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Necab Screening Shri Adoor Gopalakrishnan's Movies in Bangalore on Dec 20th

by Nishanth 6. December 2009 18:37
NECAB(NSS College of Engineering Alumni Association of Bangalore)
presents
NECAB MATINEE
 
A films screening session on December 20, 2009, Sunday
NIZHALKKUTHU (Shadow Kill)
2003, 90 min, Malayalam with English subtitles
Oduvil, Sukumari, Murali, Nedumudi, Jagathi, Narain..

and

ORU PENNUM RANDAANUM (A Climate for Crime)
2008, 115 min, Malayalam with English subtitles
M R Gopakumar, Praveena, Nedumudi, Manoj K Jayan, Jagadeesh
..

at
Subex Auditorium, Adarsh Tech Park, Devarabisana Halli,
Next to Intel, Outer ring road, Bangalore-560037.
Click here for a Location Map

Program: 
      2.00pm: Screening of Nizhalkkuthu (Shadow Kill)
      3.30pm: Screening of Oru Pennum Randu Aanum (A Climate for Crime)
      5.30pm: Discussion with Sri Adoor Gopalakrishnan

For entry passes(Rs 150/- per head), contact:

 

Ticket Outlets:
 
DC Books: Contact Mr. Anish - 9731599302.
1. No.387, 1st Cross 4th Block, 80 Feet peripheral Rd, Koramangala. Ph: 40929447
2. 373/1, 100 Ft Road, HAL 2nd stage, Indiranagar. Ph: 42043638
3. ITPL, Unit G-43, LGF Retail Space, International Technology Park, White Field Road. Ph: 64560362
 
Kayal Restaurant:
#1647/1, 2nd floor. Jeevan Bhima Nagar, Bangalore. Ph.25205578
 

About Nizhalkkuthu (Shadow Kill):

This near masterpiece from Indian director Adoor Gopalakrishnan is precise in its storytelling and expansive in its evocation of a culture.

 "Shadow Kill" is a delicately philosophical film about a regretful state executioner trying to avoid carrying out one last hanging. Although Western audiences' brief flirtation with serious Indian cinema began and ended with Satyajit Ray, viewers who enjoy works by, for instance, Iran's Abbas Kiarostami and Taiwan's Hou Hsiao-hsien should find this an emotional and intellectual delight.

"Shadow Kill" is an example of New Malayalam cinema, a regional-language movement from the southwesterly state of Kerala that focuses on social issues. Set in the 1940s, before Gandhi won independence for India, Gopalakrishnan's tale begins with the aging hangman (Oduvil Unnkrishnan)  an innocent man. Then the local ruler's messenger arrives to inform him that he's been ordered to carry out another execution.

The executioner spends a worried night with the prisoner's three guards, who try to distract him with the tale of an innocent young boy who is executed in the place of a rich murderer. It turns out that the young boy is, in fact, the prisoner the executioner has come to hang.

"Shadow Kill" harbors many delights. Gopalakrishnan's attention to both historical detail and the religious rituals of the executioner allows the film to stand as a document to a time and a place. Structure is exciting and unusual, especially the way the story within a story suddenly becomes the turning point of the plot. Vignettes of local life are seamlessly integrated into the work as a whole. There are also stunning visual moments, as when the white threads on a loom crisscross the screen.
- Richard James Havis The Hollywood Reporter

 

Screenplay: Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Cinematography: Mankada Ravi Varma, Sunny Joseph
Editing: Ajithkumar
Music: Ilayaraja

More details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizhalkuthu




About Oru Pennum Randanum (A Climate for Crime):

Oru Pennum Randaanum

  • A poor schoolboy fervently yearns to reform his father who is a thief
  • Two policemen collude to frame a rickshaw-puller in a burglary of which he is innocent
  • A student suffers trauma over having to abort the pregnancy of his girl friend, a domestic 
  • Two men, one elderly and the other middle aged, fight over a bewitching woman who doesn’t reveal her preferences
  • http://www.adoorgopalakrishnan.in/climate.htm



    About Adoor:
    Adoor Gopalakrishnan is India's most acclaimed contemporary filmmaker.
    Born in 1941 in Kerala, a state in south India, he belongs to a family with strong links to the performing arts, especially Kathakali, a highly-stylised form of dance drama. He started his artistic life as an actor in amateur plays when he was 8. Later he shifted his base to writing and direction and wrote and directed a few plays. In 1962 Adoor enrolled in the Film and Television Institute in Pune and graduated in 1965 with diplomas in Screeenplay writing and elements of Direction and Advanced Film Direction. The same year he, along with his friends and classmates, founded the Chitralekha Film Society of Trivandrum as well as the Chitralekha Film Cooperative. The organization was the first film society in Kerala and it played a key role in the development of film culture in Kerala.

    In 1972 Adoor made Swayamvaram/One's Own Choice, his first full-length feature film. It launched the New Cinema in Kerala and became one of the major films of the Indian New Wave. He has since made more films (along with over 25 shorts and documentaries), all of which have won major national and international awards: Kodiyettam/Ascent, Elippathayam/Rat Trap, Mukhamukham/Face to Face, Anantaram/Monologue, Mathilukal/The Walls, Vidheyan/The Servile,  Kathapurushan/Man of the Story, Nizhalkuthu/Shadow Kill, Naalu Pennungal/Four Women and Oru Pennum Randu Anum/One woman and Two Men.

    Adoor's genius is in creating visually complex films that operate on multiple levels, that are culture-specific and yet universal in significance. All of his films draw on the history and culture of Kerala. Kerala's transition from feudalism to modernity serves as a backdrop to his complex meditations on the psychology of power, the nature of oppression, the corruption of patriarchy, and the coexistence of the modern and the feudal in post-Independence democratic India.

    All his films have won national and international awards (National award for best film twice, best director five times, and best script two times). Adoor’s third feature, Elippathayam won him the coveted British Film Institute Award for 'the most original and imaginative film' of 1982. The International Film Critics Prize (FIPRESCI) has gone to him six times successively for Mukhamukham, Anantaram, Mathilukal, Vidheyan, Kathapurushan and Nizhalkkuthu. Winner of several international awards like the UNICEF film prize (Venice), OCIC film prize (Amiens), INTERFILM Prize (Mannheim) etc, his films have been shown in Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Toronto, London, Rotterdam and every important festival around the world. Retrospectives of Adoor's films have been held in Pesaro, Helsinki, La Rochelle, Nantes, Munich, and New York.

    In consideration of his contribution to Indian cinema, the nation honoured him with the title of Padmavibhushan in 2006. Adoor was also conferred Dadasaheb Phalke Award (Lifetime achievement award in film) in year 2005.

    Following links provide more informatition on Adoor, his films and the numerous recognitions: Adoor's website, Wiki page or IMDB entry.

    Ticket Outlets:
     
    DC Books: Contact Mr. Anish - 9731599302.
    1. No.387, 1st Cross 4th Block, 80 Feet peripheral Rd, Koramangala. Ph: 40929447
    2. 373/1, 100 Ft Road, HAL 2nd stage, Indiranagar. Ph: 42043638
    3. ITPL, Unit G-43, LGF Retail Space, International Technology Park, White Field Road. Ph: 64560362
     
    Kayal Restaurant:
    #1647/1, 2nd floor. Jeevan Bhima Nagar, Bangalore. Ph.25205578

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