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Indian Panorama IFFI-2008

GULMOHAR

Film in Malayalam/100 minutes/35 mm/colour
Gyan Pathak - 2008-11-16 05:16
How far would you go to fight the atrocities against the downtrodden? How far would you go to rekindle the spirits of your comrades?
Indian Panorama IFFI-2008

GULABI TALKIES

Film in Kannada/122 mintus/35 mm/colour
Gyan Pathak - 2008-11-16 05:09
Gulabi, a discarded 50-year-old woman, lives in an island inhabited primarily by fisherfolks. Since her husband Musa has married again, she lives away from him. To escape her loneliness she fans her obsession for films.
Indian Panorama IFFI-2008

GUBBACHIGALU (Sparrows)

Film in Kannada/95minutes/35mm/colour
Gyan Pathak - 2008-11-16 05:01
In the concrete jungle of a sprawling city, two children go on a quest to find their missing sparrow.
Indian Panorama IFFI-2008

DOHAA

Film in Marathi/93 minutes/35mm/colour
Gyan Pathak - 2008-11-16 04:45
Based on the Marathi novel Kaleshar Pani by noted author H M Marathe, Dohaa portrays an impoverished pocket of rural India, through a story of physical lust and its horrific consequences for two tender lives.
Indian Panorama IFFI-2008

CHATURANGA

Film in Bengali/125 minutes/35mm/colours
Gyan Pathak - 2008-11-15 17:56
Chaturanga is the story of a love in a world of conflicting ideas.
Indian Panorama IFFI-2008

BILLA

Film in Tamil/130minutes/35mm/colour
Gyan Pathak - 2008-11-15 17:44
Elusive Billa is the powerful Don of an underworld gang. When the Chennai Police close in on him, he escapes to Malaysia. DSP Jai Prakash who watches hawkeyed the illegal activities of Billa, is sent on a special mission to work closely with the Malaysian Police and put Billa’s gang behind the bars.
Indian Panorama IFFI-2008

BANADA NERALU

Film in Kannada/110 minutes/35mm/colour
Gyan Pathak - 2008-11-15 17:31
Amaresh, a smalltime civil contractor under pressure from money lenders to repay debts, decides to try his luck by growing commercial crops in his wife’s village. For that, however, he must cut down old trees growing on the land. He seeks the horticulture department’s advice and negotiates with a sawmill willing to fell the trees.
Indian Panorama IFFI-2008

ADAYALANGAL / The Imprints

Film in Malayalam/100 minutes/35mm/colour
Gyan Pathak - 2008-11-15 16:49
Set in the Valluvanadan village of Kerala during World War II, this story of hunger - of body, mind and spirit - provides a glimpse of the mystery of life that the author Nandanar (1926-74) himself puts an end to.
Indian Panorama IFFI-2008

AAKASHAGOPURAM

Film in Malayalam/104 minutes/35 mm/colour
Gyan Pathak - 2008-11-15 16:32
This adaptation of Ibsen’s Maser Builder is set in London’s Indian immigrant community.

Drug-related crime biggest threat to public safety in the Americas

Special Correspondent - 2008-10-21 11:17
Drug trafficking and the violence committed by its associated organized crime is the biggest threat to public safety in the Americas, according to the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).