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SOTD: Tere Bin – Bas Ek Pal


Check out this excellent song Tere Bin from the movie Bas Ek Pal on Atif Aslam’s birthday.


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Explain reasons for rejecting Assamese film at National Awards: High Court



The Delhi High Court directed the Centre to explain the reasons for rejecting the movie Ekhon Nedekha Nadir Xipaare, as non-Assamese at this year’s National Film Awards despite it being cleared by the Censor Board as Assamese.

A division bench of Acting Chief Justice A K Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw issued notice to Information and Broadcasting Ministry, Directorate of Film Festival and chairperson and jury of the 59th National Film Festival and sought their response by next week.

“We would like to know the basis on which the film was rejected as Assamese film for the 59th film festival 2011,” the bench said while hearing a PIL filed by enajori.com, a society to promote films, seeking direction to set aside the decision of jury members to reject the film.

The film, directed by Bidyut Kotoky, stars veteran Victor Banerjee, Sanjay Suri, Raj Zutshi, Priti Jhangiani and Bidita Bag among others. It also has a Hindi version As the River Flows.

The National Awards were announced in March and the distribution ceremony will be held in May.

In his writ petition, the petitioner alleged that by rejecting the film in the regional language, the jury deprived the Assamese film industry from participating in the competition.

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Sikandar Movie Review by Sputnik



Director: Piyush Jha
Cast: Parzan Dastur, Ayesha Kapur, Madhavan, Sanjay Suri, Arunoday Singh

Sikandar (Parzan Dastur) is a football crazed schoolboy in Kashmir whose desires revolve around the happiness of his foster parents. One day, on his way home from school Sikandar finds a gun lying on the path. Despite admonishments by his newly made school friend, the 14 year old Nasreen (Ayesha Kapur), Sikandar picks up the gun. Sikandar gets embroiled in situations beyond his control, and people get killed. Are all these mere coincidences or is someone pulling the strings is what the rest of the movie is about.

The scene where the kid plays with the gun with the whole dichhak sounds is good. The story is similar to Tahaan but the screenplay is just horrible. The kid carries the gun in his school bag and brandishes it whenever he is in trouble. 14 year olds think of buying music system and washing machine. Kids get bashed for turning on washing machine and a soldier yells at the kids that their fate will be same as other dead kids. There is even a clichéd mehndi song in the climax.

Cinematography is very good with beautiful scenic locations.

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Firaaq Movie Review by Sputnik



Director: Nandita Das
Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Paresh Rawal, Deepti Naval, Sanjay Suri, Tisca Chopra, Shahana Goswami, Amrutha Subhash

Firaaq is the story of ordinary people, some victims, some silent observers and some perpetrators one month after the 2002 violence in Gujarat. Firaaq is based on some of the stories from Rakesh Sharma’s The Final Solution. The little kid’s story, Muneera’s money getting burnt as well the saint’s tomb being vandalized are all taken from the interviews of ‘The Final Solution’. Whereas The Final Solution (though very critical of the government) interviewed an innocent Hindu family who lost a member in the train burning at Godhra, Firaaq does not have any innocent Hindu victim and this makes the movie somewhat one sided.

Mohsin, a young Muslim boy, has been orphaned during the carnage and is searching for his father. Khan Sahab (Naseeruddin Shah), an elderly Muslim classical singer, loses hope when a saint’s tomb is vandalized. Aarti (Deepti Naval), a middle aged Hindu woman is traumatized as she did not help a Muslim woman being chased by a mob. Her husband (Paresh Rawal) is trying to cover up his brother’s involvement in a gangrape. Muneera (Shahana Goswami), a young Muslim woman, whose house has been burnt, suspects her friend Jyothi’s (Amruta Subhash) husband’s involvement.

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