director offered me the part," says the Khan, obviously because of his title and the political religious connections that would come into play and willy-nilly impinge on his creative liberty as an actor. Fearless enough to play a sadistic cop in Slumdog Millionaire and a closet gay leading a dual life in...
- 3/16/2009
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
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