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at 07:53:28 pm on August 2, 2007
Channel 4’s annual season of Indian films this year highlights the work of three of India’s greatest talents, the best of Bollywood, and an epic Indian silent film recently restored by the BFI.
Four films featuring actor Ali Khan, who came to prominence in 2001, will be shown including Omkara, an adaptation of Othello. Hyderabad Blues 2 directed by prominent India director Nagesh Kukunoor will feature along with four of his other films. Composer AR Rahman – known as the ‘Mozart from Madras’ for the unique quality of his film scores and soundtracks – fuses influences as wide ranging as Western classical music and Carnatic music. His work features in the films Rang De Basanti, Guru, Swades and The Rising all being shown on Channel 4.
A seven film Cinema India season will air which includes Page 3, a controversial look at the Mumbai celebrity circus, Taxi No.9211, director Milan Luthria’s film based on Changing Lanes, and Paheli, starring Shah Rukh Khan, one of Bollywood’s top actors.
Channel 4 has managed to acquire a restored version of A Throw of Dice. Made by German filmmaker Franz Osten’s this 1930 silent epic, is a story of good and evil kings and includes 10,000 extras and 1,000 elephants.
The Indian film season runs every Sunday and Thursday, beginning Sunday September 2 with Saif Ali Khan in Kal Ho Naa Ho.
