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Tanqeed Film Festival: Shatranj Ke Khilari
On Satyajit Ray’s birthday check out the classic Shatranj Ke Khilari.
Synopsis: The East India Company rules much of India; directly or indirectly through ‘treaties of friendship.’ The kingdom of Avadh is under such a treaty of friendship. Its ruler, Nawab Wajid Ali Shah (Amjad Khan), is an indifferent ruler, who prefers arts to the matters of state or politics. Mirza Sajjad Ali (Sanjeev Kumar) and Mir Roshan Ali (Saeed Jaffrey) are two landlords living in the capital city of Lucknow. They do nothing, and are addicted to the game of chess. Mirza’s wife, Khurshid (Shabana Azmi), feels neglected. Mir’s wife, Nafeesa (Farida Jalal) has found solace in a wild love affair with a young nephew. Lord Dalhousie, the Governor General, sends General Outram (Sir Richard Attenborough), the British Resident of Lucknow, to take over Avadh under the pretext of Nawab’s misrule.
The king, Wajid Ali Shah has only two options, either to give up his throne or to fight a battle. Mir and Mirza learn about the British Company’s troops marching towards Lucknow. Scared that they may be called to fight the British forces, they run off to a remote village to continue playing chess.
Had posted some scenes in Scene of the Week and had written a Recco a few years back.
ContinueTanqeed Film Festival: The Kid
On Charlie Chaplin’s birthday check out his first full length feature film The Kid.
Synopsis: The opening title reads: “A comedy with a smile–and perhaps a tear”. As she leaves the charity hospital and passes a church wedding, Edna deposits her new baby with a pleading note in a limousine and goes off to commit suicide. The limo is stolen by thieves who dump the baby by a garbage can. Charlie the Tramp finds the baby and makes a home for him. Five years later Edna has become an opera star but does charity work for slum youngsters in hope of finding her boy. A doctor called by Edna discovers the note with the truth about the Kid and reports it to the authorities who come to take him away from Charlie. Before he arrives at the Orphan Asylum Charlie steals him back and takes him to a flophouse. The proprietor reads of a reward for the Kid and takes him to Edna. Charlie is later awakened by a kind policeman who reunites him with the Kid at Edna’s mansion.
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Tagged Charles Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Exclusive, Jackie Coogan, Tanqeed Film Festival, TFF, The Kid
Tanqeed Film Festival: Kalyug (1981)
Today is Shashi Kapoor’s birthday so check out the movie Kalyug produced by him and directed by Shyam Benegal. Its a modern day adaptation of Mahabharata set against two rival business families. It won Best Film at the Filmfare Awards. It was nominated for a Golden Prize at the 1981 Moscow International Film Festival.
Synopsis: The film is tale of intrigue, plots and the inevitable war between the two families. Ramchand and Bhishamchand were two pioneering brothers in business. Bhishamchand, a lifelong bachelor brought up the two sons of Ramchand on his demise. He also gave the family business a firm foundation. Khubchand (Vinod Doshi) the elder son of Ramchand begets two sons, Dhanraj (Victor Banerjee) and Sandeep Raj (Akash Khurana). Puranchand, Khubchand’s younger brother had died a few years ago. His three sons are Dharamraj (Raj Babbar), Balraj (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) and Bharatraj (Anant Nag). Another player in the game is Karan (Shashi Kapoor) an orphan brought up by Bhishamchand. A series of events take place that bring the long hidden feud between the two families to light and despite Bhishamchand’s efforts to mediate between the two, the situation gets out of hand and events take a tragic turn. Dhanraj’s men accidentally kill the young son of Balraj and to take revenge Bharatraj murders Karan.
ContinueTFF – Kandukondein Kandukondein – Tamil Movie with English Subtitles
Check out the Tamil movie Kandukondein Kandukondein with English subtitles
Synopsis: Based on Jane Austen’s classic novel, Sense And Sensiblity, ‘Kandukondein Kandukondein’ is the tale of the trials and tribulations in the life of two sisters. Soumya (Tabu) is matured and practical, while Meenakshi (Aishwarya Rai) lives in her own dreamy and poetic world. Sowmya is considered unlucky because every boy who has come to see her for marriage has suffered one mishap or the other. As a result, she has remained unmarried till date. On the other hand, Meenu dreams of being with a person who will come and sweep her off her feet by rendering Bhartiyar’s poetry. As the story progresses, the sisters do come across men of their liking. But will their love succeed? A sudden turn of events forces them to take decisions against their will. What happens next?
TFF – Majid Majidi’s Baran – Iranian Movie with English Subtitles
Check out the Iranian Movie Baran directed by Majid Majidi.
Synopsis: In a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Turkish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The revelation of Rahmat’s secret changes both their lives.
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Tagged Baran, Hossein Abedini, Iranian Movie, Majid Majidi, Mohammad Amir Naji, Tanqeed Film Festival, TFF, Zahra Bahrami
Tanqeed Film Festival – Ek Hasina Thi
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Tagged Ek Hasina Thi, Exclusive, Saif Ali Khan, Sriram Raghavan, Tanqeed Film Festival, TFF, Urmila
Chhoti Si Baat Inspired/Copied from School for Scoundrels
School for Scoundrels is a 1960 British comedy film inspired by the “Gamesmanship” series of books by Stephen Potter. Henry Palfrey (Ian Carmichael) is a failure in sport and love, and the easy victim of conmen and employees alike. He enrolls at the “School of Lifemanship” in Yeovil, run by Dr. Potter (Alastair Sim), who teaches him how to win in life and get the better of his rival (Terry-Thomas). Chhoti Si Baat has copied almost all scenes from the movie. A few scenes/songs are added and some changes are made like tennis replaced by table tennis or car replaced by bike.
Here is School for Scoundrels
And here is Chhoti Si Baat for comparison.
ContinueEk Ruka Hua Faisla Inspired/Copied from 12 Angry Men
“12 Angry Men is a 1957 American drama film adapted from a teleplay of the same name by Reginald Rose. Directed by Sidney Lumet, the film tells the story of a jury made up of 12 men as they deliberate the guilt or acquittal of a defendant on the basis of reasonable doubt. In the United States (both then and now), a verdict in most criminal trials by jury must be unanimous. The film is notable for its almost exclusive use of one set: with the exception of the film’s opening, which begins outside on the steps of the courthouse followed by the jury’s final instructions before retiring, a brief final scene on the courthouse steps, and two short scenes in an adjoining washroom, the entire movie takes place in the jury room. The total time spent outside of the jury room is three minutes out of the full 96 minutes of the movie.” (From Wikipedia)
And here is the almost scene to scene dialogue to dialogue copied Ek Ruka Hua Faisla directed by Basu Chatterjee.
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Tagged Annu Kapoor, Basu Chatterjee, Copied, Exclusive, Henry Fonda, Inspired, Pankaj Kapur, Plagiarism, Sidney Lumet, Tanqeed Film Festival, TFF
Tanqeed Film Festival: Ek Doctor Ki Maut
Check out the movie Ek Doctor Ki Maut starring Pankaj Kapur, Shabana Azmi and Irfan Khan. The movie is based on a true story. Had seen the movie many years ago and liked the movie and Pankaj Kapur’s performance a lot back then.
According to Wikipedia the movie won the folowing awards.
1991 National Film Award for Second Best Feature Film
1991 National Film Award for Best Direction: Tapan Sinha
1991 National Film Award – Special Jury Award: Pankaj Kapoor (Dr. Dipankar Roy).
1992 Filmfare Best Screenplay Award: Tapan Sinha.
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Tagged Deepa Sahi, Ek Doctor Ki Maut, Exclusive, Filmfare Award, Irfan Khan, National Award, Pankaj Kapur, Shabana Azmi, Tanqeed Film Festival, Tapan Sinha, TFF
TFF – Hayat Iranian Movie – Not just for kids but for every adult
A beautiful movie about a girl’s determination, dedication, struggle, aspirations, enthusiasm, patience, innocence, her respect towards others called “Hayat” blended so beautifully in an approximate one hour or so… You will get absorbed into the movie such that you may end up reacting to the situations occurring in the movie ending up reflecting your own personality and attitude towards handling such circumstances, situations and conditions.
It doesn’t take much of your time and please do watch it. Most of you will be reminded of those moments in your life where your grand parents or parents use to tell the stories of their struggle, conditions and other aspects of their daily upbringing.
It is not just for the kids but for every adult that displays a practical examples of determination, dedication, discipline and dreams to achieve what they aim.
Every character has performed well but the stand out performance would go to the hayat’s brother. He was excellent in the movie.
It is one of the finest movie that I have come across in past 10 years or so. It’s so simple, beautiful and realistic. Rating 5/5
ContinueTanqeed Film Festival: Fireworks Wednesday (Chaharshanbe Suri)
Check out the Iranian movie Fireworks Wednesday directed by Asghar Farhadi, the director of the Oscar winning A Separation. Thanks to CilemaSnob and Mihir Fadnavis for pointing to this movie.
Synopsis
Fireworks Wednesday is a portrait of three marriages set against the backdrop of the Persian New Year, Chaharshanbe Suri (Wednesday Feast).
The story begins with Rouhi, a young woman approaching her wedding day, flirting with her fiance as they ride into town together on his motorcycle. To make some money to help pay for the wedding, she secures a temporary job cleaning an apartment in northern Tehran. Upon arriving at the apartment she finds herself in the middle of a heated domestic dispute between Mojdeh and Morteza. Mojdeh suspects that her husband Morteza is cheating on her with the next door neighbor Simin, a woman who set up a beauty salon there after her own marriage broke up.
Over the course of the day, the young woman, the sparring couple, their small son, the wife’s sister and husband, and the beautician engage in a series of exchanges, confrontations, and prevarications as the truth unfolds.
ContinueTanqeed Film Festival: Koshish
As part of the Gulzar series check out the movie Koshish. Gulzar won the National Award for Best Screenplay and Sanjeev Kumar won the National Award for Best Actor.
Synopsis
Haricharan Mathur delivers newspapers on his bicycle and lives a poor lifestyle in Bombay India just like millions of other Bombayites. But for Haricharan there is a difference he is both deaf and dumb. One day he comically collides with equally deaf mute Aarti and both fall in love and get married. Soon they give birth to a son who is normal much to the relief of his parents. One rainy night their house gets burglarized by Aartis brother Kanu who leaves the door open and also steals Haris bike. The child ventures out in the rain and subsequently dies leaving both Aarti and Hari devastated. Their lives get turned upside down as Hari is unable to deliver newspapers anymore and must find other means of employment to survive. He does so by polishing shoes. In this manner they survive and give birth to yet another son and name him Amit. Hari and Aarti are thrilled that Amit is able to hear and speak and would like him to study and find a better job.
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Tagged Asrani, Dina Pathak, Exclusive, Gulzar, Gulzar Film Festival, Jaya Bhaduri, Koshish, Nation, National Award, Om Shivpuri, Sanjeev Kumar, Tanqeed Film Festival
Check out this excellent scene from Govind Nihalani’s Droh Kaal 