[Assam] Jahnu Baruah

Mon Oct 3 03:56:45 EDT 2005

Hi,

Yesterday we saw the movie and its a great one.

Rgds,
Himangshu
Bangalore

>>From Assam Tribune
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>Guwahati, Friday, September 30, 2005
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>Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Maara world release today
>Partha Pratim Hazarika
> GUWAHATI, Sept 29 – This film is being world
>premiered tomorrow. Its cast include names which are
>taken for granted as top rankers in the Bollywood
>filmdom – Anupam Kher, Urmila Matondkar, Waheeda
>Rehman, Boman Irani and Prem Chopra. It is already
>getting very good response from the cinema
>enthusiasts. The film is being premiered in the UK,
>Canada and India tomorrow. What is so special about
>it? 
>
>Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Maara is directed by Jahnu
>Baruah. Our own Jahnu Baruah.
>
>While Maine Gandhi 
, produced by Anupam Kher and to
>be distributed by Yash Raj Films, has got more media
>publicity thanks to the names associated with it, this
>is seemingly Jahnu’s first serious thrust at making
>films in Hindi.
>
>The film examines the ‘death’ of Gandhi’s ideals in
>today’s society, as seen through the eyes of the
>protagonist.
>
>Baruah, who is credited with playing a major part in
>making Assamese films known worldwide, that too with
>high cinematic respect, is today about to turn an
>important leaf in his career. Almost back to back, he
>has finished shooting two Hindi films with
>highly-topical themes, taking a break from making
>films in his mother tongue Assamese. 
>
>Though his debut film, Aparupa, had a
>simultaneously-made Hindi version called Apeksha, and
>though he had made a Hindi telefilm called Tingkhong
>for Doordarshan, the two new films — Maine Gandhi Ko
>Naahin Maara and Butterfly Chase starring Yashpal
>Sharma, Gauri Karnik, Diwakar Pundir and child artiste
>Nyor, both the films having themes that underline
>Baruah’s humanist vision as a filmmaker can be
>construed as the beginning of another glorious chapter
>in his illustrious carreer.
>
>Speaking over telephone early this morning to this
>correspondent (when I made the call, he was preparing
>to face an array of interviewers), Jahnu expressed
>happiness that his desire to make cinema ‘comfortably’
>has at last been met. 
>
>“Maine Gandhi... is about the lost ideals of the
>Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi. As it ought to
>be, these very ideals of Mahatma are still relevant,
>and I have written it keeping that factor in mind,” he
>said emphatically.
>
>It examines the ‘death’ of Gandhi’s ideals in today’s
>society, as seen through the eyes of the protagonist
>played by Anupam Kher, he said, adding, “it’s a humane
>statement, though the title sounds political. It is
>more about the missing of Gandhi and Gandhism in
>today’s society,” he said.
>
>Bappi Lahiri has composed music for the film, and
>interestingly, it has no songs. “It is a totally
>different kind of film. You can say, somewhere between
>the mainstream and parallel genres,” said the director
>who is known for his simplistic style of cinematically
>taking up powerful themes. 
>
>“It’s about a disturbance in a family, and how the two
>protagonists, the father and the daughter (played by
>Urmila Matondkar), face it. Somehow it is linked to
>the death of Gandhi and Gandhism,” Jahnu said.
>
>When asked about the changes he has experienced in
>making films away from his home state, Jahnu who is,
>of late, based in Mumbai, said that it has been a
>comfortable situation for him as the ditrector of
>these two Hindi films, because “here things are done
>in a more organized, channelized and professional
>way”.
>
>It would be interesting to see Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin
>Maara in the context of style of making, for Jahnu has
>delivered some of the finest films acclaimed worldwide
>in Assamese with a meagre financial budget. “This film
>is made within a budget of Rs. 2.5 crore,” he said,
>prompting this correspondent to wonder how comfortable
>he would be, in comparison to Assamese films directed
>by him whose budgets were between Rs 20 and 25 lakh.
>
>In a recent interview, the film’s producer Anupam Kher
>showered praise on his director saying “I have not
>seen a more organized, dedicated and focussed director
>than Baruah in recent years”. That indeed is a
>compliment to one of the finest filmmakers the state
>of Assam has ever seen.
>
>Recently, the film’s female protagonist Urmila
>Matondkar reportedly said that the director of her
>latest film Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Maara was so
>unassuming that sometimes it was difficult to find out
>who was wielding the megaphone in the sets. But then,
>Jahnu Baruah has always been like that. When he is
>working, he hardly talks. He instead lets his
>cinematic vision do all the talking. Maine Gandhi Ko
>Nahin Maara would be another feather in his cap. We
>all hope for the best.
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