Satyajit Ray’s book “Our films, their films” brings together Satyajit Ray’s major writings and talks on film makers, and presents them in two sections.
Our Films is devoted mainly to his own experiences and contains many interesting anecdotes, but also has observations to offer on trends in Indian films. Their Films deals with some films abroad that have become landmarks in the history of cinema from the silent era to the present day and offers glimpses of great directors like Renoir, John Ford, Kurosawa and Charlie Chaplin, who are Ray s personal favourites.
This widely acclaimed book is now translated in to Telugu with the title “Cinemalu-Manavi Vaallavi”. Popular Telugu blogger VB Sowmya translated this book in to Telugu. The book is published under the Navatarangam film studies section. “Navatarangam Film Studies” is formed by a group of film enthusiasts who also run a popular film based website “navatarangam.com”
This book was launched at Prasad Labs’ preview theater by C.Parthasarathi, IAS, (Commisoner (I&PR), MD, State Film, TV & Theater Development Corporation.) and handed over the first copy of the book to the chief guest D. Suresh Babu. Popular film director Mohana Krishna Indraganti and Venkatesh Chakravarthy (Dean, Ramanaidu Film School) also spoke about the book.
The book launch was then followed by a film screening. For the first in Hyderabad three widely acclaimed open source films – Sintel, Big Buck Bunny and Elephants dream were screened. Later two national award winning short films – Postman and Advaitam were also screened.
This event was organised by navatarangam.com in association with Hyderabad Film Club and Federation of Film Societies. The highlight of the event was the screening of open source film through the Spirit Digital Cinema System. The crystal clear picture and sound with some amazing graphics was a pleasure to watch.
