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After the encouraging response to the first round of Let’s Talk NFTs, we are coming with the second. The idea is to stir conversations around Web3 and Blockchain ecosystems - especially for artists, filmmakers, curators and any independent professional or groups, The NFT Soup is organising the second batch. Read a short report on the first talk here: https://thenftsoup.substack.com/p/kindling-the-very-many-use-cases

What’s the talk about?
Non Fungible Tokens. Or simply NFTs.

You must have heard these words buzzing through the COVID lock-downs. Couple of other words too: Crypto and Bitcoin?

What’s common between all of these? And most importantly, how’s it going to change the field of art, art practices, artistic expressions and the world at large. That’s where NFTs come into picture.

Come let’s ponder over the possibilities of decentralisation that promises to revoutionalise the way humans are going to interact with each other in the near future.

As someone who’s entire artistic journey has been centered around the sense of being independent, seeking maximum control on his works, Amar stumbled upon blockchain technology that gradually made him understand NFTs and the power of web3 ecosystem. He sees a great potential in it for artists, curators and any independent professional or group. Through his talk he aims to kindle a discussion and build a community by sharing his knowledge and making others connect.
Entry is free. Seats limited to 25. Registering through google form must: https://forms.gle/pjNdm98pezT9gWrWA. Shortlisted forms will receive an invite.

Speaker details:
Amar is an independent documentary filmmaker from Hyderabad who has been actively engaging with Lamakaan giving talks, curating screenings and showing his films since its inception. More about him can be found at www.amars.in.

PS: The talk is not about crypto markets or aimed at investment enthusiasts.

Love,sex & mocha: is a quirky rom-com, that is a satire on modern chick flicks that creates a twist on the male-female relationship. Bubbly and frothy, this theatrical effort takes a quirky look at the man’s cup of woes, which seems to runneth over! A comic perspective of all the men who have been stirred (and shaken!) over the years, even though they have tried to sweeten their lives with spoonfuls of sugar! The cup of mocha is probably steamier than the love and sex in their lives! A hilarious romantic comedy which the men and women in the audience are sure to identify with

This is Musicology's 6th Annual Student's recital. Students past and present will perform what they learnt - guitar, keyboard, singing or a combination of the same.

Lamakaan remembers Jean-Luc Godard and pays tribute to the iconoclastic master director of French New Wave cinema, by screening some of his critically acclaimed films and discussing about his intensely free art.

About Jean-Luc Godard: Jean-Luc Godard - 3 December 1930 – 13 September 2022) was a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s, alongside such filmmakers as François Truffaut, Agnès Varda, Éric Rohmer, and Jacques Demy. He was arguably the most influential French filmmaker of the post-war era. According to AllMovie, his work "revolutionized the motion picture form" through its experimentation with narrative, continuity, sound, and camerawork.[2] His most acclaimed films include Breathless (1960), Vivre sa vie (1962), Contempt (1963), Band of Outsiders (1964), Alphaville (1965), Pierrot le Fou (1965), Masculin Féminin (1966), Weekend (1967), and Goodbye to Language (2014).

During his early career as a film critic for the influential magazine Cahiers du Cinéma, Godard criticised mainstream French cinema's "Tradition of Quality", which de-emphasised innovation and experimentation.

Film Title: Goodbye to Language | 2014 | 69 minutes | French subtitled in English

About the film: Goodbye to Language (French: Adieu au Langage) is a 2014 French-Swiss 3D experimental narrative essay film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard. It stars Héloïse Godet, Kamel Abdeli, Richard Chevallier, Zoé Bruneau, Jessica Erickson and Christian Grégori and was shot by cinematographer Fabrice Aragno. It is Godard's 42nd feature film and 121st film or video project. In the French-speaking parts of Switzerland where it was shot, the word "adieu" can mean both goodbye and hello. The film depicts a couple having an affair. The woman's husband discovers the affair and the lover is killed. Two pairs of actors portray the couple and their actions repeat and mirror one another. Godard's own dog Roxy Miéville has a prominent role in the film and won a prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Like many of Godard's films, it includes numerous quotes and references to previous artistic, philosophical and scientific works, most prominently those of Jacques Ellul, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Mary Shelley.

Film Title: The Image Book | 2018 | 85 minutes | French/Swiss subtitled in English

About the film: The Image Book (French: Le Livre d'image) is a 2018 Swiss avant-garde essay film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Initially titled Tentative de bleu and Image et parole, in December 2016 Wild Bunch co-chief Vincent Maraval stated that Godard had been shooting the film for almost two years "in various Arab countries, including Tunisia" and that it is an examination of the modern Arabic world. Godard told Séance magazine that he was shooting without actors but the film would have a storyteller. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. Last film of Jean-Luc Goddard. The film was positively received by film critics. It was the final film directed by Godard before his death in 2022.

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The story revolves around a typical middle class, close knit family of four. Sharma ji, his wife Shrimati ji and his two younger brothers Sonu and Monu. The couple have devoted their lives to Sonu and Monu.

The play had made the Officers & their families in splits and also veterans enjoyed it to the core.

Four successful shows already done.

A Dance Movement therapy workshop to help participants understand the role on body and teach grounding techniques. This generation has been experiencing immense level of anxiety while only a few recognise. Using this form of therapy will be a holistic yet beautiful to form the mind and body connection.

KALABITAN PRESENTS A MUSICAL EXPERIENCE TITLED "MYSTICISM AND HUMANITY OF KABIR, TAGORE AND GANDHI"

A unique morning 2 hour session of QAWALI called SAMA
presented by

ATEEQ HUSSAIN BANDANAWAZI Al-HASHMI QAWAL

Mehfil-e-Khussoosee JANABA LAXMI DEVI RAJ SAHEBA
from 11am to 1pm at LAMAKAAN on SUNDAY 30th OCTOBER 2022

We are from Hyderabad Save looking to screen the documentary Racing Extinction which speaks about the impacts of human actions like wildlife trafficking.

As the winter sets in Hyderabad, Lamakaan brings to you some of the finest films of Martin Scorsese as he also celebrates his 80th birthday.


Martin Charles Scorsese, born (November 17, 1942) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. He receives many accolades, including an Academy Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, four British Academy Film Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and two Directors Guild of America Awards. Scorsese has received various honors, including the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1997, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2007, and the BAFTA Fellowship in 2012. Five of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant."

Scorsese received an MA from New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development in 1968. His directorial debut, Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967), was accepted into the Chicago Film Festival. In the 1970s and 1980s, Scorsese emerged as one of the major figures of the New Hollywood era. Scorsese's films, much influenced by his Italian-American background and upbringing in New York City, center on macho-posturing insecure men and explore crime, machismo, nihilism, and Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption. His trademark styles include extensive use of slow motion and freeze frames, graphic depictions of extreme violence, and liberal use of profanity.


His 1973 crime film Mean Streets, dealing with machismo and violence, and exploring Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption, was a blueprint for his filmmaking styles. Scorsese won the Palme d'Or at Cannes with his 1976 psychological thriller Taxi Driver, which starred Robert De Niro, who became associated with Scorsese through eight more films, including New York, New York (1977), Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1982), Goodfellas (1990), and Casino (1995). In the 2000s and 2010s, Scorsese garnered critical acclaim and box-office success with a series of collaborations with Leonardo DiCaprio. These films include Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), Shutter Island (2010), and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). Returning to his familiar territory of crime films, Scorsese collaborated with De Niro again on The Irishman (2019). Scorsese's other film work includes the black comedy After Hours (1985), the romantic drama The Age of Innocence (1993), the children's adventure drama Hugo (2011), and the religious epics The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Kundun (1997) and Silence (2016).

In addition to the film, Scorsese has directed episodes for some television series, including Boardwalk Empire (2011–2015), Vinyl (2016), the documentaries Public Speaking (2010), and Pretend It's a City (2021). He is also known for several rock music documentaries, including The Last Waltz (1978), No Direction Home (2005), Shine a Light (2008), and George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011). An advocate for film preservation and restoration, he founded three nonprofit organizations: the Film Foundation in 1990, the World Cinema Foundation in 2007, and the African Film Heritage Project in 2017.

Film Title: The Last Temptation of Christ |1988| 163 minutes | English

About the film: The Last Temptation of Christ is a 1988 epic religious drama film directed by Martin Scorsese. Written by Paul Schrader with uncredited rewrites from Scorsese and Jay Cocks, it is an adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis' controversial 1955 novel of the same name. The film, starring Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey, Andre Gregory, Harry Dean Stanton, and David Bowie, was shot entirely in Morocco.

The film depicts the life of Jesus Christ and his struggle with various forms of temptation, including fear, doubt, depression, reluctance, and lust. The book and the film depict Christ being tempted by imagining himself engaged in sexual activities, which has caused outrage from some Christians. It includes a disclaimer stating, "This film is not based on the Gospels, but upon the fictional exploration of the eternal spiritual conflict.

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This is a revolutionary film in form, in political purpose and in subject matter, Eisenstein's 1925 Soviet classic focuses on a naval mutiny in the Black Sea during the unsuccessful 1905 revolution. Universally acknowledged as one of the greatest films ever made.

Three guys awaiting their death sentence, living the last few hours of their lives. Come witness them reminisce their joy, their guilt and their redemption.

Natyaved presents
'PARDONED'
Writer: Suryasnata Tripathy
Director: Thakur Honey Singh

Three guys awaiting their death sentence, living the last few hours of their lives. Come witness them reminisce their joy, their guilt and their redemption.

Natyaved presents
'PARDONED'
Writer: Suryasnata Tripathy
Director: Thakur Honey Singh

Performance and talk by Irshad Panjatan an Indian actor and veteran mime artist, based in Berlin.

Irshad Panjatan (born 7 September 1931) is an Indian actor and veteran mime artist, based in Berlin, who introduced the art form to India during the 1960s. He started his career as stage actor, acted in few Bollywood films, and later received acclaim as mime artist. He toured through West-Asian and European countries in 1971, which led him to Berlin, where he settled down. Over the years he has even acted in a few Hollywood and German films, Manitou's Shoe (2001), Free Rainer (2007), God is No Soprano (2003) and Iron Sky (2012).

Celebration of Urdu poetry
Intercollegiate Baitbazi

Dr. Rafiya Saleem
Assistant professor department of Urdu, University of Hyderabad.

Dr. Humera Sayeed
Assistant professor, GDC Women, Sangareddy

As the winter sets in Hyderabad, Lamakaan brings to you some of the finest films of Martin Scorsese as he also celebrates his 80th birthday.

Martin Charles Scorsese, born (November 17, 1942) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. He receives many accolades, including an Academy Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, four British Academy Film Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and two Directors Guild of America Awards. Scorsese has received various honors, including the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1997, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2007, and the BAFTA Fellowship in 2012. Five of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant."

Scorsese received an MA from New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development in 1968. His directorial debut, Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967), was accepted into the Chicago Film Festival. In the 1970s and 1980s, Scorsese emerged as one of the major figures of the New Hollywood era. Scorsese's films, much influenced by his Italian-American background and upbringing in New York City, center on macho-posturing insecure men and explore crime, machismo, nihilism, and Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption. His trademark styles include extensive use of slow motion and freeze frames, graphic depictions of extreme violence, and liberal use of profanity.

His 1973 crime film Mean Streets, dealing with machismo and violence, and exploring Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption, was a blueprint for his filmmaking styles. Scorsese won the Palme d'Or at Cannes with his 1976 psychological thriller Taxi Driver, which starred Robert De Niro, who became associated with Scorsese through eight more films, including New York, New York (1977), Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1982), Goodfellas (1990), and Casino (1995). In the 2000s and 2010s, Scorsese garnered critical acclaim and box-office success with a series of collaborations with Leonardo DiCaprio. These films include Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), Shutter Island (2010), and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). Returning to his familiar territory of crime films, Scorsese collaborated with De Niro again on The Irishman (2019). Scorsese's other film work includes the black comedy After Hours (1985), the romantic drama The Age of Innocence (1993), the children's adventure drama Hugo (2011), and the religious epics The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Kundun (1997) and Silence (2016).

In addition to the film, Scorsese has directed episodes for some television series, including Boardwalk Empire (2011–2015), Vinyl (2016), the documentaries Public Speaking (2010), and Pretend It's a City (2021). He is also known for several rock music documentaries, including The Last Waltz (1978), No Direction Home (2005), Shine a Light (2008), and George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011). An advocate for film preservation and restoration, he founded three nonprofit organizations: the Film Foundation in 1990, the World Cinema Foundation in 2007, and the African Film Heritage Project in 2017.

Film Title: Goodfellas |1990 | 143 minutes | English

About the film: Goodfellas (stylized GoodFellas) is a 1990 American biographical crime film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Nicholas Pileggi and Scorsese, and produced by Irwin Winkler. It is a film adaptation of the 1985 nonfiction book Wiseguy by Pileggi. Starring Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco and Paul Sorvino, the film narrates the rise and fall of mob associate Henry Hill and his friends and family from 1955 to 1980.

Scorsese initially titled the film Wise Guy and postponed making it; he and Pileggi later changed the title to Goodfellas. To prepare for their roles in the film, De Niro, Pesci and Liotta often spoke with Pileggi, who shared research material left over from writing the book. According to Pesci, improvisation and ad-libbing came out of rehearsals wherein Scorsese gave the actors freedom to do whatever they wanted. The director made transcripts of these sessions, took the lines he liked most and put them into a revised script, which the cast worked from during principal photography.

Goodfellas premiered at the 47th Venice International Film Festival on September 9, 1990, where Scorsese was awarded with Silver Lion for Best Director, and was released in the United States on September 19, 1990, by Warner Bros. The film was made on a budget of $25 million, and grossed $47 million. Goodfellas received widespread critical acclaim upon release: the critical consensus on Rotten Tomatoes calls it "arguably the high point of Martin Scorsese's career". The film was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, with Pesci winning for Best Supporting Actor. The film won five awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, including Best Film and Best Director. Additionally, Goodfellas was named the year's best film by various critics' groups.

Goodfellas is widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, particularly in the gangster genre. In 2000, it was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress. Its content and style have been emulated in numerous other films and television series.

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Lamakaan invites you to the special screening of GHODE KO JALEBI KHILANE LE JA RIYA HOON film and followed by a discussion with the filmmaker, Anamika Haksar, and the protagonist, Ravindra Sahu, K.

Film Title: GHODE KO JALEBI KHILANE LE JA RIYA HOON Hindi/Urdu | 2018 | 121 minutes | Subtitled in English


Synopsis: Ghode Ko Jalebi Khilane Le Ja Riya Hoon (Taking the horse to eat Jalebis) is a 2018 Indian film by Gutterati Productions.

This film is a result of seven years of documentation of the lives of street people of Old Delhi – beggars, pickpockets, loaders, small-scale factory workers, street singers, street vendors, etc. Anamika Haksar directed the film.

The film is a "masterpiece of contemporary Indian cinema" by Kinoscope. It has won international and national awards and has been screened at numerous film festivals.

Ghode Ko Jalebi Khilane Le Ja Riya Hoon first premiered at the Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image (MAMI) festival in 2018. It was also the only film selected for the Sundance New Frontier Festival in 2019.

Anamika Haksar’s debut feature film, Ghode Ko Jalebi Khilane Le Ja Riya Hoon, which released in selected theatres on 10 June 2022. Two years after, it was selected to be screened in The New Frontiers section of the Sundance Film Festival, the only Indian film in that category.

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Your donations are welcome. It helps independent directors like Anamika Haskar to make more films.

Title: 1st Sridhar Lecture

Pegasus: The Most Dangerous Spyware Known to Humankind

This a conversation to celebrate the life of Sridhar Potlachervoo, a brilliant and loving human among us for a mere 42 years.

Paranjoy Guha Thakurta in conversation with Ashhar Farhan


About the title: Named after a mythical winged horse from Greek mythology, Pegasus is the name of the world’s most potent cyberweapon. Developed by the privately owned Israeli NSO Group, the spyware was intended for use by government law-enforcing agencies. However, the software has been widely misused in several countries worldwide to spy on politicians, including heads of government, journalists, lawyers, government officials, dissidents, and human rights activists. In July 2021, “The Pegasus Project” – comprising Amnesty International, and Forbidden Stories, a Paris-based international non-government organization, working in partnership with over 80 journalists from 17 organizations in ten countries – documented how the spyware was misused to target opponents of ruling regimes mainly. Whereas several governments are investigating how the cyberweapon was wrongfully deployed, the government of India has chosen to confirm neither nor deny whether any of its agencies purchased or used Pegasus. As a person whose mobile phone was allegedly “compromised” by the spyware and was among those who petitioned the Supreme Court of India in this regard, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta is uniquely placed to talk about what is arguably the most dangerous software known to humankind so far.


About Paranjoy Guha Thakurta: PARANJOY GUHA THAKURTA’s professional career started in June 1977 as a print journalist. His work experience, spanning four and a half decades, cuts across different mass media: the written word, the spoken word, and the audio-visual medium—printed publications and websites, radio and podcasts, television and documentary cinema. He is a writer, speaker, anchor, interviewer, teacher, analyst/commentator, publisher, producer, director, and consultant. Much of his work is in English, Bengali (his mother tongue), and Hindi. He has published and been published in other languages as well. His main areas of interest are the working of the political economy and the media in India and the world, on which he has authored/co-authored seven books, published more than 24 books, directed/produced more than 20 long documentary films, and hundreds of short films/videos, including two music videos. In particular, he examines the allocation and pricing of natural resources, the working of crony capitalism and oligarchies, and mass communications in India. He teaches and speaks on these subjects to students and general audiences and trains aspiring—and working—media professionals. As a visiting faculty, he has taught a course on media and society at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad for the last 18 years. He frequently participates in and organizes seminars/conferences. He is a regular contributor to publications and websites. He is featured on television channels and radio programs as an anchor and analyst/commentator. He has been and remains a consultant with the NewsClick portal.


About Ashhar Farhan: Ashhar Farhan, the founder of Lamakaan and a long-time radio ham, is in an elite company after being recognized for popularising the open-source Bit-X semi-kits.


About Sridhar Lecture: Sridhar Potlachervoo Lived amongst us briefly between 1979 and 2022. For more than half of that period, he was wheelchair-bound with a debilitating inflammatory disease called ankylosing spondylitis. During this time, he wrote some brilliant code, recited remarkably poignant poetry, organized charity to support athletes from poor families, and paid for the education of scores of young adults.


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The documentary was made by All India Forum for Right to Education after it's country-wide campaign of Shiksha Sangharsh Yatra against commercialisation and communalisation of education in India. It raises some of the fundamental questions before the education system of the country. Gathering the rich experiences and legacies of the historical social reform movements and the struggles for freedom of the country it builds a case for equitable and emancipatory education system in the country.

As the winter sets in Hyderabad, Lamakaan brings to you some of the finest films of Martin Scorsese as he also celebrates his 80th birthday.

Martin Charles Scorsese, born (November 17, 1942) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. He receives many accolades, including an Academy Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, four British Academy Film Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and two Directors Guild of America Awards. Scorsese has received various honors, including the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1997, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2007, and the BAFTA Fellowship in 2012. Five of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant."

Scorsese received an MA from New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development in 1968. His directorial debut, Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967), was accepted into the Chicago Film Festival. In the 1970s and 1980s, Scorsese emerged as one of the major figures of the New Hollywood era. Scorsese's films, much influenced by his Italian-American background and upbringing in New York City, center on macho-posturing insecure men and explore crime, machismo, nihilism, and Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption. His trademark styles include extensive use of slow motion and freeze frames, graphic depictions of extreme violence, and liberal use of profanity.

His 1973 crime film Mean Streets, dealing with machismo and violence, and exploring Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption, was a blueprint for his filmmaking styles. Scorsese won the Palme d'Or at Cannes with his 1976 psychological thriller Taxi Driver, which starred Robert De Niro, who became associated with Scorsese through eight more films, including New York, New York (1977), Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1982), Goodfellas (1990), and Casino (1995). In the 2000s and 2010s, Scorsese garnered critical acclaim and box-office success with a series of collaborations with Leonardo DiCaprio. These films include Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), Shutter Island (2010), and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). Returning to his familiar territory of crime films, Scorsese collaborated with De Niro again on The Irishman (2019). Scorsese's other film work includes the black comedy After Hours (1985), the romantic drama The Age of Innocence (1993), the children's adventure drama Hugo (2011), and the religious epics The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Kundun (1997) and Silence (2016).

In addition to the film, Scorsese has directed episodes for some television series, including Boardwalk Empire (2011–2015), Vinyl (2016), the documentaries Public Speaking (2010), and Pretend It's a City (2021). He is also known for several rock music documentaries, including The Last Waltz (1978), No Direction Home (2005), Shine a Light (2008), and George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011). An advocate for film preservation and restoration, he founded three nonprofit organizations: the Film Foundation in 1990, the World Cinema Foundation in 2007, and the African Film Heritage Project in 2017.

Film Title: The Age of Innocence | 1993 | 139 minutes | English

About the film: The Age of Innocence is a 1993 American historical romantic drama film directed by Martin Scorsese. The screenplay, an adaptation of the 1920 novel The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, was written by Scorsese and Jay Cocks. The film stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder and Miriam Margolyes, and was released by Columbia Pictures. The film recounts the courtship and marriage of Newland Archer (Day-Lewis), a wealthy New York society attorney, to May Welland (Ryder); Archer then encounters and legally represents Countess Olenska (Pfeiffer) prior to unexpected romantic entanglements.

The Age of Innocence was released theatrically on October 1, 1993, by Columbia Pictures. It received critical acclaim, winning the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, and being nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Winona Ryder), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, and Best Art Direction. Miriam Margolyes won the Best Supporting Actress BAFTA in 1994. The film grossed $68 million against a $34 million budget. Scorsese dedicated the film to his father, Luciano Charles Scorsese, who had died the month before the film was released. Luciano and his wife, Catherine Scorsese, had small cameo appearances in the film.

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The poverty is the root of all evils. This movie traces out the root of the poverty. People blame corrupt rulers & the Government but, in fact, people themselves are responsible. No Party or Government forces anyone on gun-point to commit certain crimes but people do it by their consent in the name of the system and, consequently, get morally and financially bankrupted.
The movie is written by Dr. Aleem Khan Falaki, Directed by Syed Khadeer and starred by Saleem Pheku, Abdul Razzaq and Bhavna etc

Story of a woman who comes from the lowest strata in society. The play talks about plight of women in an emotional, nostalgic and humourous tone.

Breathe Easy- Towards and Inclusive Workplace
The session will help participants understand "labels" and find ways to
Organizations today are investing time and effort to build a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion and thereby create a sense of belonging amongst all stakeholders.

One crucial detractor in this process is “labels”. We bring you a session to sensitize stakeholders on the consequence of using labels, for oneself and others and the harm caused to the overall ecosystem.

The session will inspire participants to appreciate the limiting nature of labels and find ways to overcome them.

Story of a woman who comes from the lowest strata in society. The play talks about plight of women in an emotional, nostalgic and humourous tone.

Shudrka Hyderabad presents Bengali play “EBAR DHORMORAJYO” (Comes Now Kingdom of Justice!) in which Gandhari and Kunti of Mahabharata meet on the last day of Kurukshetra war. If there is one issue that occurs again and again in this play, it is “Dharma”. It is perhaps the most debated and yet perhaps the most compromised. The play unhinges classical interpretation of the epic, while at the same time using the incidents in the epic to enunciate moral and ethical concerns and elaborate on the meanings of “Dharma” in the current context.

Performing Classical Dance (Bharatnatyam)

After the encouraging response to the first round of Let’s Talk NFTs, we are coming with the second. The idea is to stir conversations around Web3 and Blockchain ecosystems - especially for artists, filmmakers, curators and any independent professional or groups, The NFT Soup is organising the second batch. Read a short report on the first talk here: https://thenftsoup.substack.com/p/kindling-the-very-many-use-cases

What’s the talk about?
Non Fungible Tokens. Or simply NFTs.

You must have heard these words buzzing through the COVID lock-downs. Couple of other words too: Crypto and Bitcoin?

What’s common between all of these? And most importantly, how’s it going to change the field of art, art practices, artistic expressions and the world at large. That’s where NFTs come into picture.

Come let’s ponder over the possibilities of decentralisation that promises to revoutionalise the way humans are going to interact with each other in the near future.

As someone who’s entire artistic journey has been centered around the sense of being independent, seeking maximum control on his works, Amar stumbled upon blockchain technology that gradually made him understand NFTs and the power of web3 ecosystem. He sees a great potential in it for artists, curators and any independent professional or group. Through his talk he aims to kindle a discussion and build a community by sharing his knowledge and making others connect.
Entry is free. Seats limited to 25. Registering through google form must: https://forms.gle/pjNdm98pezT9gWrWA. Shortlisted forms will receive an invite.

Speaker details:
Amar is an independent documentary filmmaker from Hyderabad who has been actively engaging with Lamakaan giving talks, curating screenings and showing his films since its inception. More about him can be found at www.amars.in.

PS: The talk is not about crypto markets or aimed at investment enthusiasts.

Love,sex & mocha: is a quirky rom-com, that is a satire on modern chick flicks that creates a twist on the male-female relationship. Bubbly and frothy, this theatrical effort takes a quirky look at the man’s cup of woes, which seems to runneth over! A comic perspective of all the men who have been stirred (and shaken!) over the years, even though they have tried to sweeten their lives with spoonfuls of sugar! The cup of mocha is probably steamier than the love and sex in their lives! A hilarious romantic comedy which the men and women in the audience are sure to identify with

This is Musicology's 6th Annual Student's recital. Students past and present will perform what they learnt - guitar, keyboard, singing or a combination of the same.

Lamakaan remembers Jean-Luc Godard and pays tribute to the iconoclastic master director of French New Wave cinema, by screening some of his critically acclaimed films and discussing about his intensely free art.

About Jean-Luc Godard: Jean-Luc Godard - 3 December 1930 – 13 September 2022) was a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s, alongside such filmmakers as François Truffaut, Agnès Varda, Éric Rohmer, and Jacques Demy. He was arguably the most influential French filmmaker of the post-war era. According to AllMovie, his work "revolutionized the motion picture form" through its experimentation with narrative, continuity, sound, and camerawork.[2] His most acclaimed films include Breathless (1960), Vivre sa vie (1962), Contempt (1963), Band of Outsiders (1964), Alphaville (1965), Pierrot le Fou (1965), Masculin Féminin (1966), Weekend (1967), and Goodbye to Language (2014).

During his early career as a film critic for the influential magazine Cahiers du Cinéma, Godard criticised mainstream French cinema's "Tradition of Quality", which de-emphasised innovation and experimentation.

Film Title: Goodbye to Language | 2014 | 69 minutes | French subtitled in English

About the film: Goodbye to Language (French: Adieu au Langage) is a 2014 French-Swiss 3D experimental narrative essay film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard. It stars Héloïse Godet, Kamel Abdeli, Richard Chevallier, Zoé Bruneau, Jessica Erickson and Christian Grégori and was shot by cinematographer Fabrice Aragno. It is Godard's 42nd feature film and 121st film or video project. In the French-speaking parts of Switzerland where it was shot, the word "adieu" can mean both goodbye and hello. The film depicts a couple having an affair. The woman's husband discovers the affair and the lover is killed. Two pairs of actors portray the couple and their actions repeat and mirror one another. Godard's own dog Roxy Miéville has a prominent role in the film and won a prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Like many of Godard's films, it includes numerous quotes and references to previous artistic, philosophical and scientific works, most prominently those of Jacques Ellul, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Mary Shelley.

Film Title: The Image Book | 2018 | 85 minutes | French/Swiss subtitled in English

About the film: The Image Book (French: Le Livre d'image) is a 2018 Swiss avant-garde essay film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Initially titled Tentative de bleu and Image et parole, in December 2016 Wild Bunch co-chief Vincent Maraval stated that Godard had been shooting the film for almost two years "in various Arab countries, including Tunisia" and that it is an examination of the modern Arabic world. Godard told Séance magazine that he was shooting without actors but the film would have a storyteller. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. Last film of Jean-Luc Goddard. The film was positively received by film critics. It was the final film directed by Godard before his death in 2022.

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The story revolves around a typical middle class, close knit family of four. Sharma ji, his wife Shrimati ji and his two younger brothers Sonu and Monu. The couple have devoted their lives to Sonu and Monu.

The play had made the Officers & their families in splits and also veterans enjoyed it to the core.

Four successful shows already done.

A Dance Movement therapy workshop to help participants understand the role on body and teach grounding techniques. This generation has been experiencing immense level of anxiety while only a few recognise. Using this form of therapy will be a holistic yet beautiful to form the mind and body connection.

KALABITAN PRESENTS A MUSICAL EXPERIENCE TITLED "MYSTICISM AND HUMANITY OF KABIR, TAGORE AND GANDHI"

A unique morning 2 hour session of QAWALI called SAMA
presented by

ATEEQ HUSSAIN BANDANAWAZI Al-HASHMI QAWAL

Mehfil-e-Khussoosee JANABA LAXMI DEVI RAJ SAHEBA
from 11am to 1pm at LAMAKAAN on SUNDAY 30th OCTOBER 2022

We are from Hyderabad Save looking to screen the documentary Racing Extinction which speaks about the impacts of human actions like wildlife trafficking.

As the winter sets in Hyderabad, Lamakaan brings to you some of the finest films of Martin Scorsese as he also celebrates his 80th birthday.


Martin Charles Scorsese, born (November 17, 1942) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. He receives many accolades, including an Academy Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, four British Academy Film Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and two Directors Guild of America Awards. Scorsese has received various honors, including the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1997, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2007, and the BAFTA Fellowship in 2012. Five of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant."

Scorsese received an MA from New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development in 1968. His directorial debut, Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967), was accepted into the Chicago Film Festival. In the 1970s and 1980s, Scorsese emerged as one of the major figures of the New Hollywood era. Scorsese's films, much influenced by his Italian-American background and upbringing in New York City, center on macho-posturing insecure men and explore crime, machismo, nihilism, and Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption. His trademark styles include extensive use of slow motion and freeze frames, graphic depictions of extreme violence, and liberal use of profanity.


His 1973 crime film Mean Streets, dealing with machismo and violence, and exploring Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption, was a blueprint for his filmmaking styles. Scorsese won the Palme d'Or at Cannes with his 1976 psychological thriller Taxi Driver, which starred Robert De Niro, who became associated with Scorsese through eight more films, including New York, New York (1977), Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1982), Goodfellas (1990), and Casino (1995). In the 2000s and 2010s, Scorsese garnered critical acclaim and box-office success with a series of collaborations with Leonardo DiCaprio. These films include Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), Shutter Island (2010), and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). Returning to his familiar territory of crime films, Scorsese collaborated with De Niro again on The Irishman (2019). Scorsese's other film work includes the black comedy After Hours (1985), the romantic drama The Age of Innocence (1993), the children's adventure drama Hugo (2011), and the religious epics The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Kundun (1997) and Silence (2016).

In addition to the film, Scorsese has directed episodes for some television series, including Boardwalk Empire (2011–2015), Vinyl (2016), the documentaries Public Speaking (2010), and Pretend It's a City (2021). He is also known for several rock music documentaries, including The Last Waltz (1978), No Direction Home (2005), Shine a Light (2008), and George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011). An advocate for film preservation and restoration, he founded three nonprofit organizations: the Film Foundation in 1990, the World Cinema Foundation in 2007, and the African Film Heritage Project in 2017.

Film Title: The Last Temptation of Christ |1988| 163 minutes | English

About the film: The Last Temptation of Christ is a 1988 epic religious drama film directed by Martin Scorsese. Written by Paul Schrader with uncredited rewrites from Scorsese and Jay Cocks, it is an adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis' controversial 1955 novel of the same name. The film, starring Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey, Andre Gregory, Harry Dean Stanton, and David Bowie, was shot entirely in Morocco.

The film depicts the life of Jesus Christ and his struggle with various forms of temptation, including fear, doubt, depression, reluctance, and lust. The book and the film depict Christ being tempted by imagining himself engaged in sexual activities, which has caused outrage from some Christians. It includes a disclaimer stating, "This film is not based on the Gospels, but upon the fictional exploration of the eternal spiritual conflict.

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This is a revolutionary film in form, in political purpose and in subject matter, Eisenstein's 1925 Soviet classic focuses on a naval mutiny in the Black Sea during the unsuccessful 1905 revolution. Universally acknowledged as one of the greatest films ever made.

Three guys awaiting their death sentence, living the last few hours of their lives. Come witness them reminisce their joy, their guilt and their redemption.

Natyaved presents
'PARDONED'
Writer: Suryasnata Tripathy
Director: Thakur Honey Singh

Three guys awaiting their death sentence, living the last few hours of their lives. Come witness them reminisce their joy, their guilt and their redemption.

Natyaved presents
'PARDONED'
Writer: Suryasnata Tripathy
Director: Thakur Honey Singh

Performance and talk by Irshad Panjatan an Indian actor and veteran mime artist, based in Berlin.

Irshad Panjatan (born 7 September 1931) is an Indian actor and veteran mime artist, based in Berlin, who introduced the art form to India during the 1960s. He started his career as stage actor, acted in few Bollywood films, and later received acclaim as mime artist. He toured through West-Asian and European countries in 1971, which led him to Berlin, where he settled down. Over the years he has even acted in a few Hollywood and German films, Manitou's Shoe (2001), Free Rainer (2007), God is No Soprano (2003) and Iron Sky (2012).

Celebration of Urdu poetry
Intercollegiate Baitbazi

Dr. Rafiya Saleem
Assistant professor department of Urdu, University of Hyderabad.

Dr. Humera Sayeed
Assistant professor, GDC Women, Sangareddy

As the winter sets in Hyderabad, Lamakaan brings to you some of the finest films of Martin Scorsese as he also celebrates his 80th birthday.

Martin Charles Scorsese, born (November 17, 1942) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. He receives many accolades, including an Academy Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, four British Academy Film Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and two Directors Guild of America Awards. Scorsese has received various honors, including the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1997, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2007, and the BAFTA Fellowship in 2012. Five of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant."

Scorsese received an MA from New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development in 1968. His directorial debut, Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967), was accepted into the Chicago Film Festival. In the 1970s and 1980s, Scorsese emerged as one of the major figures of the New Hollywood era. Scorsese's films, much influenced by his Italian-American background and upbringing in New York City, center on macho-posturing insecure men and explore crime, machismo, nihilism, and Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption. His trademark styles include extensive use of slow motion and freeze frames, graphic depictions of extreme violence, and liberal use of profanity.

His 1973 crime film Mean Streets, dealing with machismo and violence, and exploring Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption, was a blueprint for his filmmaking styles. Scorsese won the Palme d'Or at Cannes with his 1976 psychological thriller Taxi Driver, which starred Robert De Niro, who became associated with Scorsese through eight more films, including New York, New York (1977), Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1982), Goodfellas (1990), and Casino (1995). In the 2000s and 2010s, Scorsese garnered critical acclaim and box-office success with a series of collaborations with Leonardo DiCaprio. These films include Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), Shutter Island (2010), and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). Returning to his familiar territory of crime films, Scorsese collaborated with De Niro again on The Irishman (2019). Scorsese's other film work includes the black comedy After Hours (1985), the romantic drama The Age of Innocence (1993), the children's adventure drama Hugo (2011), and the religious epics The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Kundun (1997) and Silence (2016).

In addition to the film, Scorsese has directed episodes for some television series, including Boardwalk Empire (2011–2015), Vinyl (2016), the documentaries Public Speaking (2010), and Pretend It's a City (2021). He is also known for several rock music documentaries, including The Last Waltz (1978), No Direction Home (2005), Shine a Light (2008), and George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011). An advocate for film preservation and restoration, he founded three nonprofit organizations: the Film Foundation in 1990, the World Cinema Foundation in 2007, and the African Film Heritage Project in 2017.

Film Title: Goodfellas |1990 | 143 minutes | English

About the film: Goodfellas (stylized GoodFellas) is a 1990 American biographical crime film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Nicholas Pileggi and Scorsese, and produced by Irwin Winkler. It is a film adaptation of the 1985 nonfiction book Wiseguy by Pileggi. Starring Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco and Paul Sorvino, the film narrates the rise and fall of mob associate Henry Hill and his friends and family from 1955 to 1980.

Scorsese initially titled the film Wise Guy and postponed making it; he and Pileggi later changed the title to Goodfellas. To prepare for their roles in the film, De Niro, Pesci and Liotta often spoke with Pileggi, who shared research material left over from writing the book. According to Pesci, improvisation and ad-libbing came out of rehearsals wherein Scorsese gave the actors freedom to do whatever they wanted. The director made transcripts of these sessions, took the lines he liked most and put them into a revised script, which the cast worked from during principal photography.

Goodfellas premiered at the 47th Venice International Film Festival on September 9, 1990, where Scorsese was awarded with Silver Lion for Best Director, and was released in the United States on September 19, 1990, by Warner Bros. The film was made on a budget of $25 million, and grossed $47 million. Goodfellas received widespread critical acclaim upon release: the critical consensus on Rotten Tomatoes calls it "arguably the high point of Martin Scorsese's career". The film was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, with Pesci winning for Best Supporting Actor. The film won five awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, including Best Film and Best Director. Additionally, Goodfellas was named the year's best film by various critics' groups.

Goodfellas is widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, particularly in the gangster genre. In 2000, it was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress. Its content and style have been emulated in numerous other films and television series.

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Lamakaan invites you to the special screening of GHODE KO JALEBI KHILANE LE JA RIYA HOON film and followed by a discussion with the filmmaker, Anamika Haksar, and the protagonist, Ravindra Sahu, K.

Film Title: GHODE KO JALEBI KHILANE LE JA RIYA HOON Hindi/Urdu | 2018 | 121 minutes | Subtitled in English


Synopsis: Ghode Ko Jalebi Khilane Le Ja Riya Hoon (Taking the horse to eat Jalebis) is a 2018 Indian film by Gutterati Productions.

This film is a result of seven years of documentation of the lives of street people of Old Delhi – beggars, pickpockets, loaders, small-scale factory workers, street singers, street vendors, etc. Anamika Haksar directed the film.

The film is a "masterpiece of contemporary Indian cinema" by Kinoscope. It has won international and national awards and has been screened at numerous film festivals.

Ghode Ko Jalebi Khilane Le Ja Riya Hoon first premiered at the Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image (MAMI) festival in 2018. It was also the only film selected for the Sundance New Frontier Festival in 2019.

Anamika Haksar’s debut feature film, Ghode Ko Jalebi Khilane Le Ja Riya Hoon, which released in selected theatres on 10 June 2022. Two years after, it was selected to be screened in The New Frontiers section of the Sundance Film Festival, the only Indian film in that category.

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Your donations are welcome. It helps independent directors like Anamika Haskar to make more films.

Title: 1st Sridhar Lecture

Pegasus: The Most Dangerous Spyware Known to Humankind

This a conversation to celebrate the life of Sridhar Potlachervoo, a brilliant and loving human among us for a mere 42 years.

Paranjoy Guha Thakurta in conversation with Ashhar Farhan


About the title: Named after a mythical winged horse from Greek mythology, Pegasus is the name of the world’s most potent cyberweapon. Developed by the privately owned Israeli NSO Group, the spyware was intended for use by government law-enforcing agencies. However, the software has been widely misused in several countries worldwide to spy on politicians, including heads of government, journalists, lawyers, government officials, dissidents, and human rights activists. In July 2021, “The Pegasus Project” – comprising Amnesty International, and Forbidden Stories, a Paris-based international non-government organization, working in partnership with over 80 journalists from 17 organizations in ten countries – documented how the spyware was misused to target opponents of ruling regimes mainly. Whereas several governments are investigating how the cyberweapon was wrongfully deployed, the government of India has chosen to confirm neither nor deny whether any of its agencies purchased or used Pegasus. As a person whose mobile phone was allegedly “compromised” by the spyware and was among those who petitioned the Supreme Court of India in this regard, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta is uniquely placed to talk about what is arguably the most dangerous software known to humankind so far.


About Paranjoy Guha Thakurta: PARANJOY GUHA THAKURTA’s professional career started in June 1977 as a print journalist. His work experience, spanning four and a half decades, cuts across different mass media: the written word, the spoken word, and the audio-visual medium—printed publications and websites, radio and podcasts, television and documentary cinema. He is a writer, speaker, anchor, interviewer, teacher, analyst/commentator, publisher, producer, director, and consultant. Much of his work is in English, Bengali (his mother tongue), and Hindi. He has published and been published in other languages as well. His main areas of interest are the working of the political economy and the media in India and the world, on which he has authored/co-authored seven books, published more than 24 books, directed/produced more than 20 long documentary films, and hundreds of short films/videos, including two music videos. In particular, he examines the allocation and pricing of natural resources, the working of crony capitalism and oligarchies, and mass communications in India. He teaches and speaks on these subjects to students and general audiences and trains aspiring—and working—media professionals. As a visiting faculty, he has taught a course on media and society at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad for the last 18 years. He frequently participates in and organizes seminars/conferences. He is a regular contributor to publications and websites. He is featured on television channels and radio programs as an anchor and analyst/commentator. He has been and remains a consultant with the NewsClick portal.


About Ashhar Farhan: Ashhar Farhan, the founder of Lamakaan and a long-time radio ham, is in an elite company after being recognized for popularising the open-source Bit-X semi-kits.


About Sridhar Lecture: Sridhar Potlachervoo Lived amongst us briefly between 1979 and 2022. For more than half of that period, he was wheelchair-bound with a debilitating inflammatory disease called ankylosing spondylitis. During this time, he wrote some brilliant code, recited remarkably poignant poetry, organized charity to support athletes from poor families, and paid for the education of scores of young adults.


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The documentary was made by All India Forum for Right to Education after it's country-wide campaign of Shiksha Sangharsh Yatra against commercialisation and communalisation of education in India. It raises some of the fundamental questions before the education system of the country. Gathering the rich experiences and legacies of the historical social reform movements and the struggles for freedom of the country it builds a case for equitable and emancipatory education system in the country.

As the winter sets in Hyderabad, Lamakaan brings to you some of the finest films of Martin Scorsese as he also celebrates his 80th birthday.

Martin Charles Scorsese, born (November 17, 1942) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. He receives many accolades, including an Academy Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, four British Academy Film Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and two Directors Guild of America Awards. Scorsese has received various honors, including the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1997, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2007, and the BAFTA Fellowship in 2012. Five of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant."

Scorsese received an MA from New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development in 1968. His directorial debut, Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967), was accepted into the Chicago Film Festival. In the 1970s and 1980s, Scorsese emerged as one of the major figures of the New Hollywood era. Scorsese's films, much influenced by his Italian-American background and upbringing in New York City, center on macho-posturing insecure men and explore crime, machismo, nihilism, and Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption. His trademark styles include extensive use of slow motion and freeze frames, graphic depictions of extreme violence, and liberal use of profanity.

His 1973 crime film Mean Streets, dealing with machismo and violence, and exploring Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption, was a blueprint for his filmmaking styles. Scorsese won the Palme d'Or at Cannes with his 1976 psychological thriller Taxi Driver, which starred Robert De Niro, who became associated with Scorsese through eight more films, including New York, New York (1977), Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1982), Goodfellas (1990), and Casino (1995). In the 2000s and 2010s, Scorsese garnered critical acclaim and box-office success with a series of collaborations with Leonardo DiCaprio. These films include Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), Shutter Island (2010), and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). Returning to his familiar territory of crime films, Scorsese collaborated with De Niro again on The Irishman (2019). Scorsese's other film work includes the black comedy After Hours (1985), the romantic drama The Age of Innocence (1993), the children's adventure drama Hugo (2011), and the religious epics The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Kundun (1997) and Silence (2016).

In addition to the film, Scorsese has directed episodes for some television series, including Boardwalk Empire (2011–2015), Vinyl (2016), the documentaries Public Speaking (2010), and Pretend It's a City (2021). He is also known for several rock music documentaries, including The Last Waltz (1978), No Direction Home (2005), Shine a Light (2008), and George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011). An advocate for film preservation and restoration, he founded three nonprofit organizations: the Film Foundation in 1990, the World Cinema Foundation in 2007, and the African Film Heritage Project in 2017.

Film Title: The Age of Innocence | 1993 | 139 minutes | English

About the film: The Age of Innocence is a 1993 American historical romantic drama film directed by Martin Scorsese. The screenplay, an adaptation of the 1920 novel The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, was written by Scorsese and Jay Cocks. The film stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder and Miriam Margolyes, and was released by Columbia Pictures. The film recounts the courtship and marriage of Newland Archer (Day-Lewis), a wealthy New York society attorney, to May Welland (Ryder); Archer then encounters and legally represents Countess Olenska (Pfeiffer) prior to unexpected romantic entanglements.

The Age of Innocence was released theatrically on October 1, 1993, by Columbia Pictures. It received critical acclaim, winning the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, and being nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Winona Ryder), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, and Best Art Direction. Miriam Margolyes won the Best Supporting Actress BAFTA in 1994. The film grossed $68 million against a $34 million budget. Scorsese dedicated the film to his father, Luciano Charles Scorsese, who had died the month before the film was released. Luciano and his wife, Catherine Scorsese, had small cameo appearances in the film.

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The poverty is the root of all evils. This movie traces out the root of the poverty. People blame corrupt rulers & the Government but, in fact, people themselves are responsible. No Party or Government forces anyone on gun-point to commit certain crimes but people do it by their consent in the name of the system and, consequently, get morally and financially bankrupted.
The movie is written by Dr. Aleem Khan Falaki, Directed by Syed Khadeer and starred by Saleem Pheku, Abdul Razzaq and Bhavna etc

Story of a woman who comes from the lowest strata in society. The play talks about plight of women in an emotional, nostalgic and humourous tone.

Breathe Easy- Towards and Inclusive Workplace
The session will help participants understand "labels" and find ways to
Organizations today are investing time and effort to build a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion and thereby create a sense of belonging amongst all stakeholders.

One crucial detractor in this process is “labels”. We bring you a session to sensitize stakeholders on the consequence of using labels, for oneself and others and the harm caused to the overall ecosystem.

The session will inspire participants to appreciate the limiting nature of labels and find ways to overcome them.

Story of a woman who comes from the lowest strata in society. The play talks about plight of women in an emotional, nostalgic and humourous tone.

Shudrka Hyderabad presents Bengali play “EBAR DHORMORAJYO” (Comes Now Kingdom of Justice!) in which Gandhari and Kunti of Mahabharata meet on the last day of Kurukshetra war. If there is one issue that occurs again and again in this play, it is “Dharma”. It is perhaps the most debated and yet perhaps the most compromised. The play unhinges classical interpretation of the epic, while at the same time using the incidents in the epic to enunciate moral and ethical concerns and elaborate on the meanings of “Dharma” in the current context.