The Eight Column Affair

The Eight Column Affair 1987

6.20

The journey of news coming alive, when an athlete featured on the front page falls in love with a tennis starlet featured on the last page of a newspaper.

1987

Hazy Grey Skies

Hazy Grey Skies 2006

1

People are involved in daily encounters without ever being aware of how they are connected with one another. A taxi reveals all.

2006

Hypnothesis

Hypnothesis 1996

1

A man leaves his house. Another applies for leave inhis office. A third finishes his tea. Another getshimself shaved. All four are fresh entrants in theworld of crime: kidnapping to he more precise. Butthe father of the kidnapped boy refuses to pay up.The son has already played this trick before andcollected good ransom. The father does not believethis time it is a real thing, The kidnappers getdesperate. The son has in idea. The plot thickens.

1996

Suman

Suman 1968

1

The passage trom adolescen ce to youth is a phaseduring which a girl emerges in a distinctive periodof her life to another significant phase. Most oftenthere is a synchronous transition in her physicalstate with that of her emotional state of mind. Thisfilm poignantly depicts such a transition in a girl'slife. Her changing attitudes towards her playmates,and objects around are brought out very vividly inthis film.

1968

6:40 PM

6:40 PM 1967

1

FTII Diploma film by Mani Kaul

1967

The Heartbeat

The Heartbeat 2006

1

Aditya has been suffering from muscular dystrophy since theage of l1. Now 25, he has been in hospital for 2 months. Heis a Former chess champion. In his subconscious mind, heplays chess with Death and keeps defeating him, unaware oflittle time left with him. In the hospital he meets a 12 year oldgirl. Aditya gets the idea of donating his eyes to her after hisdeath. That gives birth to the idea of donating his organswhen he is still alive. He confides this idea to his mother whofirst gets disturbed but then talks about it to the doctors.Doctors refuse it as it would be mercy killing, which is not permissible in India. His mother files the suit to supreme court which gets turned down. Aditya dies few days later, Only his eyes get donated

2006

Jee Karta Tha

Jee Karta Tha 1997

1

Barkha returns to her parents house. Her arrival brings some relief and confusion in Chaman's life. Chaman, now in her mid-twenties is stuck in a small town milieu. A childhood friend, Rekha is waiting to get married. And there is a skein of Wool, that has to be knitted fast to make Barkha's husband happy.

1997

Do Hafte Guzarte Do Hafte Nahin Lagte

Do Hafte Guzarte Do Hafte Nahin Lagte 2000

1

When Suman has to go to her mother's house, Bharat asks her to write which she refuses saying that he doesn't know how to keep it to himself. Bharat promises to find the right place for it. She is adamant but writes nonetheless and Bharat has to keep his promise now. And so begins his search for his corner in the space that belongs to many.

2000

Vilaap

Vilaap 1973

1

In the interior of a forest, a tree is being felled. Anordinary event, an event like the shooting of a birdor a rabbit in a forest or the violation of a girl in alonely forest. It is an ordinary human event.. Thefilm humanizes the event of the cutting of a tree ina forest. When one tree is cut (killed, violated) theWOodcutter passes on to the next tree to be cut(killed. violated?

1973

Let's Talk A While

Let's Talk A While 1997

1

A cynical young man and a romantic young womanencountered each other on a night bus journey. Eachspins a story around the other. It turns out that she isgoing to meet someone, she has never seen before. Heis apprehensive. She herself is not so sure.

1997