"DWEEPA" & "CHANDNI BAR" AMONG 20 FEATURE FILMS SELECTED FOR INDIAN
PANORAMA-2002
The 49th National Award
winning films "Dweepa" and "Chandni Bar"
are among the 20 Indian feature films selected for Indian Panorama-2002
(feature film section) to be screened during International Film
Festival of India-2002, scheduled to be held in New Delhi from
October 1 to 10, 2002. The film "Dweepa" (Kannada),
directed by Girish Kasaravalli, has won the National Award for
best feature film of 2001 and the film "Chandni Bar"
(Hindi), by Maduhr Bhandarkar has bagged the National Award for
best film on social issues for the year-2001. The other feature
films, selected by the Jury for Indian Panorama-2002, are: "Aamaar
Bhuvan" (Bengali) directed by Mrinal Sen, "Mitr
My Friend" (English) by Asha Menon, "Baaja"
(Hindi) by A.K.Bir, "Vastupurush" (Marathi) by
Sumitra Bhave and Sunil Sukthankar, "Kannathil Muthamittal"
(Tamil) by Mani Ratnam, "Konikar Ramdhenu"
(Assamese) directed by Jahnu Barua, "Manda Meyer Upakhyan"
(Bengali) by Buddhadeb Dasgupta, "Swaraaj" (Hindi)
by Anwar Jamal, "Dany" (Malayalam) by T.V.Chandran,
"Tiladaanam" (Telugu) by K.N.T.Sastry, "Show"
(Telugu) by Neelakanta, "Nishad" (Hindi)
by Shaji N. Karun, "Jameela" (Tamil) by Ponvannan,
"Atithi" (Kannada) by P.Sheshadri, "Dil
Chahta Hai" (Hindi) by Farhan Akhtar, "Hemanteer
Pakki" (Bengali) by Ms. Urmi Chakraborty, "Ekti
Nadir Aaam" (Bangali) by Anup Singh and "Maguni
Ra Shagada" (Oriya) directed by Prafulla Mohanty. These
20 feature films were selected from 96 film entries.
Eleven films have been selected out
of total 57 film entries for non-feature film section of Indian
Panorama-2002. These are : "Anya Swapna" (Bengali)
directed by Ashoke Vishwanathan, "A Few Things I Know
About Her" (English) by Anjali Punjabiu. "The
Monpas of Arunachal Pradesh" (English) by Aribam Syam
Sharma, "Jorasnako Thakurbari" (English) by Buddhadeb
Dasgupta, "Teejan Bai" (Hindi) by V.Packirisamy,
"Diary of A Housewife" (Malayalam) by Vinod Sukumaran,
"Sonal" (Hindi) by Prakash Jha, "Kanavu
Malailekku" (Malayalam) by M.G.Sasi, "Mahane
Mahane" (Tamil) by Thamarai Senthur Pandy, "Aayeesha"
(Tamil) by B.Shivakumar and "Kalahandi" (English)
directed by Goutam Ghose.
