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  • Luca Guadagnino and Zoya Akhtar, Reema Kagti’s Tiger Baby to Set Stage for International Collaboration at Mumbai Event (EXCLUSIVE)

    Luca Guadagnino and Zoya Akhtar, Reema Kagti’s Tiger Baby to Set Stage for International Collaboration at Mumbai Event (EXCLUSIVE)

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    Italian auteur Luca Guadagnino and Indian filmmakers Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti‘s Tiger Baby will lay the ground for future collaborations at a Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival event.

    The event, designed as a celebration of Guadagnino, will honor his work. “Tiger Baby’s celebration of Luca Guadagnino’s contributions to world cinema marks a significant step toward fostering international collaboration and sharing diverse stories with a global audience. This event aims to bridge the gap between Indian filmmakers, emerging talents and international cinephiles. The event will provide a platform for creative content production, cultural exchange and international collaboration in the world of cinema,” the festival said.

    Prior to the event, Guadagnino will deliver a masterclass at the festival. The filmmaker was accorded the festival’s Excellence in Cinema (International) award by chair Priyanka Chopra Jonas at the opening ceremony on Oct. 27. The festival is screening Guadagnino’s Oscar and BAFTA nominated “I Am Love” (2009).

    Guadagnino’s films include “A Bigger Splash” (2015), the Oscar-winning film “Call Me By Your Name” (2017), “Suspiria” (2018) and feature documentary “Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams” (2020). “Bones and All” (2022) won Guadagnino the Silver Lion for best director at Venice. He made his TV debut with the HBO drama series “We Are Who We Are” (2020). His film “Challengers,” starring Zendaya, Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor, is due in April 2024, and he is currently in post-production for his next feature based on William S. Burroughs’ novel “Queer.”

    Festival director Anupama Chopra said: “Luca Guadagnino’s oeuvre is extraordinary. As we felicitate him with Jio MAMI Excellence in Cinema Award this year, we’re delighted to host a celebration along with Tiger Baby in his honor. The gathering is a chance for the South Asian talent to engage with him.”

    Tiger Baby’s “Gully Boy,” directed by Akhtar and written by her, Kagti and Vijay Maurya, was a Berlinale selection in 2019. This year’s Berlinale Series featured India’s debut on the platform, Kagti and Akhtar’s Prime Video series “Dahaad.” Season 2 of their Prime Video series “Made in Heaven,” is a hit for the service.

    Next up for the duo is Netflix film “The Archies,” based on the popular comic books, written by them and directed by Akhtar, which streams from Dec. 7. They are also producing Namrata Rao’s “Angry Young Men,” a documentary on famed Bollywood screenwriters Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar, who created Amitabh Bachchan’s ‘angry young man’ persona in the 1970s; and Arjun Varain Singh’s friendship saga film “Kho Gaye Hum Kahan,” starring Adarsh Gourav (“The White Tiger”), Ananya Pandey (“Dream Girl 2”) and Siddhant Chaturvedi (“Gully Boy”).

    The Tiger Baby team said: “We are so delighted to celebrate Luca Guadagnino. We are huge fans of his work and we aren’t the only ones. There are many filmmakers like us in the industry who will get a now have the opportunity to interact with him and let him know that he will always welcomed at Jio MAMI and in India.”

    Guadagnino’s masterclass and the event will take place on Oct. 29 at Mumbai’s National Media Centre located at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre. The festival runs through November 5.

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  • Mostofa Sarwar Farooki, Chanchal Chowdhury Wrap ‘Monogamy,’ New Version of ‘Autobiography’ Set for Mumbai (EXCLUSIVE)

    Mostofa Sarwar Farooki, Chanchal Chowdhury Wrap ‘Monogamy,’ New Version of ‘Autobiography’ Set for Mumbai (EXCLUSIVE)

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    Bangladeshi auteur Mostofa Sarwar Farooki has wrapped his latest film “Last Defenders of Monogamy.”

    The cast is headlined by popular Bangladeshi actor Chanchal Chowdhury (“Karagar,” “Hawa”) and Xefer Rahman and the cast also includes Samina Hussain Prema and Shuddho Rai.

    The film follows Shafqat (Chowdhury), a father of two adolescents and a loving husband, who is a firm believer in the ideals of monogamy but the winds of change take a big test of his ideologies.

    “Working with Farooki is always special. With ‘Last Defenders of Monogamy’ we have tried to break the prevalent streaming trends of sex and violence and have delivered something new. With this film we are creating a new, diverse space in streaming,” Chowdhury said.

    The film is part of leading Bangladesh streamer Chorki’s 12-film “Ministry of Love” anthology. The first film in the anthology, Farooki and Nusrat Imrose Tisha’s “Something Like an Autobiography,” premiered at Busan earlier this month, where it was in the prestigious Jiseok competition

    “Not sure if it’s conscious but definitely my subconscious pushed me to pick two very different styles, temperaments and mood for two different films. ‘Monogamy’ was bound to happen as I have been missing doing this tragicomic stuff that encircles our life these days. Modern life is one big tragicomedy,” Farooki told Variety. “I made my first film ‘Bachelor’ which is cinematically poor but has a cult standing in Bangladesh due to its contextual relevance with urban youth’s romantic life. I took 20 years to come back with a new take in that zone but this time the central character is a married person. I am glad I waited this long for this as it allowed me to get a better and deeper understanding on the subject. No matter how you rate his choices, the character that Chanchal Chowdhury plays evokes a complex emotion. It’s not easy to love or hate him. Life doesn’t allow us to take sides like that.”

    Chowdhury’s character in the film feels like a closely observed portrait. “As I always say, I take a cue from the world I live in. I steal things and change it in a way just so it’s not recognizable anymore. Chanchal Chowdhury’s character is certainly relatable from that of view. Maybe we won’t love to admit it but secretly we would know how relatable he is,” Farooki said.

    Meanwhile, the next play date for “Something Like an Autobiography” is at the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival. The film follows Dhaka-based married couple, the filmmaker Farhan (Farooki) and actor Tithi (Tisha), who are under societal pressure to have a baby. Tithi conceives and towards the end of her pregnancy term an incident occurs that throws into sharp relief some realities of contemporary Bangladeshi society. The title, a nod to Kurosawa Akira’s celebrated memoir, is also reflective of the real lives of Farooki and Tisha, a real-life celebrity couple who are the most recognized filmmaker and actor in Bangladesh, respectively.

    The film plays in Mumbai with a new ending, which Variety has seen. “I know it can be called sheer madness but I am sure it’s normal with many filmmakers. I don’t want to stop thinking about a film when I complete delivery. Although I know the rules of the game are we have to stop somewhere or else we would be constantly making one single film for our entire lifetime, but sometimes your heart wants to make some changes even after the premiere. I was moved by the audience’s reactions in Busan. But on my way back, I was feeling there is something more I want to tell. Something is stuck in my mind but I didn’t know what’s that. Few days back, I saw a dream. I woke and told Tisha, ‘I want to shoot this scene.’ And we shot it. I think this ending scene broadens the horizon of the film, makes the emotional palette much stronger, and blurs the boundary between real and life and fiction even further. I now love the film even more.”

    “Last Defenders of Monogamy” and “Something Like an Autobiography” are produced by Redoan Rony for Chorki.  

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