DIRECTORATE OF FILM FESTIVALS

New Delhi

 

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PRESS RELEASE

 

 

Lenin Rajendran’s Ratri Mazha (Night Rain- Malayalam) and Samir Chanda’s Ek Nadir Galpo (Bengali) will represent the country at the Asian African and Latin American Competition of the 38th International Film Festival of India in Goa next month.

 

The two juries for feature and non feature films headed by renowned film makers K S Sethumadhavan and Arun Khopkar respectively submitted their reports to the Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Smt. Asha Swarup.  Ore Kadal (Malayalam), directed by Shyamaprasad will open the Indian Panorama feature film section, while Bagher Bacha (Bengali) directed by Bishnu Dev Halder will open the non feature section of the prestigious Indian Panorama.

 

The selections were made out of 119 feature and 149 non feature films. The members of the feature film jury were Smt. Manju Borah, film maker from Guwahati, Shri Leslie Carvalho, film maker from Bangalore, Shri Abhijeet Dasgupta, film maker from Kolkata, Dr. Mrunalinni Patil Dayal, film maker from Mumbai and Smt. Shubhra Gupta, Film Critic from Delhi. The non feature film jury comprised of Shri Pankaj Butalia film maker from Delhi, Smt Kavita Chaudhary, film maker from Mumbai and Shri Gautam Saikia, film maker from Guwahati.

 

 

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INDIAN PANORAMA 2007

List of selected Feature Films

 

 

OPENING FILM – ORE KADAL (MALAYALAM)

 

 

S.No.

FILM TITLE

DIRECTOR

LANGUAGE

1

NAALU PENNUNGAL

 

Adoor Gopalakrishnan

Malayalam

2

ORE KADAL

 

Shyama Prasad

Malayalam

3

RATRI MAZHA

 

Lenin Rajendran

Malayalam

4

EKTI NADIR GALPO

 

Samir Chanda

Bengali

5

DHARM

 

Bhavna Talwar

Hindi

6

KAYYOPPU

 

Renjith

Malayalam

7

JAATINGAA ITYAADI

 

Sanjib Sabhapandit

Assamese

8

TINGYA

 

Mangesh Hadawale

Marathi

9

PERIYAR

Gnana Rajasekaran

Tamil

10

JAARA BRISHTITE BHIJICHILO

 

Anjan Das

Bengali

11

KADA BELADINGALU

 

B.S. Lingadevaru

Kannada

12

THANIYE

 

Babu Thiruvalla

Malayalam

13

MAI BAAP

 

Gajendra Ahire

Marathi

14

MOGGINA JADE

 

P.R. Ramdas Naidu

Kannada

15

DAATU

 

K. Shivarudraiah

Kannada

16

GAFLA

 

Sameer Hanchate

Hindi

17

AMMUVAGIYA NAAN

 

Padma Magan

Tamil

18

AEVDHE SE AABHAAL

Bipin Nadkarni

Marathi

19

YENNING AMADI LIKIA

 

Makhonmani Mongsaba

Manipuri

20

AMI, IYASIN AR AMAR

MADHUBALA

 

Buddhadeb Dasgupta

Bengali

21

KAALCHAKRA

 

Vishal Bhandari

Marathi

 

 

 

 

Two feature films recommended for the Competition Section for Asian, African and Latin American countries of the 38th International Film Festival of India are :

 

 

1.

 

EK NADIR GALPO

Samir Chanda

Bengali

2.

 

RATRI MAZHA

Lenin Rajendran

Malayalam

 

           

 

Indian Panorama 2007

List of selected Non-feature Films

 

 

OPENING FILM – BAGHER BACHCHA (BENGALI)

 

 

S.No.

FILM TITLE

DIRECTOR

LANGUAGE

1

Rajashree Bhagya Chandra of Manipur

 

Aribam Syam Sharma

English

2

Naushad Ali – The Melody Continues

 

Buddhadeb Dasgupta

Hindi

3

Pandit Ramnarayan

 

V. Packriswamy

Hindi

4

Bagher Bachcha

 

Bishnu Deb Halder

Bengali

5

Hope Dies Last In War

 

Supriyo Sen

English

6

Whose Land Is It Anyway?

 

Ladly Mukhopadhyay

Hindi

7

Masti Bhara Hai Sama

 

Ashok Rane

Hindi

8

M-Tyude Kumaraneloorke Kulangal

 

M.A. Rahman

Malayalam

9

Poomaram

 

Vipin Vijay

Malayalam

10

Joy Ride

 

Manisha Issrani Misra

Hindi

11

The Dance Of The Enchantress

 

Adoor Gopalakrishnan

Malayalam

12

Harvilele Indradhansh

 

Dhiraj Meshram

Marathi

13

Ngaihak Lambida

 

Haobam Paban Kumar

Manipuri

14

Nokpokliba

 

Meren Imchen

English

15

Mubarak Begum

 

Bipin Choubal

Hindi