New Delhi, Aug 9: The National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc) has decided to dedicate National award-winning Punjabi film "Anhey Ghorey Da Daan" to late filmmaker Mani Kaul, who was also the movie's creative producer.
Directed by Gurvinder Singh and funded by Nfdc, the film is based on Jnanpeeth Award winner Gurdial Singh's novel of the same title. It portrays the plight and problems of Indian farmers as well as the landlords on outskirts of Punjab..
Directed by Gurvinder Singh and funded by Nfdc, the film is based on Jnanpeeth Award winner Gurdial Singh's novel of the same title. It portrays the plight and problems of Indian farmers as well as the landlords on outskirts of Punjab..
- 8/9/2012
- by Machan Kumar
- RealBollywood.com
National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc) will release Anhey Ghorey Da Daan (Alms for the Blind Horse) directed by Gurvinder Singh on 10th August, 2012 in association with PVR Director’s Rare.
Gurvinder Singh’s first feature film based on Punjabi novelist Gurdial Singh’s novel tries to bring to screen the effect that years of subordination can bring to struggling masses in the face of events spinning beyond their control.
It was the first Punjabi film screened at the Venice International Film Festival 2011. It also screened at the 55th BFI London Film Festival and Busan International Film Festival 2011.
The film won the Special Jury Mention and the Black Pearl Trophy at the 5th Abu Dhabi Film Festival and the Special Jury Award at the International Film Festival, Rotterdam 2012.
At the 59th National Film Awards this year, the film won the Best Punjabi Language Film. It also won Gurvinder Singh the award...
Gurvinder Singh’s first feature film based on Punjabi novelist Gurdial Singh’s novel tries to bring to screen the effect that years of subordination can bring to struggling masses in the face of events spinning beyond their control.
It was the first Punjabi film screened at the Venice International Film Festival 2011. It also screened at the 55th BFI London Film Festival and Busan International Film Festival 2011.
The film won the Special Jury Mention and the Black Pearl Trophy at the 5th Abu Dhabi Film Festival and the Special Jury Award at the International Film Festival, Rotterdam 2012.
At the 59th National Film Awards this year, the film won the Best Punjabi Language Film. It also won Gurvinder Singh the award...
- 8/1/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
New Delhi, March 7: Gurvinder Singh, who has won the National Award for best direction for his directorial debut "Anhey Ghorey Da Daan", says he was not expecting the honour.
"I got a call from a friend who informed me about the award. My family and I were expecting best Punjabi film award, but this is great," Singh told Ians after the 59th National Film Awards were announced here.
Singh's Punjabi movie "Anhey Ghorey Da Daan" is based on Gurdial Singh's novel of the same name. It is set in a Punjab village.
"This is an encouragement for Punjabi filmmakers. I am thrilled with the kind of response my movie has received.
"I got a call from a friend who informed me about the award. My family and I were expecting best Punjabi film award, but this is great," Singh told Ians after the 59th National Film Awards were announced here.
Singh's Punjabi movie "Anhey Ghorey Da Daan" is based on Gurdial Singh's novel of the same name. It is set in a Punjab village.
"This is an encouragement for Punjabi filmmakers. I am thrilled with the kind of response my movie has received.
- 3/7/2012
- by Leon David
- RealBollywood.com
New Delhi, March 7: Gurvinder Singh was named the best director for his debut film 'Anhe Ghorey Da Daan' at the 59th National Awards announced here Wednesday.
Based on Gurdial Singh's Punjabi novel of the same name, the film, set in a Punjab village, Patinda, is about the plight of villagers who find out that the landlord has apparently sold his plots to an industrialist and the new owners demolish the house of one of the villagers who refuses to vacate.
Ians...
Based on Gurdial Singh's Punjabi novel of the same name, the film, set in a Punjab village, Patinda, is about the plight of villagers who find out that the landlord has apparently sold his plots to an industrialist and the new owners demolish the house of one of the villagers who refuses to vacate.
Ians...
- 3/7/2012
- by Ketali Mehta
- RealBollywood.com
Gurvinder Singh, who has won the National Award for best direction for his directorial debut .Anhey Ghorey Da Daan., says he was not expecting the honour..I got a call from a friend who informed me about the award. My family and I were expecting best Punjabi film award, but this is great,. Singh told us after the 59th National Film Awards were announced here.Singh.s Punjabi movie .Anhey Ghorey Da Daan. is based on Gurdial Singh.s novel of the same name. It is set in a Punjab village..This is an encouragement for Punjabi filmmakers. I am thrilled with the kind of response my movie has received at both national and international levels,. said Singh who studied filmmaking at the Film and Television Institute of India (Ftii), Pune.Produced by Nfdc, the movie won the Special Jury Mention at the 5th Abu Dhabi Film Festival.
- 3/7/2012
- Filmicafe
Alms of the Blind Horse, tells a day in the lives of people in a small Punjabi village. With the cast of mostly non-professional locals, the film is the first Punjabi feature to be shown in international film festivals. Based on a Dalit (Untouchables) themed novel of the same name by Gurdial Singh, the film reflects on the daily struggles of the underprivileged.The whole village is awakened by the sound of bulldozers. A house on the outskirts of the village is demolished by a landlord. Father, a stoic old man, joins other village elders to demand justice. But they can't quite agree on what the next step should be. Mother feels powerless and humiliated, working in the field she doesn't own. Their son, Melu, a...
- 11/11/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Gurvinder Singh (right) with Line Producer Kartikeya Narayan Singh
Gurvinder Singh’s debut feature film Anhey Ghorey da daan screened to a full house in Abu Dhabi. It was the third public screening of the film after its world premiere at Venice quickly followed by the Asian premiere at Busan International film Festival in South Korea. A day after Abu Dhabi, the film had a screening at BFI London Film Festival. It’s scheduled to travel to Hong Kong Asian Film Festival and South Asian International Film Festival in New York.
Anhey Ghore da daan, an adaption of Gurdial Singh’s Punjabi novel of the same title is produced by the National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc). The film captures the helplessness of dalits in a Punjab village where the landlord has sold his plot to make way for an industry. Bikas Mishra had a conversation with the director in Abu Dhabi.
Gurvinder Singh’s debut feature film Anhey Ghorey da daan screened to a full house in Abu Dhabi. It was the third public screening of the film after its world premiere at Venice quickly followed by the Asian premiere at Busan International film Festival in South Korea. A day after Abu Dhabi, the film had a screening at BFI London Film Festival. It’s scheduled to travel to Hong Kong Asian Film Festival and South Asian International Film Festival in New York.
Anhey Ghore da daan, an adaption of Gurdial Singh’s Punjabi novel of the same title is produced by the National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc). The film captures the helplessness of dalits in a Punjab village where the landlord has sold his plot to make way for an industry. Bikas Mishra had a conversation with the director in Abu Dhabi.
- 10/19/2011
- by Bikas Mishra
- DearCinema.com
You see a brick wall and a window. A monstrous sound gets louder in the background and little later, you see the wall being razed down to dust. Gurvinder Singh’s debut film Anhey Ghore Da Daan, which world premiered in Venice this year has a haunting quality.
Gurvinder uses visuals and sound to give us a sense of a space whose future is covered in mist. It is a village where people are trying hard to make peace with the uncertainty of their existence, daily rituals betray of their simmering anger and their helplessness. Gurvinder’s style is dispassionate. He refrains completely from sharing functional details and focuses entirely on capturing the inner space. The village, quite an antithesis of a Punjabi village of Bollywood, with its ugly buses, their uncertain timetables, often seems like a projection of its inhabitant’s inner space than a real one.
The film...
Gurvinder uses visuals and sound to give us a sense of a space whose future is covered in mist. It is a village where people are trying hard to make peace with the uncertainty of their existence, daily rituals betray of their simmering anger and their helplessness. Gurvinder’s style is dispassionate. He refrains completely from sharing functional details and focuses entirely on capturing the inner space. The village, quite an antithesis of a Punjabi village of Bollywood, with its ugly buses, their uncertain timetables, often seems like a projection of its inhabitant’s inner space than a real one.
The film...
- 10/16/2011
- by Bikas Mishra
- DearCinema.com
L-r: Gurvinder Singh, camerman-Satya Rai Nagpaul
“Mani Kaul could only see the opening sequence of the film which I edited with my editor at his house. He was waiting for me to come and show him the full edit, but time had other plans.”
Gurvinder Singh’s debut feature Anhey Ghorhey Da Daan (Alms of the Blind Horse) will premiere in “Orizzonti” at the 68th Venice International Film Festival in September. The film has been produced by National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc) and had late filmmaker Mani Kaul as the Creative Producer.
As Deepti DCunha, Indian Consultant for Venice International Film Festival puts it, “Gurvinder Singh has a very strong debut feature. What struck me first is his careful use of sound and silence which creates a strong and haunting atmosphere in his film. Gurvinder’s rigour and uncompromising attitude towards his craft makes him a filmmaker to be taken seriously.
“Mani Kaul could only see the opening sequence of the film which I edited with my editor at his house. He was waiting for me to come and show him the full edit, but time had other plans.”
Gurvinder Singh’s debut feature Anhey Ghorhey Da Daan (Alms of the Blind Horse) will premiere in “Orizzonti” at the 68th Venice International Film Festival in September. The film has been produced by National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc) and had late filmmaker Mani Kaul as the Creative Producer.
As Deepti DCunha, Indian Consultant for Venice International Film Festival puts it, “Gurvinder Singh has a very strong debut feature. What struck me first is his careful use of sound and silence which creates a strong and haunting atmosphere in his film. Gurvinder’s rigour and uncompromising attitude towards his craft makes him a filmmaker to be taken seriously.
- 8/8/2011
- by Nandita Dutta
- DearCinema.com
Late filmmaker Mani Kaul.s .Duvidha. will be screened at the 68th Venice International Film Festival, starting Aug 31, along with Gurvinder Singh.s Punjabi movie .Anhey Ghorhey Da Daan. and Amit Dutta.s .Sonchidi.. While Kaul.s film will be screened out of competition, Singh and Dutta.s films will be screened in Orizzonti section, which focuses on the new trends in world cinema. Kaul, who passed away this month after a prolonged illness, teamed up with Ravi Menon and Raeesa Padamsi to tell the story of a merchant.s son whose relationship with his young bride is thwarted by his work and a ghost who falls in love with her, resulting in the ghost soon impersonating the husband. Set in Rajasthan, .Duvidha. is based on a popular folktale from the state. Shah Rukh Khan starrer .Paheli. was also inspired by the same folktale of Rajasthan. .Anhey Ghorhey Da Daan...
- 7/29/2011
- Filmicafe
Nirpal Dhaliwal has been watching Bollywood films all his life, so when he was offered a bit part in a new film, he jumped at the chance of a peek inside an industry unlike any other
Liverpool may have spawned the Beatles and Birmingham was the boiler-room of the industrial revolution, but Southall, a drab suburb on the western edge of London, has just as many cultural connotations – if you're Indian. Having been settled by immigrants from the subcontinent since the 1950s (including my grandfather), this assortment of sari shops, temples and halal butchers is known to Indian communities everywhere – whether in Delhi, Nairobi or New York.
Southall, of course, is nuts about Bollywood, the cinematic glue that binds Indians together; it provides the music, stories, fashions and values that enable a Punjabi cab driver in Chicago to have an rapport with a Gujarati radiologist in Berlin. In Britain, Bollywood...
Liverpool may have spawned the Beatles and Birmingham was the boiler-room of the industrial revolution, but Southall, a drab suburb on the western edge of London, has just as many cultural connotations – if you're Indian. Having been settled by immigrants from the subcontinent since the 1950s (including my grandfather), this assortment of sari shops, temples and halal butchers is known to Indian communities everywhere – whether in Delhi, Nairobi or New York.
Southall, of course, is nuts about Bollywood, the cinematic glue that binds Indians together; it provides the music, stories, fashions and values that enable a Punjabi cab driver in Chicago to have an rapport with a Gujarati radiologist in Berlin. In Britain, Bollywood...
- 2/11/2011
- by Nirpal Dhaliwal
- The Guardian - Film News
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