Archive for November, 2007
Sadgati (The Deliverance) by Satyajit Ray
Sadgati (The Deliverance)
Credits
Producer:
Doordarshan, Govt. of India (Indian National Television)
Screenplay & Direction:
Satyajit Ray, based on the [...]
Sher Khan roars in Naxal heartland
Tigers at the Indravati Tiger Resrve, spread over 1,258 sq km in Chhatisgarh, are apparently completely safe from poachers. And this piece of good news comes from none other than forest officials. “The whole Indravati reserve is a Maoist dominated area and guerrillas issue threats to government officials there. But we have never reported any [...]
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NAVA CHHATTISGARH
A film on Chhattisgarh, the new state carved out in India in 2000. http://www.justeffects.com/aboutus.html
After graduating in Industrial Chemistry, Atul Kumar joined film and television industry in 1987. After having worked on eminent award winning projects with some esteemed production houses, he went independent in 1990.
Having our own in house facilities of non-linear editing consoles [...]
Development Flows From the Barrel of a Gun
Development Flows From the Barrel of a Gun
Directed by Biju Toppo and Meghnath
Hindi with English subtitles, 58 mins
This film presents and examines orchestrated state violence against indigenous and local peoples when they protest against development projects on their lands
This film’s wonderfully evocative title sets the tone and the stage for the material that it covers. [...]
Tu Zinda Hai
Tu Zinda Hai (English/Hindi – 57 Mnts.)
This film is about women activities of Madhya Pardesh and portrays Women who have steeped out of traditional female stereotypes and are paving women’s new paths towards empowerment.
Niyogi Zinda Hai! (Niyogi is still Alive!)
Niyogi Zinda Hai! (Niyogi is still Alive!)
1992, Hindi, 60 minutes
The film documents the on-going struggle of the workers of Bhilai, an industrial town in Madhya Pradesh, even after the murder of their leader Shankar Guha Niyogi.
A decade ago Niyogi, a leader of an incredible stature and vision, was instrumental in setting up the Chhattisgarh Mine [...]
A shattered dream: Past memories come to haunt Chendru’s present
Chendru’s journey from Baster hinterland to international glory and back again to the confines of Baster is the ultimate story of short-lived fame.
At 10 years of age, Chendru became a Celluloid star in Europe and now at 50, he toils as an on-today-off-tommorrow day labourer fighting for two square meals every day.
A Muria tribal from [...]
Call of the forest-
Call of the forest- 25 mins/English
This film documents the successful struggle of tribal women in Bastar in Central India to save their traditional saal forest from felling under the commercial forestry programme by the government’s Forest Department. The film captures the spontaneity and vigour of a determined group of women galvanized into action [...]
Chhattisgarhi film beats Mohabbatein
Chhattisgarhi film beats Mohabbatein
Komal Nahta
The story behind the making and release of Mor Chhainha Bhuinya, which has celebrated a 100 day run in Chhattisgarh, is such dramatic fare that it could easily pass off as a good subject for a hit film!
Satish Jain, its writer-producer-director, is not new to the Hindi film world.
Even though he [...]
CHHATTISGARH SKETCHES
CHHATTISGARH SKETCHES (vision of India trip, 72 mins)
A video film as a series of watercolours. Light and colour captured in the North-east of India.
An investigative video film that you cannot describe as a documentary and certainly not as a feature. Jon Jost, always a sensitive cameraman, has for years been a great advocate of working [...]
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