Five Student Films to Mark the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of FTII at IFFI
As a part of the ongoing Golden Jubilee Celebrations Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, the Institute will screen the best of its five student films in the Special Section during the IFFI2010. The films selected for screening are –
1. 37 Down Manmad Passenger directed by Kumar Shahani
2. Awashesh directed by Girish Kasarvalli
3. Bodhvriksha directed by Rajan Khosa
4. Jee Karta Tha directed by Hansa Thapliyal
5. Kramasha directed by Amit Dutta
The proud film institute, which boasts of the who’s who and some of the best film makers that the country has produced, is featuring as many as 20 films made by its students in the Festival this year. These have been included under various sections such as Indian Panorama, Special Section and Student Film Package–Film School: New Risk Takers.
While three student films, Motorbike (Directed by Radhika Murthy), Surang (Directed by Anurag Goswami) and Shyam Raat Seher (Directed by Arunima Sharma) have been selected for Indian Panorama section of IFFI, the New Risk Takers Package has 12 films
While Motorbike is the story of dreams and their resilience, about an impulsive, rebellious girl at odds with her middle class background. It is also about how she earns her way back to driving her bike again when she had taken her father’s old motorbike out without his permission and without a license and wrecked it.
In Surang, two convicts have escaped the prison through a tunnel. As their fool-proof plan hits an unexpected roadblock, the Jailor and his cronies deal with the mishap in a true bureaucratic fashion.
Shyam Raat Seher is about a middle-aged actor trying to revive his fading television career by playing Lord Krishna in a pseudo experimental play, gets a reason to escape it when his wife suddenly decides to leave him and go off somewhere.
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