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  • Filmmakers to make short films for digital platform

    Filmmakers to make short films for digital platform

    Mumbai: This is a coup. Leading filmmakers Anurag Kashyap, Sudhir Mishra and Chakri Toleti (of Billa 2 fame) have come together to make a series of short films that will soon be released in the digital form across the country.

    The series will have everything found in a full length feature film like music, drama and excitement but in short films. The films will be treated like a normal feature film. Each film will be for around 10 minutes. It is said that Mishra will set the ball rolling being the first in the group to start work.

    Says ad filmmaker and TV producer Omar Haider, the man behind this initiative, “Several other directors are in the process of joining hands with us. Our initial plan is to come up with 10-12 films with each one making one film at least. We will then plan the release and marketing of the film.

    The films will be released on digital platforms like cell phone, internet, etc.

  • Filmmakers Onir and Sanjay Suri resort to crowd funding for Chauranga

    Filmmakers Onir and Sanjay Suri resort to crowd funding for Chauranga

    MUMBAI: Looks like Onir and Sanjay Suri‘s upcoming film Chauranga is all about crowd sourcing.

    After crowd sourcing talent like its publicity designer and background score designer who were picked through an open contest on Facebook, the filmmakers have now resorted to crowd funding for their film to be directed by Bikas Mishra.

    Crowd funding is collective pooling of resources by people, usually via the internet, to support efforts initiated by other people or organisations.

    Chauranga, a fictional account of six days in a dark corner of India, tells the story of class oppression in rural India.

    This project was part of Screenwriters‘ Lab at Locarno Film Festival and ScriptStation at Berlin Talent Campus. It won the Incredible India award for the best project at the co-production of NFDC Film Bazaar, Goa 2011. It also received script and project development funding from Goteborg International Film Festival, Sweden. It was recently invited for Paris Project, the co-production market of Paris International Film Festival 2012.

  • Filmmakers release adult content online to beat censorship

    MUMBAI: Disgusted by the Censor Board CBFC), which often plays a spoilsport, filmmakers have gone ahead and started releasing unedited adult content of their films on the online medium.

    Recently, when the trailer of Ekta Kapoor‘s upcoming film Kyaa Super Kool Hain Hum was allowed in theatres and TV after suggested cuts by the CBFC, the filmmaker released the uncut version for online viewers.

    And to her surprise, when the uncensored promo of the film was released on YouTube, it was a hit and has been getting innumerable hits (522,500 hits till recently).

    There is another such case. Pooja Bhatt decided to promote the songs of Jism 2 with adult content on internet, rather than scissoring out so-called objectionable scenes of the film.

    Of the six songs she has shot for the film, the director chose to showcase only three songs with asexual content on TV. The rest have gone online. It is a conscious decision she had to make.

    “We have six songs in Jism 2. Only three cater to a universal audience without losing their essence. The other three cannot be made to seem asexual! Hence, we will only submit to the censor board and plug on TV those songs of ‘Jism 2‘ what we feel is appropriate for a family audience,” Pooja wrote on her Twitter page.

    The actress-turned-director is happy that viewers get a chance to choose what to watch without a “roadblock” by the censor board.

    “The three songs that cater to the average thinking, discerning and passionates may be viewed freely and by choice across the internet. With their bold steps, the two ladies join Vidya Balan to make the year 2012 a woman-centric year,” Pooja said.

  • Filmmakers observe 91st birth anniversary of Satyajit Ray

    Filmmakers observe 91st birth anniversary of Satyajit Ray

    MUMBAI: Filmmakers the world over are observing the 91st birthday of noted filmmaker and India’s first Oscar winner Satyajit Ray today.

    Having started his career as a graphic artist before heading to London to realise his passion for filmmaking, Ray went on to make timeless classics like Apu Triology, Jalsaghar, Sonar Kella, Charulata, and Shatranj Ke Khiladi.

    His path-breaking films with strong subject, poetic storytelling and innovative filmmaking style has been a benchmark for filmmakers and it is called as Ray‘s school of films.

    Son of poet and author Sukumar Ray and grandson of legendary writer Upendrakishore Roychowdhury, Ray graduated from the Presidency College of Kolkata and enrolled himself into the Vishva-Bharati University
    founded by Rabindranath Tagore and trained under such masters as Nandalal Bose and Benod Behari Mukherjee.

    Ray is the only Indian filmmaker to have received the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1992, but being gravely ill then, could not collect the Oscar in person and sent in a recorded message instead.

    He passed away on 23 April 1992.