Fareeda Mehta

Kali Salwar is one such film which is getting together talents like Kay Kay Menon and Irrfan Khan.

KOLKATA: Years after Indian parallel cinema caught the fancy of international audiences, the country's young directors say their bid to go off the beaten track were being stymied by acute funds crunch. "It is a tragedy that new film-makers have to produce their own films in the absence of finances."

NEW DELHI: B Lenin's Tamil venture Ooruku Nooruper (A Hundred Voices for a Cause) will be the inaugural film in the feature film category of the Indian panorama section of the 32nd International Film Festival of India to be held in Bangalore in October this year.

The students’ association of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) on Saturday said they will continue their protest against the appointment of actor Gajendra Chauhan as the chairperson of the FTII society.

MUMBAI: Screening of about 150 films from across the globe, honouring thespian Dilip Kumar and a special archive session on the works of Ritwik Ghatak will mark the fourth Mumbai International Film Festival beginning in Mumbai from November 21.

It has been 20 days since the students of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) started their protest against the appointment of Gajendra Chauhan as the chairman of the Governing Council.

It has been 20 days since the students of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) started their protest against the appointment of Gajendra Chauhan as the chairman of the Governing Council.

MUMBAI: Belt up for the bad news. The International Film Festival of India (IFFI) stands cancelled this year, Sushma Swaraj, minister of information and broadcasting, has announced. The festival was scheduled to have taken place from October 10-20 in Bangalore.

Prakash Jha’s Parinati was a Rajasthani moral fable where Surekha Sikri played wife to Basant Joglekar. Ever the screen chameleon, she brought into the dense drama an impishness and a Promethean provocativeness. She was the life and breath of a film that hardly anyone saw: it was premiered on Doordarshan and was branded an ‘art’ film which back then meant, boring.

MUMBAI: All eyes this week will be on the fourth International Film Festival of Mumbai (IFFM) that opens on Wednesday and runs through November 21-28. It promises a great deal that we can look forward to.

MUMBAI: It's been a year of mixed fortunes for Indian film lovers.While mainstream Hindi cinema offered a few movies to rejoice over, including Lagaan and Dil Chahta Hai, 'offbeat mainstream' cinema including Chandni Bar and NRI offerings such as Monsoon Wedding and Bollywood Calling appealed in different ways.

MUMBAI: There has been an enthusiastic reception to the International Film Festival of Mumbai.The main venue, the IMAX Adlabs multiplex at Wadala, has seen jampacked shows with people crowding the aisles.

MUMBAI: There has been an enthusiastic reception to a large number of films at the International Film Festival of Mumbai.