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Tan C Won't Have Coffee With You
Its a pleasant fall afternoon in New York. We're sitting down with Tannishta Chatterjee, just days before the premiere of her new film in Toronto. Conversation flows, humor brimmeth over, but the coffee stays untouched. Amongst other things, we learn that this leading lady was once a Chemistry major. And with four incredible indie films out this year she's also an MBA in what it takes to make it on your own terms in this filmi industry! So listen up...
FK: How many cups of coffee in a day?
TC: My brother-in-law said - NO SELF RESPECTING BENGALI SHOULD EVER DRINK COFFE...
FK: When you look in the mirror, what do you see?
TC: It follows Heisenberg's uncertainty priciple. At the rate at which I am travelling these days the images are a little blurry.
FK: Your greatest asset is...
TC: What asset...Dude, there's a recession
FK: London or Mumbai?
TC: Both. London for its awesome weather, Mumbai for its cleanliness...
FK: In how many languages can you say 'Get Lost'?
TC: Get lost......
FK: Performance or Trance?
TC: My personal preference is peek sports performance with deep trance hypnosis.
Did you hear about that?
FK: What do we not know about you?
TC: What you shall never know!!
FK: Who is more funny - Dev B or D?
TC: Are you kidding.... obviously Dev B... I mean D
Actually Tan C
FK: What's playing on your ipod right now?
TC: Nobodys fault but mine...
The Air in Telluride
By Aseem Chhabra
The summer is finally over, but for movie lovers it is sign of hope and excitement, since it is also the beginning of the fall film festival season. And heralding the season is the Telluride Film Festival -- held each year over the Labor Day weekend. There are world and North American premieres before the films make it to bigger and flashier events in Toronto and New York, revivals of classics and even lost silent treasures. Last year the Telluride audience was the first in the world to see Slumdog Millionaire.
It is a spectacular setting to see films – the pristine San Juan mountain range in Colorado, a former mining town, where Butch Cassidy first robbed a bank and Tom Cruise makes a home. Cruise has never been spotted in the town during the festival, but there was enough star power at this year’s event – from Viggo Mortensen and the French legend Anouk Aimée (both honored at tributes to their careers), Nicolas Cage, directors Alexander Payne and Jason Reitman, and the radiant Helen Mirren.
In the recent years Indian cinema and film personalities have received the rightfully deserved recognition at Telluride. Shyam Benegal and Om Puri have been saluted with tributes to their careers, and in 2001 Salman Rushdie was a guest programmer at the festival. And the festival has shown films ranging from The Namesake, Firaaq, and The Mystic Masseur to classics like V. Shantaram’s Do Ankhen Barah Haath.
This year the festival picked up veteran Bengali director Buddhadeb Dasgupta’s new film Window. A quiet, poetic film Window follows the journey of a young man who buys a new window for his rural high school only to find his good intentions ridiculed and rejected. The film has an ironic tone, but the supporting cast is uneven and somewhat theatrical and that defeats Dasgupta’s efforts.
There were two other films with the South Asian flavor. France’s Rachid Bouchareb has directed a heart-wrenching film -- London River, a story of two strangers, a British mother and a French African father, searching for their children, lost in the aftermath of the 2005 London bombings, caused by immigrants of Pakistani origin. Brenda Blethyn is terrific in the role of a clueless mother who over the course of the film learns so much about her missing daughter’s life.
, in which the filmmaker George Gittoes travels through the Taliban-controlled parts of Pakistan as he explores the regions so-called film industry. The actors he meets are crude performers and their films are very amateurish and uninteresting. The Miscreants of Taliwood is very disappointing and certainly not festival material.
Celebrate Sikh Heritage at the movies
SIKH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2009
September 18-19, 2009 | Asia Society & Museum
725 Park Avenue at 70th Street, New York, NY
After a sold-out festival last year, the Sikh Heritage Film Festival is back to celebrate the rich heritage, traditions and culture of Sikhs and the immigrant experience through a diverse mix of features, shorts and documentaries. Come and be a part of this experience, which promises a weekend of great films, fabulous parties and an eclectic mix of guests and supporters.
FilmKaravan is proud to be a partner of this special event!
Use code FLK2009 for discounted tickets.
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Feature Session on FRIDAY (SOLD OUT):
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After Party on FRIDAY following Feature Session at Asia Society's Garden Court
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Four Documentary Session and six Short Films on SATURDAY
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Heritage Gala After Party on SATURDAY at Leela Lounge. FREE ADMISSION with Saturday Film Festival Ticket
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