Antarnihit - A Short Film: Events in Hyderabad

REVIEW FOR ANTARNIHIT - A SHORT...

Film lovers of town are in for a treat as the Hyderabad Film Club, in association with the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, is holding the Lensight Film Festival (Diploma Films) on 14th and 15th April, at the Prasad Labs Preview Theatre. 16 short films shot by the students of the 2004-05 batch will be screened.

Today, the first day, Antarnihit (Intrinsic) will be the first film that will be screened. A short Hindi film directed and scripted by Chetna Kaul, this one is about a young woman enveloped in misery as her husband dies unexpectedly. She cannot come to terms with this cruel fact, and abnormality overpowers her. Hallucination and delirium make her suffer, although she tries hard to just live. She also has lost connection with her own daughter.

Caught in this web, she meets a man who is pulling her into something that she has no clue about. She is paranoid and tries to stay away from him, but the man stalks her till she wants to get out of her abnormal cocoon.

Lensight is the name of the journal published by FTII. The festival has been held in Delhi and Mumbai before this. A diploma film is a final year project that brings together students of all the disciplines and calls upon them to put their best foot forward in terms of demonstrating the learning they have acquired.

Diploma films celebrate the spirit of cinema. These films, many of which have been acclaimed as being amongst the finest works in the medium, reflect the composite learning acquired by the students at the institute, as also their professional potential. These films, in a way, are points of departure for discourse amongst the next generation of film professionals.

FTTI is based in Pune and boasts of some renowned personalities of cine world as its alumni, like Jaya Bachchan, Shabana Azmi, Subhash Ghai, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Saeed Mirza, Vinod Chopra, Kundan Shan, Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, Anil Mehta and David Dhawan amongst others. From our state, in addition to Devadas Kanakala, Suresh Oberoi and Talluri Rameshwari, there are G Krishna Rao who has edited a number of films directed by K Vishwanath, and K Ramachandra Rao who has been the professor of editing at the FTII since 1960.

The DVDs of these films are available at the venue for sale on the 15th of April. The entry for all the films is free. For further details, please contact Bh S S Prakash Reddy of the Hyderabad Film Club at 2373-0841/93910-20243.