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FILMS IN AUGUST, 2004
 
     
  MRINAL SEN RETROSPECTIVE  
     
  2nd August
 
   
  7.00 PM
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Launch of Mrinal Sen's Memories "Always Being Born" (Pub. Stellar Publishers Pvt Ltd) followed by an interaction with Mrinal Sen and screening of 'Akaler Sandhane' - 1980 (In Search of Famine) (Bengali with English subtitles).  
         
  3rd August      
  7.00 PM
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EK DIND PRATIDIN - 1979 (And Quiet Rolls the Day) (Bengali with English subtitles)  
     
Cast: Satya Banerjee, Geeta Sen, Mamata Shankar

Sen Gupta, with his wife and children, lives on his eldest dauther's earnings. One evening she does not return from office and as time passes they realise how dependent they are on her.

 
         
  4th August      
  7.00 PM
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ANTAREEN - 1993 (The confined) (Bengali without subtitles)  
     
Cast: Anjan Dutt, Dimple Kapadia, Deepti Roy
A love story about a young writer in search of inspiration, Antareen is a cinematic adaptation of Sadat Hassan Manto's story.
 
         
  5th August      
  7.00 PM
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EK DIN ACHANAK - 1989 (Suddenly, one day) (Hindi)  
     
Cast: Shriram Lagoo, Uttara Baokar, Shabana Azmi & Aparna Sen.
A retired professor suddenly disappers one day. The film develops with the memories of the wife, children and friends, who wait for him for months.
 
         
 
OTHER FILMS
 
         
  18th August      
  7.00 PM
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Tattoo, A Love Story  
     
Cast: Magan Edwards, Virgil Mignanelli
A Harley riding biker, teaches grade school students to tatoo themselves, The school teacher falls in love with the biker and her life changes thereafter. A Hallmark Channel Presentation
 
         
  12th August      
  7.00 PM
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Baran (2001, 94 min)  
     
Dir: Majid Majidi
Story revolves around the lives of immigrant labourers from war-torn Afghanisatan working in a construction site in Teheran. COURTESY: IRANIAN FILM CLUB.
 
         
  22nd August      
  7.00 PM
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Two Women (1999, 103 min)  
     
Dir: Tahmineh Milani
Story of two young women whose friendship is clouded by the presence of a young man who stalks one of them demanding that she marry him. COURTESY: IRANIAN FILM CLUB.
 
         
  23rd August      
  6.30 PM
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Film Club Discussion  
     
Film Discussion Group meets to view, The Battle of Algiers (1966, 116 mins.) A classic directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. The film portrays the Franco-Algerian conflict from 1954 to 1962. The film will be introduced by film scholar Jeebesh Bagchi, Sarai / CSDS.
 
         
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