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..
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):
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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
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About Oru Pennum Randanum (A Climate for Crime):
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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
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About Adoor:
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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.
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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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