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Zindagi Shatranj Hai director Dushyant Pratap Singh to shoot his next film Laal Ayodhya in Lucknow and Ayodhya
8 months ago

Zindagi Shatranj Hai director Dushyant Pratap Singh to shoot his next film Laal Ayodhya in Lucknow and Ayodhya

Hindustan Times  

The Hundred Bucks and Trahimam filmmaker Dushyant Pratap Singh will be shooting his next film in his home state. Filmmaker Dushyant Pratap Singh on his recent visit to Lucknow Singh, who hails from Agra, says, “The film’s writer Amarjeet Mishra is from Lucknow and we require some local artists as well. Singh’s last theatrical release was Zindagi Shatranj Hai with …

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Satyajit Ray: The script and track of a master storyteller
1 year, 7 months ago

Satyajit Ray: The script and track of a master storyteller

The Hindu  

Satyajit Ray, director, script writer, documentary film-maker, author, illustrator and composer, to name a few, had a flair for sketching from his childhood. Decades later, in an interview with the film critic, Iqbal Masud, on Shatranj Ke Khilari, Ray said, “One can well imagine a treatment of annexation with Wazid painted whiter and General Outram blacker, which would automatically enhance …

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Remembering Suresh Jindal, the film producer who left cinema to pursue a spiritual path
2 years ago

Remembering Suresh Jindal, the film producer who left cinema to pursue a spiritual path

Firstpost  

Suresh Jindal, who produced films directed by Basu Chatterjee, Satyajit Ray, Sai Paranjpye, Rajan Khosa, Mani Kaul and Kyentse Norbu, was a luminous personality who gave up cinema for his spiritual calling. Jindal writes, “I was 5’6” tall and he was 6’2”, a veritable giant by Indian standards I was from a well-to-do, non-intellectual, conservative, vegetarian Jain-Bania family from Punjab…Ray …

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44th Chess Olympiad: How The Sport Has Been Inspiring Bollywood Movies' Plots For Years
2 years, 4 months ago

44th Chess Olympiad: How The Sport Has Been Inspiring Bollywood Movies' Plots For Years

News 18  

The cerebral sport of chess has conflict interwoven into the story, when it comes to match play. Directed by Bejoy Nambiar, based on Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s story, the plot revolves around Daanish chasing daughter Noorie’s murderer and in the process meeting Pandit Dhar, chess teacher to the daughter earlier. Chess maestros devoting a major chunk of life in pursuit of …

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Satyajit Ray wrote 52 letters to ‘Jana’ over 16 years. Who was she?
2 years, 6 months ago

Satyajit Ray wrote 52 letters to ‘Jana’ over 16 years. Who was she?

The Hindu  

Published : May 30, 2022 06:00 IST At the age of eight, young Manik wrote a letter to his cousin Nini. Ray’s son, Sandip Ray, said: “He answered every letter that came in himself.” It is remarkable that Satyajit Ray managed to be such a prolific letter writer even as he was making films, scouting for locations, writing dialogues and …

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Ray-esque | Late actor Tom Alter’s interaction with ‘Manik da’ aka Satyajit Ray who altered his life
2 years, 8 months ago

Ray-esque | Late actor Tom Alter’s interaction with ‘Manik da’ aka Satyajit Ray who altered his life

Firstpost  

I had chanced to meet well-known actor Tom Alter, who left us in 2017, in November of 2012, when he had come across to Calcutta from Mumbai as a delegate at the Kolkata International Film Festival. And, he said, “Now, you will believe Tom that I haven’t forgotten,” Manikda drove home. “Then, he asked, “Who’s this producer.” I said, “Manikda….” …

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How Satyajit Ray Stopped Birju Maharaj from a 26th Take for a Song in Shatranj Ke Khilari
2 years, 11 months ago

How Satyajit Ray Stopped Birju Maharaj from a 26th Take for a Song in Shatranj Ke Khilari

News 18  

In the sixties and seventies Lachhu Maharajji was a very successful dance-director in the Mumbai film industry. Manikda saw a performance of mine at Vigyan Bhavan and requested Maharajji to choreograph two dance sequences for the film. Finally, Manikda called me and said, ‘Creative Manush konodin satisfied hobe na; onake bolo bhishan bhalo hocchhe.’ So we all shouted ‘encore’ after …

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‘I was like a daughter to him’
3 years, 1 month ago

‘I was like a daughter to him’

The Hindu  

When the veteran Kathak exponent Saswati Sen speaks about Satyajit Ray, life turns into a challenge of balancing contradictions. Of course, she talks of Maharaj ji too, just as she beautifully encapsulates how the film-maker and she joined hands to persuade a perfectionist like Maharaj to agree to one rendition of Kanha main tose… Blessed with a photographic memory, 44 …

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Cinema, for Satyajit Ray, was all about salvation
3 years, 2 months ago

Cinema, for Satyajit Ray, was all about salvation

The Hindu  

Age and decrepitude failed to dismay him, as did the vicissitudes of the box office. As he recounts in My Adventures with Satyajit Ray: The Making of Shatranj ke Khilari : “My first film, Rajnigandha, based on the story ‘Yehi Sach Hai’ by Mannu Bhandari, turned out to be the sleeper hit of the year. It came with a warning: …

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On Farooq Sheikh’s birth anniversary, a steaming guide to his memorable films from Shatranj Ke Khilari to Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
3 years, 8 months ago

On Farooq Sheikh’s birth anniversary, a steaming guide to his memorable films from Shatranj Ke Khilari to Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani

Firstpost  

Farooq Sheikh, who would have turned 73 today, rose to prominence in the ‘70s and ‘80s, playing several relatable characters. On his 73rd birth anniversary, let us take a look at the streaming guide to his most memorable films: Shatranj Ke Khilari Starring Sanjeev Kumar and Saeed Jaffrey in the lead roles, this Satyajit Ray directorial also featured Shabana Azmi. …

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