And the show goes on
Movie | |
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German title | And the show goes on |
Original title | And the show goes on |
Country of production | India |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 1996 |
length | 55 minutes |
Rod | |
Director | Mrinal Sen |
script | Mrinal Sen |
production | Ravi Gupta , Bob Last , Colin MacCabe |
cut | Mrinmoy Chakraborty |
And the Show Goes On is an Indian documentary by Mrinal Sen from 1996. The film was made as part of the 18-part series "The Century of Cinema" produced by the British Film Institute with support from the Indian National Film Development Corporation . It premiered at the 1996 Venice Film Festival .
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In a film essay , the director discusses the development and nature of Indian cinema with the help of interview snippets and film excerpts . Without arriving at a clear and unambiguous answer, the film reflects the views of the interviewees and Mrinal Sens. The issues discussed include the existence of an Indian national cinema , the importance of religious mythology and music, the financing of the private Indian main film industries of Hindi , Tamil , Telugu and Malayalam films , state funding for films , the relationship between fiction and reality as well as the audience expectations and the demands of the director. The directors DG Phalke , Debaki Bose , V. Shantaram , PC Barua , Satyajit Ray and Manmohan Desai received special mention from a historical point of view .
people
The interviewees in the order of their appearance:
- BK Karanjia , journalist, author and editor, former chairman of the state-run Film Finance Corporation
- Girish Karnad , writer, actor and director, director of the Film and Television Institute of India
- Chidananda Dasgupta , film critic and director
- Dhritiman Chatterjee , actor
- NVK Moorthy , film historian, director of the Film and Television Institute of India
- Ashoke Viswanathan , director
- Suresh Chabria , film scholar, director of the National Film Archive of India
- Randor Guy , film historian and writer
- Shyam Benegal , director
- Amit Khanna , producer
- Mrinal Sen , director
- Shashi Kapoor , actor and producer
- Samik Bandyopadhyay , film critic, author and film school director
- Mani Ratnam , director
Film clips
Excerpts from the following films can be seen:
- Pather Panchali ( Satyajit Ray , Bengali, 1955)
- Shri Krishna Janma ( DG Phalke , silent, 1918)
- Kaliya Mardan (DG Phalke, silent, 1919)
- Sant Tukaram ( S. Fattelal and VG Damle , Marathi, 1936)
- Hum Aapke Hain Kaun ( Sooraj R. Barjatya , Hindi, 1994)
- Mughal-e-Azam ( K. Asif , Urdu, 1960)
- Saptapadi ( Ajoy Kar , Bengali, 1961)
- Naya Daur ( BR Chopra , Hindi, 1957)
- Netru Indru Nalai ( P. Neelakantan , Tamil, 1974)
- Ram Lakhan ( Subhash Ghai , Hindi, 1989)
- Jaan ( Raj Kanwar , Hindi, 1996)
- Chandralekha ( SS Vasan , Tamil, 1948)
- Kalpana ( Uday Shankar , Hindi, 1948)
- Chinnamul ( Nemai Ghosh , Bengali, 1950)
- Awaara ( Raj Kapoor , Hindi, 1951)
- Shri 420 (Raj Kapoor, Hindi, 1955)
- Do Bigha Zamin ( Bimal Roy , Hindi, 1953)
- Apu trilogy (Satyajit Ray, Bengali, 1955–59)
- Ajantrik ( Ritwik Ghatak , Bengali, 1958)
- Baishey Shravan ( Mrinal Sen , Bengali, 1960)
- Kaagaz Ke Phool ( Guru Dutt , Hindi, 1959)
- Mother India ( Mehboob Khan , Hindi, 1957)
- Bhuvan Shome (Mrinal Sen, Hindi, 1969)
- Uski Roti ( Mani Kaul , Hindi, 1970)
- Ankur ( Shyam Benegal , Hindi, 1973)
- Elippathayam ( Adoor Gopalakrishnan , Malayalam, 1981)
- Garam Hawa ( MS Sathyu , Urdu, 1973)
- Grihajuddha ( Buddhadeb Dasgupta , Bengali, 1982)
- Piravi ( Shaji N. Karun , Malayalam, 1988)
- Coolie ( Manmohan Desai , Hindi, 1983)
- Roja ( Mani Ratnam , Tamil, 1993)
- Tamas ( Govind Nihalani , Hindi, 1987)
Web links
- And the Show Goes On in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- And the Show Goes On at bfi.org.uk (Eng.)
- And the Show Goes On at nfdcindia.com
- And the Show Goes On at mrinalsen.org
- The Show Goes On - Mrinal Sen evaluates 100 years of cinema in India (Engl.)
- Film review (German)
- Film review in variety.com from October 20, 1996 (Eng.)