Thursday, June 26, 2014

Bioscope – VIII [ Women-Centric - II ]






Fashion (2008)

How small town girl make it big in the big bad world of fashion and then uses it to destroy whatever she achieved.

        Director                  :   Madhur Bhandarkar
        Producer                 :   Madhur Bhandarkar, Deven Khote,
                                          Ronnie Screwvala, Zarine Mehta
        Screenplay              :   Ajay Monga, Madhur Bhandarkar, Anuraadha Tewari
        Story                       :   Ajay Monga
        Cast                        :   Priyanka Chopra, Kangna Ranaut,
                                          Mugdha Godse, Samir Soni, Arbaaz Khan, Arjan Bajwa
        Music                      :   Salim-Sulaiman
        Cinematography      :   Mahesh Limaye
        Editor                     :   Deven Murdeshwar

National Film Awards
Won
Best Actress - Priyanka Chopra
Filmfare Awards
Nominated
Best Director - Madhur Bhandarkar
Won
Best Actress - Priyanka Chopra
Won
Best Supporting Actress - Kangna Ranaut
Nominated
Best Female Debut - Mugdha Godse
Nominated
Best Female Playback - Neha Bhasin
Nominated
Best Female Playback - Shruti Pathak
Nominated
Best Screenplay
IIFA  Awards
Won
Best Actress - Priyanka Chopra
Nominated
Best Director - Madhur Bhandarkar
Won
Best Supporting Actress 0 Kangna Ranaut

Nominated
Best Story - Anuradha Tiwari, Madhur Bhandarkar, Ajay Monga
Apsara Film & TV Guild Awards
Won
Best Actress in a Leading Role - Priyanka Chopra
Won
Best Supporting Actress - Kangna Ranaut
Won
Best Female Debut - Mugdha Godse
Nominated
Best Lyricist - Irfan Siddique
Nominated
Best Editing - Devendra Murdeshwar
Nominated
Best Costume Design - Rita Dhody
Cosmopolitan Fun Fearless Awards
Won
Best Actress - Priyanka Chopra
Golden Trident Awards
Won
Best Actress - Priyanka Chopra
Cineblitz Awards
Won
Best Actress - Priyanka Chopra
Lions Gold Awards
Won
Best Actor  - Priyanka Chopra
Screen Awards
Won
Best Actress - Priyanka Chopra
Nominated
Kangna Ranaut, Mugdha Godse
Nominated

Nominated
Best Female Playback - Shruti Pathak
Stardust Awards
Nominated
Dream Director - Madhur Bhandarkar
Won
Star of the Year – Priyanka Chopra
Nominated
Best Film - Madhur Bhandarkar, Ronnie Screwvaala
Won
Best Supporting Actress - Kangna Ranaut
Nominated
Breakthrough Performance Male - Arjan Bajwa
Nominated
Breakthrough Performance – Female - Mugdha Godse





English Vinglish (2012)

When mocked by her daughter and husband for lack of knowledge of English, a mother journey to learn the language.

        Director                  :   Gauri Shinde
        Producer                 :   Sunil Lulla,     R. Balki,  R. Jhunjhunwala,     
                                          R. K. Damani
        Screenplay              :   Gauri Shinde
        Story                       :   Gauri Shinde
        Cast                        :   Sridevi,  Mehdi Nebbou, Priya Anand, Adil Hussain
        Music                      :   Amit Trivedi
        Cinematography      :   Laxman Utekar
        Editor                     :   Hemanti Sarkar


Awards

Filmfare Awards
Won
Best Debut Director - Gauri Shinde
Nominated
Best Film
Nominated
Best Director - Gauri Shinde
Nominated
Best Actress - Sridevi
Colors Screen Awards
Won
 Promising Debut Director - Gauri Shinde
Nominated
Best Actress - Sridevi
Nominated
Best Story - Gauri Shinde
Nominated
Best Screenplay - Gauri Shinde
Nominated
Best Editing = Hemanti Sarkar
Nominated
Background Music - Amit Trivedi
Hello Magazine Hall of Fame Awards

Outstanding Performance - Sridevi
IRDS Film Award for Social Concern

Best Female Character - Sridevi
Laadli National Award
Won
Best Mainline Film = Gauri Shinde
Palm Springs International Film Festival
Won
Best Narrative Feature
Stardust Awards
Won
Best Drama Actress - Sridevi
Nominated
Best Debut Director - Gauri Shinde
Won
Star of the Year – Female - Sridevi
Won
Best Film
Nominated
Best Director - Gauri Shinde
8th Star Guild Apsara Awards
Nominated
Best Director - Gauri Shinde
Nominated
Best Film
Nominated
Best Actress - Sridevi
Nominated
Supporting Role -  Priya Anand
Nominated
Best Story - Gauri Shinde
Won
Best Screenplay - Gauri Shinde
Nominated
Best Dialogue - Gauri Shinde
Women's International Film & TV
Nominated
Diversity Award
Zee Cine Awards
Nominated
Most Promising Director
Gauri Shinde
Won
Best Actor Female - Sridevi
Won
Best Film








Astitva (200)

it's about women's identity and individuality.

        Director                  :   Mahesh Manjrekar
        Producer                 :   Rahul Sughand
        Writer                     :   Imtiyaz Husain, Mahesh Manjrekar
        Screenplay              :   Mahesh Manjrekar
        Story                       :   Mahesh Manjrekar
        Cast                        :   Tabu, Sachin Khedekar, Mohnish Bahl,
                                          Namrata Shirodkar
        Music                      :   Rahul Ranade, Sukhwinder Singh
        Cinematography      :   Vijay Arora
        Edited                     :   V.N.Mayekar


Awards


National Film Awards 
Won
Silver Lotus Award (Marathi) – J. Sughand, M.  Manjrekar
Filmfare Award
Won
Best Actress Critics = Tabu
Popular Award
Nominated
Best Actress in a Leading Role - Tabu
Screen Awards
Won
Best Actress - Tabu
Won
Best Story - Mahesh Manjrekar
Nominated
Best Film
Nominated
Best Screenplay - Mahesh Manjrekar
Nominated
Best Dialogue - Imtiaz Hussain






Dor (2006)

Two woman - different backgrounds, miles apart, and strangers to each other-- are linked by tragedy.

        Director                  :   Nagesh Kukunoor
        Producer                 :   Elahe Hiptoola
        Writer                     :   T.A. Razak
        Cast                        :   Ayesha Takia, Gul Panag, Shreyas Talpade,
                                          Girish Karnad, Uttara Bhavkar
        Music                      :   Salim Sulaiman
        Cinematography      :   Sudeep Chatterjee
        Editor                     :   Sanjib Datta

Awards


Zee Cine Awards
Won
Critics Award - Ayesha Takia And Gul Panag
Star Screen Awards
Won
Best Actor In A Comic Role-  Talpade
Won
Critics Choice For Best Actress  - Ayesha Takia
BFJA Awards.
Won
Best Actress  - Ayesha Takia




Lajja (2001)

Based on the plight of women in India. and deals with a myriad of women’s’ issues to triumph

        Director                  :   Rajkumar Santoshi
        Producer                 :   Rajkumar Santoshi
        Writer                     :   Ranjit Kapoor, Rajkumar Santoshi (Dialouges)
        Screenplay              :   Ashok Rawat, Rajkumar Santoshi
        Story                       :   Rajkumar Santoshi
        Cast                        :   Manisha Koirala, Jackie Shroff, Anil Kapoor,
                                          Mahima Chaudhry, Madhuri Dixit, Rekha,
                                          Samir Soni, Ajay Devgn
        Narrated                 :   Bharat Shah
        Music                      :   Ilaiyaraaja, Anu Malik
        Cinematography      :   Madhu Ambat
        Editor                     :   V. N. Mayekar

Awards

Zee Cine Award
Won
Best Supporting Actress  - Madhuri Dixit
Filmfare Award
Nominated
 Best Supporting Actress - Madhuri Dixit
Filmfare Award
Nominated
Best Supporting Actress  - Rekha





!!!Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.- Oprah Winfrey!!!

Thursday, June 19, 2014

Bioscope – VIII [ Women-Centric ]



There are only a few movies made on the serious issues regarding woman or movies are totally woman-centric. However the list contains best of the lots.



Mother India (1957)

Story of a poor mother fights all odds to raise her two sons




        Director                      :      Mehboob Khan
        Producer                     :      Mehboob Khan
        Writer                         :      Mehboob Khanm, Wajahat Mirza, S. Ali Raza
        Cast                            :      Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar, Raaj Kumar
        Music                          :      Naushad
        Cinematography          :      Faredoon A. Irani
        Editor                         :      Shamsudin Kadri




Awards

Academy Awards, USA 1958
Nominated
Oscar  Best Foreign Language Film
Filmfare Award
Won
Best FilmMehboob Khan
Won
Best Actress Nargis
Won
Best Director Mehboob Khan
Won
Best Cinematographer Faredoon A. Irani
Won
Best Sound Recordist R. Kaushik
Karlovy Vary Int’l Film Festival

Won

Best Actress       Nargis





Queen (2013)

Story of a woman, who dumped by the fiancé just days before marriage and her lone Journey to the pre-paid honeymoon trip.




        Director                      :      Vikas Bahl
        Producer                     :      Anurag Kashyap,   Vikramaditya Motwane
        Writer                         :      Anvita Dutt, Kangana Ranaut (dialogue)
        Screenplay                  :      Vikas Bahl, Chaitally Parmar, Parveez Shaikh
        Story                          :      Vikas Bahl
        Cast                            :      Kangana Ranaut, Rajkummar Rao, Lisa Haydon
        Music                          :      Amit Trivedi, Rupesh Kumar Ram
        Cinematography          :      Siddharth Diwan. Bobby Singh
        Editor                         :      Abhijit Kokate, Anurag Kashyap


Award

The movie is released this year so yet get any awards.




Damini (1993)

About Sexual abuses and exploitation of power by the rich.




        Director                      :      Rajkumar Santoshi
        Producer                     :      Aly Morani, Karim Morani, Bunty Soorma
        Writer                         :      Rajkumar Santoshi, Sutanu Gupta(Story)
        Cast                            :      Meenakshi Sheshadri, Rishi Kapoor, Amrish Puri
        Music                          :      Nadeem-Shravan, Sameer (Lyrics)
        Cinematography          :      Ishwar Bidri
        Editor                         :      V. N. Mayekar



Awards

   National Film Award
Won
Best Supporting Actor  -  Sunny Deol
   Filmfare Award
  
   
Won
Best Director -  Rajkumar Santoshi
Won
Best Supporting Actor - Sunny Deol[4]
Nominated
Best Actress - Meenakshi Seshadri





Kahani (2012)

Story of a Woman and how she  avenge the death of her husband.




        Director                      :      Sujoy Ghosh
        Producer                     :      Sujoy Ghosh, Kushal Kantilal Gada
        Writer                         :      Ritesh Shah, Sutapa Sikdar, Sujoy Ghosh
        Screenplay                  :      Sujoy Ghosh, Suresh Nair, Nikhil Vyas
        Story                          :      Sujoy Ghosh, Advaita Kala
        Cast                                    Vidya Balan, Parambrata Chatterjee,
                                                 Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Indraneil Sengupta,
                                                 Saswata Chatterjee
        Music                          :      Vishal-Shekhar
        Cinematography          :      Setu
        Editor                         :      Namrata Rao



Awards


National Film Awards
Won
Best Screenplay (Original)           Sujoy Ghosh
Won
Best Editing        Namrata Rao
Won
Special Jury Award Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Filmfare Awards
Won
Best Actress       Vidya Balan       Won
Won
Best Director      Sujoy Ghosh
Won
Best Sound Design           Sanjay Maurya, Allwyn Rego
Won
Best Editing        Namrata Rao
Won
Best Cinematography      Setu
14th IIFA Awards
Won
Best Actress       Vidya Balan
won
Best Editing        Namrata Rao
Zee Cine Awards
Won
Best Film – Critic's Choice           
Won
Best Director – Critic's Choice       Sujoy Ghosh
Won
Best Actress – Critic's Choice         Vidya Balan
Won
Best Story          Sujoy Ghosh, Advaita Kala
Won
Best Editing        Namrata Rao
Times of India Film Awards
Won
Best Story          Sujoy Ghosh       Won
Won
Best Screenplay
Won
Best Editing        Namrata Rao







!!!I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. - ― Jane Austen, Persuasion !!!