shaoli mitra ( alternative spelling shaonli mitra ) is a bengali theatre and film actress .

she played the role of bangabala in ritwik ghatak 's jukti takko aar gappo .

she is the daughter of sombhu mitra and tripti mitra , who were also theatre personalities .

in 2011 , she was a chairperson of rabindra shardhoshato janmabarsha udjapon samiti .

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shaoli mitra is a very popular actress who have worked in several bengali theatre ( plays ) and bengali film . actress shaoli mitra born & brought up in kolkata and the daughter of sambhu mitra & tripti mitra who were also well - known theatre personalities .
suvaprasanna and shaoli mitra announce the plans to celebrate tagore’s 150th anniversary . ( amit datta )
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bengali cinema name of actress shaoli mitra – ritwik ghatak directed bengali movie jukti takko aar gappo [ released in 1974 ] .
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theatre personality shaoli mitra today resigned from the post of chairperson of paschimbanga bangla akademi , a state - run regulatory body that . . . . . .
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he married tripti mitra née bhaduri , who was also a celebrated personality in the bengali theatre . their daughter , shaoli is a noted actress , director and playwright .
shaoli mitra comes on stage with something father sambhu mitra had conceived long ago . the pancham baidik production is an adaptation of rabindranath tagore & apos ; s dance drama chandalika . while retaining the core issue of untouchability in tagore & apos ; s work , shaoli explores the intricacies of human relationships through a gamut of dance , song and dialogue .
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theatre names of actress shaoli mitra – chera taar , daschakro , pagla ghora , dakghar , bitata bitangsha , nathabati anathabat , putulkhela , ekti rajnaitik hotya , hajabaralo , katha amritasaman , lankadahan and chandali .
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sombhu mitra performed in several movies in bengali and hindi . the notable among them are :
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born in calcutta ( now kolkata ) , india , on 22 august 1915 , sombhu mitra was the sixth child of three sons and four daughters born of sarat kumar mitra , an employee of the geological survey of india , and satadalbasini mitra . his mother died when he was 12 years old .
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2015 is an important year in the history of indian theatre , for it is the birth centenary of thespian sombhu mitra , the legendary indian stage and film actor , director , playwright , elocutionist . there is little archival material , however , on him or his oeuvre . xtra ! catches up his daughter shaoli mitra for a tête - à - tête to understand the life and times of the pioneer of modern bengali theatre , whose life was fraught with controversy
after being home for 61 years , thespian manoj mitra’s theatre group sundaram was evicted from 57 jatin das road under court orders on thursday .
“we are planning a range of events and activities to celebrate tagore’s 150th birth anniversary , which will go on till ponchishe baisakh next year , ” said shaoli mitra , the chairperson of the rabindra shardhoshato janmabarsha udjapon samiti , on tuesday . “but our focus right now is implementing various programmes to commemorate baishey srabon between august 7 and 9 . ”
the names listed were those of ravi shankar , actress suchitra sen , hockey legend leslie claudius , writers shirshendu mukhopadhyay and sanjib chattopadhyay , theatre veterans rudraprasad sengupta , bibhash chakraborty and shaoli mitra , painter jogen chowdhury , shehnai exponent ustad ali ahmed hussain khan , actor ranjit mallick , film director goutam ghose , poet joy goswami and vocalist pandit ajoy chakrabarty .
“we want to engage people from all sections of society and so the entry to all the venues is free and open to all , ” said mitra .
“there will be canvases kept on the shahid minar ground for people to write or sketch on . we will end with bauls singing tagore songs , ” said mitra .
the legends who received the banga vibhusan - the highest civilian award of bengal - included bengali actress suchitra sen , hockey player leslie claudius , painter jogen choudhury , theatre personalities rudraparasad sengupta , bhibhas chakraborty , shaoli mitra , writer shirshendu mukhopadhyay , sanjib chattopadhyay , national award winning filmmaker goutam ghosh , poet joy goswami , actor ranjit mullick , classical singer ajoy chakraborty and shehnai exponent ustad ali ahmed hussein khan .
“tagore passed away on august 7 , 1941 , and therefore we chose to organise the grand procession on this date though baishey srabon is on august 8 this year , ” mitra said .
in 1943 , he joined indian people ' s theatre association ( ipta ) . in 1944 , several old theatrical conventions were broken when the play navanna written by bijon bhattacharya and co - directed by sombhu mitra for ipta was staged . in 1948 , sombhu mitra formed a new theatre group , bohurupee in kolkata , which ushered the group - theatre movement in west bengal .
“consortium for books and culture , india , is organising the fair that will comprise all kinds of books and publications on tagore and his works . there will be exhibitions and an open - air stage for cultural performances every evening , ” said mitra .
the five government - run auditoriums — rabindra sadan , sisir mancha , girish mancha , madhusudan mancha and minerva theatre — will host tagore - related performances on august 8 and 9 . discussions featuring jaya mitra and srikanto acharywill be held in the evenings at the bangla akademi .
some say the family friction between the mitras was intentionally used to oust sombhu mitra from bohurupee… family friction couldn’t have been the reason for such a decision . my parents were far too professional and knew how to go beyond all those issues . in fact , they worked together despite their separation .
& apos ; unlike the manasamangal , where god takes centre stage , mymensingha geetika is all about people . here , chandrabati talks about how religious dogmas are suppressing her love , and we haven & apos ; t tried to give it a modern perspective , & apos ; says director manish mitra .
& apos ; i have not deviated from tagore and have not added anything on my own either . the untouchability issue is there but i have also harped on the individual & apos ; s personal aspiration . the piece starts with the song chokkhe aamar trishna and ends with pather ki achhe sheshe . i wanted to explore what lies beyond , at the end , & apos ; says shaoli , who has directed chandali and also essayed the role of ma .
under sombhu mitra ' s direction , the bohurupee staged several successful productions . in december 1950 , the bohurupee presented three plays in the new empire theatre – tulsi lahiri ' s pathik and chenda tar and sombhu mitra ' s own creation , ulukhagra . in 1954 , rabindranath tagore ' s rakta karabi was staged by the bohurupee , followed by his bisarjan , raja and char adhyay . other notable productions include bidhyak bhattacharya ' s tahar namti ranjana and kanchanranga . under his direction , this group also presented the bengali adaptations of several well - known dramas from the world stage . henrik ibsen ' s putul khela ( doll ' s house ) , dashachakra ( an enemy of the people ) and sophocles ' raja oidipaus ( oedipus rex ) are notable amongst them .
there are some rumours that your ex - husband had been instrumental in the ouster of sombhu mitra from bohurupee… i can neither claim that these rumours are baseless , nor can i say otherwise . this is a fuzzy zone for me . i published some letters . but i can’t say for sure that those who wrote the letters had done so of their own volition . what gives me satisfaction is that ‘nathabati anathbath’ ( picture below ) brought all of us together . baba produced it , ma pitched in , kaliprosad ghosh wrote for it .
sombhu mitra received many national and international awards , which include the crystal globe for jagte raho at the 1957 karlovy vary international film festival , the desikottama from visva bharati university in 1989 , an honorary d . litt from both rabindra bharati university and jadavpur university in kolkata , the ramon magsaysay award in 1976 for journalism , literature and creative communication arts and the padmabhushan in the same year . he received the sangeet natak akademi fellowship in 1966 . for his contribution in the movies , he won the grand - prix award at the karlovy vary international film festival . madhya pradesh government honoured him with kalidas samman ( 1982–83 ) .
sombhu mitra ( 22 august 1915 – 19 may 1997 ) was a legendary indian film and stage actor , director , playwright , reciter and an indian theatre personality , known especially for his involvement in bengali theatre , where he is considered a pioneer . he remained associated with the indian people ' s theatre association ( ipta ) for a few years before founding the bohurupee theatre group in kolkata in 1948 . he is most noted for films like dharti ke lal ( 1946 ) , jagte raho ( 1956 ) , and his production of rakta karabi based on rabindranath tagore ' s play in 1954 and chand baniker pala , his most noted play as a playwright .
if sombhu mitra had done theatre today , would he have still shunned the media ? a journalist had printed an informal chat with him despite promising otherwise . can you blame baba for losing faith in the media ? he worked relentlessly for the growth of theatre . time and again he wrote to the government asking for land to construct a natmancha ( theatre stage and venue ) . baba’s efforts helped abolish tax on theatre . his reticence to talk about his efforts aided misinterpretations . he didn’t have people praising him . i too don’t . theatre today is no more about art . it’s a product for sale . but a truly committed person won’t want to reduce theatre to a product .
at home . he had mentioned something regarding him and minerva theatre . dutt had praised ‘raktakorobi’ . it isn’t difficult to come across unflattering comments made by dutt about baba . but you won’t find the reverse . in fact , baba never said anything about him . that was also up for criticism . people said dutt praised and criticized baba , but baba never praised him . people accuse , but they never realize that baba restrained from any comments on dutt . on sombhu mitra’s death… baba walked into the pyre . even bertolt brecht had such a philosophy . baba’s last instruction was on a stamp paper , so that i never had to face any problems later on . he had stipulated that he didn’t want his body to be kept on display at rabindra sadan ; a simple hearse would be enough . an electric crematorium was his choice . no ‘mukhagni’ for him , no ‘shraddha’ either . changing his clothes before cremation wasn’t required . he insisted that he was a simple man and wanted to die with dignity . one day , when he was very ill , he had said : “if i pass away at night and you could finish off everything by early morning , it would be good fun . ”
a spate of new productions has taken the bengali stage in the past few weeks . metro checks out some plays set in different times with diverse themes .
the four - show - old production from gandhar is adapted from a j . b . priestley play . satyaasatya is a tale of deception and falsehood creeping into some seemingly perfect relationships in today & apos ; s times . & apos ; the hidden tensions and complexities in relationships become obvious when you scratch the surface . and there & apos ; s also a play with time which may seem to be virtual reality , & apos ; says bijoylakshmi barman , who plays paromita , a socialite trying to cope with a life of pulls and pressures . the play comprising six characters is directed by shyamal chakraborty .
bohurupee & apos ; s latest production turns back time to the kingdoms of pataliputra and magadh , and the divergent worldviews of surgeons kumarbhatta jibak and sudatta .
& apos ; there is no linear progression . through the conflict of ideologies of an idealist and a realist , we have tried to mirror the social reality of the period which is relevant to the present times as well , & apos ; says director kumar roy .
an adaptation of the chandrabati - jayananda love story from the mymensingha geetika , an oral epic of bangladesh . kasba arghya has retained the folklore structure as much as possible in this solo act by sima ghosh ( chandrabati ) .
nabamayukh delves into a real - life story of lust , power and superstition from the court files of bihar . at the centre of the plot is a wealthy landlord who , in his desire to sire a male child , tries to seduce his wife & apos ; s maid .
& apos ; we wanted to explore how the trend to bequeath one & apos ; s legacy to a male heir is still prevalent across the country . the feud between the thakurs and yadavs exists in bihar to this day , & apos ; says director rishi mukhopadhyay .
a book fair , a “grand” rally , exhibitions , cultural programmes and discussions feature in the state government’s plan to celebrate rabindranath tagore’s 150th birth anniversary next month .
before that , chief minister mamata banerjee will inaugurate an 11 - day rabindra boi mela on july 29 on the rabindra sadan premises .
to mark rabindranath’s death anniversary on august 7 , a “grand” procession has been planned , where participants will sing and recite the poet’s verses . the rallies , called alokpheri , will originate from four different points — jorasanko thakurbari , college square , harish park and the park circus maidan — from 7am and converge on the shahid minar ground .
various schools , colleges and personalities from different walks of life have been invited to participate in the rallies , which will also be joined by the chief minister .
some of tagore’s paintings restored at the academy of fine arts will be put up for display on the three days .
a cultural programme has also been planned at netaji indoor stadium on august 8 , with mamata banerjee at its helm .
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, to today’s youngsters ? it’s difficult . i’ve written a book on him but myths surrounding him need to be busted .
your father had often been labelled an escapist… true . people accused him of taking refuge in classical plays . i knew he had some friction with the communist party . i also realized why a play like ‘nabanna’ , despite being so successful , didn’t run for more than seven - eight shows — theatres , even ticket counters , weren’t available . it was due to the socio - political scenario of that time . the party line was to support stalin and , in extension , also the british . in the ‘history of the communist party of india’ , i found that those who were involved in the meerut conspiracy had signed a bond and taken money from the british to come up with the paper titled ‘people’s war’ . why wouldn’t ‘nabanna’ face stumbling blocks in such a scenario ? the hugely relevant ‘raktakarabi’ is a political play , but baba was criticized for staging it . some said , ‘rokto tuku dyakha gelo , korobi dyakha gelo na’ ! today , i believe politics governs a lot of apparently unrelated actions .
were all these discussed at home ? politics didn’t interest me ; literature and sports did . but once i read more on the history of the communist party , i realized something else had happened in the backdrop . many within the party were aware of this history , but they never confronted it . baba never discussed it with me . he’d just smile and say : “there are so many stories that i’ve never managed to tell you . ” while baba faced flak , others who did family dramas while there was turbulence outside earned the escapist tag .
have you ever seen him suffer from ‘abhimaan ( anger , usually at a loved one ) ’ ? that emotion doesn’t go with my father . in the fag end of his life , his sense of humour increased . i’d hear ma scream and laugh while baba would just move his fingers from a distance , pretending he was coming to tickle her . it was such a comic relief . he never uttered a word against all the insults , not even after being ousted from
how did he develop this strength ? in raja sen’s film for doordarshan , baba was asked why he chose to quit theatre so soon . he replied that he had wanted to quit long back , after he had done ‘raja’ in 1964 . he was 49 then . he then went on to say that when a person gives his all to something and then quits , there are many reasons and layers behind his decision . as an explanation , he said : “i was cornered and i took a decision” .
yet , you published his letters… yes . i had told baba that unlike him , i wouldn’t keep silent . he had just smiled . he never asked me not to publish the letters .
many feel that you should have voiced your protest when your father was ousted from bohurupee . why did you remain silent ? i was not in a position to protest . i had quit before baba’s ouster . i had come to know about baba’s ouster accidentally . i wasn’t supposed to know it . besides , there were some family issues involved too . back then , my mother was the president of bohurupee . my ex - husband , kaliprosad ghosh , was then the
. me saying anything would have seemed like washing dirty linen in public . i had to silently face it all .
in retrospect , what do you think was the main reason for this friction ? if one isn’t ready to contaminate one’s medium of work , if one honestly sticks to ideals , one will have to be ready to get cornered . i realize it through my own experiences . life hasn’t been easy by doing that . yet , i consider myself lucky that i could earn by staging ‘nathabati anathbath’ and do the kind of theatre that i’ve wanted to do . but honesty results in loneliness . you won’t be able to communicate with others . the refrain is : ‘what’s the harm in compromising ? ’ say , for example , an actor drops out after three months of rehearsals . i’ll start questioning whether i should cheat the audience by replacing him with an actor who hasn’t been groomed for long . but others might say : “theatre taa to naamiye dilei cholbe ( it’s enough to just stage the play ) ” . for them , the production has to be delivered on time . if i can’t fit into such a system , i’ll feel isolated . such problems existed during baba’s time too .
he earned an uncompromising image… in a television interview in 1995 , baba had said : “all of us who think we are moralists are under the impression that we stand erect and are at 90 degrees from the ground . but we are never so erect , since the world is round . we are bound to be slightly tilted . there might be times when circumstances lead us to stand at a 30 - degree angle . at that point , it’s the only right thing to do . ” most people only talk about his stern exterior . but baba was such a jovial person . he developed such a rapport with the local plumber , sweepers and electricians . they used to assure him that they would vote for him if he contested the elections . a plumber had once asked baba what he did for a living , since he was always at home . baba had said : “i live off my wife’s earnings . ” later , when the plumber came to know the truth , he had told baba : “ami jani apni artist ( i know you are an artist ) ” .
is it all praise and no criticism for him ? baba hated sycophancy . as a kid , if i said good things about his plays , he’d say : “are you praising because your parents have acted in them ? ” when he was wrong with his assessment of me , he acknowledged it . i can’t count the number of times he said sorry to people he had unfairly scolded .
there are allegations of him being miserly too… he wasn’t miserly at all . he was the first to acknowledge ajitesh ( bandyopadhyay ) as an actor of repute . he was the first one to acknowledge the contribution of nandikar .
how do you adapt ? i have moved away from theatre . i enjoy my play - reading sessions . it’s nice to see youngsters flock to such events . but that doesn’t mean i don’t have my views . when singur happened , i couldn’t stay back . i took to the streets and protested . i’ll again raise my voice if it’s required . but criticism will stalk me . an eminent person had alleged that i had taken rs 50 , 000 as remuneration for being a part of the railway board . doesn’t he know that one has to pay taxes before taking such an amount ?
how do you deal with malice ? i remember baba’s words : “think of what tagore had to face despite being a sensitive soul . ” while in college , i was bed - ridden for three years with a complicated case of tuberculosis . i couldn’t move my limbs . instead of complaining , i adjusted , thinking about all those who were in worse conditions .
didn’t you try to counsel your parents when they separated ? i did . my mother , mostly . i knew the reasons for their differences . i could understand who were causing mischief and creating situations to make them drift apart . but they were passionately in love with each other till the end . a few months before her death , baba brought her home . i remember an incident . ma was almost in a trance . she had barely uttered something . baba heard it and came to the room . till the time she could keep her eyes open , she kept staring at baba . perhaps she understood that she had been misguided . at the end , she had wanted to say something to baba . but we couldn’t understand her words . so , she gave up .
ever thought of confronting the people who fanned the fire ? it was beneath my dignity . during the last few months of her life , i’ve seen how much my parents were in love . whatever she wanted to have , he would get it for her . ekjoner khaiye anondo , ekjoner kheye anondo .
did they ever express regret ? baba was always a loner . he could manage on his own .
wasn’t it a paradox , since he was a people’s person too ? every person is multi - layered .
was it an exercise in acting , prompted by a refusal to show his wounds ? he was a private person . loneliness was welcome but he would never sacrifice his dignity . at the end , when he was restricted to bed , he stopped taking food . that’s because if he did , he would need to depend on others to take care of his other biological processes . and he didn’t want to do so . i understood this two / three years after his death .
even in death , he ensured complete abstinence of any fanfare with his body… yes . he gave these instructions way back in 1972 . then , he saw what had happened during debabrata biswas’s and even ma’s death . his resolve increased . he insisted that no attempts should be made to deliberately keep him alive .
did he have any regrets at the end ? in his delirium , he said politics and morality had to be merged but he hadn’t been able to do so . he also wanted to work on gautam buddha .
don’t you feel sad that theatre has hardly been archived ? baba’s philosophy was , unlike cinema or art , theatre is a transient medium .
you had taken to the streets to protest . today , why have you distanced yourself so much ? i’ve seen a lot since childhood . i wrote about it . when i saw the sufferings of the farmers , i couldn’t sit back . if some situations demand my protest , i’ll again do so . if i take to the streets daily , i’ll be accused of being publicity - hungry . i voice my views through my articles . i also have a distance from this government .
there are rumours that a trade - off has forced you into silence . isn’t the saradha issue grave enough for you to take to the streets ? i am 68 now . i don’t care if people call me an escapist for not having an opinion on every television debate . i’ve grown up hearing that my lineage got me favours . but i never said anything . i’ve learnt to choose my battles . today , i am the chairperson of the paschimbanga bangla academy . it is an honorary post but i work relentlessly . i even check proofs . after a lot of research , we’ve come up with 11 volumes of ‘rabindra rachanabali’ . it is not a reprint . we have come out with two volumes of bankimchandra chattopadhyay’s works . in the pipeline are dictionaries in four languages .
but all this hardly comes to the limelight… what can i do ? everything is controlled by politics . i am not close to the chief minister . i don’t have any power . i know i don’t share the clout that arpita ( ghosh ) does . even if i request people to write about these , is there any guarantee that it will get published ?
why has that happened ? i don’t know . i think the chief minister has also understood that it is best to keep me at arm’s length . this comfortable distance is nice .
don’t you want to revive your ties with bohurupee now ? why would i do that ? i left bohurupee in 1979 . bohurupee also hasn’t wanted to build the relationship .
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c hief minister mamata banerjee on sunday presented the banga vibhushan awards to 13 luminaries from various fields .
i n 2011 , the new mamata government started the banga - vibhushan awards , where personalities in various fields were awarded annually . the chief minister who presented the award expressed her happiness in being able to felicitate the legends of bengal
on may 20 last year , we had started our journey . so from next year we will host this award ceremony on this very day ,
mamata banerjee said .
suchitra sen was not present at the ceremony on sunday and her award was accepted by her daughter , actress moonmoon sen .
theatre personality rudraprasad sengupta greets cm mamata banerjee . also seen is bibhas chakraborty and tollywood star ranjit mallick
h ockey player leslie claudius , a guinness world record holder for being part of a hockey team to win the maximum number of medals at the olympics , said ,
i am the happiest man in this world .
the west bengal government also felicitated singer nachiketa chakraborty , percussionist bikram ghosh and classical singer ustad rashid khan with the banga bhushan award .
t he trinamool congress government had awarded legendary singer manna dey and writer mahasweta devi and seven others last year .
chief minister mamata banerjee on sunday presented the banga vibhushan awards to 13 luminaries from various fields . the legends who received the banga vibhusan - the highest civilian award of . . . . . .
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in 1966 , the sangeet natak akademi awarded him with its highest award , the sangeet natak akademi fellowship for lifetime contribution , then in 1970 , he was awarded the padma bhushan , india ' s third highest civilian honour , and in 1976 the ramon magsaysay award .
he started his schooling in chakraberia middle english school , calcutta and later continued in the ballygunge government high school , calcutta , where he developed interest reading bengali plays and became active in school dramatics . he joined st . xavier ' s college at the university of calcutta in 1931 , and soon started attending the local theatre .
his first appearance in bengali theatre was in rangmahal theatre in north kolkata in 1939 , thereafter he moved to the minerva , natyaniketan and srirangam theatres .
in these productions he performed as rahimuddin in chenda tar , atin in char adhyay , binod in ulukhagra , tapan in putul khela , dr . purnendu guha in dashachakra , oidipaus in raja oidipaus .
he wrote the story and screenplay of jagte raho ( 1956 ) and also co - directed it along with amit maitra . he also directed a bengali movie , shubha bibaha in 1959 .
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calcutta , may 20 : pandit ravi shankar has graciously declined the banga bibhushan honour that was conferred on a large group of individuals by chief minister mamata banerjee on the first anniversary of her government today .
the 92 - year - old sitar maestro was reluctant to be clubbed with the large group of recipients and so chose not to “accept this award myself” .
sukanya shankar , the maestro’s wife , told the telegraph from san diego tonight : “in the beginning , we were told that he and suchitra senji were going to be given the award but we heard from some of our friends who received an invitation to the event that around 10 or 12 artistes were being presented with the same award . ”
she said that “raviji has been healing in the hospital and all we ask of you is to pray that he gets better soon” .
a mail announcing the award came from a person called kamal kanti mazumdar , sukanya shankar said .
an official in the information and cultural affairs department had earlier in the day said ravi shankar sent an email addressed to the chief minister conveying his reluctance to accept the award .
sukanya shankar recounted to the telegraph what the maestro wanted to convey through the mail : “in our culture , we have always given a lot of importance to age and experience , with regards to how we proffer titles and respects . i’m extremely happy to hear that several wonderful artistes who are like children or even grandchildren to me are going to be conferred this award . and they have my congratulations and blessings . however , i hope you understand that i cannot accept this award myself . ”
sukanya shankar said : “i think he’s right . he’s got the topmost awards and you can’t give an award to him and at the same time give it to those who are third - generation artistes . no hard feelings . he loves bengal and was very happy when he first heard about it ( the award ) but he has his values . after all these years , now he is 92 and can’t be treated like a 29 - year - old or a 51 - year - old . ”
ravi shankar’s name was not mentioned throughout the felicitation programme at netaji indoor stadium this evening when the chief minister conferred 13 banga bibhushan awards . the names of 14 recipients of the banga bibhushan , which carries an award of rs 2 lakh each , had figured in the invitation card circulated by the information and cultural affairs department that organised the event .
“from the beginning , when our communication with pandit ravi shankar started , we had made it clear that there was no pressure on him to attend the programme . he is aged and physically unwell and we understand that . we had decided that if he could not make it , we would send him the award , ” said a source in the chief minister’s office .
ravi shankar is in hospital in the us . there is a provision to accept awards in absentia through representatives .
“while panditji’s name was the first on the list , most other names cannot compare on grounds of seniority or stature , ” said a veteran who knows ravi shankar . “after all , panditji is not only a recipient of the bharat ratna , three grammy awards and some of the world’s greatest honours , but is also hailed as one of the country’s biggest cultural ambassadors in the west . ”
other sources said that in the mail , ravi shankar had also congratulated the chief minister for the work her government had been doing .
after coming to power last year , mamata had instituted the banga bibhushan awards to honour “bengal’s luminaries from various fields” . “this year , we are considering the names of pandit ravi shankar , suchitra sen and others , ” she had said earlier this year .
the list , however , turned out to be much longer . a possible explanation for the long list came from mamata herself . “bengal is the cultural capital of the world . be it cinema or theatre or literature or jatra or painting , bengal has an unlimited resource of talented personalities in every field , ” the chief minister said .
“the banga bibhushan and the banga bhushan shamman are part of the state government’s effort at honouring those who have made bengal proud by way of their immense contribution in their profession . every year the state government will felicitate such personalities at this event , ” she added .
when the telegraph spoke to ravi shankar on the eve of his 90th birthday on april 7 in 2010 , the sitar legend , who has been based in the us for more than five decades , had turned emotional , choosing to speak in bengali throughout the conversation .
it was hard to miss the enthusiasm in his voice when he fielded a question on his next trip to his hometown . ravi shankar had said : “khub ichchhe achhey kolkatay ashaar . eto bhalobashi kolkata - ke kintu du - teen bochhor hoye gechhey ashtey parini . dekho jodi tomader taan thakey taholey ashbo ( i really want to come to calcutta . i love calcutta so much but i haven’t been able to go there for two - three years . let’s see if the love of you all can take me there ) . ”


rage ( originally tokarev ) is a 2014 american action crime thriller film directed by paco cabezas and written by jim agnew and sean keller .

the film stars nicolas cage , rachel nichols , peter stormare , danny glover , max ryan , judd lormand and pasha d. lychnikoff .

rage ( 2014 film )

the film was crowdfunded in the beginning of 2014 and released on the 28th of may 2015 .
reviewed at edinburgh film festival ( new perspectives ) , june 21 , 2014 . running time : 96 min .
someone marry barry trailer # 1 ( 2014 ) - damon wayans jr . movie hd
the play debuted in london in 2014 and was both a critical and financial success .
a scene from
a rage in harlem .
( courtesy gene siskel film center )
reviewed online , los angeles , july 11 , 2014 . running time : 98 min .
april 8 , 2014 at 7 - 9pm northeastern illinois university 5500 n . st . louis ave golden eagles room ( su 103 )
sadly , rage is generally a slog and it ' s not cage ' s fault .
abduction leaves mad dad nicolas cage in a ' rage '
rage
isn ' t as terrible as its title suggests , or as deep as it aspires to be . check out this story on urltoken urltoken
rage
isn ' t as terrible as its title suggests , or as deep as it aspires to be .
the film , which released in 2014 , opened to rave reception from fans and critics , and became one of the highest grossing film that year . its telugu dubbed version , raghuvaran b . tech , too received overwhelming reception . there are several things that paved the way for the stupendous success of vip , which , in several ways , is a well - packaged commercial film .
a movie called rage starring the man himself nick cage can some how come off not that funny and overall just dull .
rage is a movie about rage . its alternate title is tokarev , presumably because it is also about a tokarev . the tokarev is not raging , however . as a gun , it is an inanimate object incapable of feeling such emotions . no , the tokarev is an instrument used by those who are raging to express their rage . in spite of this , nicolas cage’s character seems to prefer knives to guns , and the titular tokarev is never used . this is a fantastic film .
rage is so full of cliché , convention and just plain odd narrative choices that it can ' t get out of its own way .
the film will be around 30 minutes long and released for free on the internet .
another day , another nicolas cage movie . rage brings nic back to the basics . he’s a good guy who had a bad past and really just is a weird badass . after his daughter caitlyn is kidnapped and murdered , nic goes on a “rage” spree trying to bring down the people who did it .
rage is so full of cliché , convention and just plain odd narrative choices that it can ' t get out of its own way . which is a shame , because director paco cabezas has something to say about violence and the futility of vengeance . but rage ' s message drowns in wince - inducing lines and pointless outbursts of cruelty .
those interested in being extras in the film should submit their information to tokarevextrascasting @ gmail . com .
the film has more surprising turns than a honeycomb has bees . absurdity and calamity collide without warning .
film : an adaptive species . part 2 of 2 : brainy , sexy , and not totally doomed
detective peter st . john ( danny glover ) is on the trail of former mobster paul maguire ( nicolas cage ) after maguire ' s daughter is abducted in
rage .
this week nicolas cage began filming his next action - packed film , tokarev , in mobile , alabama .
whether it is a pure fantasy or something close to reality , the film is an exuberant . . .
hitting its 20th anniversary milestone this year , the black harvest film festival runs through the month of august at the gene siskel film center , spotlighting black cinema . the fest hasn ' t always been especially discerning about quality . i ' m not sure that does anybody any favors . quantity seems to be its primary goal , and my top pick of the remaining fest is a screening of
a rage in harlem ,
the 1991 heist comedy starring robin givens and forest whitaker . more on the film below .
englewood international film festivals kicks off tonight ! ! ! # goodinenglewood | r . a . g . e .
rage stumbles regularly on those
huh ?
moments . in another scene , paul is screaming
don ' t die !
to a villain whose head he ' s opening like a grape .
even the stylish fight sequences don ' t have much of an impact because the film takes itself way too seriously .
alas , we need cage to get more animated here to approach the father ' s fury of mystic river , or the determined repayment of taken . among paternal thrillers , rage is too much a deadbeat dad .
the short film kung fury is a homage and a love letter to the 80 ' s from the director david sandberg .
the tomatometer score — based on the opinions of hundreds of film and television critics — is a trusted measurement of critical recommendation for millions of fans . it represents the percentage of professional critic reviews that are positive for a given film or television show .
it ' s a film worth seeing before the crowd of oscar contenders sweeps it out of the way for the holiday season .
tired , lazy , incongruous , shocking and hilarious in all the wrong places ,
rage
is destined for the graveyard television slot , squeezed between infomercials for mops . perhaps there is a good drinking game in here somewhere .
julius caesar production closes , but debate over art and politics likely to rage on a production of shakespeare ' s julius caesar has drawn the ire of conservatives for its depiction of president trump as the ill - fated roman politician .
nicolas cage stars in the revenge thriller rage . after his 16 - year - old daughter is kidnapped and murdered former mobster paul maguire reaches out to his old crew to help him find and kill those responsible . rachel nichols , danny glover , and peter stormare co - star and deliver strong performances . but this is cage ' s film to make or break , and his performance is especial good and quite nuanced ; showing the weight of a man haunted by his past . the plot is pretty formulaic for the most part , but it does do an impressive job at showing the cycle of violence and its costs . while limited by the material , rage ends up being a little better than the standard action film .
according to a press release , the alabama film incentives program was the primary reason why producers chose to shoot the movie in mobile .
the black harvest film festival continues through the end of the month . for a full schedule of films and events go to urltoken .
the film offers a landscape to match the emotional isolation ; this land is as empty and lonely and unforgiving as it is lovely .
join us at 3pm at the jane addams hull - house for a screening of
natural life
a film by tirtza even .
anyways so much going on , but more to come as we ' re working our way towards a fun year and developing a feature film .
thursday , march 3 , 6 - 8pm double feature : a place to stand + the insiders march 3 , 6 - 8pm join us for double feature of two intriguing films ! a place to stand ( 2014 ) is a film based on jimmy santiago baca’s memoir of the same name , which explores the life and mind of a man who – through the power of poetry – found his place to stand . the insiders ( 1970 , 16mm film ) portrays daily life at a state prison filmed by an incarcerated person at missouri state penitentiary for the nbc educational enterprises series . this event is hosted in partnership with the poetry foundation . presented in partnership with the poetry foundation .
after the panel , join the aacm ( association for the advancement of creative musicians ) in concert from 6 - 8pm . performers : now generatio n . admission is $ 10 , youth ages 15 and under are free ! purchase tickets online through : urltoken performers are now generation dec . 6 , 3 - 5pm : first annual alternative state of the illinois department of corrections report : 2014 ¡presente !
following the film tirtza even , mariame kaba , shobha mahdev and jill petty will be in conversation about current issues around juveniles serving life without parole .
marry bee cuddy : come on , girls . how grim is too grim and when does it just start becoming a little humorous ? earlier this year we had a novel idea for a film in the form of a million ways to die in the west . that film did not work for me overall , but the idea of making a western film that put emphasis on how terrible a time it could really be was a funny one . tommy lee jones ' second directorial effort , the homesman , based on the novel by glendon swarthout , is a film that sits in grim territory , but pushes things so far that it becomes a strange sort of dark comedy . the film has a large cast of great actors , but they all provide merely decent to good performances . hilary swank stands out , but that makes sense , given that she does most of the heavy - lifting , with strong support from jones to back her up . really , the film seems confused by how sprawling it could be versus how effectively poignant it may be if the film felt a bit more consistent . the good news is , this film is far too interesting to write off . read the whole review at urltoken
rage is an action packed , 16 - bit injected , 80s revenge tale . the story follows kurt niles , an every day guy living in the neon - lit halogen city . after being left dead in the streets by a . . . see full summary »
there are nice touches that keep rage engaging , particularly plot twists that stem from suspicion , anger and communication gaffes , a theme throughout . and danny glover is solid as a beleaguered cop chasing the carnage ( though he really is getting too old for this stuff ) .
the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice , telling a story of startling cruelty . what a space it opens…
the 4th annual englewood international film festival ( eiff ) kicks off tonight with a private reception and then all are welcome to attend the opening film “englewood” – friday , oct . 24th ! the red carpet reception starts at 6 p . m . at the chatham 14 theater – 210 west 87th street ! !
bernstein ' s career spanned decades ( it ' s a remarkable list of credits and you can see the full range and scope by checking out his filmography on urltoken ) but by the ' 90s he was mostly scoring dramas .
a rage in harlem
is the rare exception . the film doesn ' t quite deliver on those big brazen horns , but it gets there in fits and starts . it ' s a worth a look .
so far , stories has plans for adaptations of genesis and dreamcast classics such as altered beast , streets of rage , shinobi , rise of nightmares and crazy taxi . variety reports that both virtua fighter and golden axe also are part of the portfolio of properties that could get some treatment .
actually , i knew only one minute into this film that i was in for a great night . look at this face nicolas cage makes ! look at it !
this is a guerrilla film made on a production budget of $ 10 , 000 usd and shot in new york , los angeles and las vegas ,
a title card announces at the outset . that figure isn ' t unusual for microbudget indies , but i ' ve never seen film declare its budget and under - the - radar methods before it even begins . transparency has its place , but it can also come across as a pre - emptive justification for the film ' s flaws .
this was the banlieue where la haine had been filmed , and i was here with my friend , producer geoff bird , to make a radio 4 programme , twenty years of hate , looking back at what it meant . our starting point was that the film could not have been made without the people around here , many of whom had featured in the film . we wanted to know how they felt about the film , its historic significance , and what , if anything , had changed since then .
this might be pardonable if we had a reason to like anybody . yet rage has few discernible heroes : even paul ' s primary backups , kane ( max ryan ) and danny ( michael mcgrady ) are so bland and indistinguishable that they could be the second cousins you confuse at a family reunion .
sunday , jan 16 , 3 - 5pm weight of rage families and communities event join prison + neighborhood arts project ( pnap ) for a walk through of the exhibition the weight of rage . families , friends , advocates and allies of incarcerated folks are invited . lasana kazembe will read poems from current pnap poets at stateville . william estrada will photograph participants for free as part of the portraits of resolution project - - a mobile photo studio documenting the impact incarceration has on the community . and alderman walter burnett and benny lee will be there to say a few words ! sponsored by st . leonard’s ministries .
he must have really liked taken and mystic river , too , given the homage to those films that is rage ( * * out of four unrated , opens friday in select cities ) , a picture that isn ' t as terrible as its title suggests nor as deep as its story aspires to be .
not exactly an original revenge picture or a great one . while it gives off the impression as a taken rip - off meets man on fire but this film does not have any of the quality ' s that those films had . even though nicholas cage is starting to get his groove back , but sadly this film does not showcase anything special .
i asked abdel how much had changed since 1995 . “nothing much , ” he said . we talked about the riots here in 2014 , which were every bit as serious and confrontational with police as those of 1995 . as we chatted , we were followed by unmarked police cars , sharking between the narrow avenues of the area . youths stood look - out for the drug gangs at the edges of apartment blocks . “it’s still here , ” he said . “it’s all the same . ”
anyway , this is a cage flick , if you couldn’t tell . that’s a term that has meant different things at different times , but nowadays it tends to involve a story where a family member ( usually a daughter ) is kidnapped or killed and cage is out for revenge . the high point of this era of cage flicks was drive angry , which was the best film of 2011 if you didn’t see it . now , though , it’s devolved through movies like stolen into films like rage . if there’s one word that describes nicolas cage in rage , it’s “tired” . he’s just like , “fuck . another one of these redbox classics ? ” we feel your pain . hell , the movie even includes this scene where cage helplessly looks at the script , trying to do anything but open it and start reading :
it ' s hard to say this is the worst film nicolas cage has ever made - there are just too many contenders to choose from . but it ' s near the bottom .
the movie’s portrait of kashmir is radical by bollywood standards . avoiding nationalist arguments , the film portrays the tragic human cost of the conflict and its netherworld of disappearances , military torture and extrajudicial killings .
when an ex - mobster’s daughter is found dead , the repressed return with a vengeance that feels more like a whimper in “rage , ” a silly and shopworn nicolas cage action vehicle that plays like a poor man’s “taken , ” “mystic river” and “a history of violence” rolled into one . proficiently made but fatally unpersuasive in its portrayal of [ … ]
kung fury was funded mainly through a kickstarter campaign , where people from all around the world showed their support for this crazy project . david worked on the film for a more than a year with almost no budget but a strong vision , with the help of friends and family . most of the film has already been shot , but additional filming and lots of visual effects remain to be done .
i wanted to like this film . i really did . the main titles alone — animated with sharp , angular midcentury graphics — speak to a filmmaker ( dana verde ) with a sense of style .
rage is an action packed , 16 - bit injected , 80s revenge tale . the story follows kurt niles , an every day guy living in the neon - lit halogen city . after being left dead in the streets by a gang called the dangers , kurt returns from his asphalt grave and goes on a bloody rampage to save the girl he loves .
it is the sight of the homeless , mud - smeared tom on the heath that inspires the outcast lear to ponder the state of “unaccommodated man” and to realize that we are all thus , in essence , even if our royal cloaks conceal it . mr . langella’s eyes , which had been wide with inchoate rage , memorably narrow into the focus of recognition .
of course , the main highlight of vip was the pulsating score composed by anirudh ravichander , which became a rage after release . however , sean roldan , who gave a soul - stirring album with pa paandi , is in charge of the music . in fact , apart from dhanush ' s solid screen presence , the main attraction of the trailer is sean ' s music .
anthology film archives 32 second avenue tickets are $ 7 and are good for the whole night . tickets go on sale at 5 : 30pm the night of screening at the anthology box office and are available all night .
in salon , andrew o’hehir makes explicit what is perhaps less so in other reviews . the cultural debates over american sniper , he writes , “demonstrate how cultural works get reduced to ‘politics’ in the least interesting sense of that word . ” here , o’hehir is voicing not only a lament about the regrettable way our public debates treat artworks , but also a traditional critic’s complaint : in focusing on the content of the film – how many people the protagonist kills , or the degree to which the depiction of the character accords with the real - life man on whose autobiography the film was based – people are ignoring the film’s notable formal elements . he closes his review by noting that “there’s a level of sardonic commentary at work that is sometimes subtle and sometimes pretty damn obvious , ” and that at base the film was about “an american who thought he knew what he stood for and what his country stood for and never believed he needed to ask questions … and then paid the price for it . so did we all , and the reception of this film suggests that the payments keep on coming due . ”
it was not all fear and misery however . this was also the year a new film had crash - landed into the french imagination , becoming ultimately a worldwide hit . the film was called la haine ( hate ) and was the story of three young men in one of the wretched housing projects outside paris , commonly referred to as la banlieue . the three lads were a north african , a black guy and an eastern european jew – an echo of the multiracial mix that would bring france victory in the 1998 world cup . they were cheeky , funny and likable – a gang of what the french call “ branleurs ” , which is literally translated as “wankers” but really means young guys who mess about . the core of the story was , however , that they were also full of rage – against the police , but ultimately against a society that has pushed them to the margins . much of the film’s comedy as well as its social comment comes from the gang’s misadventures in central paris , a world as distant and alien to them as america .
finally , here’s a great shot of nicolas cage composing himself before delivering more dialogue in this film . sometimes , you just need a moment , you know ? just close your eyes , imagine the paycheck , and do it .
in a career spanning over 15 years , dhanush has donned several characters . we ' ve seen him as psychopath lover in kadhal kondein . an innocent kaaru in aadukalam and a fierce gangster kokki kumar in pudhupettai . however , raghuvaran became a rage mainly because of his guy - next - door character . while we ' ve adored his innocence in vip , raghuvaran in vip 2 seems to have a lot of action scenes .
these are all intelligent takes , and they all share in some sense o’hehir’s gripe : people who wanted to politicize the film aren’t really seeing it well . like many critics , these writers are to a greater or lesser degree formalists , and believe that to understand a film is to be aware of the subtleties of its construction , in addition to its content . this is what makes it so surprising that there is little mention in their reviews of how formally weak so much of the movie is .
in the weeks after its release , not surprisingly , the film spawned a great deal of public controversy , which broke down along familiar liberal and conservative lines . the critical reception has been more nuanced , less willing to see the film as a blank political statement , and generally celebratory . richard brody , writing in the new yorker , explains that the film “contains valor and horror – the destructive and self - destructive conflicts that are intrinsic to a person endowed with a warrior’s noble nature . as such , it’s a cinematic tragedy in the deepest and most classical sense of the term . ” thomas powers , writing for the new york review of books , takes essentially the same approach , noting that the film is one of “disciplined art and moral complexity” that presents an evolution from the “gung - ho enthusiasm of young men eager to go forth and kick ass for the greatest country in the world , to the half - strangled confusion of men who have suffered and killed for reasons that slip away like water in sand . ”
kassovitz was fearless too . when the film premiered at the cannes film festival – where it was a huge critical success – the police on duty turned their backs on kassovitz and his crew , perceiving the film as an anti - police polemic . kassovitz swaggered his way through the storm . inevitably , jean - marie le pen , then leader of the front national , stormed into the fray , calling for “these yobs to be sent to jail” . kassovitz shrugged off the criticism . the fact that alain juppé organised a special screening for his cabinet more than proved the point : that in 1995 la haine seemed to describe exactly what was wrong with france . in one of its blackest years , it seemed both to capture the mood of the country and turn it into great art
the film , which opened internationally on oct . 2 , drew a fierce reaction on social media from hindu nationalists , who called for a boycott . kashmir , a disputed territory claimed by both india and pakistan , remains a sensitive subject on the indian subcontinent .
velai illa pattadhari was an important film for dhanush , as much it was for velraj , the cinematographer - turned - director . vip , which happened to be dhanush ' s 25th film , left an indelible mark among the tamil audience . sure , one might argue over the fact that it ' s a masala film of the highest degree . and that ' s true . in some ways , vip is also a textbook example of how to tell a masala story . for the same , writer - director velraj deserves credit . velai illa pattadhari tells the story of an unemployed youth raghuvaran ( dhanush ) , a civil engineer , who aspires to work in a core company . when everything falls in place , raghuvaran locks horns with a business tycoon arun subramaniam ( amitash pradhan ) .
la haine , the controversial 1995 drama that held up a mirror to the social ills of modern france , arrived during a dark time in the country’s history . twenty years on , with a sequel mooted and france again experiencing uncertain times , we reflect on the film’s lasting significance
it’s just incredible , really . i couldn’t take my eyes off of it for the entirety of the film , but in those first ten minutes , i understood what dave saw in the monolith . it’s ok . it’s alright . i can die now . i have found peace .
i would like to be an extra in this film . i also have an 12 yr . old son and 10 yr . old daughter that would love the experience . is there any age requirements ? my phone number is 251 - 577 - 6825 . please call if you need anything .
it is sad to see a film begin so well , relying on stunning visuals and an impressive performance by swank , and then go downhill in a second half that suffers from some serious problems of tone and does itself a great disservice by abruptly shifting the lead role from her to jones .
even in the film’s fourth week in theaters , the controversy surrounding it shows little sign of abating . it has been banned in pakistan , where the censors claimed — surprisingly , for a movie that casts a negative light on the indian state — that “haider” was “against the ideology of pakistan . ”
neither tragic or particularly unintentionally funny , rage slogs forward with blood - spurting pathos to an ultimately disingenuous twist conclusion , offering little more than a revenge relic pretending that the ethical treatise of a history of violence never happened . it’s as if director paco cabezas relishes the shotgun - pumping climax of rolling thunder not as an end , but a methodology , since the film takes every opportunity to be as gruesome as possible . perhaps even this is giving cabezas too much credit , since his sophomoric , gut - check theatrics are more tailored to direct - to - video aesthetics , replete with atrocious dialogue like “i need some help . can you meet me by the construction site ? ” and perpetual bursts of violence , ultimately amounting to an unsightly cinematic mélange of bloodshed and mayhem , accompanied by grating heavy metal on the soundtrack .
the consensus back in paris , however , is that this wouldn’t be a follow - up in the conventional sense but rather a much darker version of what was already a tough film . in the banlieue of bobigny i spoke to gilles favier , the photographer who had worked on the original film . he was clear about what had got worse in the banlieue . “in 1995 i had my doubts whether a black guy , a jew and an arab would be friends , ” he said . “but now everything is much more divided . and this is because of the rise of political islam in the banlieue . this is what created more division and tension and so now it is not just youth against the police or the state , but also youth who are wanting to kill jews and go to syria . la haine was about friends and maybe some hope . nowadays i think you could only make a film about despair . ”
“i’m not apologetic , or scared , or afraid , ” he said , noting that he had been denounced or threatened for his journalistic work on several occasions . “i’m proud of a lot of stories and moments in this film . within the limits of bollywood , we pushed things as far as we could . ”
this brings me back to my sympathy - for - cage theme . everybody gives nic a hard time for these paycheck roles in wretched movies—and believe me ,
rage
is pretty wretched , a dull , lifeless thing even in spite of its efforts , old - school grindhouse picture - style , to put an exploitation - nihilist spin on the dad - with - action - movie - skills - on - the - rampage boilerplate—but , you know , peter stormare actually used to work for ingmar bergman , and he earns no disapprobation for turning up in the likes of this , let alone for egregiously hamming it up as he does . one of the odd features of these latter - day wannabe b - pictures is the way they pander to their more ostensibly distinguished cast member , in this case giving the characters played by stormare , glover , and finally cage these big dramatic monologues , each filled with hot air lines such as “not everyone could get out as clean as you could . ” the only way to get out of
rage
clean is not to get into it in the first place .
i hadn ' t seen this 1991 heist comedy until last week , and although it is not a lost masterwork , the film has its charms ( notably a terrific score and deep bench of acting talent ) . it ' s one of those movies that may not fully hang together , but it works in select moments .
wednesday , march , 16 the power of letters in this creative writing workshop will be open to village leadership academy students ! workshop participants will begin with a walk - through of the “weight of rage” exhibition , paying particular attention to open letters crafted by p - nap students in a “writing time and place” seminar . students will compose their own open letters in response to the exhibition , and have the opportunity to expand and refine their written work through the workshop process . this workshop will be facilitated by audrey petty , writer and member of the p - nap teaching collective .
velai illa pattadhari 2 is impressive in terms of its supporting characters . the film has national award - winning actor samuthirakani playing dhanush ' s father , while amala paul retains her role as his raghuvaran ' s love interest . the success of velai illa pattadhari goes partly to saranya ponvannan , who left the audience teary - eyed .
as for la haine , it’s ironic that a film once held up as the mirror of all french social ills now seems to be , in retrospect , a document from a golden age . but these are difficult and dangerous days in france – and all the more the reason why la haine 2 is awaited with bated breath .
i’m still not entirely sure what happened in the film . nic does one of his standard “crazy eyes and yells” at the val kilmer look alike before murdering him and i didn’t get it . the twist is also super underwhelming as it just leads to a terrible misunderstanding bringing up old wounds and it never really was interesting beyond that .
in the new york times , rachel saltz suggested that the movie “grafts its source story less convincingly to its setting” than mr . bhardwaj’s previous efforts while providing “the occasional sharp reminder of how cinematically he can construct shakespearean moments . ” over the weekend , “haider” won the people’s choice award in the world genre category at the rome film festival .
mr . peer said he felt that “haider” could chart a new direction . “when i told vishal the basic premise , he had no problems with it , ” he said . “i felt , this is already a big start . nobody in mumbai , nobody in the last 25 years in the film industry , had even come close . ”
the homesman
is a remarkable western delving into numerous social issues all but ignored by other films of the genre ( such as the role of marriage , the church ' s role in society , women ' s role in society , and social standing ) . very good acting by all players and skilled directing by jones make this nearly action - free film well worth seeing .
the hindu front for justice , a group of rightist lawyers , petitioned india’s allahabad high court to seek a ban on screenings of the film , arguing that “haider” was against the “national interest . ” mr . bhardwaj and mr . peer have until nov . 15 to reply . the movie is likely to complete its theatrical run in india by mid - november , in any case .
the film takes a more eccentric turn as the action relocates to rural connecticut , where brinnin stows thomas away in a desperate attempt at detoxification ahead of the poet’s next scheduled speaking engagement . there , the boozy , beat - aspiring intervention of a local literary couple ( played by kevin eldon and shirley henderson , the latter in her most impishly neurotic form ) briefly pulls the film into burroughs - lite territory before a more sentimental streak kicks in . even at its most disheveled , however , “stars” retains a certain disciplined coziness . the deranged deterioration of thomas’ psyche is successfully channeled in only one genuinely unnerving scene : a hallucinated , reproachful monologue from his wife caitlin , startlingly played by kelly reilly with enough concentrated erotic fury to steal the entire picture in a matter of minutes .
going by the teaser , it ' s not surprising that soundarya rajinikanth has retained most of the elements that worked in the film ' s predecessor . though she made her directorial debut with superstar rajinikanth playing the titular role , kochadaiiyaan was a box - office dud . that said , soundarya is very likely to make a strong comeback with velai illa pattadhari 2 and is evident in the trailer .
when an ex - mobster’s daughter is found dead , the repressed return with a vengeance that feels more like a whimper in “ rage , ” a silly and shopworn nicolas cage action vehicle that plays like a poor man’s “taken , ” “mystic river” and “a history of violence” rolled into one . proficiently made but fatally unpersuasive in its portrayal of internecine gang warfare , this thuggish melodrama piles on the foreign accents and paint - by - numbers brutality , all served up with a grim , operatic self - seriousness that gives cage’s antihero little room to maneuver . spanish genre helmer paco cabezas’ english - language debut will find a few fans on vod , where it’s rolling out simultaneously with its limited theatrical release .
about halfway through we ( he and director bill duke ) were looking at a scene , and i turned to bill and said ' you know , that wasn ' t quite as funny as it was in the script . and i don ' t know why . ' and he said to me , ' we ' re not making no g - - damn comedy . ' i ' d raised the entire money for this film on the basis that it was a comedy . it was chester himes , it was supposed to be funny . and a shiver went down my spine and i hoped that bill was joking . but i realized he thought we were making ' porgy and bess ' and from there on in , i had to be on that film , on that set all the time .
there is again something oddly revealing , i think , in this rather gentle attempt to turn another of the film’s formal deficiencies into a strength . to create a plot about a rather plotless situation – a sniper doing four tours – eastwood and his screenwriter create not one , but two individual villains for kyle to defeat . the first is a particularly nefarious iraqi henchman – “the butcher” – and the second is the enemy sniper mustafa . in terms of a war film , this is a childish decision : it reduces a large - scale situation of chaos and violence into a morally manageable , small - scale scenario in which “bad guys” are identified and put down . to slide past this , we insist that it’s not really a war film at all , but a western , and further that the character of mustafa isn’t ridiculous – he’s evil , he dresses in black – but is actually a symbolic representation of the “savagery” in kyle’s own heart . ( one is tempted to ask how far this symbolism goes . of what are the kid and woman in the first scene symbolic ? how about the iraqi who is hiding in a palm tree and falls rather comically into the midst of the american troops when kyle kills him ? )
for some reason , they had water on the camera lens during this scene and didn’t bother to clean it . so this entire sequence is slightly blurry , and the technical incompetence behind the scenes on this film obscures the majesty of cage’s flowing mane . this is up there with vic morrow’s death on the set of the twilight zone in terms of horrible filmmaking , and everyone involved should be ashamed of themselves .
not to be confused with the disposable 1989 eddie murphy vanity project
harlem nights ,
the movie is adapted from the chester himes crime novel of the same name . its pulpy 1950s setting straddles the line between comedy and hard - boiled — though not always successfully . tonally , there ' s something a little confused about the film . producer stephen woolley described tensions behind the camera a few years ago in an interview for bbc radio :
toward the end of the film , when kyle finally kills his nemesis , the evil enemy sniper mustafa , he places himself and his fellow soldiers in great danger . they’ve been secreted on top of a building , and the enemy troops hear the shot and surround them . as the firefight begins , kyle calls his wife and tells her that he’s ready to come home . things look bleak . fortunately , a massive sandstorm descends on the city , which gives kyle and his comrades a chance to escape . in the blurry running firefight that ensues , kyle is almost left behind . he symbolically and melodramatically loses his grip on his sniper rifle . we cut to a shot of the rifle lying on the ground , being covered over with blowing sand . it is a perfect image . not because of the metaphor the film seems to think it’s making – look at this object of expertise and violence and manhood , wasted by the folly of the world . no , it’s perfect because the baldness of the symbolism captures exactly the way the film’s vision of itself as non - ideological is a poor mask for its ideology . it confuses pathos with the serious moral considerations incumbent in making art about the act of killing , and mistakenly believes that an argument for the wasted nobility of the warrior can be disconnected from an argument about the nobility of war .
this sequence is an object lesson in narrative cynicism . it presents us with what is purportedly a moment of real tension , involving the possibility of shooting an innocent child : kyle reports to his superiors that he believes he sees a grenade ; his spotter notes that if he’s wrong he’s going to prison . but we have seen very clearly that the kid is in fact holding a grenade . the composition and clarity of the shots leave no doubt in our minds . thus , the film builds an edifice of serious moral danger , while at the same time resolving that danger in advance ; it allows us to wallow in the threat of the moment while knowing the whole time that it will be okay in the end . what is presented as peril is nothing more than a disguised confirmation of infallibility : kyle will not – here or anywhere else in the film – kill someone who does not deserve it .
largely a two - hander , or a two - seater , “ # stuck” sticks with a man and a woman who are cooped up together during an interminable los angeles traffic jam , and every minute of their captivity is keenly felt . all they start with in common is a drunken hookup the night before , and this allows the film’s writer and director , stuart acher , to lead us down a nattering road to mutual appreciation and triumph over shame .
the ever - committed actor is invariably the most interesting thing in whatever schlock he turns up in , and that’s the case with
rage ,
a payback thriller that’s not quite a gloss on
taken .
the reason he’s the most interesting thing here is not because his performances is particularly intense or eccentric but because everything around him is so wretchedly dull . “pete , i’m out of the game , you know that , ” cage’s character , paul , announces to a character named pete , aptly enough , early on in the movie ; dialogue like that only means the character’s going to be drawn back into the game at some point in the movie . paul is a one - time criminal turned building contractor , which is a great profession for a one - time criminal to be in because there’s so little corruption in that field .
this was dazzling cinema but most importantly , it was the first time the banlieue had ever been represented to a mainstream french audience . the film was an immediate and massive hit and galvanised the part of france that knew the banlieues existed but had never seen them up close or dealt with in a sympathetic way . the director of la haine , mathieu kassovitz , was then only 26 years old , but he had somehow managed to rewrite everything that people thought they knew about french cinema .
szoka declines to dig up more than a smattering of old photos ; old snapshots are a documentary trope but a reliable one for a reason . context is everything , and it ' s not so much that rain is an unreliable narrator but that the film is missing any kind of outside perspective . visually , the camera rarely strays anywhere beyond the inside of the theater where rain performs and a few glimpses on her on the beach with child . it all feels so contained . too contained .
still , there’s a lot of content in that hair , and nicolas cage makes this movie worth watching because of it . if that isn’t the sign of a great actor , i don’t know what is . the film itself is so depressing and boring that i’m glad cage had the foresight to give us something to talk about . so , i’d like to spend the rest of this review sharing the remaining screenshots i took with all of you . let’s take a look at a side view :
the homesman is a thoroughly depressing experience with little energy . the idea of throwing a feminist and a curmudgeon on a road trip is inspired . but our central duo are not nearly engaging as they should be . it ' s mostly forgettable except for a few amusing moments . out of the blue a grizzled tommy lee jones gets up and dances a zesty jig while singing by the campfire . in another scene , he torches a hotel in a spiteful rage and that got my pulse quickening a bit . oh james spader ' s pompous hotelier is another high point in a production that usually operates a constant low . the story is inert . to make matters worse , a late dramatic development just happens abruptly . the perplexing act ostensibly motivated by religious guilt . the script is frustratingly cloudy on that point and when the chronicle isn ' t vague , it ' s just dull . urltoken
how , given this context , does american sniper operate as a revisionist western ? it presents us with exactly the ideological metaphor – the innocent sheep , evil wolves , and noble sheepdog – that is under attack from much of the revisionist western tradition . and it never seriously challenges this metaphor . clearly , the central assertion of the film is that there are strong men who represent the paragon of “manhood” and who pay a heavy price for defending the rest of us . ( this is the point of richard brody’s invocation in his review of the “warrior’s noble nature . ” ) kyle is a born sheepdog . there are wolves out there – nearly every iraqi presented in the film is shown to be evil , and to have no legitimate reason for their actions , other than their evilness . there are sheep , too . these are the american public and kyle’s family , of course , but also the american soldiers who are weaker , or who doubt the war , are less manly than kyle . all of them need to be protected .
new delhi — the bollywood director vishal bhardwaj has made his name by adapting shakespeare into film , using the plays to reflect the violence and vicissitudes of modern india . “ maqbool , ” an adaptation of “macbeth , ” was set in the mumbai underworld ; “ omkara ” transported “othello” to the feudal badlands of northern india . his latest effort , a loose adaptation of “hamlet” called “ haider , ” which takes place in kashmir during the turbulent 1990s , has become the most acclaimed and contentious bollywood movie of the year .
it’s in groping for the full weight of tragedy that “rage” turns risible . cabezas ( “neon flesh” ) has a weakness for treating cliches like epiphanies : the moment of caitlin’s disappearance is signaled by the ominous plop of a raindrop , and laurent eyquem’s dramatic score tends to surge excessively whenever the characters raise their voices , which is fairly often . one sequence at the end , played out in agonizing slow - mo , has the perhaps unintended effect of momentarily turning the picture into a gun - control ad . cage , still an agile and inventive performer ( see david gordon green’s recent “joe” ) , isn’t well served by the solemn , bludgeoning tone of the proceedings ; his occasional outbursts and the movie’s title aside , the actor actually seems somewhat straitjacketed here . still , he fares better than danny glover , who plays a world - weary detective forced to utter lines like “a rap sheet as long as my dick . ”
the semi - contemporary classic ode to journalism all the president ' s men by bob woodward and carl bernstein , which chronicles the washington post ' s watergate investigation , is experiencing a revival . book sales are on the rise and the la times this week reported that it may get a made - for - tv makeover . additionally , there may even be a tv or film version of the duo ' s sequel , the final days , which recounts the days inside the white house leading up to president richard nixon ' s resignation .
and then , when you arrive , it all starts to feel a bit weird . this is mainly because chanteloup is a cheaply built piece of 1960s brutalism , grafted on to the french countryside . like nearly all of the most notorious french banlieues , it has the queasy artificiality of a science - fiction set . this strangeness is captured in the film when vinz , who is not sure if he is stoned or not , sees a cow wandering through the estate’s concrete alleyways . weirder still are the giant frescoes of the poets rimbaud , baudelaire and others that dominate the market square . these were well - meant gestures of cultural aspiration from the 1960s – but today the effect is orwellian , like a big picture of ts eliot glowering down at you in tower hamlets . i asked my newfound mates at the sfenj stall if they recognised the images and whether they meant anything to them . they all shrugged with indifference . “to us , they’re just like a cultural gestapo , ” said abdel moulah bouloudji , who featured in the original film . “nothing to do with us . ”