Ministry of Information & Broadcasting18-October, 2011 17:39 IST
Indian Panorama selection for IFFI’ 11 announced;
7 Malayalam films among 24 feature films selected; 21 non-feature films also selected

The jury for Feature films, headed by renowned filmmaker Ms. Sai Paranjpye, has selected 23 films out of a total of 118 eligible entries for the IFFI 2011, Indian Panorama Section.  Malayalam film ADAMINTE MAKAN ABU (Director : Salim Ahamed) which won Best Feature Film award at the recent 58th National Film Awards is the 24th film of Indian Panorama, by virtue of direct entry

  The Non-Feature films Jury chaired by well-known writer-director Shri Ashok Rane, picked 21 films out of 135 eligible entries. The winner of Best Non-Feature film in the recent 58th National Film Awards for 2010 GERM (Hindi, Director : Snehal R. Nair) has NOT been  included in the Non-Feature film category, as it was already included in Indian Panorama 2010 last year. The 5 member jury took 10 days to finalize the selections.

The Feature Film Jury choose URUMI (Malayalam, Director : Santosh Sivan) as the Opening Film of Indian Panorama 2011.  Given below is the complete list of 24 Feature Films that would be shown  at the 42nd International Film Festival of India 2011 at Goa.

S.No

Title

Language

Director

Format

Running Time (mins)

 

 

1.       

Jaangfaai Joonaak

Assamese

Sanjib Sabhapandit

35mm

81

2.       

Laptop

Bengali

Kaushik Ganguly

35 mm

124

3.       

Ranjana Ami  Ar Ashbona

Bengali

Anjan Dutt

35 mm

135

4.       

Sanskar

Bengali

Late Nabyendu Chatterjee

35 mm

80

5.       

He…

Bhojpuri

Mangesh Joshi

35 mm

105

6.       

Memories in March

English

Sanjoy Nag

35mm

104

7.       

Sahi Dhandhe Galat Bande

Hindi

Parvin Dabas

35 mm

120

8.       

Shagird

Hindi

Tigmanshu Dhulia

35 mm

143

9.       

Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara

Hindi

Zoya Akhtar

35mm

156

10.   

Bettada Jeeva

Kannada

P. Sheshadri

35mm

114

11.   

O Maria

Konkani

Rajendra Talak

35 mm

105

12.   

Adaminte Makan Abu

Malayalam

Salim Ahamed

Digital

113min

13.   

Bombay March 12

Malayalam

Babu Janardhanan Prasanthi

35mm

120

14.   

Chappa Kurishu

Malayalam

Sameer Thahir

35 mm

135

15.   

Karmayogi

Malayalam

V.K. Prakash

35 mm

118

16.   

Melvilasom

Malayalam

Madhav Ramdasan

35mm

165

17.   

Traffic

Malayalam

Rajesh Pillai

35mm

116

18.   

Urumi

Malayalam

Santosh Sivan

35 mm

155

19.   

Phijigee Mani

Manipuri

O. Gautam Singh

Digital

111

20.   

Baboo Band Baaja

Marathi

Rajesh Pinjani

35mm

127

21.   

Balgandharva

Marathi

Ravi Jadhav

35mm

137

22.   

Taryanche Bait

Marathi

Kiran Yadnyopavit

35 mm

101

23.   

Sengadal

Tamil

Leena Mammekalai

35 mm

102

24.   

Virodi

Telugu

Neelakanta

35mm

130

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The 10 member jury took 21 days to finalize the selections.

In the Non-Feature Film category, ADWAITA SANGEET (Hindi, Director : Makarand Brahme) is the Opening film.  Given below is the complete list of 21 Non-Feature Films that would be screened at the 42nd International Film Festival of India 2011.

 

S.No.

Name of Film

Language

Director

1.

Modhyoborti Alinde

Bengali

Krishno Kishore Mukhopadhyay

2.

You Don’t Belong

Bengali, English       

Spandan Banerjee

3.

The Dream Fulfilled – Memories of the engineering challenges

English

Satish Pande

4.

The Doyen of Indian Linguistics

English

Nirmalya Sengupta

5.

A Sculptor of Music

English

Nitish Mukherjee

6.

Musalman

English

Ishani K. Dutta

7.

Songs of  Mashangva                                                                                              

English, Manipuri, Tangkhul

Oinam Doren

8.

Red Building – Where The Sun Sets

English, Tamil

Revathy

9.

Rakshas

Gujarati

Alok Naik

10.

Adwait Sangeet

Hindi

Makarand Brahme

11.

The Boxing Ladies

Hindi

Anusha Nandakumar

12.

The Silent National Anthem

Hindi

Amit Sharma

13.

Vertical City

Hindi

Avijit Mukul Kishor

14.

Khule Darwaaze

Hindi

Ashish Pandey

15.

ANNADATA – Food For Thought

Hindi

Umesh Aggarwal

16.

At The Stairs

Hindi / Bhojpuri

Rajesh S Jala

17.

The Finish Line

Hindi, English

Akshay Roy

18.

So Heddan So Hoddan

Kachchi / Hindustani

Anjali Monteiro & K P Jayasankar

19.

A pestering Journey

Malayalam, English, Tulu, Punjabi, Hindi

K.R. Manoj

20.

Noong Amadi Yeroom

Manipuri

Romi Meitei

21.

Compulsory hell-mate

Marathi

Mithunchandra Chaudhari

 

In the feature films category, the maximum number of films selected, 7 are in Malayalam. Bengali, Marathi and Hindi have a share of 3 films each. One film each have been selected in Konkani, Telugu, Manipuri, Tamil, English, Kannada, Assamese and Bhojpuri.

 

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