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? Home ? About Us ? SACF ? Events ? Reviews ? Legends ? Feedback 6th SACF Film Festival Sept / Oct '09
'The Classics Unveiled'
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Talking Literature & Cinema The Nehru Centre, 8 South Audley Street, London W1K 1HF Prof U R Ananthamurthy is
one of the most eminent Indian authors of Kannada literature today. His seminal novel Samskara (1966) was turned into a feature film of the same name by Pattabhi Rama Reddy that became a benchmark of Indias New Cinema of the 1970s. Girish Kasaravallis award-winning debut film Ghatashraddha (1977) was based on Ananthamurthys novella of the same name Lalit Mohan Joshi, Director - SACF, Editor of South Asian
Cinema
6th SACF FILM FESTIVAL
September /
October 2009
The Classics Unveiled
In keeping with its endeavour to build film culture and explore meaningful cinema, SACF brings you a new festival of films 'The Classics Unveiled' in September/October 2009. Literature has always provided food for thought to world cinema. The Indian filmmakers too have had their share of film classics based on Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam, Kannada and English literature. Indian film doyen Satyajit Ray (West Bengal), new wave icons Shyam Benegal (Mumbai), Girish Kasaravalli (Karnataka) and more recently filmmakers like Chandraprakash Dwivedi and Vishal Bhardwaj (Bollywood) have made films based on the gems of Literature. SACF's 'The Classics Unveiled' will showcase some of these rare, outstanding and unexposed films from all over India. The Festival will kick off with an Honour Evening dedicated to Girish Kasaravalli who hails from the South Indian state of Karnataka. Almost each of his films brings alive and re-interprets the literary classic on which it is based. Kasaravallis highly acclaimed Dweepa (2002), Hasina (2004), Naayi Neralu (2006) and Gulabi Talkies (2008) have defined the conflicts and change that have affected Kannada society. In addition, our Festival will provide rare opportunities to enthrall audiences through a special pick of less exposed but excellent classics. Among these will be Satyajit Ray's - Postmaster, Sampati and Monihara, Shaym Benegal's Sooraj Ka Satvan Ghoda, Prakash Jha's Parinati and Dr. Chandraprakash Dwivedi's Pinjar . The Festival will also bring together Hindi, Urdu and English writers by organising seminars, lectures, and interactive sessions with the audiences on Literature and Cinema. Watch this space - more details soon !
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Known
in India for his social commitment, his writings have transcended language
barriers and examined the Indian caste system and the ambivalent
relationship between the cultural values and social change.