37th Maharashtra State Marathi Film Festival

The 37th Maharashtra State Marathi Film Festival was held on April 30 at the Dadaji Kondadeo Stadium, Thane. This annual festival at which awards for the best Marathi films produced in the previous year as well as awards for the bests in other categories are presented to the winners is usually held in Mumbai but this year the honour was given to Thane.

Dr. Reddy’s dazzling party in New Delhi
DR. SUBBIRAMI REDDY ONCE AGAIN MAKES HIS
FRIENDS WONDER ABOUT THE WONDERS HE WORKS

Special Feature

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Ask Anupam

Anupam Kher on Acting
Believe me or not, I pray for the growing crowd of strugglers. I try my best to help them, encourage them, discourage them, inspire them I try to be very blunt with most of them and tell them the truth about them and ask them to go back and find a better way of life but I know not one of them listens to me,

Short Takes

LOVE’S LABOUR’S DONE
For Tara Deshpande, these are PRTs of another kind. PRTs as in pre-release tensions. No, it isn’t a movie premiere she’s sitting on, but a book, of all things. This, her second tome, is titled A Love Of Any Kind, and is due to hit the stands in September.

Trade Tattle

Small rules the roost
The business of Hindi films has changed drastically. Hardly 10 big films run at the box-office leaving a clear field for other films, to feed the theatres. This vacuum is being filled today by low-budget films which constitute a major portion of film-related activity.

Ali's Notes

DEBASHREE DESTINY ROY
Destiny, yes destiny, really plays a part in every life. Call destiny by any name but you can’t call it off, give it up as nothing, you can’t. Take any life and you will see the importance of destiny.

Editorial

CEREMONY OF GLITCHES
It was one of those nights. When everything that can go wrong does. An over ambitious Rs 65 lakh extravaganza that went phut like a damp firecracker. A colossal embarrassment to the state, and a lesson in how not to conduct an awards ceremony.

Rushes

Lifetime award for Alkazi
Tradition took a twist, recently, when a student, Anupam Kher presented the prestigious Chamanlal Memorial Trust’s lifetime achievement award to his guru, Ebrahim Alkazi. Anupam was Alkazi’s student at the National School of Drama,

Focus

IS CENSORSHIP REDUNDANT?

It’s a debate as old as cinema itself. Yet, film industry leaders attempt to revaluate the need for censorship in the light of recent developments...

Retrospective

A tribute to Jean-Paul Rappenau
Under the auspices of The Embassy of France in India, Alliance Francaise de Calcutta and Nandan West Bengal Film Centre, a retrospective of six of Jean-Paul Rappeneau films and six French classics selected by him (all 35mm subtitled in English) was screened at Nandan 1 and 2 from April 23 to 30.

THE VISUAL EFFECTS WONDER IS A HUGE DRAW IN INDIA

Stuart Little does big initial
Columbia TriStar’s blockbuster Stuart Little, added a new milestone over the week-end from April 28 to 30, when it opened to Rs 5.88 million on 41 screens in India.

EMPLOYEES UNION COMPLAINS ABOUT CORRUPTION

NFDC writes off Rs 50 crore losses
Is it a scam or scandal? The National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) which constituted to make artistic films and increase the number of theatres has incurred a loss of Rs 15 crore and written off Rs 50 crore as irrecoverable during the last two years without exploring means for legal recovery.

Vigilance men swoop down on exhibitors

The Vigilance and Enforcement Department swooped down on theatres all over Andhra Pradesh and detected tax evasions running into crores of rupees. It found that to evade entertainment tax some theatres were screening dubbed films as Telugu films made in the state.