Love Lies and Seeta
Love Lies and Seeta is a new age urban hipster romantic comedy / musical movie about “falling for a girl who doesn’t believe love exists”, interweaving friendships that cross traditional borders of ethnicities during a NewYork Summer, all told in a entertaining way.
Shot completely in Manhattan and Brooklyn, NY starring young East Indian – American and American actors, appeals to the ‘hipster’ generation of moviegoers or anyone who loves cinema.
The movie follows the lives of the male leads: Rahul played by Arjun Gupta (Nurse Jackie), Tom played by Michael Derek, and Bhavuk played by Lavrenti Lopes, who have all independently met the beautiful Seeta (Melanie Kannokada) at different stages in their lives. As the three-men’s friendships grow, a chance encounter with Seeta makes them realize they all have fallen in love with the same woman. They reach-out to their friends outside the group to cope with falling in love with Seeta.
The movie is releasing worldwide this May 2012
Official Selection -
New Filmmakers Spring Festival 2012 - April 03 2012, Anthology Film Archives, NYC
Selected for " IFS Independent Film Makers Showcase LA March 2012"
CLosing Night Feature "India International Film Festival 2012, Tampa Bay"
"Honorary mention Award" LA New wave Indie Film Fest, LA Dec 2011,
Quoted as "New Talent found on home ground" - Mumbai Film Fest 2011, Mumbai
Screened at " NFDC Film Bazaar - IFFI, GOA Nov 2011"StarringMelanie Kannokada, Arjun Gupta, Lavrenti Lopes, Michael Derek, Leah Kavita, Caroline Korale, Daniel Wilkinson, Rob Byrnes, Jennie Epland and Aaron Katter
Shot completely in Manhattan and Brooklyn, NY starring young East Indian – American and American actors, appeals to the ‘hipster’ generation of moviegoers or anyone who loves cinema.
The movie follows the lives of the male leads: Rahul played by Arjun Gupta (Nurse Jackie), Tom played by Michael Derek, and Bhavuk played by Lavrenti Lopes, who have all independently met the beautiful Seeta (Melanie Kannokada) at different stages in their lives. As the three-men’s friendships grow, a chance encounter with Seeta makes them realize they all have fallen in love with the same woman. They reach-out to their friends outside the group to cope with falling in love with Seeta.
The movie is releasing worldwide this May 2012
Official Selection -
New Filmmakers Spring Festival 2012 - April 03 2012, Anthology Film Archives, NYC
Selected for " IFS Independent Film Makers Showcase LA March 2012"
CLosing Night Feature "India International Film Festival 2012, Tampa Bay"
"Honorary mention Award" LA New wave Indie Film Fest, LA Dec 2011,
Quoted as "New Talent found on home ground" - Mumbai Film Fest 2011, Mumbai
Screened at " NFDC Film Bazaar - IFFI, GOA Nov 2011"StarringMelanie Kannokada, Arjun Gupta, Lavrenti Lopes, Michael Derek, Leah Kavita, Caroline Korale, Daniel Wilkinson, Rob Byrnes, Jennie Epland and Aaron Katter
9 Eleven
The film portrays the life of 10 people who belong to different walks of life. Though each individual has achieved a measure of success in their individual lives, their darkest secrets come out in the open when all of them are given some time for introspection, when they meet each other in a bizarre twist of events. They realize that their lives are inter-woven and this literally shakes up their peaceful lives. Terrorized to the core by an unknown entity in an unfamiliar place, each individual is petrified and is hesitant to talk or take each other into confidence for one simple reason....The Fear of the Unknown.
The film "9-Eleven" is a fast paced thriller with undertones of terrorism. Terrorism need not be political ,"ideologically" generated or xenophobic. Terrorism can also be a great motivator for conflict resolution or revenge. The question is how does one survive collectively in meeting this growing phenomenon.......head on?
9 Eleven is Director Manan Singh Katohora's third film and his most ambitious. Mr. Katohora has penned the script and its screenplay. Narain Kumar Mathur & his wife Sadhna Mathur residents of Waldorf , Maryland is producing the film under the banner of Amar Durga Films in association with JMD Creations. Music is by legendary Bollywood Composer Jatin Pandit.
The film "9-Eleven" is a fast paced thriller with undertones of terrorism. Terrorism need not be political ,"ideologically" generated or xenophobic. Terrorism can also be a great motivator for conflict resolution or revenge. The question is how does one survive collectively in meeting this growing phenomenon.......head on?
9 Eleven is Director Manan Singh Katohora's third film and his most ambitious. Mr. Katohora has penned the script and its screenplay. Narain Kumar Mathur & his wife Sadhna Mathur residents of Waldorf , Maryland is producing the film under the banner of Amar Durga Films in association with JMD Creations. Music is by legendary Bollywood Composer Jatin Pandit.
Blemished Light - Dawn of Unfreedom
Yeh Daag Daag Ujaala, Yeh Sabkajida Sehar...Woh Intzaar Tha Jisaka Yeh Woh Sehar Toh Nahi (This blighted dawn, this darkened sun. This is not the morning we waited for)”...these inspiring lines from the famous piece of work 'Dawn of Freedom' by late Faiz Ahmed Faiz forms the backdrop of this film 'Blemished Light' which is also named after its underlying theme.
"The idea of Blemished Light comes from the desire to express the lack of freedom of most dominating social structures – Capitalism and Patriarchy. In a world where mass extermination and discrimination happens in name of “identity”, the task in Blemished Light is to show that people who are considered as “belonging” to a certain identity are very different in their approaches towards most pressing personal, social and political issues of their life," says the writer-director R. Amit Kumar who is a PhD candidate in cinema studies at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, US.
Blemished Light won the first prize at the UFVA Faculty Screenwriting competition, US. "Artwork should make us think and sometimes it has to shock you to do that, and then, is there anything shocking enough today? We have chosen the identities of Muslims and homosexuals in two parallel stories that intercut back and forth in the film revealing us ideological and philosophical connections in different global spaces between powerful and powerless and those who strive to stand against dominating torturing socio political injustices."
More detail about the project: www.69mp.com
official site: www.blemishedlight.com
CREW:
R. Amit Kumar | Director/Producer
Hari Nair | Cinematographer
Wasiq Khan & Roman Gabriel | Production Design
Dara Singh | Sound Designer
Vaishali Pachauri | Costume Designer
Aftab Asghar | Associate Producer
Roli Chaturvedi | Line Producer and Casting Director
Damon Taylor | Co-Writer
Navneeta Khemka | Assistant Costume Designer
Alex Mercado | Storyboard Artist
Sri Saripalli | Chief Assistant Director
Piotr Kajstura | Creative Associate
Gautam Kadian | Gaffer
Joe Taylor | Assistant Camera
Danielle Williamson | Production Co-ordinator
Award:
Blemished Light won first prize at the UFVA Faculty Screenwriting competition.
