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' Gangnam' goes to Mumbai!
After taking the huge music world by storm, the Korean super-hit song is now all set to conquer the world's biggest film industry- Bollywood! One hears that Bollywood actor Jackie Bhagnani, son of producer Vashu Bhagnani, has bought the rights to the song from Korean singer Psy, for an undisclosed p...
‘ Silver Linings Playbook '
Inspite of the Oscars, this is the Best Movie of the Year!
Forget the Oscars. This is easily the best movie of the year. And Bradley Cooper is easily the Best Actor, and the amazing ‘discovery’ of the year.
What an awesome performance, as the crazy, volatile, sensitive, loving, confused ‘bi-polar’ . There are so many such ...
Film festival-hopping, in India
Film- makers, as much as films, stole the show, at the three film festivals I attended in India, recently.
It’s tough to escape film festivals, in India, as there are so many of them . You name the cities, and they all have them . Apart from Goa, N.Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Trivandrum, they now have film festivals in Bangalore , Pune, Jaipur, Nasik !
The International Film Festival of India (IIFI), held at Goa, the coun...
Resurrection of an Important Festival, after 3 years
Lekha Shankar, in N.Delhi
The Osian’s Cinefan Film Festival of Indian, Asian and Arab Cinema, one of the pioneering festivals for Asian cinema, founded by the dynamic Aruna Vasudev, made a come-back after three years, to New Delhi, India, pleasing the many film buffs in the country.
After all, this is the Indian capital city’s only film festival, at a time when nearly every city in the country, ...
Russian Film Festival, in Bangkok
It seems to be an epidemic of Film Festivals , in Bangkok, this year !
The first-ever Indian Festival’s gone, and now, it’s the first-ever Russian Film festival.
Soon, there will be the World Film Festival of Bangkok (16 Nov - 25 Nov).
The Russians are celebrating their 150th Anniversary of relations with Thailand ,and what better way to celebrate, than through Cinema?
The ‘ Russian W...
' Sky Fall ' - A 'Windfall' for James Bond
James Bond is Back - and How!
It is not a James Bond film, it is a Sam Mendes movie- and that makes all the difference.
' This is the end ' says the first line of the Opening Song in the film,and it is indeed, the end of Super-man Bond, who in this movie, is 'killed' in the very first fight sequence!
50 years after the Bond Series unleashed itself on the s...
INDIAN CENTENARY FILM FESTIVAL IN BANGKOK ( 19-21 OCTOBER)
Bangkok’s first-ever Indian Film festival opened yesterday, at the SF Cinema, Central World,to celebrate the Centenary of Indian Cinema.
Similar Indian film festivals are going to held in other parts of the world,to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the world’s biggest movie industry.
The Indian Centenary Film Festival in Bangkok,will all be 'free' screenings.
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INDIAN CENTENARY FILM FESTIVAL IN BANGKOK ( 19-21 OCTOBER)
Bangkok’s first-ever Indian Film festival opened yesterday, at the SF Cinema, Central World,to celebrate the Centenary of Indian Cinema.
Similar Indian film festivals are going to held in other parts of the world,to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the world’s biggest movie industry.
The Indian Centenary Film Festival in Bangkok,will all be 'free' screenings.
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'OTELO BURNING'
One of most talked-about films in S. Africa today.
One of the most talked-about contemporary films from South Africa, is ‘Otelo Burning ’, which combines sport, racism, politics, family and peer relationships with gentle but awesome power.
It will have a special screening at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand (FCCT),in Bangkok .
The film is the debut feature of Sara Blecher, who has made many notewort...
‘JAN DARA’- Steamiest Version of Famous Thai Erotic Tale
I'm just back from the premiere of the steamiest version of possibly the steamiest (and cruellest) novel in Thai literature 'Jan Dara' .
The story of a sex-crazed house where a father despises his son and sexually lures every woman he encounters, of older women who seduce young boys, of maids who beckon virgin-masters, and servants who violate virgin mistresses. This is not a ...
Bangkok seems to have become a movie-hub, judging by the numerous film festivals that have been spinning in the city, almost back-to-back, this year.The Embassies have mostly been responsible for these , and deserve credit for whipping up the cinematic pulse of the city.Apart from the French, Italian and EU film festivals ,which have become regular events in the cinema-calendar of the country (they are held in both Bangkok and Chiangmai), this year, we had new festivals from ...
by Lekha Shankar
With almost every city in India boasting of a film festival today, it’s difficult to know which ones to choose. But two film festivals seems a cut above the rest.
The International Film Festival of India (IIFI), is the oldest and biggest film festival in the country ,which is held in late-November, in the scenic beach-town of Goa. It has the glitter, glamour, and high-quality cinema that one associates with a top-range fest...
If there is one film that could indict the genocide-killers of the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia, who are currently being 'tried' under an International Tribunal ,which has already taken several years and cost nearly $ 150 million, it is this one.
What's astonishing is that it has not been seen or used by the Tribunal as evidence, judging by the statements of some of the members of the Tribunal, who addressed the media ,at the FCCT in Bangkok recently.
The film is especially import...
Even as one waits eagerly for French director Luc Besson's fictional film on Burmese freedom fighter Aung Sang Suu Kyi,'The Lady', with Maggie Cheung playing the lead, a new, real-life docu film on Burma's most famous political leader 'Lady of No Fear' has won applause at many Human Rights Festivals, and will now do the rounds of many international film festivals around the world .
Infact, it's told that Luc Besson studied this docu at length, before he began his ...
Watch out for a sensational,new Thai film 'Poompuang' (The Moon) that will be released in Bangkok tomorrow, and seems destined to be a mega-hit in Thailand.
Why?
Because it centres around the real-life story of the country's most famous 'luk thung' country music singer,whose dramatic, romantic, tragic rags-to-riches tale is superb stuff for cinema. Which is why this film is un-stoppable.
Poompuang, the famous 60's singer, died suddenly and shockingly of lupus,at the ag...
The 150th birth anniversary of India's Poet Laureate and probably the country's greatest literary genius, Rabindranath Tagore, is being celebrated around the world. Many of Tagore's stories have been translated into films,the best-known ones being by India's greatest film-maker ,Satyajit Ray -' Charulatha, Devi, Teen Kanya, Ghaire Bhaire.'
Infact,Ray even made a memorable docu on Tagore, which was one of the highlights of a 2-day Seminar on Rabindranath Tagore, held at Bangk...
The Thai-American film 'Bitter Sweet' won 2 top awards at the
42nd Annual Worldfest Houston International Film & Video Festival, which concluded last week-end-the Grand Jury Award for Best Picture of the Year, and the Gold Remi Award for Best Director.
With this, American Director Jeff Hare achieved a hat-trick,having won awards for two of his earlier films ‘A Perfect Little Man’ and ‘Checking Out’, at the same festival.
First-time producer Urs B...
It's interesting to know that a package of action-packed, 'Muay Thai' Thai boxing films are to screen at the East Udine Far East festival ( 24 April- 2 May). Among these are Ong Bak 2,the sequel to the film of the same title that pushed Tony Jaa to world-fame, as Thailand's own Jackie Chaan/Bruce Lee.This is a pure action drama, with dialogues kept to the minimum,and Jaa proves he can do anything, anywhere- on land,air,even elephant-back!
More thought-provoking, is 'Chocolate' which ...
‘CAMBODIA DREAMS’, DIRECTED BY STANLEY HARPER
LEKHA J. SHANKAR, Bangkok
As the world watches the historic trials of the atrocious Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, this is a good time to watch a ‘life-affirming’ film on the country, by a New Zealand director, who spent two decades of his life, to make it. Stanley Harper’s 18-year-old cinematic odyssey ‘Cambodia Dreams’ is an amazing film in more ways than one. Apart from being made against all odds in a political...
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About LEKHA SHANKAR
 SHANKAR LEKHA I'm an Indian film-writer, based in Bangkok, and write for publications in India & Thailand. I also coordinate and curate film programs in the two countries, at cultural centres/clubs, film festivals.
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