Mumbai: Beautiful Nandana Sen shot bold scenes for 'Rang Rasiya' unabashedly, but she feels boldness is treated with double standards in the industry. The daughter of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, Nandana, who has never feared skin show, says it is important for filmmakers to portray intimacy and women in an artistic way. "I do think boldness is a complicated issue, and needs careful consideration and treatment. Female bodies are often...
12:11 PM, May 23, 2012
Cast: Ankur Vikal, Nandana Sen, Jaaved Jaaferi Director: Ashwin Kumar Desperate to reignite their passion and to resolve the nagging differences between them, a repentant husband (Slumdog Millionaire's Ankur Vikal) brings his wife (Nandana Sen) to the Kumaon National Reserve, hoping to spend a quiet weekend amidst nature. What he hasn't bargained for is running into an old college friend and former flame of the missus (Javed Jaffrey), who is...
11:55 PM, May 11, 2012
Mumbai: Winning accolades at international film festivals and being nominated at the Oscars didn't make it any easier for Ashvin Kumar to release his film in India. The 39-year-old film-maker waited for six years to release his debut feature 'The Forest', and says being nominated for an Oscar (for his 2004 short film 'Little Terrorist') didn't help. "It makes no difference. If it did, do you think I'd be running...
05:04 PM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: Indian independent cinema is on all-time high. A lot of Indian indie filmmakers are receiving accolades all over the world, but filmmaker Ashvin Kumar is among those people who had brought the initial acceptance for the independent cinema in India. His films 'Little Terrorist' and 'Inshallah, football' were acclaimed throughout the world. The storyteller has again come up with a feature film 'The Forest' starring Javed Jaffrey, Nandana...
03:35 PM, May 10, 2012
New Delhi: Controversial director Ashvin Kumar is all set to release his mainstream ecological thriller 'The Forest' on May 4. Kumar was the youngest Indian writer/director to win an Oscar nomination for 'Little Terrorist' in 2005 and he also won the National Award for 'Inshallah Football' in 2010. 'The Forest', which is Kumar's first fiction film, is a thriller with an ecological message, a chilling tale of a man-eating leopard...
04:45 PM, Apr 05, 2012
New Delhi: Filmmaker Ashvin Kumar's last film 'Little Terrorist' was nominated for the Academy Award in the Best Live Action Short Film category. Kumar has come up with another film 'The Forest', which has the potential to catch the attention of animal lovers. The basic story of the film revolves around a married couple who are going through a bad relationship phase. The couple is so engrossed in their little...
05:51 PM, Apr 02, 2012
Mumbai: Ketan Mehta's historical saga 'Rang Rasiya' will finally hit theatres this May after a delay of over three years. The film is based on the life of the 19th century Indian painter Raja Ravi Varma. The film is directed and co-produced by Ketan Mehta, and stars Randeep Hooda and Nandana Sen in lead roles. Ready since 2008, the film could not release due to various reasons including dispute between...
04:14 PM, Mar 15, 2012
Kolkata: Actress Nandana Sen said she received hate mail and faced objections from different quarters for a nude scene in the period drama 'Rang Rasiya' where she plays the muse for 19th century painter Raja Ravi Varma. Sen, who created an uproar four or five years ago after a portrait in which she posed as Goddess Laxmi was leaked while shooting a film, said, "I received hate mail for the...
01:17 PM, Nov 17, 2011
Kolkata: Ketan Mehta's historical film Rang Rasiya, based on the life of 19th century painter Raja Ravi Varma, was screened to an overcrowded theatre at the ongoing Kolkata Film Festival (KFF) today. The film starring Randeep Hooda and Nandana Sen is yet to be released commercially and has courted controversy for taking artistic freedom in boldly depicting nudity. Film buffs stood in an hour-long queue at the state-run theatre Nandan...
03:04 PM, Nov 16, 2011
Kolkata: Ketan Mehta's historical film Rang Rasiya, challenging the hypocrisy of a male-dominated society, takes inspiration from Sita's agnipariksha and Draupadi's cheerharan, two of the most infamous episodes of the Indian epics representing the ordeal of women. "Isn't it true that every day women are still forced to give modern versions of the agnipariksha? A woman's virtue has never stopped being on trial in India," the film's actress Nandana Sen...
04:47 PM, Nov 14, 2011
Kolkata: Director-producer Ketan Mehta has cancelled the commercial screenings of Nandana Sen-Randeep Hooda starrer Rang Rasiya at the ongoing Kolkata Film Festival (KFF) as the controversial movie has not been released theatrically yet. "How can we allow commercial screenings even before the film is released? Its almost equivalent to releasing the film as hundreds of people will go and buy a ticket to watch it. But the producers will not...
05:04 PM, Nov 13, 2011
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