Andrzej wajda biography of mahatma
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In what it claimed as one of the biggest film acquisitions in recent times, the National Film Archive of India (NFAI) has added to its collection 162 more films, including the original negatives of a six-hour-long documentary on Mahatma Gandhi made by his associate and filmmaker Vithalbhai Jhaveri.
Of the 162 newly acquired films, more than 125 films are original/dupe negatives of the films, as opposed to release positives. Forty four of the newly acquired films are black-and-white films. Interestingly, the acquired films include 15 unreleased films. Apart from large chunk of Hindi films of various eras, 34 Gujarati, 15 Marathi and 6 Bhojpuri films have been acquired by NFAI. The collection also includes Nepali films.
One of the highlights of new collection is the acquisition of original negatives of “Mahatma”, a 6 hour-long documentary footage of Mahatma Gandhi by Jhaveri, who was a photographer, filmmaker, and an associate of Gandhi.
Curiously enough, the NF
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Holly to Bolly: Celebrated Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda dies aged 90, Dhruva teaser out soon, and more
Celebrated Polish filmskapare Andrzej Wajda dies aged 90
A legend in the world of cinema, Polish film director Andrzej Wajda died on Sunday aged 90. He left behind an opus of acclaimed films inspired by his country's turbulent history. Wajda had recently been hospitalised and died Sunday night, his colleague, film director Jacek Bromski, said on the private television hållplats TVN24. Wajda's first films were marked by the painful experience of World War II and the Polish resistance against the Nazis, who occupied the country for almost six years. Wadja was awarded an Oscar for lifetime achievement in 2000. Following the news of his death, Polish screenwriter Krzysztof Piesiewicz hailed Wadja "one of the founders of Polish freedom". Born on March 6, 1926 in Suwalki, north-east Poland, Wadja's first feature-length film, 1955's Pokolenie (A Generation), fryst vatten considered the debut of
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Does Russia need a Strong Man?
Because I would not stop for death,
He kindly stopped for me:
The carriage held but just ourselves
And immortality.
She would of been a good woman, if it had been somebody
there to shoot her every minute of her life.
(Flannery O'Connor - "A Good Man is Hard to Find")
So they go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
(Winston Churchill)
-Seven Deadly Sins-
Commerce without ethics;
Pleasure without conscience;
Politics without principle;
Knowledge without character;
Science without humanity;
Wealth without work;
Worship without sacrifice.
(Words of Mahatma Gandhi inscribed at his Samadhi [grave])
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have
those three unspeakably precious thi