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BOLLYWOOD'S BACK ON CHANNEL 4
OK not just for Londoners....
(18 September - 24 November 2005)
Channel 4's annual showcase of Bollywood films, now in its 22nd year, presents 20 top class movies from this thriving film industry, including two from Sri Lanka, where the growing film industry is beginning to rival India's but explores very different, internal themes. The central season is Bollywood Firsts, 16 films from first time directors.
The season opens with Main Hoon Na, directed by seasoned Bollywood choreographer Farah Khan, a rip-roaring action comedy full of zany humour, colour and life, which affectionately spoofs Hindi films of the '70s and '80s. Starring the top name in Indian cinema today, Shah Rukh Khan, Main Hoon Na was a smash hit on its release in 2004.
Other highlights include Pinjar, the tragic tales of women at the time of Partition raised by first-time director Chandraprakash Dwivedi; Paap, Pooja Bhatt's directorial debut which was inspired by Peter Weir's Witness, and combines the thriller with romance and a quest for spirituality; and Makdee, a rarity in Indian cinema, a film for children, mixing a spooky fable with fun characters and plenty of songs from composer-turned-director Vishal Bhardwaj, who won second prize at the Chicago International Children's Film Festival for this, his first movie.
Cinema Sri Lanka screens August Sun, from one of Sri Lanka's leading directors, Prasanna Vithanage. Set in the claustrophobic climate of the Sri Lankan civil war, it follows three disparate families' experiences of loss. Flying with One Wing deals with issues of gender, power and sexuality. Asoka Handagama's feature debut is a bold, revolutionary film, recently screened at The London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. Surrounded by controversy on its release, Sri Lankan censors insisted Handagama cut several sequences before they would allow the film's release. The director refused to dilute his vision and it is this version Channel 4 will screen.
Finally, two Bollywood Sirens hit the screen in searing dramas. Anurag Basu's Murder is a story of infidelity and its terrible cost. To escape her stifling life with her workaholic husband, bored housewife Malika Sherawat (soon to be seen co-starring with Jackie Chan in The Myth) begins an affair with an ex-boyfriend. But when her husband grows suspicious and hires a private detective, the infidelity soon comes to light.
Jism caused a stir for its explicit erotic scenes from its two pin-up stars. Kabir Lala, (John Abraham), is a lawyer who falls for the beautiful Sonia (Bipasha Basu, who in her introductory scene strides out of the sea like Ursula Andress in Dr No), and the couple plot to murder her businessman husband so they can be together.
SCREENINGS SCHEDULE
DATE FILM
Sunday 18 September Main Hoon Na
Thursday 22 September Pinjar
Friday 23 September Munna Bhai MBBS
Thursday 29 September Main Madhuri Dixit Banna Chhati Hoon
Friday 30 September Ek Hasina
Thursday 6 October Jhankaar Beats
Friday 7 October Makdee
Thursday 13 October Paap
Friday 14 October Dance of the Wind
Thursday 20 October Sarfarosh
Friday 21 October Armaan
Thursday 27 October Kuch Na Kaho
Friday 28 October Raghu Romeo
Thursday 3 November Ab Tak Chhapan
Friday 4 November Saathiya
Thursday 10 November Dil Chahta Hai
Friday 11 November August Sun
Thursday 17 November Flying with one Wing
Friday 18 November Murder
Thursday 24 November Jism
(18 September - 24 November 2005)
Channel 4's annual showcase of Bollywood films, now in its 22nd year, presents 20 top class movies from this thriving film industry, including two from Sri Lanka, where the growing film industry is beginning to rival India's but explores very different, internal themes. The central season is Bollywood Firsts, 16 films from first time directors.
The season opens with Main Hoon Na, directed by seasoned Bollywood choreographer Farah Khan, a rip-roaring action comedy full of zany humour, colour and life, which affectionately spoofs Hindi films of the '70s and '80s. Starring the top name in Indian cinema today, Shah Rukh Khan, Main Hoon Na was a smash hit on its release in 2004.
Other highlights include Pinjar, the tragic tales of women at the time of Partition raised by first-time director Chandraprakash Dwivedi; Paap, Pooja Bhatt's directorial debut which was inspired by Peter Weir's Witness, and combines the thriller with romance and a quest for spirituality; and Makdee, a rarity in Indian cinema, a film for children, mixing a spooky fable with fun characters and plenty of songs from composer-turned-director Vishal Bhardwaj, who won second prize at the Chicago International Children's Film Festival for this, his first movie.
Cinema Sri Lanka screens August Sun, from one of Sri Lanka's leading directors, Prasanna Vithanage. Set in the claustrophobic climate of the Sri Lankan civil war, it follows three disparate families' experiences of loss. Flying with One Wing deals with issues of gender, power and sexuality. Asoka Handagama's feature debut is a bold, revolutionary film, recently screened at The London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. Surrounded by controversy on its release, Sri Lankan censors insisted Handagama cut several sequences before they would allow the film's release. The director refused to dilute his vision and it is this version Channel 4 will screen.
Finally, two Bollywood Sirens hit the screen in searing dramas. Anurag Basu's Murder is a story of infidelity and its terrible cost. To escape her stifling life with her workaholic husband, bored housewife Malika Sherawat (soon to be seen co-starring with Jackie Chan in The Myth) begins an affair with an ex-boyfriend. But when her husband grows suspicious and hires a private detective, the infidelity soon comes to light.
Jism caused a stir for its explicit erotic scenes from its two pin-up stars. Kabir Lala, (John Abraham), is a lawyer who falls for the beautiful Sonia (Bipasha Basu, who in her introductory scene strides out of the sea like Ursula Andress in Dr No), and the couple plot to murder her businessman husband so they can be together.
SCREENINGS SCHEDULE
DATE FILM
Sunday 18 September Main Hoon Na
Thursday 22 September Pinjar
Friday 23 September Munna Bhai MBBS
Thursday 29 September Main Madhuri Dixit Banna Chhati Hoon
Friday 30 September Ek Hasina
Thursday 6 October Jhankaar Beats
Friday 7 October Makdee
Thursday 13 October Paap
Friday 14 October Dance of the Wind
Thursday 20 October Sarfarosh
Friday 21 October Armaan
Thursday 27 October Kuch Na Kaho
Friday 28 October Raghu Romeo
Thursday 3 November Ab Tak Chhapan
Friday 4 November Saathiya
Thursday 10 November Dil Chahta Hai
Friday 11 November August Sun
Thursday 17 November Flying with one Wing
Friday 18 November Murder
Thursday 24 November Jism
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Not at all LP ? I?m extremely selective ? Angelina Jolie or Bipasha yeah, why not? Anyone else, Naaaaaaaah..!
promise!
Wazz...your such a riot!
remember the days we just saw faces going behind flowers and bees??
Choti that name nass shah didnt ring a bell, thanks to google, ofcourseeeee i remember himm, he was in that west flick "the league of distinguished gentlemen"...yeah a potential second favourite..only cos he was the bolllocks in "monsoon wedding"