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Tasveer Newsletter: February 2008

 

The Bollywood Project Event

Bollywood Project
A Film, Dance, and DJ Party
in association with Tasveer, Bollygrooves and Northwest Film Forum.

Where: The White Rabbit in Fremont
513 N 36th St, Suite E
Seattle, WA 98103
When: Saturday, June 4th, 9:00PM (door opens at 8:30PM)
$10 @ the door


You are invited to a night of film, dance and music. This event is a one night only party/fundraiser for a documentary film project about the world behind the scenes of Bollywood. Support your local filmmakers from Seattle and meet them at the event. The film trailer screening will be followed by performances from Seattle based Bollywood Dance Instructor Nina Niranjan. After the 9pm screening of the film DJ Aanshul will kick in with some of the hottest new music to come out of Bollywood.

Check out the The Bollywood Project Trailer

The Bollywood Project Trailer from The Bollywood Project on Vimeo.

You can also watch it at at www.bollywoodproject.net

See you there!

Adam Dow
Dr. Time Productions
206-473-9211

 

 


SIFF2011

Tasveer recommends this exciting selection of latest films from south asia and its diaspora.

We are giving away number of free tickets to these films on our Facebook Fan page or Twitter starting today, keep checking our page.


The Sound of Mumbai: A Musical

United Kingdom, 2010, 64 min., d: Sarah McCarthy
Children from the slums of Mumbai perform a concert of The Sound of Music, experiencing the transformative power of music first hand. This crowd favorite effectively captures the passion of rehearsing a musical, as well as the challenges of life in another area of the world.
Saturday, June 4, 1:00PM, Kirkland PC
Sunday, June 12, 11:00AM, SIFF Cinema

 

 

The Bengali Detective
India/UK, USA, 2011, 90 min., d: Phil Cox
This wildly entertaining documentary set in Kolkata follows a pudgy, middle-aged private dick. Rajesh Ji is a man of fierce purpose, whether it involves serious sleuthing, caring for his beloved family, or coaching a dance routine for a ragtag team of his own employees for a national TV talent show.
Thursday, May 26, 7:00pm, SIFF Cinema
Saturday, May 28, 6:00pm, Everett PAC
Friday, June 3, 7:00pm, Kirkland PC

 

Marathon Boy
India/United Kingdom, USA, 2010, 98 min., d: Gemma Atwal
Born into the slums of eastern India, three-year-old Budhia Singh gained nation-wide notoriety as a marathon running prodigy. But as Budhia’s star rises, so do questions about his coach and adoptive father Biranchi Das. Director Gemma Atwal follows the pair on a three-year journey that leads from triumph to tragedy.
Monday, May 30, 1:00pm, Admiral
Sunday, June 5, 7:00pm, SIFF Cinema
Wednesday, June 8, 4:30pm, Egyptian


Gandu
India, 2010, 87 min., d: Q (Kaushik Mukherjee)
A poor young man in Kolkata befriends a Bruce Leeobsessed rickshaw driver and begins a strange descent into a world of drugs and rap-fueled fantasy in this gritty, resolutely anti-Bollywood adventure.
Tuesday, June 7, 6:30pm, Kirkland PC
Friday, June 10, 7:00pm, Neptune
Saturday, June 11, 1:00pm, Egyptian

 

Flying Fish
Sri Lanka, 2011, 125 min., d: Sanjeewa Pushpakumara
The devastating effects of Sri Lanka’s civil war are told through three interwoven stories of love, betrayal, and ethnic tension in a seemingly idyllic village. A harrowing account of how the psychology of war can infect the civilian population and warp all human interaction, told without a single battle scene.
Tuesday, June 7, 6:30pm, Pacific Place
Thursday, June 9, 4:00pm, Pacific Place

 

 
     
 

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