LEAVING HOME: THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF INDIAN OCEAN
Oct 7(Friday) / 5.45 pm/ PVR Cinemas, Acropolis Mall

Synopsis
This is a feature length documentary on the most significant contemporary music band from India - Indian Ocean. They conform to no music industry norms. Their songs have an average length of more than eight minutes and none of them are love songs (in the conventional sense). Their music might be described as a fluid jazzy vibe with rock intensity and strong Indian Classical influences. After more than eighteen years together, the music of Indian Ocean shows no signs of aging. The band members have led interesting lives and made personal sacrifices to remain true to their artistic vision. This continued willingness to take risks and eschew commercial considerations has resulted in a singularly unique sound admired around the world. Director Jaideep Varma delves beyond the stage personas of the musicians, retracing the journey of Indian Ocean from its inception, through personnel changes and the creative evolution that forms the unified sound and chemistry that make the band a true original. By stepping back and letting the band do what they do best - make music Varma captures their unique energy and sound. Through concert performances and intimate improvisations, viewers gain a fresh perspective into the creative process and personal struggles of the band's members. LEAVING HOME acts as a biography and aural soundscape that is certain to garner the band new followers while also satisfying their established fans.

GOOD NIGHT GOOD MORNING 
Oct 8(Saturday) / 5.45 pm/ PVR Cinemas, Acropolis Mall
Special Attraction: Interactive session with director Sudhish Kamath and actor Seema Rehmani

Synopsis:
‘Good Night Good Morning’ is a black and white, split-screen, conversation film about two strangers sharing an all-night phone call on New Year's night. Writer-Director Sudhish Kamath attempts to discover good old-fashioned romance in a technology-driven mobile world as the boy Turiya, driving from New York to Philadelphia with buddies, calls the enigmatic girl staying alone in her hotel room, after a brief encounter at the bar earlier in the night. The boy has his baggage of an eight-year-old failed relationship and the girl has her own demons to fight. Scarred by unpleasant memories, she prefers to travel on New Year's Eve. An all-night phone call becomes a surreal, dream-like experience. Especially when the limited validity of the adventure gives you the freedom to be who you want to be.  Anonymity could be comforting and such a situation could lead to an almost romance. Or something like it.

FIRED (ASIA PREMIERE)
Oct 8(Saturday) / 8.00 pm/ PVR Cinemas, Acropolis Mall
Special Attraction: Interactive session with director Sajit Warrier and actor Rahul Bose

Synopsis:
 FIRED is a mind-bending tale of Joy Mittal a CEO who fires 121 people and has to pay for his actions. It is a real time depiction of the last 90 minutes of this paranoid person’s life. Joy Mittal, the arrogant CEO of H.W.L.S, in a hardnosed decision to repair his scandal ridden work record and prove his ability to emerge as a pioneering leader in times of financial crisis, fires all the employees from his London office to cope with the global economic slowdown.  Amongst the sacked employees is Ruby Harmison, an alluring, sophisticated, career-driven woman, with whom a married Joy is having a long affair. Joy fires Ruby along with the rest of the people he considers expendable. After a trying day, Joy decides to finish off some paperwork before heading home, but soon realizes that the only possible means of leaving is the one he least bargained for. Cornered in a deserted office, Joy soon realizes that there is a gruesome force in the building, which is hell-bent on extracting revenge for his ruthless actions.  FIRED is the shocking tale of a man who pays a steep price for his cold-blooded actions.

DESHWA 
Oct 9(Sunday) / 11.00 a.m/ PVR Cinemas, Acropolis Mall
Special Attraction: Interactive session with director Nitin Chandra and actor Neetu Chandra

Synopsis: 
Deswa is based on real incidents. A story of Rajiv Kumar, Sankar Pandey and Javed aka Jeans, based in Bihar in the year 2003, time when Bihar was reeling under massive corruption, crime, and crippling infrastructure. Rajiv Kumar comes back to his remote village in Buxar District of Bihar from Delhi, leaving his IAS preparation in the middle and help his father arrange money for his sister's marriage who is amangli. Sankar Pandey who is looking for govt job. In due course he is thrashed in Guwahati for taking Railway entrance exams, a true incident which happened in the year 2003. The third protagonist is Javed aka Jeans who is the comic character in the film.  He has delusions about going to Mumbai and becoming a famous singer but he is just a petty cleaner at a local village eatery. The story takes dramatic twist when Rajiv’s sister’s marriage is unprecedentedly pre-poned by the groom’s family; Sankar Pandey gets selected for a clerical job but is not able to join as he could not arrange money for bribe; Jeans is fired from his small time Dhaba job.  The honest protagonists strive to fulfill their needs but finally they succumb to the conditions prevailing personally and socially which finally leads them to commit a major crime as last resort. The outcome is very unexpected as they are jailed for 4 years. Later, in 2009 when they are released, they find that a lot of development has taken place in Bihar. The government was changed when they were in prison.

BLUE ORANGES 
Oct 9(Sunday) / 1.30 pm/ PVR Cinemas, Acropolis Mall
Special Attraction: Interactive session with director Rajesh Ganguly and actor  Rajit Kapur

“There’s a strange feeling in my stomach… It’s either I’m hungry or I’m in love…and the only I can find out is… by taking you out for dinner...” Those were Kevin’s first words to Shalini when he saw her at the Art Academy in Goa. They had just a couple of things in common. Both were excellent painters and they were in love. When differences in their social standings came in their way, they had decided to run away. That fateful day Kevin waited for Shalini but she did not arrive. Kevin left Goa all by himself. Eight years later they meet again in the streets of Mumbai... A few short hours later Shalini is murdered. Kevin is arrested from the murder spot... All circumstantial evidence is against Kevin.  The commissioner of Police pays Nilesh Bhargav a visit. Nilesh had earlier assisted the police in many cases in the past and had solved them successfully. Due to his personal vested interest, he wants Nilesh to carry out a parallel investigation to solve the Shalini murder case....Nilesh strongly feels that Shalini's last painting has an important story to tell.

MEMORIES IN MARCH 
Oct 9(Sunday) / 4.30 pm/ PVR Cinemas, Acropolis Mall
Special Attraction: Interactive session with director Sanjoy Nag and actor Raima Sen

Memories in March is a 2010 Indian drama film directed by Sanjoy Nag. The film stars Deepti Naval, Rituparno Ghosh and Raima Sen. The film is the effective exploration of a situation wherein a bereaved mother comes to terms with the fact of her son’s sexual identity. The film is about emotional archiving. A bereaved mother(50) dumbstruck by the news of an accidental death of her 28 yr old son comes to Kolkata to finish of the last rituals, pack & carry his belongings back to Delhi. Her 4 day stay in Kolkata in her dead son's office apartment laden with memories & her constant interaction with his office colleagues (his only family in the City) makes her realise that the ownership of her Son's belongings, tangible or otherwise, which she claimed to be exclusively personal is actually ubiquitous, distributed among all his friends and acquaintances. So much so that it can't be packed and moved away. She also realises her own presence in the midst of these unfamiliar people the fact that she has inhabited their hearts and thoughts much before destiny brought them together.

GANDU (ASIA PREMIERE)
Oct 9(Sunday) / 7.00 pm/ PVR Cinemas, Acropolis Mall

Synopsis:
Our protagonist is known as Gandu. It’s not a name he chose. Like every other human being, people around him thrust it on him. In his case, it is whoever he meets. He’s the perennial loser. Lost in a city as lost as he is.  Gandu lives on the wrong side of Howrah Bridge, the pride of Kolkata. In a dingy neighborhood, inside a time warp, surrounded by mirth, he has experienced a lifetime. He is twenty now. His mother works as a mistress. Her main client has let them stay in an apartment that is new, but unfinished. The man comes around often in the afternoons, to spend time with his mother. Gandu takes this opportunity to enter his mother’s bedroom, past the couple locked in passion, to pick the man’s pocket.  Gandu is a rapper. The average Bengali has probably never come across rap. This is the land of melody. Ganduhates melody. He finds extreme words that are shunned by mainstream, and crafts songs with them. He plays the lottery, losing regularly, and he roams the city aimlessly. Inside a cyber café, he downloads porn and rap, clocking a girl who skypes endlessly with her boyfriend somewhere far away.  Turning a corner, Gandu bangs into a cycle rickshaw. He has a fight with the rickshaw puller and inevitably loses.Gandu begins to follow the rickshaw puller. The rickshawala is a young guy, a wicked rider of the rickshaw. His body plays to a rhythm that is one with the streets he moves on. His rickshaw is a shrine of Bruce Lee. Gandu watches him from a distance.  They become friends in a weird manner. Gandu begins to pour out his desires. He talks about rap, he talks about hate, he talks about society, and he talks about anger. The rickshaw puller shows him smack. Together, they dive into the shadows, into a dark space where fantasy is the only reality.   Slowly the film begins to turn dark, with an energy that drives Gandu towards his end.  Throughout the film, we get the feeling that Gandu is curious about the dark Goddess, Kali. Kali is a Goddess of the night, a pagan icon. She dwells in crematoriums and is celebrated by outlaws. Blood is her symbol, and she is also hailed as the ultimate dark sexual force.  His relationship with his mother is fraught with incoherence and misunderstanding. Till one day, she catches him picking her client’s pocket. She is furious, and the vision of her wrath, and a naked realization that his connection with his mother is lost, he loses himself. His friend takes him off to some strange space. They find themselves in a temple, they are given some strange drug by a Sadhu, they wake up under a mammoth tree, and a poet tells them thatGandu is, in fact, the hero of a film. Reality and fiction, surreal and bizarre come together as Gandu hurtles towards a wild finale. He wins the lottery, he finds himself in bed with an alien sex kitten, he decides to cut a demo, and performs as a star. But are these dreams, or are they really happening? Will Gandu be a victim of his own nightmare?

SUMANGALI (Documentary)
Special Attraction: Interactive session with filmmaker Pravin Mishra

Forced labour of women and girls known as the “Sumangali system” is practiced in the factories of Southern India, particularly the spinning mills around Tirupur. The workforce is composed of girls aged between 13 and 18 years-old employed on a three-year contract. The girls are recruited as trainees or apprentices, whereas the nature of the work is such that it does not require such a prolonged training period. They are confined to the mills during their contract period and are rarely, if ever, allowed out during that time. The only visitors they are permitted, just occasionally, are their parents, many of whom regard this as a safe form of employment for their daughters. The restrictions on freedom of movement and the elements of bonded labour associated with the Sumangali system mean that it is a contemporary form of slavery and recognised as such by the Indian Courts. Nevertheless it is still widely practiced in garment manufacture as the continually available supply of cheap labour that it represents allows many Indian manufacturers to meet the demands of international retailers for low cost garments produced on short turnaround times. This often means that mills operate 24 hours a day, using three shifts and that workers are not only required to work any shift but also to carry out unpaid overtime.