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International Film Festival of India (IFFI) 2008: Indian Panorama

October 24, 2008
utpalb21 @ 5:51 pm

Please Note: In the Feature list, No. 21 onwards form a ‘mainstream window’, introduced from this year. these films are selected from among a shortlist of 11 proposed by the Film Federation of India.
The seven member Jury for Feature Films, headed by Shri K. N. T. Sastry, has recommended 25 films in all after screening 104 films. The films selected are:
S. No. TITLE LANGUAGE DIRECTOR
1. YARWNG KOKBOROK JOSEPH PULINTHANATH
2. SUMMER 2007 HINDI SUHAIL TATARI
3. VILAPANGALKKAPPURAM MALAYALAM T.V. CHANDRAN
4. GULMOHAR MALAYALAM JAYARAJ
5. KALLOORI TAMIL BALAJI SAKTHIVEL
6. KANACHIVARAM TAMIL S. PRIYADARSHAN
7. DOHAA MARATHI PUSHKARAJ PARANJAPE
8. GULABI TALKIES KANNADA GIRISH KASARVALLI
9. ATAYALANGAL MALAYALAM M G SASI
10. BANADA NERALU KANNADA UMASHANKARA SWAMY
11. LITTLE ZIZOU ENGLISH/GUJRATIHINDI SOONI TARAPOREVALA
12. CHATURANGA BENGALI SUMAN MUKHOPADHYAY
13. MAHASATTA MARATHI RAMESH LAXMAN MORE
14. ORU PENNUM RANDAANUM MALAYALAM ADOOR GOPALAKRI SHNAN
15. MUDHAL MUDHAL MUDHAL VARAI TAMIL KRISHNA SESHADRI GOMATAM
16. AAKASHAGOPURAM MALAYALAM MANU S. KUMARAN
17. GUBBACHIGALU KANNADA ABHAYA SIMHA
18. MON JAI ASSAMESE M.MANIRAM
19. MEE SREYOBHILASHI TELUGU V.ESHWAR REDDY
20. KATHA PARAYUMPOL MALAYALAM MOHANAN
21. A WEDNESDAY HINDI NEERAJ PANDEY
22. JODHA AKBAR HINDI ASHUTOSH GOWARIKER
23. TAARE ZAMEEN PAR HINDI AAMIR KHAN
24. VALU MARATHI UMESH VINAYAK KULKARNI
25. BILLA TAMIL VISHNU VARDHAN
‘Pulijanmam’ (Malayalam), the winner of Best Feature Film awards during 54th National Film Awards gets automatic entry into Indian Panorama in addition to the above films. The Jury has recommended ‘Yarwing’ a film in Kokborok language of Tripura as the inaugural film for Indian Panorama. ‘Kanachivaram’ (Tamil) and ‘Mahasatta’ (Marathi) have been recommended for the Competition Section of International Film Festival of India-2008.
The Jury for Non-Feature Films has recommended 20 films out of 82 entries. The selected films in the Non-Feature Film category of Indian Panorama are:

S. No TITLE LANGUAGE DIRECTOR
1. THE SHOP THAT SOLD EVERYTHING BENGALI ABHYUDAY KHAITAN
2. DHIN TAK DHA HINDI SHRADDHA PASI
3. THREE OF US MUSIC ONLY UMESH KULKARNI
4. VELLAPPOKKATHIL MALAYALAM JAYARAJ
5. PUTTI KANNADA JACOB VARGHESE
6. PARWAAZ URDU BIJU VISHWANATH
7. YEARN TO LEARN BENGALI S.K. ABOUL RAJJAK
8. A FRIEND TURNED FOE ENGLISH GAUTAM SAIKIA
9. DISTANT RUMBLINGS ENGLISH BANI PRAKASH DAS
10. DIVIDED COLOURS OF A NATION ENGLISH UMESH AGGARWAL
11. FOUR WOMEN AND A ROOM ENGLISH AMBARIEN AL QADAR
12. THE JOURNALIST AND THE JIHADI ENGLISH RAMESH SHARMA
13. THE LAND OF RUPSHUPAS ENGLISH A.K. SIDHPURI
14. APNA ALOO BAZAAR BECHA HINDI PANKAJ H. GUPTA
15. CHILDREN OF THE PYRE HINDI RAJESH S.JALA
16. ANTARDHWANI HINDI JABBAR PATEL
17. REMEMBERING BIMAL ROY HiNDI, BENGALI, EngLISH JOY BIMAL ROY
18. MEMORIES,MOVEMENT AND A MACHINE MALYALAM K.R. MANOJ
19. RATAN THIYAM THE MAN OF THEATRE MANIPURI NIRMALA CHANU & OKEN AMAKCHAM
20. REHANA: A QUEST FOR FREEDOM ENGLISH GARGI SEN & PRIYaNKA MUKHERJEE
‘Bishar Blues’ (Bengali), also enters the Non-Feature Film segment of Indian Panorama by virtue of being the Best Non-Feature film of 54th National Film Awards. The five member Non-Feature Film Jury was headed by Shri Anjan Bose.

Story carried in Sakaal Times, www.sakaaltimes.com, 25-10-2008:

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