PHYSICAL PROGRAMME

(60 min; 2019; dvd; Hindi/English)
Director: Nirmal Chander
Producer: Public Service Broadcasting Trust

Recipient of the award for Best Indian Feature, All Living Things Environmental Film Festival 2019; Best Documentary Award, International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Kerala 2019; and Official Indian entry to the Oscar Awards 2019

For over five decades, 83 year old Vidyadutt Sharma has nurtured Moti Bagh, his 5 acre farm in a small Himalayan village. Around him are 7000 ghost villages – a chilling testimony to large scale migration by locals in search of employment. Chronicling the changing landscape in verses of resistance, Vidyadutt Sharma and Ram Singh, his Nepali farmhand, plough the fields and keep themselves alive, hoping to return Moti Bagh to its old glory

(Collaboration: Public Service Broadcasting Trust)

Kindly please make a note
-    Physical programmes will be held as per the Covid -19 guidelines with 50% seating capacity in the C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium.
-    Wearing of face masks is mandatory and will be strictly enforced. Entry will not be permitted to anyone not wearing a mask
-    Audiences are requested to arrive at the venues, at least 30 minutes prior to the programmes in order to facilitate the screening process at the Door
-    There will be separate doors earmarked for Entry and Exit

We request audiences to kindly abide by the above regulations

PHYSICAL PROGRAMME

(53 min; 2019; dvd; Tamil/English)
Director: Pankaj Rishi Kumar
Producer: Public Service Broadcasting Trust

Multiple award winner and India’s Official Entry to the Oscar Awards, recipient of the Best Long Documentary Award, International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Kerala 2019; Satyajit Ray Golden Award for Best Documentary, and Mrinal Sen Golden Award for Best Direction in Documentary, South Asia Film Festival; Human Rights Prize, Fine Arts Film Festival, USA; among others

Janani's Juliet follows the journey of Pondicherry-based theatre group, Indianostrum, as they navigate through caste and class obstacles, and understand how these impact women’s freedom and love. They adapt Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to their story and what emerges is a critical reflection and commentary on the contemporary world, where love struggles to survive

Kindly please make a note
-    Physical programmes will be held as per the Covid -19 guidelines with 50% seating capacity in the C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium.
-    Wearing of face masks is mandatory and will be strictly enforced. Entry will not be permitted to anyone not wearing a mask
-    Audiences are requested to arrive at the venues, at least 30 minutes prior to the programmes in order to facilitate the screening process at the Door
-    There will be separate doors earmarked for Entry and Exit

We request audiences to kindly abide by the above regulations

Screening of films from Germany; Hungary; and Spain

At 11:00 am    Relativity (Mein Ende. Dein Anfang/Germany)
(111 mins; 2019; blu ray; German with English Subtitles)
Director: Mariko Minoguchi

Recipient of German Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay,  Best Feature Film Debut, German Film Critics Association Awards 2020; and Jury Prize for  Best Film, Riviera International Film Festival 2020

At 2:00 pm   The Innocence (La inocencia/Spain)
(92 min; 2019; blu ray; Spanish with English subtitles)
Director: Lucia Alemany

Multiple award winner including Gaudí Award for Best Supporting Actor, Gaudí Awards 2020; Consentino Award for Best Director, and FICAL Awards for Best First Film & Best Actress, Almeria International Short Film Festival 2019; Awards for Best Actress and Best Director, Toulouse Cinespaña 2020; among others

 At 4:00 pm   Whiskey Bandit (A viszkis/Hungary)
(126 min; 2017; dvd; Hungarian with English subtitles)
Director: Nimród Antal

Recipient of the Award for Best Editor and Best Sound, Hungarian Film Week 2018

 For film screenings, entry passes will be issued 30 minutes before each screening. 
 

Screening of films from Germany; Hungary; and Spain

At 11:00 am    Budapest Noir (Hungary)
(95 mins; 2017; dvd; Hungarian with English Subtitles)
Director: Éva Gárdos

Recipient of the Best Mask Award, Hungarian Film Week 2018; and Award for Best Original Score -  Independent Film (Foreign Language) Film, Hollywood Music in Media Awards 2017

At 2:00 pm    A Thief’s Daughter (La hija de un ladrón/Spain)
(102 min; 2019; Blu ray; Spanish with English subtitles)
Director: Belén Funes

Multiple award winner including Gaudí Awards for Best Director, Best Screenplay & Best Non-Catalan Language Film, Gaudí Awards 2020; Goya for Best New Director, Goya Awards 2020; Best Actress Award, Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2019; among others

At 8:30 pm    Transit (Tranzit/Germany)
(101 mins; 2018; blu ray; German/French with English Subtitles)
Director: Christian Petzold

Multiple award winner including Bavarian Film Award for Best Screenplay, Bavarian Film Awards 2019; Dublin Film Critics Award, Dublin International Film Festival 2019; NBR Award for Top Five Foreign Language Films, National Board of Review, USA 2019; among others

 For film screenings, entry passes will be issued 30 minutes before each screening. 

FILM FESTIVAL 

To celebrate the centenary year of Satyajit Ray, legendary filmmaker, writer, illustrator and music composer, a festival of classic black and white feature films; films from the Calcutta Trilogy; period pieces; a children’s film; and Ray’s all-time favourite film 

   
At 11:00 am    Sonar Kella (The Golden Fortress/India)
(136 min; 1974; dvd; Bengali with English subtitles)
Director: Satyajit Ray

With Soumitra Chatterjee, Santosh Dutta, Siddharth Chatterjee

Recipient of the Golden Lotus Award for Best Direction; Regional Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali; & Silver Lotus Award for Best Screenplay, National Film Awards, India 1975

At 1:30 pm  Jana Aranya (The Middleman/India)
(131 min; 1976; b/w; dvd; Bengali with English subtitles)
Director: Satyajit Ray

With Pradip Mukherjee, Satya Banerjee, Deepanker De

Recipient of the Golden Lotus Award for Best Direction, National Film Awards, India 1976

At 4:00 pm    Ghare Baire (The Home and the World/India)
(140 min; 1985; dvd; Bengali with English subtitles)
Director: Satyajit Ray

With Swatilekha Chatterjee, Victor Banerjee, Jennifer Kendal, Soumitra Chatterjee

Recipient of the NBR Award for Top Foreign Films, National Board of Review, USA 1985; Regional Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali, Best Supporting Actor & Best Costume Design, National Film Awards, India 1985; and BFJA Award for Best Actor, Bengal Film Journalists’ Awards 1986

At 8:30 pm    Shatranj ke Khilari (The Chess Players/India)
(129 min; 1977; dvd; Hindi/Urdu/English & with English subtitles)
Director: Satyajit Ray

With Sanjeev Kumar, Saeed Jaffrey, Shabana Azmi, Richard Attenborough

Recipient of the Regional Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi, National Film Awards, India 1978; Filmfare Awards for Best Supporting Actor; Best Director; and Best Film – Critics, Filmfare Awards 1978

Re-scheduling of the film “Shatranj Ke Khilari” (The Chess Players)

Due to technical reasons, the film “Shatranj Ke Khilari” could not be screened as scheduled on 24 October 2021 at 8.30pm.

Kindly please make a note, we have now re-scheduled a screening of the film Shatranj Ke Khilari (The Chess Players) directed by Satyajit Ray on Tuesday, 26 October 2021 at 8.30 pm in the Centre’s C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium.

Inconvenience caused is regretted

 For film screenings, entry passes will be issued 30 minutes before each screening. 

FILM FESTIVAL 

To celebrate the centenary year of Satyajit Ray, legendary filmmaker, writer, illustrator and music composer, a festival of classic black and white feature films; films from the Calcutta Trilogy; period pieces; a children’s film; and Ray’s all-time favourite film 

At 1:30 pm  Mahanagar (The Big City/India)
(131 min; 1963; b/w; dvd; Bengali with English subtitles)
Director: Satyajit Ray

With Madhabi Mukherjee, Anil Chatterjee, Haradhan Bannerjee, Jaya Bhaduri

Recipient of the Silver Berlin Bear for Best Indian Film, Berlin International Film Festival 1964; BJFA Awards for Best Indian Film & Best Dialogue, Bengal Film Journalists’ Awards, 1964; and Certificate of Merit, 3rd Best Feature Film in Bengali, National Film Awards, India 1964

At 4:00 pm    Charulata (The Lonely Wife/India)
(117 min; 1964; b/w; dvd; Bengali with English subtitles)
Director: Satyajit Ray

With Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Sailen Mukherjee

Multiple award winner including OCIC Award & Silver Berlin Bear for Best Director, Berlin International Film Festival 1965; President’s Gold Medal for Best Feature Film, National Film Awards, India 1965; BFJA Awards for Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Music Director, Best Actor & Best Indian Film, Bengal Film Journalists’ Awards 1965

At 8:30 pm    Aranyer din Ratri (Days and Nights in the Forest/India)
(115 min; 1970; b/w; dvd; Bengali with English subtitles)
Director: Satyajit Ray

With Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Subhendu Chatterjee, Shamit Bhanja

 For film screenings, entry passes will be issued 30 minutes before each screening. 

FILM FESTIVAL 

To celebrate the centenary year of Satyajit Ray, legendary filmmaker, writer, illustrator and music composer, a festival of classic black and white feature films; films from the Calcutta Trilogy; period pieces; a children’s film; and Ray’s all-time favourite film 

Jalsaghar (The Music Room)  
(100 min; 1958; dvd; b/w; Bengali with English subtitles)
Director: Satyajit Ray

With Chhabi Biswas, Padma Devi, Pinaki Sen Gupta

Recipient of the Silver Prize, Composer (Ustad Vilayat Khan), Moscow International Film Festival 1959; and Certificate of Merit, 2nd Best Feature Film in Bengali, National Film Awards, India 1959

For film screenings, entry passes will be issued 30 minutes before each screening. 

(81 min; 2021; English and with subtitles)
Director: Kireet Khurana

India is home to the largest number of homeless people in the world. There are an estimated 70 million homeless and destitute in India. This film focuses on the work of Koshish, the field action project of Tata Institute of Social Sciences and raises important questions on the Bombay Beggary Prevention Act, 1959. 

Screening will be followed by a discussion on Addressing Homelessness – Towards an Inclusive Society
Panelists: Dr. Indu Prakash Singh; Kireet Khurana; Swati Maliwal; Tarique Mohd Qureshi; and R. Subrahmanyam, Secretary, Dept. of Social Justice & Empowerment, Govt. of India

Moderator: Ms Amita Joseph

(Collaboration: Business and Community Foundation)

 Kindly please make a note
-    Physical programmes will be held as per the Covid -19 guidelines with 50% seating capacity in C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium and Multipurpose Hall, Kamaladevi Complex.
-    Wearing of face masks is mandatory and will be strictly enforced. Entry will not be permitted to anyone not wearing a mask
-    Audiences are requested to arrive at the venues, at least 30 minutes prior to the programmes in order to facilitate the screening process at the Door
-    There will be separate doors earmarked for Entry and Exit

We request audiences to kindly abide by the above regulations

PHYSICAL PROGRAMME

Screening of a film Uma

Directed by the late Buddhadeb Dasgupta

Introduced by Smt Aruna Vasudev

Shree Radha

A short film produced by Dr. Uma Sharma

Followed by

Thumri Abhinaya and Raas Leela

Presented by Uma Sharma and her disciples

Dance Choreography: Dr. Uma Sharma

Music: Late Pt. Jwala Prasad

Compere: Sadhna Shrivastav

(Collaboration: Uma Sharma School of Dance and Music –  Bharatiya Sangeet Sadan; and Sangeet Natak Akademi)

Kindly please make a note

• Physical programmes will be held as per the Covid -19 guidelines with 50% seating capacity in C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium and Multipurpose Hall, Kamaladevi Complex.
• Wearing of face masks is mandatory and will be strictly enforced. Entry will not be permitted to anyone not wearing a mask
• Audiences are requested to arrive at the venues, at least 30 minutes prior to the programmes in order to facilitate the screening process at the Door
• There will be separate doors earmarked for Entry and Exit

We request audiences to kindly abide by the above regulations

PHYSICAL PROGRAMME
    

Hindustani Vocal Recital
By Rita Dev from Delhi, disciple of Guru Dr. Girija Devi

Followed by
Kathak Recital
By Sangita Chatterjee from Delhi, disciple of Smt Vaswati Misra
 
   Kindly please make a note
 

-    Physical programmes will be held as per the Covid -19 guidelines with 50% seating capacity in the Conference Room I and C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium.
-    Wearing of face masks is mandatory and will be strictly enforced. Entry will not be permitted to anyone not wearing a mask
-    Audiences are requested to arrive at the venues, at least 30 minutes prior to the programmes in order to facilitate the screening process at the Door
-    There will be separate doors earmarked for Entry and Exit

We request audiences to kindly abide by the above regulations