<p dir="ltr">The schedule for the 50th edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) is out, revealing that the golden jubilee edition of India’s most prominent film festival will have a retrospective of the New Indian Cinema.</p>.<p dir="ltr">The New Indian Cinema, sometimes called the Indian New Wave, was a movement of sorts that started in the late 1960s and went on till the 90s, where filmmakers used experimental narrative techniques to present complex social issues.</p>.<p dir="ltr">Many filmmakers associated with the New Cinema were passouts from the Film and Television Institute of India, where they were exposed to the best of European cinema.</p>.<p dir="ltr">The New Wave movement often stood in stark contrast to the cinema of bollywood as well as the realistic tone of Bengali auteur Satyajit Ray.</p>.<p dir="ltr">In fact, some of the New Wave filmmakers, such as John Abraham (Malayalam and Tamil), Kumar Shahani (Hindi) and Mani Kaul (Hindi) — all of whose films are being screened at the festival — consciously moved away from what they saw as the Hollywood-inspired style of Ray.</p>.<p dir="ltr">Some other New Cinema filmmakers such as Adoor Gopalakrishnan (Malayalam) and Shyam Benegal (Hindi) acknowledged Ray’s influences.</p>.<p dir="ltr">Other filmmakers included in the retrospective are Ritwik Ghatak (Bengali), Mrinal Sen (Bengali), G Aravindan (Malayalam).</p>.<p dir="ltr">IFFI begins on November 20 and concludes on November 28.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The schedule for the 50th edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) is out, revealing that the golden jubilee edition of India’s most prominent film festival will have a retrospective of the New Indian Cinema.</p>.<p dir="ltr">The New Indian Cinema, sometimes called the Indian New Wave, was a movement of sorts that started in the late 1960s and went on till the 90s, where filmmakers used experimental narrative techniques to present complex social issues.</p>.<p dir="ltr">Many filmmakers associated with the New Cinema were passouts from the Film and Television Institute of India, where they were exposed to the best of European cinema.</p>.<p dir="ltr">The New Wave movement often stood in stark contrast to the cinema of bollywood as well as the realistic tone of Bengali auteur Satyajit Ray.</p>.<p dir="ltr">In fact, some of the New Wave filmmakers, such as John Abraham (Malayalam and Tamil), Kumar Shahani (Hindi) and Mani Kaul (Hindi) — all of whose films are being screened at the festival — consciously moved away from what they saw as the Hollywood-inspired style of Ray.</p>.<p dir="ltr">Some other New Cinema filmmakers such as Adoor Gopalakrishnan (Malayalam) and Shyam Benegal (Hindi) acknowledged Ray’s influences.</p>.<p dir="ltr">Other filmmakers included in the retrospective are Ritwik Ghatak (Bengali), Mrinal Sen (Bengali), G Aravindan (Malayalam).</p>.<p dir="ltr">IFFI begins on November 20 and concludes on November 28.</p>
