gandu ( film )
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q' s much - talked about film, gandu, has won the best film, best director, best critics' choice awards at the south asian international film festival in new york .
q' s much - talked about film, gandu, has won the best film, best director, best critics' choice awards at the south asian international film festival in new york .
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q' s much - talked about film, gandu, has won the best film, best director, best critics' choice awards at the south asian international film festival in new york. - times of india
q (qaushik mukherjee, as he does not like to be called) is just back from poland and romania where he and neel were touring with his film gandu and and also performing as gandu circus. weve created music outside the context of the film. gandu the rapper is finally free of the clutches of the film,  says the filmmaker .
gandu ,
an independent bengali film, has been raking in the reviews and awards at film fests internationally, while few in india could claim to have seen it .
the film was received well and declared superhit at the box - office. the film' s music was composed by
this could be seen as a metaphor for how q feels about indian cinema. making a film like this in a country like india takes balls. certainly q understood that the film would most likely never get public release, but this was his film, the film he had to make. this film is almost like a political statement, a revolution in south asian film. everything that mainstream south asian film is ,
the film was widely appreciated for its songs and lead actors performances upon release. ambareesh got the film' s title name as a colloquial name tagged with him after the film released .
anurag kashyap recently said he thinks
gandu”, in times to come, will be defined as the most seminal film of our times .
gandu
is an indian film, but it as about as far from bollywood as you can get. this is a fresh and transgressive film that america would not have the guts to make .
gandu is repulsive yet immensely hallucinating. a film that has a structure that none of the indian films have the balls to follow up on .
after nihilistic rapper gandu steals from his mother' s lover, he embarks on a drug - fueled rampage with a rickshaw puller in this abstract film .
new distributor, artsploitation films, hits the ground running with gandu dec. 11 !
the mumbai screening of
gandu
is organized by the taj enlighten film society at the naya cinema film festival. as of now 1, 642 facebook members are attending. that' s probably half the filmmakers in this town .
bengali indie film “ gandu ” (asshole) directed by q (formerly known as kaushik mukherjee) has taken the world by storm since its award - winning international premiere at new york’s south asian international film festival in 2010, yet managed a public screening in india only last year at the osian film festival .
gandu urges rickshaw to' take him away' ricksha and gandu then go off to consume dhatura seeds which causes them both to go on a strange and extremely intense trip. when they come to their senses they find they have no money. in a meta narrativistic scene the director q himself drives into the scene and gandu is told by ricksha how gandu is a character in a movie being shot by q. gandu cannot quite comprehend this .
“gandu seems guaranteed to win over fans exhausted with the tried and true. ” – variety
an editor, assistant director, play writer, theatre director and guest faculty of the department of film film studies, jadavpur university. he edited nabarun (a doc by q) and ludo (a film by nikon and q) .
best short film :
the fantastic flying books of mr. morris lessmore
gandu hates his life. he hates his mother. gandu raps out his hate, anger, dirt and filth of his existence. he and his rickshawpuller friend enter the world of smack, rap, porn and horror. reality and fiction, surreal and bizarre come together. can gandu survive ?
this is the first regional film kashyap will be producing. q is the most courageous and unique voice in indian cinema at the moment. and gandu in time will be talked about as the most seminal film of our generation. he is to india what gaspar noe is to the west and we are proud to be on board his next film,  says kashyap .
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now
gandu
has its first local screening in mumbai on saturday july 30 in andheri (w) .
anjada gandu is a remake of the tamil film, manam kothi paravai. this laugh riot is a sentimental family film and is set in a village. the film 's story revolves around a love story where the guy falls in love with a girl who is daughter of a goon. to save his love from arrange marriage he kidnaps her. but the girl doesn 't love the guy. what will be the repercussions of this act, forms the story of the film .
if you were one of the terribly disappointed viewers at mumbai’s naya cinema festival last july when the film’s slot at a preview theatre exempted from censorship was cancelled because the screening was denied police protection; or have been part of the frequent conversations starting with “how do i get my hands on gandu? , ” or are embittered that the closest you’ve come to the film is watching q rap with the film’s spinoff band gandu circus, rejoice and head over to icinema, which now has the movie up for download .
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qs unfazed by the strong reactions to gandu. the voyeuristic nature in gandu is a reflection of the repression in society. but the subconscious will accept the other layers of information and will affect the viewing to a large extent. 
he is even optimistic about the release of gandu in india. he points out how love in india was let off by the censor board with minimal cuts. the narrative proceeds through these risqué sexual jokes where the worst part is the last line. they wanted to take out the punch lines. but finally didnt,  he smiles. the film won a rajat kamal (silver lotus) for the best film on family values in the non - feature film category of the 58th national film awards in 2010 .
however, there are as many who have been offended by the film' s explicit sex scenes .
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warning: this film contains graphic content and may be upsetting and / or offensive to some people .
the music of the film was composed by upendra kumar with lyrics written by r. n. jayagopal. the album consists of five soundtracks. [ 5 ] the title track
mandyada gandu
was received extremely well .
the first day of the tour found us at the london premiere of gangs of wasseypur. anurag kashyap had a very interesting q & a after the film. the london indian film festival was using an image from gandu for the backdrop of all their posters and leaflets. that drew our attention. so, we stood in attention !
a film editor coming from a theatre background, has been part of oddjoint for 5 years now and has been part of films like gandu, tasher desh and b naman. a junk food addict, vegetarian and a chain passive smoker .
ok, so indian audiences wont get to see it just yet because its still to go to the film censor board. in india, its going to be a long road what with censors, distributors etc,  says a seemingly unperturbed q. nevertheless, gandu s picked up accolades on the festival circuit. it had five sold - out screenings at the 61st berlinale this year, preceded by a screening at the slamdance international film festival in utah. the film won the best director and jury prize awards at the 2010 south asian international film festival in new york and, more recently, won q the grand jury prize for best director at the 37th seattle international film festival .
artsy fartsy. yes, the club was actually called that! the club in cologne is really small and normally doubles as an art gallery. there was a screening of gandu, followed by the performance. some film buffs who had seen gandu earlier drove 200km to watch the gig. we were deeply flattered and alarmed to learn this after the gig, only to find out that it’s a way of life for some people. god bless the bildstorung guys for releasing the dvd of gandu in germany .
when most of us think of indian cinema, the first thing that springs to mind are the bright, festive films of typically associated with bollywood. this is a good starting place to approach gandu, from renegade director q, because in most ways it is an anti - bollywood film, a dark response to that segment of the indian film industry .
it is hard not to be excited by this fiercely idiosyncratic approach to protest filmmaking and gandu gleefully tramples all expectations of indian culture .
an
anti - bollywood
assault, gandu is the adrenaline - fueled story of an aspiring rapper and full - time slacker .
the film has been picked up by brand - new philadelphia - based u. s. distributor artsploitation films, which had its first release in november 2012 — the indian film gandu. artsploitation released vanishing waves on march 15 in new york. it opened in chicago on march 29 and will be screened on april 19 at the cinedelphia film festival in philadelphia and the calgary underground festival in calgary, alberta. its north american dvd / vod release date is june 18 .
the film is a psychedelic and intense rendition of nobel laureate rabindranath tagore ’s dance - drama of the same name, or in the words of q himself, it is “tagore on an acid trip”. co - produced by bollywood filmmaker anurag kashyap, the film stars anubrata basu who was also the lead actor in “gandu”, rituparna sen who had previously worked on the costumes for “gandu”, and soumyak kanti de biswas who had played the character of pablo in anjan dutt ’s “madly bengali”. besides, the film also casts naseeruddin shah ’s son, imaad shah of “dil dosti etc” fame in an important role .
bengali indie filmmaker kaushik mukherjee, better known as q, shot to fame and recognition after his highly controversial film “gandu” received great critical acclaim and bagged awards at major international film festivals in 2010 (though it has yet to make it past the censor board on home turf). now, the progressive, enfant terrible director - producer is set to achieve another feat –competing in the cinema xxi section of the rome film festival (rff) with his latest production “tasher desh” .
gandu is an angry young man who raps about his hatred of life, and of his mother. he and his rickshaw - puller friend enter the world of smack, rap, porn and horror. reality and fiction, surreal and bizarre come together. can gandu survive ?
the narrative feature
gandu
and the documentary
hot coffee
won the top jury prizes at the seattle international film festival, which celebrated the winning films on sunday at the golden space needle awards ceremony and brunch at seattle' s space needle .
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gandu is a bengali movie directed by qaushiq mukherjee. the film has caused some controversy because of language and scenes of nudity and sex. audiences have left during sex scenes, especially when the main star anubrata basu shows his erect penis in a love scene .
the lena sharpe award for persistence of vision, which was presented by women in film / seattle to the film that received the largest number of awards in public voting, went to
being elmo: a puppeteer' s journey .
' gandu', director q' s bold and artistic dive into the world of surrealism, is quite an interesting experimental film. q describes his film as a' rap musical' which, in a way, is an agreeable term to describe it. the background score by the alternative rock band' five little indians' goes quite well with the tone of the movie .
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one day, gandu runs into a rickshaw driver and bruce lee - obsessed punk named ricksha (joyraj). the two become friends and gandu finally has someone to discuss his rap ambitions with. they also begin to take drugs, which leads to some hallucinations. gandu also finds himself increasingly fascinated with a girl (rii), who shows up in various forms as a girl in the internet café and as an apparent prostitute .
and thirdly, where a drug induced haze, clouds and blurs reality and immerses gandu in a sexually charged, almost meta (there' s a segment where the director shows up filming the film itself) state where vulnerability and hope collide and the results are baffling .
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known for socio - politically charged films and rap music, q is currently based out of goa and kolkata. his film gandu was an official selection at the berlinale and it travelled to more than 60 film festivals worldwide, becoming an instant indie cult phenomenon. brahman naman had its world premiere at sundance and was picked up by netflix as its launch film for india. q’s tasher desh, ludo and love in india travelled across the globe, winning several national and international awards. 7 years post gandu, q’s new feature ‘garbage’ recently saw world premiere at the berlinale, 2018 and was nominated for the teddy awards. q’s rapper identity is doktorgandu and he prefers his humor black .
the trouble doesn’t lie in its excesses or even its transgressions; the problem lies in determining whether or not gandu is a good movie. q seems to use the 2010 flick as an experiment, stating a desire “to make a film without the boundaries of morality that my society has built around us…i wanted to make a punk film - pungent, noisy and dirty, something that is prohibited in indian society. ”
q says he isn' t afraid of the film being remembered for just its sexual content, including nudity, fellatio and masturbation .
tackling sexuality and taboo is the most important thing about gandu. if the people don' t remember that, then what have i done ?
gandu is also apparently quite lonely. his choice of hairstyle (shaved nearly bald) and general proclivity to drugs and rap makes him an object of ridicule in front of most of his peers, who mock him as' an egglike gandu'. his loneliness is dispelled when he literally bumps into ricksha (joyraj bhattacharjee), a cycle rickshaw driver, who slaps gandu and then scares him off by a bizarre show of kung fu (it is later revealed that ricksha literally worships bruce lee and models himself on his idol) that night gandu has a dream of himself and ricksha in a near naked embrace (this has led to the common perception that gandu and ricksha share a homosexual relationship but the movie itself never shows this explicitly and it maybe a more symbolic element )
q overlays lyrics, beats, images and graphics to create a singular, often high - velocity pace, especially after gandu meets the rickshaw - puller named, oddly enough, ricksha (joyraj), a bruce lee acolyte with whom gandu starts down a road of drugs, debauchery and eventually sex. predominantly shot in black - and - white, “gandu” shifts, “oz” - like, into color during the title subject’s elaborate deflowering by a hooker (rii) who displays no inhibitions at all. neither does q, for that matter, and his “gandu” seems guaranteed to win over fans exhausted with the tried and true .
lena sharpe award for persistence of vision, presented by women in film / seattle this award is presented to the female director whose feature film receives the highest number of audience ballots. being elmo: a puppeteer’s journey, directed by constance marks (usa, 2011 )
the dvd by artsploitation is a worthy package for such a unique, unusual film. first it comes with a well packaged, 12 - page booklet. it contains an introduction from q, as well as a lengthy essay from film critic travis crawford, that dives into the meat of the film, including distinguishing gandu from what is traditionally considered “bollywood”. both parties, q and crawford, come together for an interview the touches on the origins of the story, the influence of music, what project q has lined up next, and much more .
and if indians have been vigorously complaining about gandu — some say it' s
damaging to the country
— others too have been walking out of the film' s screenings, disturbed by its relentless emphasis on sex, even as the director tends to dub it
sexuality .
a 33 - minute documentary takes you behind the scenes of the film in almost every conceivable way. in a series of archival footage and interviews, q talks about how the story is heavily improvised and sprung forth from a musical collaboration. you follow the cast and crew around the world as they show the film at festivals like the berlin international film festival, and slamdance in park city. one especially interesting segment deals with the explicit sexual content in the film, from the mechanics of filming the scenes, to the thematic implications .
on one of his stealing missions, gandu' s mother sees him and hides him from dasbabu and seemingly laughs in complicity. this causes gandu great anguish and he curses in frustration. his mother comes naked and then knocks on his door. he is late in responding and she slaps him angrily and walks away .
everyone did everything in the film, like we do in overdose,  recalls rii, qs girlfriend who played three roles in the film. we act, we ideate, run errands. all the food shot in his films is cooked by me!  she says .
best short film golden space needle award the fantastic flying books of mr. morris lessmore, directed by william joyce (usa, 2011 )
this all begins to change when he finds a friend in a bruce lee worshiping rickshaw driver, whom gandu appropriately refers to as
rickshaw - walla
,
walla
being the indian suffix for any position of manual labor .
walla
at the end of someones name not only denotes what they do, it kind of denotes caste, in a country where caste still plays some part. gandu doesn' t even have a caste, though we can assume through his motivations that he is looking to rise. as gandu and rickshaw - walla ricochet between fantasy and reality, gandu starts to realize that he is what stands in his way, and he needs an epiphany. soon enough, the gods take pity and his daily lottery pays off, which sends gandu on a journey of self - realization .
the movie is set on the life of an unnamed protagonist saneesh (anubrata basu) who is called gandu by most who address him in the movie (an indian slang / swear word that would literally translate to' of the ass', the english translation running in the subtitle translates it to the english' asshole'). gandu is portrayed as a frustrated teenager whose state of mind is shown by intercuts of him rapping in bengali (it is later revealed in the movie that the protagonist is a member of a rap band). gandu' s mother (kamalika banerjee) seemingly supports the family through the magnanimity of her' lover' dasbabu (an unvoiced character who appears frequently) gandu' s mother and dasbabu (silajit majumder) are shown having graphic sex a number of times. gandu himself is shown repeatedly sneaking into the room of the copulating couple to steal money from dasbabu' s wallet. gandu seemingly has complex emotions regarding this stealing and takes care to hide from his mother .
sins had frontal nudity which lead to the catholic secular forum file a public interest litigation to stall its release but the court cleared the film .
the first look of “tasher desh” was revealed at cannes this year and it has been described as a cross between classic bengali work and “the rocky horror picture show”. the film is also known to have explored sexuality in a way different from “gandu” whose explicit sexual content forbade it from being released in indian theatres .
the film had its world premiere at the 2012 karlovy vary international film festival. it received a special mention award in karlovy vary’s east of the west competition, so it was invited to other festivals. it won several more awards, including awards at festivals in the european fantastic film festivals federation and the fantastic fest in austin, texas, an effff supporting member. it won the silver and gold melies awards at lund, sweden and sitges, spain, respectively, and the four main awards in austin (best director, best screenplay, best film, best actress) .
a writer, director, filmmaker divides her time between brooklyn and calcutta. her debut film let’s be out, the sun is shining premiered at the 2012 new york indian film festival. has collaborated with oddjoint on projects like nuclear hearts as a director and ludo as the chief assistant director .
cosmic sex is a 2014 art - house independent bengali film written and directed by amitabh chakraborty and produced by putul mahmood. the film is the story of a young man kripa who is on the run from sex and violence one night in kolkata when he meets a woman sadhavi who strangely resembles his dead mother. she gives him shelter and teaches him to travel inwards through sex. the sex is supposed to be unsimulated in the film .
2. the movie is in the bengali language; the word
gandu
basically means
asshole
. so the name of this movie is actually
asshole
.
in fact gandu circus, the band behind the soundtrack with their sonic punk aesthetic and mc rapping in bengali, will play live on july 30 at 8: 30 p. m. at mumbai times café off linking road in bandra as part of the film' s mumbai tour. download the title track, here .
the seattle international film festival completed its 37th year with an awards ceremony at the space needle this morning, where it announced the competition and golden space needle audience awards. top winners included “q” kaushik mukherjee’s “gandu, ” from india, which won the grand jury prize for best new director. the film premiered earlier this year at the slamdance film festival. susan saladoff’s sundance entry “hot coffee” won the grand jury prize for best documentary, while the high school poetry slam documentary “to be heard” and the fishing industry exposé “sushi: the global catch” won special jury prizes. spanish director emilio aragón won the best film golden space needle award for “paper birds, ” while the filmmakers and subjects of “to be heard” won a second prize for best documentary golden space needle award .
this is where the film bursts from its conventions and starts to really shine. at the suggestion of his friend, and following the ingestion of some potent drugs, gandu surges out to seize his day. this leads to a remarkably colorful, sensual, sleazy, gritty, and real encounter with a woman, a prostitute perhaps, which helps gandu find his groove. the sex scene is extended and graphic and is probably meant as much to challenge the viewer as it is to push the story forward. no punches are pulled, and nothing is hidden. following this encounter all of gandu' s fantasies begin to coalesce and turn, bit by bit, to reality. the style changes, in fact, a whole new set of opening credits appears halfway through the film, marking the division. this is very daring stuff .
just when his life seems to have hit the most hopeless low, things take a drastic turn. gandu and rickshaw go on a metaphysical road trip, and after their drug - addled, spiritual journey, gandu winds the lotto jackpot, records a demo, finally finds a hot girl willing to have sex with him, and starts down the road to fame. the only portion of the film shot in quick blasts of color, all of this may very well be nothing more than another vivid hallucination .
the vision of director q, whose real name is quashik mukherjee ,
gandu
follows a slum youth who is disgusted with his mother and teams up with his rickshawallah pal .
the only place where gandu feels like a success is in his own words. he is a rapper, and a good one at that. in fact, the only words we hear from his mouth for the first third of the film are his rhymes as he will break into a scene with bombastic lyrics set to guitar and bass - fuzz driven beats. gandu has no need to talk to the people around him, we can tell through his poetry that he sees no need for them, and despises most of them. we, the audience, see what gandu is capable of, but no one else in the film does. he lives within his own mind, and he feels very little impetus to move outside of that small place, because he looks around and sees that success is not something that happens to people in his world .
he visited india in 2002 (he moved back here only in 2006) and, flush with film fever, started making tepantorer maathe, a dogma film (a genre where films are made without the use of elaborate special effects or technology and concentrates on the story and acting instead) about reality and illusion .
it may be loose on story, and officially made without a script, but gandu (a curse word) has become one of the most talked about films at the berlinale here .
( hindi slang for asshole) is a deliriously frantic, music - infused look at one poor young man and his dreams of becoming a rap star. excitable gandu lives in kolkata. poor, he survives by stealing spare change from his mother’s sleazy lover. gandu’s lives to a rapper, and finds a comrade - in - song with another young man, the bruce lee - loving rickshaw. together they sing, drink, do drugs, wander the city and collectively dream of success. when gandu wins big in the lottery all his dreams seem to come true. or do they? told in fragmented scenes with pulsating music, the film is surreal, wild, weird, unpredictable, and sexually graphic ,
like many of the best comedies and tragedies, this weimar - era silent film understands how each mode is often a hair' s breadth from the other .
satyajit ray had not planned to make a sequel to pather panchali, but after the film' s international success, he decided to continue apu' s narrative. aparajito picks up where the first film leaves off, with apu (smaran ghosal) and his family having moved away from the country to live in the…
was the decision to shoot in black and white. more than just an aesthetic choice, his vision allows the viewer to experience this film and its characters free from prejudice. india is a very colorful country, even in its poorest parts, and allowing those colors to intrude onto what is a very personal story would have lessened its impact. the choice to remove color from the equation is critical in getting q' s film to work. we have to see these characters in their own world, how they see it, and to me, it doesn' t seem all that colorful. the editing of the film is really very jarring most of the time, but in a very effective way. the film cuts back and forth across characters, often with no regard for story or plot, but that really isn' t what the film is about. we feel off - kilter, just like gandu, his world is small and he tries to make it bigger .
music videos, trailers, additional featurettes, and more round out the more than 58 - minutes of extra material on this home release. while gandu the film is definitely the draw, and the main reason why you should check this out, the bonus features certainly add to the package, and add a great deal to the movie watching experience .
gandu introduces us to the title character (anubrata basu), an aspiring rapper in a poor neighbourhood in kolkata. he lives with his mother (kamalika), who is banging dasbabu (silajit) and suffers under the weight of economic difficulty and an ostensibly lazy son. because of difficulties at home, gandu spends most of his life between an internet café and the streets .
producer. composer. performer. singer. songwriter. has scored original music for several films and series. he performs with gandu circus, neel and the lightbulbs, and neel and zico .
, or any of the litany of
kids gone bad
films we have seen. in fact, the characters in this film wouldn' t even be given any lines in a typical, or even an atypical indian studio film. these are real people, poor people, desperate people; people living lives completely within themselves and apart from their surroundings. gandu, the title character, is one of these people. he spends his days following a routine: breakfast with mom, wait for mom and her boyfriend to get down to business and steal from boyfriend' s wallet, use proceeds to gamble daily, visit internet cafe; lather, rinse, repeat. however, beneath the facade of routine, gandu seethes .
q is a cool guy. almost a satire of himself,  laughs anubrata, adding i think i wouldve wanted to be part of gandu even if i was asked to just hold the camera. 
released on dvd by the good people at artsploitation films, gandu is at times a bold vision of life on the streets. the music, delivered by alternative rock band five little indians, is the driving engine of the film and lies very close to q’s heart. scenes are broken up by musical interludes, allowing basu’s character to run through his personal feelings with ferocity and skill .
the rough cut screening caused many heart attacks and the film was shelved,  says q. (he still hasnt given up on it though. i will keep making this film again and again, every 10 years, till its time. ) but q had about rs 30, 000 remaining and wanted to do something worthwhile before he left .
the documentary jury was comprised of: krysanne katsoolis, cactus three; richard lorber, kino lorber inc. ; and katherine tulich, hollywood foreign press and international federation of film critics .
in q' s film you aren' t the judge, you are a mere spectator, a witness of someone' s life unfolding on screen, a character study. the camera explores everything that happens in gandu' s life, in detail, for which the film has earned popularity around the internet, i think, but there' s more to gandu than its overly explicit sequences. its stage isn' t set up in fantastical land, its sphere casts poor people, desperate people who' s desires quench for something over an inch of survival, even if it' s mere illusion. q develops a great strategy, his courageous attempt that is an outcast to indian cinema paints a black and white kolkata having ordinary day to day people. amongst them is a frustrated, wasted, overlooked…
directed by q (qaushiq mukherjee), gandu is an interesting but not entirely convincing bengali film. it arrives packed with danger, having been “banned in india” and received a number of transgressive descriptors. indeed, the motion picture may well blast away the boundaries of the sort of mainline cinema most are used to when it comes to india. it may even be “anti - bollywood, ” as advertised .
20 year old aspiring rapper gandu (bengali slang for
asshole
) steals cash from his prostitute mother' s regular client, and gets his big shot at stardom after crossing paths with a bruce lee - obsessed rickshaw driver who plies him with hard drugs. as the pair flees their lives to pursue a career in hip - hop, gandu loses his virginity to an uninhibited prostitute while lost in a surreal haze of sex and drugs .
the movie revolves around a not - so - bright jobless adolescent named gandu (meaning moron). he has his simple life with dreams and fantasies, getting by on the money he steals from the guy screwing his mom. he befriends a rickshaw - walla named ricksha (ironically), and both spend most of their time in a heroin - induced haze, filled with adventures, porn, and sex. gandu gets music deals, wins…
berlin – kristina buozyte’s erotic sci - fi drama vanishing waves (a. k. a. aurora) is lithuania’s little film that could. the 1. 175 - million - euro ($ 1. 5 million) lithuanian - french - belgian co - production has made waves on the festival circuit in both hemispheres, including high - profile sci - fi film fests .
yea yea, purposeless life, meaningless existence, emptiness engulfing him. life for this guy - gandu sucks real bad. but the movie does not need to suffer from emptiness also. period. the movie has a weird sorta nihilism all the way. a movie like salo by pasolini with probably the same intentions as q' s gandu turned out so much better than this. sex used to add shock value, weird characters, irritating lyrics, dirty bleak world of gandu, close and jerky camera shots, no story, whore mommy with no explanation of her intentions, weird bruce lee sorta friend / rickshaw puller - makes for a good headache in the end .
the very title, gandu, is hindi slang for asshole, so right out of the gate, the film sets itself up as abrasive and confrontational. in fact the movie is so controversial that it is banned in india. filmed primarily in gritty black and white, the story is grim, bleak, and hallucinatory, garnering apt comparisons to filmmakers like gaspar noe (enter the void, irreversible) and wong kar wai (chunking express). explicitly sexual, the film features multiple instances of non - simulated oral sex, and one extended look at the lead player masturbating as he watches porn .
q continually walks the line between gratuitous and arty, sometimes plodding along with one foot in each. it’s hard to discount the sex scene as anything less than explicit and needless, but it’s also impossible to question the filmmaker’s idea of wanting to blast away the status quo. in that gandu is a film made “purely out of frustration, ” it makes sense that its assiduously bold desires would land as they do .
according to him, this is the reason he has so many scenes of the mother and her lover, even though it is established early on that it is one of the main reasons for the frustrations of the boy gandu .
mag für die indische filmindustrie als tabubrecher bedeutender sein, als er einem abgeklärten deutschen zuseher erscheinen mag. gandu hat auf der provokanzebene nicht wirklich neues zu bieten, doch mag die wilde aus sex, drugs und rap durchaus zu unterhalten .
gandu (probably untranslate - able in a family magazine) which released a few months ago on the global festival circuit has created a predictable enough storm with its explicit content (read expletives, frontal nudity, sex, masturbation) .
crew: camera (b & w / color, widescreen); q; editors, manas mittal, q; music, five little indians; sound, dipankar chaki, anirban sengupta; animation fx, blowfish fx. reviewed at slamdance film festival (special screenings), jan. 22, 2011. (also in berlin film festival - - panorama .) running time: 85 min .
q, whose repertoire includes documentaries like le pocha and love in india and features like tepantorer maathe (unrele - ased), bishh and gandu, has exciting plans for the future. he will start shooting a musical based on rabindranath tagores tasher desh (the land of cards) later this year. and this time hell have backing from bollywood director - producer anurag kashyap, wholl co - produce the film with qs company overdose .
gandu has a definite diy punk rock feel and aesthetic. fueled by fast paced rhymes and raw music, his dark dreams of sex, drugs, and fame plays out like a fever dream, and his lyrics are full of anger, angst, and directionless rebellion. he has no hope for the future, no prospects, and the constant pulsing, reckless tunes serve as a narrative device, driving the pace, plot, and film forward .
a truly independent film of integrity and offhand grace, zero bridge tells the deeply affecting tale of a student and small - time criminal in kashmir who develops a crush on an older, college educated woman .
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i was completely blown over by it, more so, by q’s rap ,
said kashyap .
q is the most courageous and original film - maker i have known in this country .
the short film jury was comprised of: kellie ann benz, the shorts report; bill murray, northwest screenwriters guild; jason plourde, three dollar bill cinema and tom skerritt, actor and founder, thefilmschool .
the scene: the rondo sztuki art centre at katowice, poland. onstage filmmaker q and singer - songwriter neel adhikari are belting out the title song from gandu to a wild audience. backing them are six polish men screaming a bengali expletive in chorus .
a frenetic velocity and energy infuses every frame of the film. split screens, frantic edits, and an urgent visual style grabs you and propel you forward into the void with all of the infectious power and force of an adrenaline - filled club anthem. thematically dense, dealing with identity, morality, sex, drugs, hope, gandu is dark, pessimistic, and divisive. it’s also a fantastic, fun, frenzied slice of finding hope in a hopeless life .
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gandu is an angry young man who raps about his hatred of life, and of his mother. he and his rickshaw - puller friend enter the world of smack, rap, porn and horror. reality and fiction, ... see full summary »
is the kind of film that is unlikely to see any kind of wide release, and he is right. it certainly won' t see release in india, and even its value on the art film market is limited by a number of factors. none of these likelihoods make it any less worthy of viewing. if you are in the area, definitely check this one out, it will give you a new perspective on what indian film is capable of. this kind of boundary pushing work deserves support, if for no other reason that to support the free speech and clarity of artistic vision that some people still have to leave their homelands to exhibit .
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pursued by a camera that seems to be suffering attention deficit disorder, gandu saturates the audio with a torrent of ire - inspired rap (“you will be a balloon / and i will be the pin”) as the english translations fill the screen in block typography and the cutting maintains a jackrabbit pace. any connection to traditional screen storytelling is pretty well severed, as is gandu’s connection to the world around him by the small outrages and disappointments he suffers within his opportunity - free indian environment — and his ongoing emasculation via his mother’s lover .
suddenly he' s getting action from a sexy young woman and living the dream of a hip hop star. where does fantasy end and reality begin in this new transformation? gandu is a punk odyssey told with energy from real streets where imagination is the only escape .
gandu (anubrata basu) lives in the slums of kolkata (formerly calcutta) with his mother, getting by lifting bills out of her cheesy lover’s (he wears aviator shades during sex) wallet while they go to town on each other. his existence is haze of drugs, games of chance, hanging out with his bruce lee - fixated buddy rickshaw (joyraj bhattacharya), who just happens to drive a rickshaw, freebasing by the train tracks. a slacker and graffiti artist in his spare time, gandu dreams of becoming a rapper .
british film institute, london. this was the first gig of our tour and the circus shook the bfi. susheela raman and sam mills joined us for the song dhuan from the soundtrack of gandu. we had one round of informal practice at the breakfast table with acoustic guitars and she picked up the bangla chorus in no time. susheela opened the set with a bangla song. the rajasthani folk dons kutle khan on kartal and nathu solanki on nagara joined them on stage. they jammed with us on a couple of tracks. the show went completely berserk when steve savale from asian dub foundation played gandu with us. susheela is amazing and sam is a guru and both sustained the madness ending with raise up your hands. yes, all of us bounced together on stage !
as far i' ve seen bengali films, i think this is the 1st ever attempt by a bengali filmmaker to enroll the' bangla cinema' into the exploitation genre of movies that has passed its golden era in european, american & asian (japanese) film - circle between late 60s to 70s. the abusive & raw nature in dialogs or character attributes with the backdrop of a gritty lifestyle or dark realism as well as use of explicit sex & violence to manipulate / force or more precisely exploit the viewers to' taste & feel' the vicious & darkest corner of life... are some basic features in any exploitation movie. and on that ground, gandu succeeds moderately, imo. the problem is gandu is a little exploitation drama that comes with an art house…
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is not. it is not colorful, it is not polite, it is not fantastical, it is not modest in any way. the film has its faults, but even those can plausibly be chalked up to stylistic choices .
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feels real, which is not a characteristic of many big indian films. it is a very intense and kinetic story. there are times in the film when it feels as though style takes precedence over substance, but it all comes together in the end. the style is the substance, each editorial decision is made to provide further context for the actions in the film. if something appears to be random, i assure you, it is not, it perhaps hasn' t drilled its way through your brain yet. i' m certainly not ashamed to say that it has taken me several days to begin processing this film, and i still don' t think i am completely through with it .
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first of all, all praise for quashiq mukherjee for bringing a movie that is almost considered taboo on the screen. gandu is never trying to become something classy or an art film per say, but it becomes eventually. a movie which is revelation in it' s own league in asia, punk rock attitude and what not? gandu id portrayed as a frustrated teenager whose state of mind is shown by intercuts of him rapping in bengali (it is later revealed in the movie that the protagonist is a member of a rap band). the movie got hugely criticized for it' s use of sex, taboo relationships and portraying nihilistic approach of a young teenager in such raw shape! it' s tottaly shot in black and white to increase the uneasiness. it' s a
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gandu is a 2010 black-and-white indian film , in the bengali language , directed by qaushiq mukherjee . it features anubrata , joyraj , kamalika , silajit , and rii in the lead roles . the film 's music is by the alternative rock band five little indians . gandu previewed at yale university before making its international premiere on 29 october 2010 at the 2010 south asian international film festival in new york city . gandu was an official selection at the 2011 berlin international film festival and was also screened at the slamdance film festival . gandu has received mainly positive reviews from critics . john reis called it " a stunning visual and narrative feast " while variety said it is " a happily transgressive rhyme-fueled romp " . gandu has caused some controversy because of language and scenes of nudity and sex . audiences have left during sex scenes . because of the controversy the film did not have its first public screening in india until 2012 at the osian film festival . the main star anubrata basu is shown with his penis fully erect in a love scene . 
gandu is a 2010 black-and-white indian film, in the bengali language, directed by qaushiq mukherjee. it features anubrata, joyraj, kamalika, silajit, and rii in the lead roles. the film's music is by the alternative rock band five little indians. gandu previewed at yale university before making its international premiere on 29 october 2010 at the 2010 south asian international film festival in new york city. gandu was an official selection at the 2011 berlin international film festival and was also screened at the slamdance film festival. gandu has received mainly positive reviews from critics. john reis called it " a stunning visual and narrative feast " while variety said it is " a happily transgressive rhyme-fueled romp ". gandu has caused some controversy because of language and scenes of nudity and sex. audiences have left during sex scenes. because of the controversy the film did not have its first public screening in india until 2012 at the osian film festival. the main star anubrata basu is shown with his penis fully erect in a love scene.
gandu is a 2010 black-and-white indian film, in the bengali language, directed by qaushiq mukherjee. it features anubrata, joyraj, kamalika, silajit, and rii in the lead roles. the film's music is by the alternative rock band five little indians. gandu previewed at yale university before making its international premiere on 29 october 2010 at the 2010 south asian international film festival in new york city. gandu was an official selection at the 2011 berlin international film festival and was also screened at the slamdance film festival. gandu has received mainly positive reviews from critics. john reis called it " a stunning visual and narrative feast " while variety said it is " a happily transgressive rhyme-fueled romp ". gandu has caused some controversy because of language and scenes of nudity and sex. audiences have left during sex scenes. because of the controversy the film did not have its first public screening in india until 2012 at the osian film festival. the main star anubrata basu is shown with his penis fully erect in a love scene.