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Upcoming Events
A retrospective of films of RAJ KAPOOR
the india foundation
On the occasion of its
20th anniversary
celebrations
Presents
Seventh Festival of Films from India
A retrospective of films
of
RAJ KAPOOR
May 22nd through August 21st 2005 - Every Other
Sunday
(Except Memorial Day and July Fourth Week-ends)
The Neon Movies
130 East Fifth Street, Dayton, OH 45402
Office Phone: (937) 222-8452 � For Show times: (937) 222-7469(SHOW)
East Fifth St., Dayton, OH. 45402
AAG, BARSAT,
AAH, AWARA, BOOT POLISH,
JAGTE RAHO
& SANGAM
All with
English subtitles
SPONSOR for our 2005
season by contributing $100 or more and receive two passes for all the films
and two complementary seats to all the upcoming events during 2005. Tickets for individual shows would be available at the Box Office on
the day of the show.
Raj Kapoor
(1924-1988) is many things to many people: producer, director, actor, editor,
musician, storyteller, a man of many moods, and an acknowledged patriarch of India's filmmaking industry. He is also known to the world as an extraordinary showman,
lover and an idealist. His films have always evoked extreme emotions of joy and
pathos, he knew that the audiences loved him, and he never let them down. He
was the greatest entertainer known to Indian films, the last true movie mogul
of Indian cinema. Raj Kapoor worked with the cinematic tradition he inherited,
made modifications and added new elements to it, and thus created a popular art
form that was complementary to his temperament and view of life. He infused a
distinctive mode of popular romantic sensibility into Indian cinema. He was -
imperious and majestic, a dreamer of big dreams. His R.K. Studios remains a
living monument to his vision, energy and enterprise. He was one of the true
icons of Indian films that defined the movies in the post independent India and
remained unrivaled mega star for over three decades of 1950s,�60s and �70s.
The fourth generation of the KAPOOR clan - his children and grand children
still rule the Indian movie realm.
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the india foundation, 895 Kentshire Dr., Dayton, OH 45459
937-433-4879, Fax:
937-433-5748
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AAG
(1948) Sunday, May 22nd 2005
First directorial venture of Raj Kapoor. Running Time: Approximately 135 minutes.
Starring: Nargis, Kamini Kaushal, Nigar
Sultana, Raj Kapoor, Kamal Kapoor, Indumati, Premnath, B.M. Vyas and Vishwa
Mehra with Shreeram, Pushpa, Naidu, Nayyer, Ismail, Sandow, Billoo Kriplani and
Shashiraj (Shashi Kapoor as a six to eight years old).
Producer-Director: Raj Kapoor.
BARSAAT (1949)
Black & White � Romance. Sunday June 5th
2005. Running Time: Approximately 157 minutes.
Starring: Nargis, Raj Kapoor, Premnath and introducing Nimmi,
with B.M. Vyas, Sushila Devi, Dolly Baldeo, Cuckoo, K.N. Singh, Ratan Gaurang,
Prakash Arora, Romani, Pushpa, Hiren Khera, Vishwa Mehra and Master Sandow.
AWARA (1951)
B&W, Hindi, Sunday, June 19th
2005. Running Time Approx. 170 min
Starring: Prithviraj, Nargis, Raj Kapoor with K.N. Singh, Shashiraj, Cuckoo,
B.M. Vyas, Baby Zubeida, Honey O'brien, Leela Mishra, OM Prakash, Rajoo,
Mansaram, Rajan, Manek, Prayag, Ravi, Vinni, Bali and Leela Chitnis. Producer-Director:
Raj Kapoor.
AAH
(1953)
B & W
� Romance. Sunday, July 10th 2005. Running Time: Approximately 142 minutes.
Starring: Nargis, Raj Kapoor,
Vijayalaxmi and Pran, Ramesh Sinha, Bhupendra Kapoor, Leela Mishra,
Sohanlal, Rashid Khan and Mukesh. Producer: Raj Kapoor.
BOOT
POLISH (1954)
Running Time:
Approximately 148 minutes. Sunday, July 24th 2005
Starring:
Baby Naaz, Ratan Kumar, David with Chand Burque, Veera, Bhupendra Kapoor,
Shailendra, Bhudo Advani and Prabhu Arora. Producer: Raj Kapoor.
JAGATE
RAHO
(1956) Running Time: Approximately 139 minutes.
Sunday,
August 7th 2005
Starring: Pradeep Kumar, Sumitra Devi, Smriti Biswas, Pahari
Sanyal, Sulochana Chaterjee, Daisy Irani, Nemo, Motilal with Nana Palsikar,
Iftekhar, Vikram Kapoor, Bhupendra Kapoor, Bhudo Advani, Krishnakant, Krishan
Dhavan, S.Banerjee, Nand Babu, Pran, Kalyan Bhattacharya, Sachin Ghosh, Inder
Maini, Rana Sahib and Raj Kapoor. Producer: Raj Kapoor
SANGAM
(1964) Running Time: Approximately 213 minutes. Sunday,
August 21st 2005
Starring:
Raj Kapoor, Vyjayntimala, Rajendra Kumar with Lalita Pawar, Achala Sachdev, Raj
Mehra, Nana Palsikar, Iftikhar, Vijayalaxmi, Hari Shivdasani, Waheeda, Baby
Farida, Jatin Khanna, Ratan Gaurang, Uma Dutt, Mansaram, Prayag and P.Raj. Producer,
Editor & Director: Raj
Kapoor
Adi Shankaracharya
A dance drama in Bharat Natyam tradition to be presented by Preksha of India.
The dance drama was selected by the New York International Fringe Festival that concluded last month in New York city.
This would be first national tour of Preksha. Choreographer and lead dancer is Bijoy Shivram.
An Evening with Mary Carpenter
with Sharon Trivedi
Another one-character play about the 19th century British reformer, educationist and pioneer in the moment to promote reforms in the operation of reformatories for wayward young people, treatment of destitute women and prison reform.
Mary Carpenter was instrumental in speeding up the establishment of Training Colleges for women teachers in India. She was a friend of Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Keshub Chandra Sen and many of the social thinkers and reformers of India during the 19th century. Mary Carpenter visited India six times between 1967 and 1876.
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