Filmy Keeday

CINÉPHILE 2015 Cinéphile aims at giving budding filmmakers a platform to showcase their inspiring work with this great art. The participants get a chance to spectacle their worthy pieces of art to the eminent personalities of the Indian Film Industry. Moreover, it is an opportunity for them to get their films critically analyzed by the experts and receive the benefit of experts’ experience in film making and discuss their ideas, thinking and beliefs with them as well. Jury Members CINÉPHILE 2015 Mike c Berry, CEO at Golden Tulip Films Mike C Berry is a Jury Member at Film Finance Awards, Poland, Jury EMMY International Awards, USA and an award-winning programme-maker who has overseen in excess of 1900 hours of TV over the last 26 years. Whether one-off specials or presenter-led series, all Mike’s shows have attracted critical acclaim and peak ratings in their slots - he "gets" channel needs and can deliver on a range of brands. During his career he has produced, directe...

Producer: Neetu Chandra, Nitin Chandra, Samir Kumar Director: Nitin Chandra Writer: Nitin Chandra Stars: Kranti Prakash Jha, Ajay Kumar, Aarti Puri, Deepak Singh Trailer Review of Once Upon a Time in Bihar In this age of commercial cinema, there are only a few occasions where a movie promises an impact on the audience. No matter how much we adore the masala movies or entertainment blockbusters studded with superstars, we always applaud a movie that displays the social truth of our country. After watching the latest trailer of Once Upon a Time In Bihar, I feel that this will be such a movie that regardless of whether it will enter the 100cr club, it will definitely leave the audience thinking when they come out of the cinema halls. Produced by Neetu Chandra and directed by her brother, Nitin Chandra, Once Upon A Time In Bihar is targeted towards the youth of Bihar. As per the trailer of the movie, Once Upon A Time in Bihar is based upon true events of the attack on North In...

Film making is often seen as costly task at hand and requires a lot of investment, time and manpower to produce a full-fledged Bollywood movie. Although, Bollywood has been the platform for many young and fresh directors who got their first break under popular banners and made it big right from their debut. The list of successful directorial debut in Bollywood is long and includes names like Sooraj Barjatiya, Karan Johar, Aditya Chopra and Farhan Akhtar from filmy backgrounds alongside non-filmy ones like Abhinav Kashyap, Nikhil Advani and Imtiaz Ali. The list gets even bigger if you look at the directors who have made a name for themselves today even after failing with their debut. The point here is that even though we have the current list of successful directors filled with popular names with filmy background, we also have many who hailed from small towns with big dreams and passion to drive them forward and made their mark in Bollywood. Not all these directors learned the art of...

A lot of films sound super through their extraordinary teaser or prolific mahurat parties but afterwards never even come live on the silver screen. Here is a list of some such films that never saw the light of the day. Unreleased Bollywood Films Time Machine (1992) Director Shekhar Kapur was looking positively to follow up the super success Indian sci-fi film Mr. India with another sci-fi flick ‘Time Machine’. The grand and go-getting project starred Aamir Khan, Raveena Tandon, Rekha and Naseeruddin Shah. Time Machine was the Film About Time Travel . Time Machine was the Remake of Back to the Future. Though the film started shooting with much vigour and completed three-fourths, it eventually got shelved when director Shekhar Kapur packed his bags for Hollywood. Alishaan (1988) Alishaan  was a Big B Amitabh Bachchan starrer  movie  which got shelved after a week’s shooting when Bachchan, together with Javed Akhtar, made certain to work on Main Azad Hoon. Paanch (2001) The b...

Success and recognition never comes easy. Just ask Nawazuddin Siddiqui. He knows the arduous journey that he began from an innocuous village in Uttar Pradesh to the realms of Bollywood was anything but easy. But his hard work and talent have made him reach the heights of popularity and stardom, something that is inconceivable in Bollywood without a godfather. The Beginning Nawazuddin Siddiqui is very proud and open about his heritage and background. He talks about his village, parents and siblings with love and affection that is evident for one and all to see and experience. This star’s home is a tiny, non-descript village in Muzaffarnagar District in Uttar Pradesh. He was born in 1974 to a Muslim farmer in Budhana village who lived there with his wife and 10 children, eight boys and two girls. Although the village did not have proper facilities for education, Nawazuddin is proud that he and his nine siblings managed to study and get educated. Even today, the star of Bajrangi Bha...

I have a confession to make. Despite watching world cinema that very well included a number of celebrated classics, I had not watched any Hindi Classic. Until one day, when I accidently watched a couple of scenes from Kashmir Ki Kali and it got me hooked! Kashmir Ki Kali got released in 1964. This was a water-shed year in Indian Politics as First Prime Minister of free India Jawaharlal Nehru died in the same year in the month of May. Not his death but his ideal of Socialism are well portrayed in Kashmir Ki Kali . The first scene starts with an educated and urban man ( Shammi Kapoor ) who is called upon to take the business of his father forward and he starts by donating money to the workers of the factory because as his speech for the occasion goes, “workers are the new owners”! Story of Kashmir Ki Kali This film is an out and out romantic movie. A 20-something hero has to take his late father’s business forward while his mother is also pressurizing him to get married. In order to...

Talvar is a suspense murder mystery film, directed by Meghna Gulzar and screenplay written by Vishal Bhardwaj.  Talvar is based on Noida Double Murder case of Arushi Talvar and Hemraj. Film is totally based on the facts and the court trials of the Noida Double Murder case. Talvar 2015 Starcast Directed by Meghna Gulzar Produced by Vineet Jain, Vishal Bhardwaj Written by Vishal Bhardwaj Screenplay by Vishal Bhardwaj Based on Noida double murder case Starring               Irrfan Khan Konkona Sen Sharma Neeraj Kabi Sohum Sharma Music by Vishal Bhardwaj Cinematography Pankaj Kumar Edited by A. Sreekar Prasad Production Companies Junglee Pictures/ VB Pictures Release dates 14 September 2015 (TIFF) 2 October 2015 (India) Language Hindi English What I felt after watching Talvar? I had huge expectations and I am totally satisfied with the film. I was thinking that this film will be same as Rahasya which was based on the same plot, but Talvar is totally different from Rahas...