Pan Nalin’s newest feature “Last Film Show” is a semi-autobiographical tale about about falling in love with cinema and filmmaking. The movie was shown in and around the director’s native region of Saurashtra in Gujarat and stars boys from the same region. “Last Film Show” premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.
“Last Film Show” is screening at Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles
9-year-old Samay (Bhavin Rabari) lives in the small town of Chalala in Gujarat. His hometown is nothing more than a place where the train headed for bigger, more populated destinations, stops for a bit. During these stops, the boy helps his Brahmin father (Dipen Raval) sell his tea. The boy’s life looks bleak until the day he discovers cinema. After that, nothing can stop him from going to the cinema house in the big city, even his film-hating conservative father. Having no money to...
“Last Film Show” is screening at Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles
9-year-old Samay (Bhavin Rabari) lives in the small town of Chalala in Gujarat. His hometown is nothing more than a place where the train headed for bigger, more populated destinations, stops for a bit. During these stops, the boy helps his Brahmin father (Dipen Raval) sell his tea. The boy’s life looks bleak until the day he discovers cinema. After that, nothing can stop him from going to the cinema house in the big city, even his film-hating conservative father. Having no money to...
- 5/1/2022
- by Martin Lukanov
- AsianMoviePulse
Sandeep Mohan, who entertained with Love, Wrinkle-free in 2012, is now ready with his micro-budget movie Hola Venky! Made in true indie spirit, Hola Venky! is all set to find its audience through innovative channels that are re-defining the distribution model of indie films globally. Mohan shares with DearCinema readers his quirky adventures with Hola Venky!
W hy I wanted to make Hola Venky in 10 lakhs is that I didn’t want to take a Censor Certificate this time!
The Censor Board has troubled me enough during Love, Wrinkle-free (my first feature) which they gave an Adult Certificate that resulted in our Satellite rights getting stuck. I must have made countless trips to the censor office, sat on the chairs outside with censor agents, waiting to be called in by bade saab (big boss), suffered, belittled, and listened to their moral talk: “why do you write adult-theme films?” My pilgrimage to...
W hy I wanted to make Hola Venky in 10 lakhs is that I didn’t want to take a Censor Certificate this time!
The Censor Board has troubled me enough during Love, Wrinkle-free (my first feature) which they gave an Adult Certificate that resulted in our Satellite rights getting stuck. I must have made countless trips to the censor office, sat on the chairs outside with censor agents, waiting to be called in by bade saab (big boss), suffered, belittled, and listened to their moral talk: “why do you write adult-theme films?” My pilgrimage to...
- 12/21/2013
- by Sandeep Mohan
- DearCinema.com
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