November 14, 2013: Yesterday evening I attended Tomare
Selam,
the Satyajit Ray Memorial lecture at the 19th Kolkata International Film Festival at Nandan 1.
It was a packed house that began with an introduction by Sandip Ray
and a video of Late Satyajit Ray accepting his Oscar
and speaking on cinema.
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| With Sharmila Tagore and Sandip Ray at the 19th KIFF |
Sharmila
Tagore, who owes much of her career and recognition to the films of
Manik da, paid rich tributes to to the genius, and talked at
lenght about her association with Ray since 1958 when he first
launched her in a film when she was 13 year-old. Since then it has
been very enriching journey which Sharmila shared with the audience.
Regarding
Oscars and Indian films, Sharmila made an observation by
saying that we should see and follow the films that are selected for
Oscars and then take a decision about what kind of films from
India should be shortlisted. She also said there is a huge world of
films outside the West or Hollywood that we should follow.
I
did spend some time at Nandan where I used to spend a lot of
time during earlier film fests for many years.
Thank
you Rinku di for accepting my request to deliver the lecture.
Today
evening I shall go to Priya for the premiere of Anik Datta's film
Ascharjya Pradeep and leave for Jaipur tomorrow.
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