[Reader-list] 10th Edition of FD Zone Delhi screening

[Subasri Krishnan]

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FD Zone Delhi Screening, on Sunday, July 6, 2014, 7 p.m 
                                   at
Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi


In the 10th edition of FD Zone Delhi, we bring to you Rudradeep Bhattacharjee’s film, The Human Factor . The film explores the life and contribution of lesser known musicians of the Mumbai Film industry - percussionists, music arrangers, instrumentalists in orchestras who provided background scores to famous Bollywood melodies of yesteryears.

The film has been shown at various film festivals including the New York Indian Film Festival (2013), International Documentary & Short Film Festival, Kerala (2013), Indisches Film festival, Stuttgart (2013), Film Southasia, Kathmandu (2013) and SIGNS, Kochi (2014).


About The Human Factor (76 min/ English/ Colour/ 2012)
(Dir.: Rudradeep Bhattacharjee/ Prod: Slow Food Films)

Songs have been an integral part of Indian films. The singers, the music directors, the lyricists - they have all been celebrated for their work and many have attained legendary status. But who were those unseen - and uncredited - musicians who made up the orchestras that played on those songs and the background scores?

‘The Human Factor' tells the fascinating story of the Lords, a Parsi family of musicians who collectively worked for over 60 years in Mumbai’s film orchestras. But the story of the Lords is not theirs alone. It also remains a crucial but obscure chapter in the history of

(CAMERA: Gaurav Singh & Rajesh Shrivastav / EDITING: Nizamuddin C Tolan)

Rudradeep Bhattacharjee is a writer and independent film-maker based in Mumbai. He has a PG Diploma in Film & TV Production from Xavier’s Institute of Communications, Mumbai. ‘The Human Factor’ is his first feature-length documentary.

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