BY SONALEE SHYAMSUNDER & PRABAL BHARDWAJ
The Press and Delegate started gathering on the venue of Press Conference of MAMI International Film Festival 2008. The venue was full of Press and Delegates. It was the first time when three wonderful movie’s Press Conference has arranged at the same time. The film included Antardwand, On the Wings of Dream and Love Songs.
The Press Conference started with the film Antardwanda. The director of the movie Sushil Rajpal was present with actors Akhilendra Mishra & Swati Sen. Bapi & Tutul - Music Director, Amitabh Verma – Dialogues and Lyrics writer, Manoj Sikha –Sound Designer of the movie were also present at the venue. It was really great to see the enthusiasm of Press delegates as well as the unit of Film.
Sushil Rajpal is a FTII graduate. He has been working in Mumbai as a Cinematographer for Advertising and Feature Films. Antardwanda is his first film as a director. The movie is inspired from a true story of Bihar. Sushil has been able to bring out the story of dark truths, still prevalent in our society. He was answering the question of “what was the basic idea behind making the film”. He replied “Bihar has witnessed the crime for last so many years. I just wanted to present it.” He also talked about the message of the movie “No one Wins in that kind of situation”. Actor Akhilendra Mishra also waited to act in this movie for past four years.
Because of less time and lots of question, the Press Conference moved to another movie “On the Wings of Dreams”. Mr. Golam Rabbany Biplob, Director of the movie, has earned an international reputation as a leading Cine-Club activist and film festival organiser. He is the Founder-Director of the International Film Festival of Bangladesh and the secretary general of the International Federation of Film Societies, the Global Umbrella of Cine-Clubs. On The Wings of Dreams is his first film as a director. The film has won “Best Director Asian New Talent Award” in Sanghai International Film Festival. Mr. Biplob faced lots of question related with the condition of film making in Bangladesh. He said “Now conditions are much favorable and we are also getting financer for our movies”. “But at the same time, we need more finance in our country” he added.
After that, Press Conference was continued with the team of Love Songs. The love Song is the movie is directed by Jayabrato Chatterjee, he has done many documentaries with the national and international level. This is his first commertial movie.
Love song is a movie with melodious songs with has narrated the movie in a beautiful way. The movie is about imbalance relations and its impact on the persons belongs to the same family. A film in English is an evocative story of how ordinary lives suddenly change because of extraordinary circumstances. And how the fragrance of love move gently from unremitting darkness towards fresh light. To give new hope. And the possibility of glorious tomorrows.
Mridula Chaterjee who runs a N.G.O. in Kolkata, she has a miserable past and life after her marriage was also having strange complications. All such complications have become her miserable past, even after her marriage her daughter is not the child of her husband but of her ex lover with whom her relation doesn’t work out. Rohan Mridula’s grandson whom she brought up solely. Rohan comes for his vacations from law school, his natural curiosity about his grandmother’s life compels her to drag up memories that had long remained confined within her heart. Memories of her daughter Palash a night club crooner. Always troubled. Always stormy. Define by Palash’s feets of insecurity about her wayward drummer husband, Dev , and Mridula’s own emotionally misbalanced relation ship with her only child. Memories of a research trip to the rural area of Birbhum where she happen to encounter Aftab Jafrey again, now marred to the alcoholic Rabea.
As Mridula unravels the past to Rohan and his girlfriend Tara, they begin to understand to understand the choises she had to made – for her self as well as for Rohan. And why, in the end she was forced to revel a strictly guarded secrate to Palash and than to move on, alone , despite her daughter death and the possibility of a second chance with Aftab.
The Movie ‘Love Songs’ was screened at 10th MAMI international film festival and received tremendous response from the viewers and was appreciated on the large scale. It is the movie which touched the heart of the audience not only in India but also at the international level.
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