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Indian Film Festival Ireland 2013WELCOME TO THE 4THINDIAN FILM FESTIVAL OF IRELANDMovies@Dundrum, Rua-Red Arts Centreand Filmbase, Dublin7 -10 June 2013I have great pleasure in welcoming you all to the4th Indian Film Festival of Ireland 2013 atMovies@dundrum, Rua Red Art Centre Tallaghtand Filmbase in Temple Bar.The Indian Film Festival of Ireland (IFFI) has fastbecome Ireland’s boutique film festival, introducingthe world’s largest film industry, the Indian cinemato the Irish audience. IFFI 2013 is delighted to spread its wings acrossthe city, and we shall be screening films simultaneously at Rua RedArt Centre, and at Filmbase in the City Centre. We had pre-festivalscreenings as far as NUI Maynooth, Centre for Creative Practice,Draoicht Arts Centre in Blanchardstown, the Chester Beatty Libraryand at the Dunamaise Arts Centre in Portlaoise.The popularity of Indian films is growing in Ireland as evidenced bysome of our pre-festival screenings of Ek Tha Tiger, the film shot andco-produced in 2011 in Dublin. Bollywood Ireland is now developingour own Irish-Indian cross-over fiction and non-fiction films to bemade here and creating an Irish-India film production corridor.Like the previous IFFI, we welcome stars from the world of IndianCinema as festival guests. This year we have Victor Banerjee, aBAFTA nominated actor, and the star in mini-retrospective; AtulTiwari, a prolific actor and screen writer; Lubna Salim, an actress,who is a household name in India, and Salim Arif a film designerand director.This year’s gala film festival dinner, with its glitzy Indian fashionshow and the award night will be held on the 8th June at TrinityCollege in aid of the Trinity Foundation.I am delighted to bring you this exciting film festival once again. Ihope you’ll enjoy films being screened in the festival, and that youwill also participate in the related events over the course of the fourdays of the festival. I sincerely thank all those who made this possibleby their generous support.SIRAJ ZAIDIFestival Director, Indian Film Festival of Irelandwww.indianfilmfestivalofireland.ieFestivalCrewFestival DirectorsiraJ ZaiDiFestival SecretaryMary O’sullivanHospitality & Transportationrobbie DalyMary O’sullivanFilm Festival CrewPrachi sharmaJustin reddinsonya staffordlea PhilcoxMikael thierylouise MurphyMedia & MarketingMary O'sullivanverónica escobar ayusoPriyanka singhDigital Co-ordinatorsebastian stephensonFestival Rota Deskrita smithFestival Co-ordinatorGiovanna rampazzoPhotographersMary O'sullivanIFFI Documentaryritchie O’KeeffeJohn DalyFestival Contact No.089-4822337

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Awards DinnerIndian Film Festival Ireland 2013iFFi 2013 CineMaaDMissiOn PriCesadult ticket €8.00Child ticket €5.00Documentary screenings“Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”A typical Trinity studentSamuel Beckett remained his own sternest critic to the end of his life, when writingWorstward Ho. From his beginnings in Trinity College Dublin he had honed hiscompetitive ambitions, as an author and also as an enthusiastic cricketer inCollege Park. Nearby, another Nobel prizewinner, Ernest Walton, was explaininghow he split the atom. Today postgraduate students in Trinity can strive to matchtheir own highest standards in Science, Technology, Arts and Humanities. Youshould bring your A game to Ireland’s most ambitious university.Celluloid Man @ Filmbase €8.00Opening Film "Meherjaan" €15.00ReD CaRPeT wITH THe STaRS aND DIReCToRSClosing Film "OMG" €8.00all welCoMe To joIN FoR a SPeCIalCloSINg INDIaN DINNeR IN aNaNDa -MuST SHow TICkeT aT ReSTauRaNT(PaID To ReSTauRaNT SePaRaTely) €20.00Membership card requiredoNCe oFF - avaIlable FRee aT FeSTIval DeSkFestival Programme FreeVisit www.tcd.ie/graduate_studies to see what you could become.

Indian Film Festival Ireland 2013* S t a r g u e S t S *actor viCtOr BanerJeeHe is representing his recent film Meherjaan in IFFI 2013, workingin Hindi, bengali and english language films. He has alsoappeared on a number of Tv Series on Indian television. He hasworked for prominent directors like jerry london, Shyam benegal,Satyajit Ray, Roman Polanski, james Ivory and David lean.banerjee is a descendant of womesh Chandra bonnerjee, aleading intellectual, a prominent man of his time and the firstpresident of the Indian National Congress (1885). He had hisschooling in St. edmund's, Shillong, and graduated in englishliterature from St. Xavier's College, Calcutta. In 1984, he acted as Dr. aziz ahmed in Davidlean's adaptation of the book a Passage to India, (IFFI 2013) bringing him to the attentionof western audiences. victor was nominated for baFTa award for this role in 1986. He wontwo other awards for this role: evening Standard british Film award and NbR award(National board Review, uSa). He acted in Merchant Ivory Productions Hullabaloo overgeorgie and bonnie's Pictures and Satyajit Ray's ghare baire (IFFI 2013). Though inrecent years he has largely been involved with bollywood, he is also affiliated with thebengali film industry. He also plays 'character actor' roles from time to time in the britishcinema. He was also cast in the role of jesus by director Stephen Pimlott in the 1988production of the york Mystery Plays.actor luBna saliMRecently seen as Susheela in film oh My god, as the godfearing wife of the main protagonist, lubna Salim has been aconstant presence in Indian homes on Indian Television withCommercials like Red label, Pepsodent, Rin, ICICI, ariel,Nutrela, Nestle, Tata Sky etc. She is still remembered asleela bhabhi of popular baa bahu aur baby Tv serial. ekPacket ummeed as Paroma for NDTv Imagine, Mera Naam karegi Roshan for Zee Tv,Daaman for Sahara Tv, bharat ek khoj, Tehreer Munshi Premchand ki, Chhatrapati Shviraifor DD, Heroine Telefilm for Madhur bhandarkar telefilms for Sony Television have been herother notable works. She won the Star Parivar awards of 2007, ITa award 2007, IndianTelly awards 2007, gold award 2008 for her work in these serials. lubna formed her owntheatre group eSSay CoMMuNICaTIoNS with her father javed Siddiqi, the eminent writerand her husband Salim arif, another well known name in theatre and films. on stage, herroles in gulzar’s Sunte Ho a dramatic adaptation of Ravindranath Tagore’s Stree Patro,arre o Henry and a Trilogy on stage of gulzar’s writings, plays like kharaashein-the scarsfrom riots, lakeerien – on changing Indo-Pak Relations, atthaniyaan on Mumbai street lifehave won critical acclaim. javed Siddiqi’s kachche lamhe, Ham Safar, Peele Patton kaban, a collection of three monologues have been her other significant plays. She has beenconsistently involved with stage plays with her latest being gulzar’s Paansa, a stageadaptation of Pavan k varma’s long poem yudhishtir and Draupadi. Her forthcoming filmsinclude Saheb, Directed by jabbar Patel and abida by Maria Syed. She was given thewomen’s achievers award 2012 for her contribution to theatre.9

Indian Film Festival Ireland 2013* S t a r g u e S t S *writer actor atul tiwaria National School of Drama, Delhi graduate and bertolt brecht theatrescholar in berlin, atul Tiwari is a highly respected and high profile screenplay, story and dialogue writer of the Indian film industry. atul was invitedto Trinity College Dublin in 2009, to introduce his highly acclaimed film onSubhash Chand bose and to deliver a lecture on bose. He has alsolectured on his film bhagat Singh in glasgow uk (2010). He has writtenseveral Indian films such as Dasavatharam (2008) (Hindi version); NetajiSubhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero (2005) (screenplay); Chot [aaj Isko, kal Tereko] (2004)(dialogue) (screenplay); Kash ... Aap Hamare Hote (2003) (dialogue) (screenplay) Soch (2002)(dialogue); also known as: "Soch - thoughts of killing for love" - germany (Title on DvD); Agni Varsha(2002) (dialogue) Mission Kashmir - The bloody path of freedom (2000) (dialogue) .. also known as:"Mission kashmir" - India (original): Shaheed uddham Singh: alais Ram Mohammad Singh azad(2000) (dialogue: Hindustani & english) (written by) Threatening kaal (1994) (dialogue) woh Chokri(1994) (Tv) (dialogue). as actor Idiots 3 (2009) .. Minister in auditorium Hazaar Chaurasi ki Maa(1998); Hazaaron khwaishein aisi (2003) (Hindi dialogues). He has recently written a latest Indian filmvishwaroop (IFFI 2013) a blockbuster film with kamal Hassan. He is also appearing in the film P.k. anamir khan production film - directed by Raj kumar Hirani." atul will be chairing and holding IFFI 2013Master class, in association with Screen Training Ireland and the Irish Film board on the craft of scriptwriting trends in Indian film industry at the Trinity Hub.Designer-Director saliM ariFCurrently working as Head of the Department of actors’ Studio in whistlingwoods International, Mumbai, asia’s leading Film School, Salim arif is anillustrious alumnus of National School of Drama, New Delhi, and a verywell known name in the field of Indian Theatre and Films. Shyambenegal’s bharat ek khoj, gulzar’s Mirza ghalib, Dr. ChandraprakashDwedi’s Chanakya got him International recognition as a Period FilmDesigner of substance. Nirja guleri’s Chandrakanta, ketan Mehta’sSardar Patel, gulzar’s Maachis & Hu-Tu-Tu, govind Nihalani’s Takshak, anil Sharma’sab Tumhare Hawale watan Saathiyo and Rajan kothari’s Das Capital are his other films as aDesigner. He has been a consultant for period details in anil Sharma’s gadar and Mani Ratnam’sguru. Innovative in approach, Salim arif has directed actors like Farooque Shaikh, Sonali bendre,Tabu, Rakesh bedi, anjan Srivastava, avtar gill, atul kulkarni,yashpal Sharma, javed khan,Rajeshwari Sachdeva, Sulabha arya, bharat kapoor,vaishali Thakkar, lubna Salim, Seema azmi,Harsh Chhaya, kiran karmarkar, anoop Soni and singers like bhupinder-Mitaali, Talat aziz, Rekhabhardwaj, Seema Sehgal, jaswinder Singh amongst others in several plays. These plays have madehim one of the most exciting and popular directors on Hindi theatre scene in India and abroad. Hemade his mark as Director-Choreographer of important National events with Drums of India and windInstruments of India shows for Republic Day Parade in 1985 and 1986. goonjte Patthar events inmonuments of Delhi got him critical acclaim in apna utsav 1986. He also choreographed and directedoctave 2010 presented by NCZCC, allahabad in Surajkund, New Delhi and lucknow. bodhi Festival ingaya in 2013 has been his recent show. He was commissioned by encyclopaedia britannica (India) todo an appraisal on Costumes in Hindi Cinema titled The essence and Fabric for encyclopaedia ofHindi Cinema published in 2003. He is also on the visiting faculty of several prestigious institutionsincluding National School of Drama, New Delhi, Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, bNa,lucknow, National Institute of Fashion Technology, Mumbai and National Institute of Design,ahmedabad. He is also a resource person for Sangeet Natak akademy, New Delhi. He was awardedthe prestigious urdu adab award of u.P.Hindi-urdu award Committee for his contribution in Theatre.11

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100 years of indian Cinemaby Prachi SharmaIndian Film Festival Ireland 2013Happy birthday to the treasure-trove of Indian Cinema Cinephilia is felt in India quite likenowhere else. The Cinema in India consists of films produced across India, which includes thecinematic culture of different states that make up the country. The Indian film industry is one ofthe oldest and largest film industries in the world, producing on an average of 1200 films eachyear and now it celebrates 100 years of glory. During these long years, Indian cinema has comeof age and has broken many new grounds and established several milestones. It is pushing thefrontiers in terms of technology as well as well as contents. It's no mean feat that India producesmore films across all its regions than Hollywood. Nearly 130 films were released out of bollywoodin 2011 and other regional films take a toll over 1000.The birth of cinema in India can be attributed to lumieres brothers. They held their first public showing oftheir early silent films at Mumbai's watson Hotel in on july 7, 1896. but they were very quick to realise the value ofIndia as a location for film making, both of its natural beauty, exotic culture and rich heritage. Some of the lumiere filmswere shown in bombay (which is Mumbai now), inspired by those films, director 'Hiralal Sen' made other short films inIndia starting with 'Flower of persia' in 1888. The first Indian silent movie released in India was 'Shree Pundlik' byDadasaheb Torne, however the credit of making the first indigenous film 'Raja Harishchandra', (released on May 3,1913 by Coronation Theatre), was attributed to director/producer DadaSaheb Phalke. These were the days of the silentmovies, soon followed the first talkie 'alam ara' which was screened on March 14, 1931 in Majestic Cinema. The manwho put Phalke's name in film history has been unheard of, P.k. Nair father of NFaI (National Film archive of India).Nair's life has been captured in the brilliant documentary 'Celluloid Man' by Shivendra Dungarpur, which talks about hismarathon efforts in single-handedly building one of the most enviable film archives in India. according to Dungarpuralmost 70 percent of the films made before 1950 had vanished already. He was a passionate collector who travelled farand wide to preserve regional films – assamese, oriya, Punjabi, bengali, Tamil, Telgu and Malayalam. Dungarpur whoproduced and directed this landmark film which releases in theatre on May 3, to coincide with the centenary, has saidover 1700 silent films were made in India of which only 9 or so have survived in the National Film archives of India.However amidst all the pain of losing our historic treasure, it is Nair's efforts that brings some cheers amidst the gloomyscene on the cinematic heritage front.Indian cinema appeals to more of a transnational audience that create a very appealing image of India forglobal audiences. The industry has produced many actors in its centennial, some faded away with time while othersbecame immortal names and will be remembered for generations to come. Dilip kumar, Nargis, Madhubala, Rajeshkhanna the first super star of cinema, amitabh bachhan, Meena kumari also referred as queen of tears, Dharmendraand in the current generations aishwarya Rai, Shahrukh khan, aamir khan are a few names among many. In midst ofall the greats, one name that has never failed to create magic on the big screen was Dev anand, the eternal romantichero of bollywood. Dev anand, the debonair hero and a versatile director, whose signature puff hair and swaggerenchanted fans across generations, outlived many of his contemporaries with his infectious zeal for life and cinema.The charismatic star lived by the philosophy of 'mein zindagi ka saath nibhata chala gaya, har fikr ko dhue me udatachala gaya' written for him in the movie Hum Dono in 1961. The other name which cannot be missed when you talkabout Indian film cinema is Dilip kumar. He may not have been aware of the fact that working in films would some dayresult him being branded by film personalities and by fans worldwide as one of the greatest actors to have eversurfaced in Indian film history. He is also referred to by many as 'the tragedy king of Indian Cinema'. He became a greatsource of inspiration for actors like amitabh bachhan and Shahrukh khan who regularly cite him for their role model.Rather recently in one of the interviews, Shahrukh khan has said “I did two iconic films one is Dilip kumar's 'Devdas'and the other one is amitabh bachhan's 'Don'”.In the 21st century, Indian Cinema is both revisiting and breaking new grounds, from silent pictures totalkies, from black and white to Technicolor, from cinemascope to hand held devices. Indian cinema has kept pace withglobal cinema with its longevity and its ability to make a sub continent dream little larger. It is becoming more global init's outlook. as national award winning film maker k.v. anand says: “as Indian audience embrace globalization itscinema too adapted to the growing needs for different plots, newer character and contemporary story lines”. Thechanging demand gave rise to some versatile directors to meet the changing need of the customers of entertainmentindustry. yash Chopra rightly called the king of romance, gave bollywood some fantastic pieces of cinema. He was alsoconferred with the officer de la legion, the highest French distinction for his contribution to Indian Cinema in 2008. yashChopra was also Conferred and was made the honorary professor of the Trinity College, Dublin in 2012 for the shootingof 'ek Tha Tiger' in a beautiful city of Dublin. Sadly he passed awayfew months later and could not come over to collect the degree intraditional robes.The annual Indian Film Festival of Irelandcontributed in attracting this film into Ireland.Finally, in a small remote european country like Ireland,Siraj Zaidi, actor, writer, director and producer introduced Indiancinema to the Irish audience way back in 1989. The annual Indianfilm festival which promotes Ireland as locations to the Indian filmindustry, and the Indian cinema to the Irish audience, has firmlyestablished the strong umbilical film reel that is stretching frommother India to Ireland. More productions are under developmentby the bollywood Ireland ltd that will realise a true co-productionbetween Ireland and India.13

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Film synopsisIndian Film Festival Ireland 2013Meherjaan| Director: rubaiyat hossain | 2011 | english/Bengali| 119 mins | Movies@Dundrum 6.30pm Friday 7th June(Star : Victor Banerjee is attending the festival)Meherjaan wins a handful of awards at International filmfestivals and competitions world wide. This is an Irish premier.It is a full-length feature film made by Rubaiyat Hossain as herdebut film. The film has been pulled out of theatres due to the hostile response of agroup of audience after its release in january 2011.Meherjaan claims to be a women's "feminine" re-visiting of bangladesh’sindependence war with Pakistan in 1971. a must watch beautifully shot. It isprimarily, and more interestingly, about female sexuality against the backdrop ofbrutality.It’s about women discovering themselves as they are engulfed by a war, reclaimingthemselves as men around them are consumed by battle, and consolidating theirnarrative as they look back at an essentially masculine affair.shanghai| Director: Dibakar Banerjee | 2012 | hindi | 120 mins| Movies@Dundrum 4pm saturday 8th JuneThe bustling Indian city of bharat Nagar has an upcominginfrastructure project backed by the ruling political party, thatpromises to turn the city into India's grandest metropolis, India'svery own 'Shanghai'. Meanwhile, four individuals find themselvestied up into a gruesome game of crime and politics.a shocking and disturbing road accident leaves a socialistprofessor/political activist Dr. ahmedi (Prosenjit Chatterjee) in critical condition.ahmedi's adherent Shalini (kalki koechlin) believes it to be a premeditated murder.a videographer/pornographer joginder Parmar (emraan Hashmi) claims to havedocumented proof on the mishap that will bring the government down.a high-ranking bureaucrat T.a krishnan (abhay Deol) is brought in by thegovernment for damage control and investigation. as days go by, those involveddiscover a hidden secret in the government sector.15

FriDaY 7th June 2013SCReeN 125.00pm – 5:30pm5.30pm – 6.30pmRed carpet arrivalPhoto ops / opening Ceremony / Intro speechesMinister / DlRC Dignitaries6.30pm – 8:30pm opening film Premièring MeherJaan (2011)Dir: Rubaiyat HossainStar: aCToR victor banerjee presence in the theatreDuration: 2:00 hrssaturDaY 8th June 2013SCReeN 124.00pm – 6:00pm shanGhai (2012)Starring: emraan HaSHMI, abhey Deol, kalki koechlinDir: Debakar banerjeeyear 2012Duration: 2:00 hrsFestival7.00pm – 8.38pm (check) JaB taK hai Jaan (2012)Starring: Shahrukh khan, kathrina kaif, anushka SharmaDir: yash ChopraDuration: 1:75 minssunDaY 10th June 20139.00am- 11: 00pm11:30am – 1:00 pmTRINITy College – long Room HubRegistrationTea / coffeeMasterClass with writer atul Tiwari + victor banerjee+ Director Salim arif.SCReeN 124.00pm – 6.12pm eaK tha tiGer (2012)Salman khan, kathrina kaifDuration: 1:32 mins7.00pm – 9:27 pm Premièring vishwarOOPaM (2013)Dir: kamal Haasan, attending writer atul TiwariDuration: 1.47 mins

MOnDaY 11th June 2012SCReeN 1211.30am – 1.00pm (Children slot) Gattu (2011)Directors: Rajan khosaDuration: 1:22 mins3:00pm – 5.15pm Pan sinGh tOMer (2011)Dir: Tigmanshu Dhulia. Starring Irfan khanDuration: 2:15 hr7.0pm – 9:10pmOMG - Oh MY GODClosing filmDir: umesh ShuklaDuration 2:10 minsStarring: lubna Salim .. attending the festivalMeeT THe STaR lubNa SalIMIndian Dinner in aNaNDa ReSTauRaNT (upstairs)aFTeR THe SCReeNINgsCheDuleFilmbase screeningsCurved street, temple bar, Dublin 1Friday: 7th June 20136:00 pm PassaGe tO inDiasunday: 9th June 20133:00 pm CellulOiD Man(100 years of the Indian cinema screening)6:00 pm Das CaPitalMonday 10 June 20136:00 pm Ghare-Bairerua redtallaght, Dublin 24, screeningsFriday 7th June 20136:00 pm viCKY DOnOrMonday 10th June 20136:00 pm waqt (tiMe) .... old classic, all time hit.

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Indian Film Festival Ireland 2013Jab tak hai Jaan| Director: Yash Chopra | 2012 | hindi | 175 mins| Movies@Dundrum 7pm saturday 8th Junejab Tak Hai jaan is a love triangle, and also marks thereturn of yash Chopra as a director after eight years.In what world would a beautiful, fabulously rich girl whocruises around london in a chauffer-driven bentley fallin love with a waiter? In yash Chopra's world, of course! It helps enormously that thewaiter (Samar anand) is played by Shah Rukh khan with charm turned on highbeam.In any case, you don't go to a yash Chopra movie to delve into realism or themessiness of relationships. you go to partake in a fantasy of swooning, idealised love- and jab Tak Hai jaan delivers plenty of that.Through a series of unconvincing story twists, the waiter becomes a major in thearmy - a bomb-disposal expert, no less. Returning to london after 10 years, hesuffers amnesia after an accident. will he be reunited with his love?iFFi 2013 pays tribute to india's legendery film makerYash ChOPrayaSH Raj CHoPRa (27 September 1932 – 21 october 2012) was an Indian film director, scriptwriter and film producer, predominantly working in Hindi cinema. Chopra began his career as anassistant director to I.S. johar and his elder brother, b.R. Chopra. He made his directorial debutwith Dhool ka Phool in 1959, a melodrama about illegitimacy, and followed it with the socialdrama Dharmputra (1961). encouraged by the success of both films, the Chopra brothers madeseveral more movies together during the late fifties and sixties. Chopra rose to prominence afterhis commercially and critically successful drama, waqt (1965) (IFFI 2013), which pioneered theconcept of ensemble casts in Indian Films.In 1973, Chopra founded his own production company, yash Raj Films, and launched it with Daag: a Poem oflove (1973), a successful melodrama about a polygamous man. His success continued in the seventies, with some of Indiancinema's most successful and iconic films, including the action thriller Deewar (1975), which established amitabh bachchanas the leading actor in bollywood; the romantic drama kabhie kabhie (1976) and Trishul (1978).From the late seventies till 1989 marked a professional setback in Chopra's career; several films he produced ordirected in that period failed to leave a mark at the Indian box office, notably Doosra aadmi (1977), kaala Pathar (1979),Silsila (1981), Mashaal (1984), Faasle (1985) and vijay (1988). However, in 1989, Chopra directed the commercially andcritically successful cult film Chandni, which became instrumental in ending the era of violent films in bollywood and returningmusicals.Chopra directed and produced the cult classic lamhe in 1991. Considered by critics and Chopra as his bestwork to date, the film became one of the biggest bollywood hits in the overseas market, although underperformed at thedomestic box office. In 1992 he directed Parampara which was critically panned as well as being a box office failure. Choprasucceeded with the box-office hit and trend setter Darr (1993). Starring Shahrukh khan, it was a sympathetic look atobsessive love and defied the image of the conventional hero. Since then, Chopra directed three more romantic films, allstarring khan; Dil To Pagal Hai (1997), veer-Zaara (2004), and jab Tak Hai jaan (IFFI 2013) before he announced hisretirement from directing in 2012.Chopra founded and was chairman of the motion picture production and distribution company yash Raj Films,which ranks as India's biggest production company as of 2006, as well as yash Raj Studios. Chopra's career has spannedmore than five decades and 50 films; he is considered one of the leading filmmakers in the history of Hindi cinema. He cameto be known as the "king of Romance" of the Indian cinema. Chopra has won several film awards, including six National Filmawards and eleven Filmfare awards, including four Filmfare best Director awards.The government of India honoured himwith the Dadasaheb Phalke award in 2001 and the Padma bhushan in 2005 for his contributions towards Indian cinema.baFTa presented him with a lifetime membership for his contribution to the films, making him the first Indian to receive thehonour. He was the first producer to cearte a histrory with Ireland, and his studio yash Raj Films shot eak tha Tiger (IFFI2013) in Dublin in 2011. He was conferred honorary professor of the Trinity College Dublin in India just before his death.19

Indian Film Festival Ireland 2013ek tha tigerDirector: Kabir Khan | 2012 | hindi | 132 mins| Movies@Dundrum 4pm sunday 9th Juneek Tha Tiger is a romantic thriller which tells the storyof a Trinity College scientist suspected of sellingmissile technology secrets to Pakistan. The Indiangovernment sends a secret agent, codenamed Tiger(Salman khan), to find out about the professor's activities.Tiger, for the first time in his life, falls in love with the professor's caretaker Zoya(katrina kaif) who is studying at a fictional dance academy located at Trinity CollegeDublin, and together they embark on a roller-coaster journey, battling the dark worldof intelligence and espionage that forbids its soldiers from falling in love.box office India declared the film a blockbuster in both India and overseas and itbecame the second highest grossing bollywood film of all time.Insideoutside.ieWe are delighted tosupport the Bollywoodfilm industry in Ireland21

Indian Film Festival Ireland 2013vishwaroopamDirector: Kamal hassan | 2013 | hindi/tamil/telugu| 147 mins | Movies@Dundrum 7pm sunday 9th June(The film writer Atul Tewari attending the festival andholding a master class)vishwaroopam is a spy thriller film in which kamalHassan plays a middle-aged kathak teacher (vishwanathalias viz), who is being tailed by a private investigatorhired by his wife, Nirupama (played by Pooja kamar). Their marriage was one ofconvenience that provided a safe haven for Nirupama to pursue her Ph.D in the u.S.a.She is put off by viz’s effeminate bearing and doubts whether her husband has secretsof his own. She learns from the private investigator that viz is a Muslim. In a suddenturn of events, the investigator gets killed in a sea-side warehouse by Farukh, aprominent member of the terrorist outfit led by omar (Rahul bose). The terror groupled by Farukh nabs the couple. viz is involved in a fight with the terrorists, kills Farukhand his men at the warehouse and escapes with Nirupama. omar and viz have a past,one that takes the story back to circa 2002, to the al-Qaeda training camps inafghanistan-Pakistan border. vishwaroopam is a technically brilliant, ambitious filmwhere most characters are not what they seem and is likely to be appreciated bylovers of Hollywood action films.23

Indian Film Festival Ireland 2013GattuDirector: rajan Khosa | 2012 | hindi | 82 mins| Movies@Dundrum 11.30am Monday 10th JuneIn a nation that is obsessed with flying kites, the story isset in a small town Roorkee, uttarakhand, India, wherea nine-year-old orphan, gattu (played by MohammadSamad) works in his uncle's garbage-recyclingbusiness. The blue skies above the town is dominatedby a kite named 'kali' with mysterious origins. out of the many kids who dream todefeat kali, gattu is more determined. He does fail on number of occasions but onefine day, his will find a way. He discovers a local school having a roof that rendershim some strategic advantage. Impersonating as a student, he sneaks into theschool and must now pretend to study. The only problem - he can't read or write! Thelittle street urchin takes up the challenge as when the desire is strong, dreams aren'timpossible.gattu opened at the 17th International Children's Film Festival at Hyderabad. Thisfilm was held in high regards by critics and film reviewers all over the world. The filmhad been honored with a special mention under Deutsches kinderhilfswerk categoryat the 62nd berlin International Film Festival. It is one of the few films of bollywood towin such acclaim.Paan singh tomerDirector: tigmanshu Dhulia| 2010 | hindi | 135 mins| Movies@Dundrum 3pm Monday 10th JuneFrom a small town of Madhya Pradesh, rose anathlete who ruled the steeplechase event at theIndian National games for 7 years in a row and whose record stood unbeaten for 10years. His name was Paan Singh Tomar (played by Irfan), but, his fame didn't stopthere - he became even more famous or rather infamous when he gave up hisrunning shoes and went on to become a 'baaghi' (rebel) and wreaked havoc in theChambal valley. Paan Singh Tomar is the true epic journey of a talented runner whoturned into a rebel.based on a true story, Tigmanshu takes us into the world of Paan Singh Tomar andenlightens us the reasons that impelled a sportsman to take law in his hands. It is afactual account of a sportsman who brought honor to the country, but felt betrayedwhen he needed the country the most. In fact, Tigmanshu calls this cinematicendeavor a tribute to the sportsmen who won medals for the nation, but never gottheir due during the sunset of their lives.24

Indian Film Festival Ireland 2013OMG - Oh My GodDirector: umesh shukla | 2012 | hindi | 130 mins| Moves@Dundrum 7pm Monday 10th JuneStar : Lubna Salim Attending the FestivaloMg is a 2012 bollywood courtroom comedy film where kanjilalji Mehta (Paresh Rawal), a bona fide atheist who runs anantique shop, buys idols of gods and goddesses for measlysums and sells them at exorbitant prices. His profitable businessis shaken by an earthquake that reduces only his shop in thelocality to rubble.He gets another jolt by the insurance company that refuses to cover the damagesbecause an earthquake is “an act of god”. So the goddamned atheist decides to takeon the almighty in the house of law by suing god for damages and pulling into thefray his various godmen, priests, and swamis etc.and when trouble befalls our resolute atheist kanji, the one to come to his rescue isnone other than lord krishna in a dandy avatar (akshay kumar).25

Indian Film Festival Ireland 2013Passage to indiaDirector: sir David lean | 1984 | english (usa) | 163 mins| Filmbase temple Bar 6pm Friday 7th JuneDavid lean's final film for which he also received editing credit, remains anexquisitely assembled hark back to such earlier lean epics as Doctor Zhivagoand Ryan's Daughter. e.M. Forster's a passage to India was written at a timewhen the end of the british colonial presence in India was becoming a very realpossibility. The novel was selected as one of the 100 great works of englishliterature by the modern library and won the 1924 “james Tait black MemorialPrize”. based on the novel the film is set in colonial India in 1924. The storyrevolves around four characters: Dr aziz, his british friends Mr Cyril Fielding, Mrs Moore and Miss adelaQuested. adela Quested (judy Davis), a sheltered well educated british woman arrives in the town ofChandrapore, where she hopes to experience real India. Here she meets and befriends Dr aziz (victorbanerjee). Feeling comfortable with adela, aziz invites her to accompany him on his visit to the Marabarcaves. She emerges from the caves showing signs of injury and ill usage. To aziz horror, he is accused byadela ofƒ physical assault. Typically the british ruling class rallies to adela's defence, virtually convictingaziz before the trial even begins. Though he is eventually acquitted due to the lack of evidence, but hisimage was ruined in the eyes of the british as well as his own people - was so for adela. woven intothese proceedings, a sub-plot involving adela's elderly travelling companion Mrs Moore (Peggy ashcroft)who through a series of plot twists becomes a heroine of the Indian independence movement. a theatricalversion of a passage to India, written by Santha Rama Rau was previously adapted for television by thebbC in the mid 1970s.ESTAuthentic food served daily frommidday day till late, 7 days a weekSIGRI : COCKTAIL : TANDOORIndian TapasCocktail Bar1st Asian desserts shop in IrelandNow Serving LunchMonday - Friday12-3pmAnne’s Lane, Anne Street South, Dublin 2T: 01 707 9898, 01 707 9899, 01 707 9911E: contact@dhaba.ie, W: www.dhaba.ie11 Upper Camden St., Dublin 2.Tel 01 475 9094www.facebook.com/Ambala.Ireland26

Celluloid ManDocumentary | Director: shivendra singh Dungarpur2012 | india | 164 mins| Filmbase temple Bar 3pm sunday 9th JuneIs a tribute to an extraordinary man called Mr. P.k. Nair, thefounder of the National Film archive of India, and the guardianof Indian cinema. He built the archive can by can in a countrywhere the archiving of cinema is considered unimportant.The fact that the archive still has nine precious silent films of the1700 silent films made in India, and that Dadasaheb Phalke, thefather of Indian cinema, has a place in history today is becauseof Mr. Nair. He influenced generations of Indian filmmakers and showed us newworlds through the prism of cinema. as Mr. Nair speaks, we see the history of Indiancinema unfold. what emerges is a portrait of a man so in love with cinema that evenhis family had to take a backseat to his obsession. Mr. Nair is not just the founder ofthe National Film archive, but a living, breathing museum of cinema. even inretirement, he chooses to stay across the road from the archive watching over hislegacy. The fact that India has a cinematic heritage at all is the singlehandedachievement of this man. He is truly India’s Celluloid Man. There will be no one likehim again. (Part of 100 years of Indian cinema Celebrations) – Q & a with the visitingDirectors chair by festival director).Das CapitalIndian Film Festival Ireland 2013Director: rajen Kothari, Dayal nihalani | 2012 | hindi | 90 mins| Filmbase temple Bar 6pm sunday 9th JunePurshottam (yashpal Sharma) is compelled to make somehard choices because of happenings around him. He isforced to sell the body of his wife to a man who is into theillegal business of making and selling skeletons fromunclaimed and deserted corpses. The administrationcelebrates during the period of natural calamities. bureaucrats and politicians survive on whatthey harvest from relief funds. The middle class is crushed under the pressure of money andcorruption. This dreadfully pushes the common man to die as victim of circumstances.tribute to (late) rajen Kotharia short documentry about this legendery Cinematographer anddirector will be presented by Salim arif before the screening of DaSCaPITal. Cinematographer Rajen kothari passed away recently inMumbai due to a cardiac arrest. He was just 60 years old. Hisbiggest collaboration was with Shyam benegal for films like Zubeida,welcome to Sajjanpur, Subash Chandra bose: The Forgotten Hero etc. He won a Filmfareaward for the Rajkumar Santoshi film ghayal (1990).27

Indian Film Festival Ireland 2013Ghare BaireDirector: satyajit ray | 1984 | Bengali | 147 mins| Filmbase temple Bar 6pm Monday 10th JuneReleased in India as ghare baire, Home and the world offers arare collaboration between that country's top director SatyajitRay and versatile Indian film-personality victor banerjee.The latter plays a well-educated Hindu living in colonial eastbengal in 1908. when british governor-general lord Curzondeliberately foments unrest between the Hindus and theMuslims in order to solidify his own power, banerjee's best friend SoumitraChatterjee tries to organize his countrymen into a rebellion. banerjee introduces hiswife Swatilekha Chatterjee to his charismatic rebel friend, hoping in this way to testhis wife's love. Her attraction to the rebel is but one of the many wedges, bothpersonal and political, driven between the two friends as Hindu/Muslim tensions flareup. based on a 1919 novel by poet Rabindranath Tagore, Home and the world hadlong been a pet project of Satyajit Ray's, but he'd been unable to bring the book tothe screen until India's political climate allowed him to do so.28

Indian Film Festival Ireland 2013vicky DonorDirector: shoojit sircar | 2012 | hindi | 125 mins| rua red tallaght 6pm Friday 7th June 2013Dr. baldev Chaddha (anu kapoor), a well qualified fertility expert, runs afertility clinic and a sperm bank in Dariyaganj, New Delhi, that guaranteesa high quality and specialized sperm for the purpose. unfortunately hehas more failed cases to his credit than successes. a healthy, highperforming donor is the need of the hour. vicky arora (ayushmannkhurrana), a young, good-looking, Punjabi boy from lajpat Nagar, is theonly son and of no financial support to Dolly, a widow, who runs a small beauty parlor fromhome. as luck would have it, a small brawl in the colony brings Dr Chaddha and vicky faceto face, where Chaddha concludes that vicky could be THaT donor he has been lookingfor. From here on, Chaddha's days and nights are spent in convincing vicky to become adonor till he finally gives in. vicky finds his love interest in ashima Roy (yami gautam), apretty bengali girl, who works in a bank. but soon their hunky dory world comes crashingdown because of vicky's past as a donor. with a brief emotional roller coaster ride, vickyDonor is a light-hearted take on the subject of sperm donation.waqt (time)Director: Yash Chopra | 1965 hindi/urdu | 206 mins| rua red tallaght 6pm Monday 10th June 2013The film set in post-independent India of 1960s begins with lala kedarnath(played by balraj Sahni) and his family reveling in the success of theirbusiness fortunes. kedarnath slights astrology saying nothing can comebetween a man and his mission, not even fate. However, fate plays a cruelgame with the family as an earthquake strikes their town and their worldcomes crashing down. everything that lala kedarnath had built in all these years hasvanished in a jiffy; what’s more, he loses his family too. The film is about how the separatedmembers of the family move on from this travesty and several years down the line, howtheir lives strangely reconnect with each other. waqt took the top spot at the box office in1965. The movie plot re-introduced the lost and reunite formula in bollywood. a happyfamily separated by waqt (Time), goes through a series of trials trying to reunite. waqt alsoshowcases some of the top dialogues in the history of bollywood movies and made it ontothe bFI's long list of films in consideration for their top ten of Indian films awards.sPeCial thanKs tO: Minister jimmy Deenihan; His excellency Debashish Chakerverti, ambassador ofIndia to Ireland; Turkish airlines; IFb - Screen Training Ireland, jeanette jordan & Sarah lynch, Dundrum TownCentre; Richard Shakespeare, Catherine keenan, DlRCC; jim Doyle, Ray yates, Dublin City Council; Cliona buckley,Fred Curtis, Fred Curtis Crystal; Mary o'Sullivan; Robbie Daly, giovanna Rampazzo; kassiani; Richie o'keeffe,Filmbase; Dr Puri, Mr Chada, euroasia; RTe Supporting the arts; The arts Council; yashraj Films; uTv; john Daly,asheesh Deewan-Segala, jaipur, ananda Indian Restaurant; Simon williams (TCD); Sonu Mathews george; PrachiSharma; gurbeer Singh Chadha; Sanjay Singh; David johson; googi khursheed; arijit Mustafi; Tom Conity (bollywoodIn education); David Hunchison edger; Murat bulandi; Monica o’byrne; Ray yates; Catherine keenan; lord Mayor'soffice; lia Philcox; Mr & Mrs Habeeb Naseer (libaas); Rita Smith; louise Murphy; grainne bennett and the full IFFI2013 Team. all our advertisers and Media partners; all those who made this festival possible.29

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