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The School of Arts and Aesthetics at the Jawarharlal Nehru University, New Delhi will organise “The Audacious Bird of Dusk: Cinema and Rituparno Ghosh”, a film festival on the works of Rituparno Ghosh. The festival curated by Abhija Ghosh, Anugyan Nag and Sumit Dey will be held from September 13 – 15, 2013.

Schedule:

Friday, 13th September, 2013

4.00 pm– 4.15 pm: Introduction and Opening Remarks by Kaushik Bhaumik

4.15 pm – 5.15 pm: “The Audacious Bird of Dusk: Cinema and Rituparno Ghosh” by Prof. Shohini Ghosh

5.15 pm – 5.45 pm: Tea

5.45 pm – 7.50 pm: Inaugural Film – Abohoman (2010)

Saturday, 14th September, 2013

11 am: City and Women- Dahan (1997)

1 pm -2 pm: Lunch Break

2 pm: Domesticity and Middle Class Anxieties: Utsab (2000)

4.15 pm: Break

4.45 pm- 7.05 pm: The ‘Rituparnoesque’ Emerges: Noukadubi (2011)

Sunday, 15th September, 2013

11 am: The Cinema of Interiors: Bariwali (1999)

1.30pm-2.30 pm: Lunch Break

2.30 pm: Rendezvous with Tagore: Chokher Bali (2003)

5.15 pm: Tea Break

5.45 pm: Panel Discussion – Kaushik Bhaumik, Smita Mitra, Sumit Dey, Anugyan Nag and Abhija Ghosh...

The upcoming Ladakh International Film Festival (Liff) will host a Retrospective on poet, lyricist and director Gulzar curated by filmmaker Vishal Bharadwaj. The Retrospective will screen Mere Apne, Achanak, Ijazat, Khushboo, Angoor and Machis.

The festival will held in Leh, Ladakh from July 5-7, 2013. It will be inaugurated by Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir, Omar Abdullah and I&B Minister of India Manish Tiwari will be the Chief Guest for the closing ceremony.

Directorate of Film Festivals has curated a special section of women oriented films made in India. This section will screen Diamond Queen by Homi Wadia, Meghe Dhaka Tara by Ritwik Ghatak, Mirch Masala by Ketan Mehta, Dasi by B. Narsing Rao, Dahan by Rituparno Ghosh, Chandani Bar by Madhur Bhandarkar, Mee Sindhutai Sapkal by Anant Mahadevan and Byari by Suveeran.

The green carpet premiere at Liff 2013 will be Teri Mc Luhan’s documentary Frontier Gandhi, on the forgotten freedom fighter,...

Veteran director and writer Rituparno Ghosh breathed his last breath this morning in his own residence in South Kolkata. He was only 49. Although the master is no more, but his legendary pieces of work still remains afresh in our minds. With a creative experience in the field of advertising, Rituparno shot to fame with his first film titled ‘Hirer Angti’ in 1994. The same year saw the release of Aparna Sen-Debasree Roy starrer Unishe April that revolved around the complexities of a mother and her daughter. This film also got Ghosh is 1st National Film award. In 1997, Dahan released; the film was based on true incidents of molestation a...

Bollywood fraternity expressed shock over the sudden demise of noted Bengali filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh. He passed away this morning of cardiac attack. He was suffering from pancreatitis. Ghosh was 49. He made many hit Bengali and Hindi movies. He made 19 movies and won 12 National awards. Actors like Aishwarya Rai, Prosenjit, Jishu Sengupta, Raima Sen and few more names had the opportunity to work with Rituparno. He won National awards for films like ‘Dahan’, ‘Utsab’, ‘Dosor’, ‘The Last Lear’,’Shob Charitro Kalponik’ and ‘Abohoman’, ‘Raincoat’. His sudden demise has taken the film industry with a blow. Cel...

New Delhi, Nov 21: There is a good news for the fans of Satyajit Ray, Rituparno Ghosh and Utpalendu Chakraborty's cinema. The capital is set to host a three−day Regional Film Festival, where movies of these popular filmmakers will be screened.

The festival will screen "Apur Sansar", "Dahan" and "Chokh" at the Siri Fort Auditorium Nov 26−28.

"Regional Film Festival is planned to be celebrated with the screening of three internationally talked about and awarded Bengali movies recommended by the senior members of the advisory committee formed for the festival," J.P. Singh, assistant secretary, Sahitya Kala Parishad,.

Actors in India have been voicing their disappointment at the portrayal of Kolkata in the film

The Avengers might be carrying all before it at the global box office, but in India, its healthy reported opening of INR110m (£1.3m) has been marred by high profile complaints over its portrayal of urban living conditions.

Exception has been taken in regard to two brief scenes showing Bruce Banner – Aka Hulk – (played by Mark Ruffalo) working as a doctor in Kolkata in an attempt to avoid the rage triggers that transform him.

Actor Rituparna Sengupta, best known for the Bengali-language films Alo and Dahan, told the Hindustan Times: "Kolkata has a rich culture and heritage, and a film-maker should respect that. There are two scenes about India and they only show slums. It could have been done in better taste."

Neha Dupia, an actor in Bollywood films such as Singh Is Kinng and Dasvidaniya,...

"Arekti Premer Golpo" (Just another love story) - a daring, sensitive, layered, gay love story - got full house at the ongoing Berlin International Film Festival. Its director Kaushik Ganguly says he always dreamt of coming here.

"Berlin is the Mecca of film and I always dreamed of coming here. But it was still a surprise when my film was selected," Ganguly, who earlier explored sexuality in his provocative film "Shunyo e Bukey" (Empty Canvas), told Ians here.

"Arekti Premer Golpo" is being shown in the Panorama section of the Berlin festival headed by Wieland Speck, which emphasises gay themes in cinema.

The film also marks filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh's debut as an actor and all heads turned when he came resplendent in a burgundy turban, velvet choker, salwar kameez, and lipstick and kohl'd eyes to present the film.

This is the third time Rituparno Ghosh is presenting a film in Berlin.

Bengali actress Rituparna Sengupta rues she hasn't got enough opportunities in Bollywood to showcase her talent despite being around for four years. But the National Award winner is excited about sharing screen space with none other than Shah Rukh Khan - in an ad film.'Yes, Bollywood couldn't recognise my talent to the extent expected,' Rituparna, who forayed into the Hindi film industry with 'Main, Meri Patni Aur Woh' in 2005, told Ians on phone from Kolkata.She was then seen in box office duds like 'Unns - Love...Forever', 'Gauri - The Unborn' and 'Sirf - Life Looks Greener on the Other Side'.Rituparna believes she could have made a mark in the Hindi film industry if she had had the advantage of Bollywood lineage or contacts.'It's difficult to make a mark in Bollywood if you do not belong to a film family or have proper contacts. Talent...

An unconventional face Rituparna Sen Gupta doesn’t need an introduction. Rituparna has come a long way in realistic cinema as an actor. To have won a National Award in 1998 the best female-category for Rituparno Ghosh’s Dahan, where she played Romita, a newly-wed who becomes the victim of sexual assault, explains it all for this epitome of talent. And now, this actor is all set with her forthcoming film Love Khichdi to release this Friday, which she says is the beginning of her career in mainstream cinema, although she has already done a couple of films in the same league.

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