[Reader-list] Festival of Cinema Classics, Pitampura, New Delhi

[rohitrellan at aol.in]

SPIC MACAY
Thursday, March 6, 2014 at 3:00 PM - Friday, March 7, 2014 at 5:00 PM (PST)

New Delhi, India


Venue:



Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies - Technical Campus
AU Block, 
Pitampura
New Delhi, DL 110052
India 




Event Details

VIPS Chapter of Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music And Culture Amongst Youth (SPIC MACAY) presents a Festival of Cinema Classics.

Two cult classic movies, Charulata (By Satyajit Ray) and Rashomon (By Akira Kurosawa), will be screened.

6th March : Charulata (By Satyajit Ray, 1964, 117 min.)
Synopsis: This film by Satyajit Ray, India's most renowned filmmaker, tells the story of Charu (Madhabi Mukherjee), a woman in late 19th-century Calcutta. She is neglected by her busy husband, Bhupati (Shailen Mukherjee), a politically active newspaper publisher. When Bhupati's younger cousin Amal (Soumitra Chatterjee), a sensitive, intellectual student on break from the university, comes for an extended visit, Charu enjoys Amal's company, and the two while away the hours in conversation. But as their relationship grows closer, Charu falls in love with Amal. The film, based on a popular Indian novel, marks a significant point in Ray's career, as it bears the influence of Western film on his directorial style. 

7th March : Rashomon (By Akira Kurosawa, 1950, 88 min.)
Synopsis: This landmark film is a brilliant exploration of truth and human weakness. It opens with a priest, a woodcutter, and a peasant taking refuge from a downpour beneath a ruined gate in 12th-century Japan. The priest and the woodcutter, each looking stricken, discuss the trial of a notorious bandit for rape and murder. As the retelling of the trial unfolds, the participants in the crime -- the bandit (Toshiro Mifune), the rape victim (Machiko Kyo), and the murdered man (Masayuki Mori) -- tell their plausible though completely incompatible versions of the story. In the bandit's version, he and the man wage a spirited duel after the rape, resulting in the man's death. In the woman's testimony, she is spurned by her husband after being raped. Hysterical with grief, she kills him. In the man's version, speaking through the lips of a medium, the bandit beseeches the woman after the rape to go away with him. She insists that the bandit kill her husband first, which angers the bandit. He spurns her and leaves. The man kills himself. Seized with guilt, the woodcutter admits to the shocked priest and the commoner that he too witnessed the crime. His version is equally feasible, although his veracity is questioned when it is revealed that he stole a dagger from the crime scene. Just as all seems bleak and hopeless, a baby appears behind the gate. The commoner seizes the moment and steals the child's clothes, while the woodcutter redeems himself and humanity in the eyes of the troubled priest, by adopting the infant.


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