Paradesi പരദേശി

Paradesi  is Tamil  film directed by Bala .The film is based on real life incidents that took place before independence in the 1930s.

The film is inspired from novel Red Tea written by Paul Harris Daniel. The real suffering of Plantation workers in southern India is reflected in this novel.The author worked in the Tea estate in those period and experienced the workers pain.Earlier times the management kept the workers as slaves. Therefore bala opted for the title Paradesi .

പ്രശസ്ത തമിഴ് സംവിധായകന്‍ ബാല സംവിധാനം ചെയ്യുന്ന ചിത്രമാണ് ''പരദേശി''. പോള്‍ ഹാരിസ് ഡാനിയലിന്റെ "റെഡ് ടീ" എന്ന പ്രശസ്തമായ നോവലില്‍ നിന്നും പ്രചോദനമുള്‍ക്കൊണ്ട് നിര്‍മ്മിക്കുന്ന ചിത്രത്തിന് നന്‍ജില്‍നദനാണ് തിരക്കഥ ഒരുക്കിയിരിക്കുന്നത്.

അടിമകളെപ്പോലെ പണിയെടുക്കാന്‍ വിധിക്കപ്പെട്ടിരുന്ന തേയിലത്തോട്ടത്തിലെ തൊഴിലാളികളുടെ അതിജീവനത്തിനുളള ശ്രമങ്ങളാണ് പ്രമേയം.
 1930 കളില്‍ സംഭവിച്ച യഥാര്‍ത്ഥ സംഭവങ്ങളെ ആസ്പദമാക്കി അണിയിച്ചൊരുക്കുന്ന  ഈ ചിത്രത്തില്‍ മകനെ ഉയര്‍ത്തികൊണ്ടു വരാന്‍ ശ്രമിക്കുന്ന അച്ഛനും അമ്മയും അനുഭവിക്കുന്ന ദുരിതവും വിചാരണകളുമാണ്  വിഷയമാകുന്നത്.

Rajinikanth's Kochadaiyaan-'Titanic 3D' team working on Rajini's 'Kochadaiyaan'

A three member team, who had earlier worked on Titanic 3D at the US, is currently working on the CG works of 'Kochadaiyaan' round the clock. 'Kochadaiyaan' is shot using motion capture technology and is releasing in 3D.
It's also said that Thala Ajith, who usually stays away from promos and film events, will be attending the audio launch of 'Kochadaiyaan' in October in Japan. The actor is very close to Rajinikanth and the duo share a great rapport.
Meanwhile, the makers are spending lavishly on the film. In fact, it's rumored that per day's rent at the London Studio where they shot is about Rs 20 lakh, and the team shot for about four days there.

Post-production work is taking place in a full swing and Nasser who is playing a pivotal role has dubbed continuously for 12 hours.
The film sees Superstar Rajinikanth and Deepika Padukone in the lead roles and has music by AR Rahman. Jackie Shroff plays the villain. It's directed by Soundarya Ashwin. Script and dialogues are by KS Ravikumar.

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Dandupalya tells a spine chilling story -Kannada Film

Dandupalya  is a 2012 Indian Kannada crime movie starring Pooja Gandhi and Raghu Mukherjee in the lead. The movie is based on the real life incidents of notorious gang named Dandupalya .This film is directed by Srinivasa Raju and produced by Girish and Prashanth under Apple Blossom creations banner. Arjun Janya is the music director and Ram Prasad is the cinematographer.
       A-social group named BahujanSamajHorata Samiti is strongly opposing the release of the film Dandupalya claiming that the film not only shows a woman in a bad taste but also the content of the film is highly objectionable and the film also became controversial after actress Pooja Gandhi went topless.

Also Srinivasa Raju, director of the movie faced a plagiary case from P.N Srinath, a journalist who had written a novel "Dandupalyada Hantakaru",based on the infamous gang of Dandupalya. P.N Srinath accused the director for copyright infringement.But the court has kept the case pending after hearing from both the parties.

After the release of the movie,activists of Ambedkar Kranthi Sena staged a demonstration in front of Aparna Cinema in Majestic area and protested against the “glorification of anti-social activities” in the controversial Kannada movie, Dandupalya.
  
Review: Dandupalya tells a spine chilling story

Dandupalya, which is based on a dreaded gang, is a spine chilling film, writes Srikanth Srinivasa.Dandupalya, directed by Srinivasa Raju and starring Pooja Gandhi lives up to its expectations of a crime story. The film not only wreaks terror but is also gory for the crude manner in which the crime is picturised.

There are no heroes or heroines in the film. All the 11 members of the Dandupalya gang are antagonists of the society as they go about their job of raping, killing, house breaking and looting even if it means for small gains. The film tries to showcase their crimes as they had happened in the late 1990s.  

Their modus operandi is simple. They keep tabs on the members of a household before striking them. They choose their victims and it is only those who live alone in their houses. The film shows a young married woman (played by Nisha Kothari [ Images ]) who is also pregnant, falling victim to the gang's nefarious ways, along with her mother-in-law. The wife is unable to convey the good news of her pregnancy to her husband while the latter comes to know of it only through autopsy report. There is another family where two children get killed but the mother escapes.

Police sub-inspector Chalapathi (Ravishankar) and his department spend sleepless nights trying to crack the crime acts. They go after the serial killers as they stumble upon vital clues to show there is a pattern in the crime. Members of the Dandupalya go to a jeweler regularly to pledge the gold in exchange for money. During one such duel between the jeweler and the gang member, Chalapathi smells a rat and then that leads to series of arrests including that of Lakshmi (Pooja Gandhi), one of the female members in the gang.

Lakshmi, who is also one of the 'kingpins' of the gang, is stripped semi-nude during her interrogation after she pleads with Chalapathi to let go of her mates. Chalapathi, who is unsure of the allegiance of the gang gets wind of their activities and finally cracks the case.

Members of the gang face a trial in court with Bhat (Doddanna) fighting for their cause. What does the court decide?

Pooja Gandhi walks away with acting honours. She is a stunner with her vain looks sans makeup throughout the movie and she has lived her role exceptionally well. 

Jayadev as Kothirama, another member of the gang is effective with his cockeyed look and gawky behaviour. Makrand Deshpande as one of the kingpins of the gang is superb. Ravi Kale is okay. The remaining members of the gang get lost in the melee. Ravishankar as the cop is effective. Picturisation of crime is crude but one cannot help if the movie makes you sit up and take notice. Venkat Prasad's exceptional camera work has set the tone for the film. Arjun Janya's music is apt and his background score is in sync with the narrative.

Dandupalya is a spine chilling film that allows you to rewind your memories of the gang that terrorized society some time back. It is horrifying and gory. Go for it to know how the gang operated.

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AMERICA - From Freedom To Fascism (Full Length Documentary)

  

If you trust your government.... You really need to watch this!
Directed & Produced by Aaron Russo

America: Freedom to Fascism is a compelling and troubling account of how the wealth of our nation was silently passed from its citizens to a handful of powerful bankers in 1913. That's the year the Federal Reserve Act and the 16th Amendment were introduced, giving a privately held corporation the means to control our finances while ensuring its interest payments through the strong arms of the newly-formed Internal Revenue Service. Ever since then, Russo suggests, Americans have been gradually conditioned to accept fewer freedoms and a lower standard of living... all the while considering debt and servitude as distinctly American values.

Permission to Engage - Wikileaks Film

Permission to Engage Victims' families and an ex-US soldier unpick the Wikileaks film that showed US forces killing Iraqi civilians in 2007.   Filmmaker: Shuchen Tan On July 12, 2007, the US military shot several Iraqi civilians in Baghdad, an event that shocked the world when footage of the attack was later released by Wikileaks. "The attack took place on a Thursday, when residents of the area had gone to a local market," explains filmmaker Shuchen Tan. "When they saw helicopters hovering over, they ran to their houses, thinking they'd be safe in there but it was those very houses that were blown up."

Permission to Engage traces the people involved in that fateful day and hears their versions of what happened. Those killed included a young Iraqi photojournalist and his assistant, a father out with his children and some neighbours who were caught in the attack while trying to help the wounded. "It was quite challenging to track down the victims and their families. We didn't have names, didn't have addresses, we didn't have anything," explains Tan. "And when we found them, most of them didn't want to share their stories. They felt they had been left by the West and not treated well." The families of the victims and a disillusioned former US soldier who was serving in Iraq around that time unpick the footage in forensic detail and relate their accounts of what happened.

Finding Nemo 3D

Finding Nemo 3D Trailer 

 The comedic and eventful journeys of two fish - Marlin and his son Nemo - who become separated in the Great Barrier Reef when Nemo is unexpectedly taken far from home and thrust into a fish tank in a dentist's office overlooking Sydney harbor. Buoyed by the companionship of a friendly-but-forgetful fish named Dory, the overly cautious father embarks on a dangerous trek and finds himself the unlikely hero of an epic journey to rescue his son - who hatches a few daring plans of his own to return safely home. 

Directors: Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich

Writers: Andrew Stanton (original story), Andrew Stanton (screenplay)

Stars: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres and Alexander Gould

D. W. Griffith: Father of Film

  "When I work for someone else, I always make money for them. When I back my own ideas, I am bound to lose."

D. W. Griffith (1875-1948) is one of the most influential figures in the history of the motion picture. As director of The Birth of a Nation, he is also one of the most controversial. 

He raised the cinema to a new level of art, entertainment, and innovation; and for the first time he illustrated film's potential to become propaganda, to champion a cause and influence an audience.
Collected together here are virtually all of the interviews given by D. W. Griffith from the first in 1914 to the last in 1948. Some of the interviews concentrate on specific films, including The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, and, most substantially, Hearts of the World. 

 Other interviews provide the director with an opportunity to expound on topics of personal interest, including the importance of the proper exhibition of his and others' films, and his search for truth and beauty on screen.

 The interviews are taken from many sources, including leading newspapers, trade papers, and fan magazines. They are often marked by humor and by a desire to please the interviewer and thus the reader. 

Griffith may not have been particularly enthusiastic about giving interviews, but he seems determined always to put on a good show.

 Anthony Slide, Studio City, California, is the author of seventy-five books, including The Griffith Actress and The Films of D. W. Griffith, coauthored with Edward Wagenknecht. 

In 1990, he received an honorary doctorate of letters from Bowling Green University, at which time he was hailed by Griffith's most famous actress, Lillian Gish, as "our preeminent historian of the silent film."

Photo: Walter Long in black makeup as the "renegade negro" Gus in The Birth of a Nation

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