IFFI-2008 - International Film Festival of India
IFFI-2008 - International Film Festival of India
IFFI-2008 - International Film Festival of India
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<strong>IFFI</strong>-<strong>2008</strong><br />
FILM INDIA WORLDWIDE<br />
ASIA PREMIERE<br />
Switzerland-Germany-Austria<br />
Tandoori Love<br />
<strong>2008</strong>, 35mm, Colour, 92mins, Swiss dialect-English-Hindi.<br />
Paulus brings us what is perhaps the first European adaptation <strong>of</strong> the Bollywood<br />
mainstream form <strong>of</strong> filmmaking. The story follows attractive blond waitress Sonja<br />
working at the Hirschen, a traditional tavern in a village in the Bernese mountains near<br />
Interlaken. She is engaged to Markus, her boss. One day she meets Rajah, a skilled<br />
<strong>India</strong>n chef, the personal cook <strong>of</strong> Priya Dhavan, Bollywood superstar, shooting a Hindi<br />
film near Interlaken. Rajah, smitten by Sonja at first sight, abandons his film crew to<br />
work at the Hirschen, where Rajah's <strong>India</strong>n culinary talents take the village by storm.<br />
Markus remains unaware <strong>of</strong> his new chef's ardent passion for his fiancée. Chaos erupts.<br />
Claiming Rajah as hers, Priya refuses to work bringing the shoot to a standstill. Sonja<br />
becomes trapped between two men representing two worlds: Markus, who <strong>of</strong>fers her<br />
security and status, and Rajah, whose charm, wonderful food and the ability to burst into<br />
song at every emotional turn, she can neither elude nor resist.<br />
Director<br />
Oliver Paulus<br />
Screenplay<br />
Oliver Paulus, Stefan Hillebrand<br />
Cinematography<br />
Daniela Knapp<br />
Editor<br />
Isabel Meier, André Bigoudi<br />
Music<br />
Marcel Vaid, Erdal Tosun, Jesse Milliner<br />
Cast<br />
Vijay Raaz , Lavinia Wilson, Martin Schick, Shweta Agarwal,<br />
Tamal Ray Chowdhury, Asif Basra, Aasif Sheikh, Ganesh<br />
Yadav, Asha Sachdev<br />
Sound<br />
Ralf Weber<br />
Production<br />
Cobra <strong>Film</strong> AG., Zurich; Pandora <strong>Film</strong>, Cologne<br />
World Sales<br />
Ida Martins<br />
Media Luna Entertainment Gmbh & Co. KG<br />
Aachener Str. 26<br />
50674 Cologne, Germany<br />
T: +49 221 801498 0<br />
F: +49 221 801498 21<br />
EMail: info@medialuna-entertainment.de<br />
<strong>Festival</strong>s<br />
Cairo<br />
Born in 1969 in Dornach (Switzerland), Oliver Paulus attended the School <strong>of</strong> Fine Arts<br />
in Basel before studying direction and screenwriting at Germany's famous<br />
<strong>Film</strong>akademie Baden-Württemberg. Honoured in 1995 with the Max Ophuls Award, in<br />
1997 with the Solothurn Government's Study Award and <strong>2008</strong> with the Solothurn<br />
Government's Achievement Award, he was invited in 2005 to direct the prestigious<br />
Parisienne People commercial, whose earlier helmsmen were <strong>of</strong> the calibre <strong>of</strong> Jean-Luc<br />
Godard, Robert Altmann, the Coen Brothers, David Lynch, Emir Kusturica and Roman<br />
Polanski. His filmography consists <strong>of</strong> the short films His Mother's Voice (1994),<br />
Zwischen Paris und Dakar (1995), Reality (1996), Der Tag, an dem Otto kam (1997),<br />
Eckfliesen (1998), Das Geschenk (2001), Die Wurstverkäuferin/The Buther's Bride<br />
(2001) and feature films Wenn der Richtige kommt/When The Right One Comes Along<br />
(2003) Wir Werden Uns Wiederseh'n/So Long, My Heart! (2006).<br />
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