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Long Shadows: The Late Work of Satyajit Ray, April 19 - April 26 | OPENING NIGHT GALA CELEBRATIONS: NEW YORK INDIAN FILM FESTIVAL MAY 4, 2011
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Long Shadows:
The Late Work of Satyajit Ray
Apr. 19 - Apr. 26
The promised (and much-requested) follow-up to our 2009 Satyajit Ray tribute, Long Shadows: The Late Work of Satyajit Ray includes all the films made by Ray in the autumnal years of his career. Already an acknowledged giant of world cinema, Ray in these later works reveals a more meditative side: his brilliant powers of observation lead him to pare down his style, allowing his characters and the world to reveal themselves to us. Of special interest is Home and the World, his final, wonderful adaptation of a work by his mentor, Rabindranath Tagore (whose 150th anniversary we celebrate this year), as well as his final, luminous work, The Stranger, an extraordinary summing up of so much of Ray's worldview graced with a sensational lead performance by Utpal Dutt.
Presented in collaboration with Columbia University. Special thanks to the Satyajit Ray Preservation Project at the Academy Film Archive, the Film Foundation, as well as to the Satyajit Ray Film and Study Collection at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Tickets are on Sale Now!
Special Three-Film Pass screening package:
$27 General Public
$21 Students & Seniors/IAAC Members***
$18 FSLC Members |
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Films in this Series
An Enemy of the People
In Ray’s reworking of the Ibsen play, Soumitra Chatterjee plays a beleaguered doctor who insists that a temple’s holy water is causing epidemics.
Deliverance (Sadgati)
In Ray’s stark, unflinching short, a weakened Untouchable laborer dies on the job, forcing the landowner to deal with the consequences. SCREENING WITH: PIKOO's DIARY (1980, India; 26m) A boy’s day at home is filled with shattering and confusing revelations; and THE INNER EYE (1972, India; 19m) Ray’s exquisite portrait of painter Binode Bihari Mukherjee.
Distant Thunder
Ray revisits the village setting of the Apu Trilogy for a jarring drama about villagers during the Bengali Famine of 1943. New York Film Festival ’73.
The Branches of a Tree
When a family patriarch falls ill, his grown sons rush in from Calcutta, leading to a reunion filled with painful ironies and lingering disillusionment.
The Elephant God
Ray’s beloved Feluda teams up with his faithful sidekick and a mystery novelist to track down a stolen Ganesh figurine. Featuring knife-throwing and Benares in vivid color.
The Golden Fortress
Two thieves kidnap a boy whose flashbacks to a past life may point the way to treasure. Master detective Feluda is on the case!
The Home and the World
In Ray’s take on the 1905 Bengali partition protests, a bourgeois woman (Swatilekha Chatterjee) falls for a strident nationalist (Soumitra Chatterjee). Adapted from Rabindranath Tagore.
The Kingdom of Diamonds
Ray pulls out all the stops for the fantastical sci-fi return of delightful duo Goupy and Bagha, who must contend with a dictator’s brainwashing machine.
The Stranger
In this disarming, thoughtful coda to Ray’s career, a forgotten uncle (Utpal Dutt) visits his family after decades of wandering, leading to debates over civility and civilization.
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Opening Night Film of Habib Faisal’s
“Do Dooni Chaar”.
Starring Rishi Kapoor, Neetu Singh Kapoor |
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Directed by Habib Faisal
India, 2010, 120 Minutes , Hindi (with English subtitles), US Premiere.
Life is tough for Mr. Duggal who works at school as a Math teacher, lives in a government allocated two room apartment in Delhi and is coping with double digit inflation rates and single digit increments in his salary. Add to that, a teenage daughter with high living ambitions, a fast-track son and a wife who loves the good life. The life in the Duggals household passes by in care of the basics and surviving from month to month. Until one day, they decide to dream to own a car and move up in life from a two –wheeler to a four-wheeler. A dream that’s not easy by any stretch of imagination for the single income family. Mr. Duggal however, has made up his mind - and his male ego will not let him change his promise to his family. What follows is a comic journey of chaos, realizations, calculations, confrontations and bonding. Join the journey that will drive them, and you, pretty much nuts.
Habib Faisal is a successful Indian director and screenwriter. He has co-written Siddharth Anand's ‘Salaam Namaste.’ He has also written director Shaad Ali's ‘Jhoom Barabar Jhoom’ starring Abhishek Bachchan and Preity Zinta, and Siddharth Anand's ‘Ta Ra Rum Pum’ starring Saif Ali Khan and Rani Mukherjee. He also wrote the screenplay and dialogues for the acclaimed December 2010 film ‘Band Baaja Baaraat.’ He has directed several television serials for ZeeTv and worked with New Delhi Television as a camera person.
Habib was brought up in Delhi, and is an alumnus of the Kirori Mal College and MCRC Jamia Millia. He lives in Mumbai with his wife Shahla and daughter Sheena.
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Director: |
Habib Faisal. |
Produced by: |
Arindam Chaudhuri. |
Story: |
Habib Faisal. |
Screenplay & Dialogues: |
Habib Faisal and Rahil Qaazi. |
Music Directors: |
Meet Brothers and Anjan |
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OPENING NIGHT GALA CELEBRATIONS:
NEW YORK INDIAN FILM FESTIVAL MAY 4, 2011
Tickets on sale now
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Opening Night NYIFF:
Paris Theatre & Essex House, NYC
US Premiere of Disney’s first live action Indian film followed by a Gala Benefit dinner! |
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6 pm |
Red carpet at Paris Theatre |
7 pm |
Welcome - Aroon Shivdasani, IAAC Executive & Artistic Director
Opening Address - Ambassador Meera Shankar
Introduction Jason Reed, Disney Executive VP/GM International Productions
Screening of Habib Faisal’s “ Do Dooni Chaar”. Starring Rishi Kapoor, Neetu Singh Kapoor
Post-screening discussion with Director and cast moderated by Aseem Chhabra, Film Festival Director
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9:30 pm |
Gala Benefit Dinner at Jumeirah Essex House |
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| Individual Tickets: |
$500 red carpet screening, post-screening discussion w/Director & cast, and Gala Benefit dinner 
$150 screening and post-screening discussion w/Director & cast.
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Tables of 10: Reserved seating
(Red carpet screening, discusson & Gala Benefit dinner) |
Emerald Table of 10 |
$25,000 |
($23,000 tax deductible) |
Ruby Table of 10 |
$20,000 |
($18,000 tax deductible) |
Saphire Table of 10 |
$15,000 |
($13,000 tax deductible) |
Diamond Table of 10 |
$10,000 |
($8,000 tax deductible) |
Friendship Table of 10 |
$5,000 |
($3,000 tax deductible) |
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Please send ticket/table request details(# of tickets, table denomination, return address) with your cheque to:
Indo-American Arts Council,
517East 87th St., Suite 1B,
New York, NY 10128.
Phone: 212 594 3685.
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is a 501 ©3 not-for-profit secular arts organization passionately
dedicated to promoting, showcasing and building an awareness of artists
of Indian origin in the performing arts, visual arts, literary arts and
folk arts. For information please visit www.iaac.us. All contributions to the IAAC are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowable by law.
Indo-American Arts Council Inc. 517 East 87th St, Suite 1B, New York, NY 10128. Phone: 212 594 3685.
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