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65th National Film Awards (2018): List of Winners

The 65th National Film Awards for Indian Cinema of 2017 have been announced earlier today.The awards will be distributed in early May this year. Given below is the list of winners-

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63rd National Film Awards (2016): List of Winners

The 63rd National Film Awards for Indian Cinema of 2015 has just been announced a short while ago.  The awards will be distributed in early May this year. Given below is the list of winners-Continue reading “63rd National Film Awards (2016): List of Winners”

Aligarh Movie Review: Manoj Bajpayee’s Poignant Performance Leaves You Thinking for Long

The world out there is a mad sprint. Everyone is running. Running to prove a point, to get the numbers, to make money, to impress, to get to the goals. And in the process, quite a few fail to keep up the pace. Ironically, those who lose out in this sprint are advised to make peace with it – and that’s another mad sprint in itself.Continue reading “Aligarh Movie Review: Manoj Bajpayee’s Poignant Performance Leaves You Thinking for Long”

Festival Favourite and National Award Winner,Aditya Vikram’s debut feature, ‘Labour of Love’ is releasing in India on June 26

Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s critically acclaimed debut film, “Labour of Love” (Asha Jaoar Majhe), which premiered at the Venice International Film Festival and won FEDEORA Award for Best Film by a Debut Director and bagged two National Awards (Best Film by a Debut director and Best Sound Design), is slated for theatrical release in India on June 26th.Continue reading “Festival Favourite and National Award Winner,Aditya Vikram’s debut feature, ‘Labour of Love’ is releasing in India on June 26”

62nd National Film Awards (2015): List of Winners

So the 2nd National Film Awards for Indian Cinema of 2014 has just been announced a short while ago.  The awards will be distributed on May 3rd this year. Given below is the list of winners-Continue reading “62nd National Film Awards (2015): List of Winners”

Filmistaan Movie Review: Entertainment packaged, smartly

Nitin Kakkar’s Filmistaan won the National Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi in 2012. That is an incredibly tall order for a film which finally finds a theatrical release, almost 2 years later. Riding on no significant star value, Filmistaan is one of the rare films which are a testament of heresy to the pervasive opinion about non-mainstream films. Yes, this is a ‘supposedly offbeat/arthouse’ film which is a comedy and a good one at that. That apart, it is also fresher than a million other trashy mainstream comedies we get to see. Yet, that it is not a flawless film and what joy would it have been if it was! Continue reading “Filmistaan Movie Review: Entertainment packaged, smartly”

Citylights: Trailer

Citylights PosterCitylights is an official remake of Metro Manila (2013), a British-Filipino film that received critical acclaim and was even Britain’s official entry to the 86th Academy Awards for the Best Foreign Language Film. Produced by Vishesh Films and Fox Star Studios, Citylights sees the National Award winning actor-director duo of Rajkummar Rao and Hansal Mehta coming together once again. The film talks about Deepak Singh (Rajkummar Rao) who is forced by circumstances to move out of his native place along with his wife (Patralekha) and daughter to the big bad World of Mumbai to seek a better living, only to realize that things aren’t as rosy as they had expected it to be.Continue reading “Citylights: Trailer”

December 1 Movie Review: Roti, Kapda aur Chief Minister

Roti, Kapda aur Chief Minister
 Rating: 4 Stars

December 1 My salute to December 1, the Kannada film, would have been unreserved – if it weren’t for the controversy which followed the much-hankered-after honour it has received at the National Awards.

Rightaway, actor-director Omprakash Naik levelled charges against P. Sheshadri, the film’s writer-director, that the script was lifted. Both hosted press conferences, Sheshadri to deny the damaging accusation, and Omprakash to affirm that he’s been a victim of creative hijack. Incidentally, Sheshadri has won over half a dozen National Awards before. But still…
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Movie Recco: The Quantum Indians (National Award Winning Film)

The Quantum IndiansWinner of the National Award for Best Educational Film of 2013 (61st National Film Awards), Raja Choudhury‘s documentary film The Quantum Indians talks about  Satyendra Nath Bose, Chandrashekar Venkat Raman and Meghnad Saha, the legendary trio of Indian science.Today, the Bose-Einstein Statistic, Condensate and Bosons, The Raman Effect and The Saha Equation are part of the edifice of modern Physics and have been responsible for some major breakthroughs in Quantum Physics and Astrophysics in the 20th and 21st centuries including the discovery of the Higgs Boson Particle, the splitting of light and the high temperature ionization of elements. All 3 scientists taught initially at the University of Calcutta, all went on to become leading Indian scientists and teachers, all became members of the Royal Society and one of them was the recipient India’s only Nobel Prize for Science.

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