Films

Madhumitha Hebbar looks into the depths of Girish Kasaravalli’s 2008 film about the people of a fishing community and comes up with questions. What makes women mute spectators? Who makes the rules?

These are the 24 films being screened at pEtE maatu 2010, from Dec 17 to Dec 19.

The Women’s Kingdom
Dir: Xiaoli Zhou
Time: 22 min

National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Bengaluru, in collaboration with Bangalore Film Society and Just Femme present the inaugural edition of pEtE maatu. The three-day event will comprise an international film festival of short films and documentaries, a digital photo exhibition and panel discussion on the theme Women and the City.

Keep your calendar free on from December 17 - 19, 2010. Just Femme brings you three days of films, photo exhibition, discussions, blogathons and other events on 'Urban space and Women'

                              NGMA in collaboration with Bangalore Film Society

Two years after the first big-screen version of the television series, SATC is back with all its characteristic bling and fun. And this time the four women are blazing across the Middle East. Padmalatha Ravi presents a review

On 15th August, 2000, I sat in a darkened hall, watching the evening scene fill with Jai's mournful mouth organ tune, as Radha silently dimmed lamps one after the other. It was the 25th anniversary of Sholay. TV channels were airing interviews, streets were full of posters, and cinema halls were overflowing with nostalgia-filled, mad fans like me. And, by god, watching Sholay on the big screen that day, I fell in love with Amitabh Bachchan all over again.

Women directors are automatically classified as makers of "women-oriented" films. But here are two talents in the Kannada film industry who have broken that mold. Rehmat Merchant talks to Kavitha Lankesh and Sumana Kittur.

 Will  silver screen divas ever get real?