From: ram@usc.edu (Ram Krishnan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: EKTA presents Festival of Films from India
Date: 1 Oct 1992 23:43:42 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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  	     ASHA/EKTA presents Festival of Films from India
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	Ekta is a non-profit nonpartisan group for progressive change
	in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and other nations
	of the South Asian subcontinent. Ekta currently works in 
	association with ASHA and Indians for Collective Action (ICA), which
	is a non-profit organization in the San Francisco Bay Area, 
	engaged in supporting development work in India for over two decades.
	
	To raise money for supporting ASHA/EKTA's ongoing developmental
	projects in India, a festival of films from India is being
	organized in the month of October at UCLA, USC and UC Irvine.
	All proceeds of the festival will be used to support projects 
	that promote the cause of basic education for poor and underprivileged
	children in South Asia.

	The festival is made possible with the cooperation of the 
	Directorate of Film Festivals, New Delhi, Embassy of India, India
	Foundation, India Subcontinental Club (UCI), Indian Student Union
	(UCLA), and the Indian Students Association (USC).

	ALL FILMS WILL BE SHOWN WITH ENGLISH SUB-TITLES. INDIAN FOOD AND
	REFRESHMENTS WILL BE AVAILABLE IN BETWEEN SCREENINGS.

	The film schedule:

	SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 7:00 P.M.
	USC Bovard Auditorium
	MATTI MANUSHULU (Men of Clay)
	Direction : B. Narsing Rao
	Cast : Archana, Moin Ali Baig
	Telegu, 87 minutes, 1990

	SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4, 7:00 P.M.
	USC  Bovard Auditorium
	NEERABA JHADA (The Silent Storm)
	Direction : Manmohan Mahapatra
	Cast : Hemant Das, Niranjan Patnaik, Jayaswami Battukrushna
	Tripathy, Raicharan Das, Asim Basu
	Oriya, 110 minutes, 1984

	SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 4:30 P.M.
	UCI Crystal Cove Auditorium
	DEVI
	Direction : Satyajit Ray
	Music : Ravi Shankar
	Bengali, 96 minutes, 1960
	
	SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 7:00 P.M.
	UCI Crystal Cove Auditorium
	SALAAM BOMBAY
	Direction : Mira Nair
	Cast : Shafiq Syed, Sarfuddin Qurassi, Raju Barnad
	Hindi, 114 minutes, 1988
	
	SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2:30 P.M.
	USC Bovard Auditorium
	ISHANOU ( The Chosen One)
	Direction : Aribam Syam Sharma
	Cast : Kiranmala, Tomba, Manbi, D. Hiren, Baby Molly,
	Baby Premita
	Manipuri, 94 minutes, 1990

	SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11, 4:30 P.M.
	USC Bovard Auditorium
	VEMBANAD (A Lake in Central Kerala)
	Direction : Sivaprasad
	Cast : Aziz, Renjini, Jayabharati, Babu Namboodiri
	Malayalam, 80 minutes, 1990
	
	SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11, 7:00 P.M.
	USC Bovard Auditorium
	APARAHNAM ( The Late Afternoon)
	Direction : M.P. Sukumaran
	Cast : Baby Antony, Jalaja, Ponnamma, Babu Namboodiri
	Malayalam, 116 minutes, 1990

	THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 7:00 P.M.
	UCLA Ackerman Grand Ballroom
	SATYAJIT RAY - A Documentary
	Direction : Shyam Benegal
	150 minutes, 1985

	SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 4:30 P.M.
	USC Norris Auditorium
	GANASHATRU ( Enemy of the People)
	Direction : Satyajit Ray
	Cast : Soumitra Chatterji, Dhritiman Chatterji, Dipankar
	De, Ruma Guhathakurta, Mamata Shankar
	Bengali, 100 minutes, 1989
	
	SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 7:00 P.M.
	USC Norris Auditorium
	EK DOCTOR KI MAUT ( The Death of a Doctor)
	Direction : Tapan Sinha
	Cast : Shabana Azmi, Pankaj Kapur, Irfan Khan, Vasant 
	Chowdhury, Vijendra Ghatge
	Hindi, 122 minutes, 1990
	
	SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 7:00 P.M.	
	USC Norris Auditorium
	EK DIN ACHANAK ( Suddenly One Day)
	Direction : Mrinal Sen
	Cast : Shreeram Lagoo, Uttara Baokar, Shabana Azmi,
	Aparna Sen, Roopa Ganguly
	Hindi, 105 minutes, 1988
	
	MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 7:00 P.M.
	UCLA Ackerman Grand Ballroom
	PIRAVI (The Birth)
	Direction : Shaji N. Karun
	Cast : Premji, Archana, Lakshmiamma, C.V. Sreeraman,
	Mullenezhi
	Malayalam, 110 minutes, 1988
	
	SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 7:00 P.M.
	USC Norris Auditorium
	ANJALI
	Direction : Manirathnam
	Cast : Raghuvaran, Revathi, Baby Shamili, Master Tarun,
	Baby Shruti, Prabhu
	Tamil, 150 minutes, 1990

	SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 7:00 P.M.
	USC Norris Auditorium
	THODASA ROOMANI HO JAYEN ( Let There Be A Wee Bit Of Romance)
	Direction : Amol Palekar
	Cast : Aneeta Kanwar, Vikram Gokhale, Nana Patekar
	Hindi, 160 minutes, 1990
	
	Cost of movie pass :    $4.50 (General)
	----------------------  $2.75 (Students)

	For film passes, please call:
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	Anand's Food (714)-761-3494 (Anaheim)
	Ziba Music and Gift Center (310)-402-5194 
	Rasa Groceries (310)-402-3019
	Yasmin (310)-402-6131 (Artesia)
	Yasmin (818)-701-1261 (Northridge)
	India Sweets and Spices (310)-837-5286 (Culver City)
	
	For program advertisements and film passes, please call:
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	Raj Barot (714)-559-6211
	Harsha Wabgaonkar (714)-856-0220
	Sanjiv Ghanshani (714)-856-0220
	Sonal Patel (818)-709-5145
	Shital Desai (818)-360-0094
	D. Prakash (310)-477-3782
	Ram Krishnan (213)-748-3042 (H)
		     (213)-740-0304 (O)
	
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