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| Jahnu Baruah |
Festival d’Automne or the Paris
Autumn Festival is a four month long celebration of contemporary arts. Every
year, from September to December the festival hosts over 40 events that can
attract up to 100,000 visitors. Founded
in 1972, this festival has grown over the year into a popular event on the
Parisian Calendar
In
collaboration with Jeu de Paume, the festival this year showcased works of two of India’s
iconic auteurs Jahnu Baruah and Adoor Gopalakrishnan. As a tribute to the diversity of Indian cinema, the works of these two
filmmakers have been chosen.
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| Adoor Gopalakrishnan directing Mamooty |
Both Baruah and Gopalakrishnan were once trained
at Pune Film Institute. From Assam, Jahnu Barua directed twelve feature films,
which explore social aspects of rural India in a humanist and realist vein,
while Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s documentaries and feature films form an ode to the
arts and history of his native Kerala.
Both these directors had remained mostly outside
India’s thriving film Industry often called Bollywood and made films which were
seldom commercially successful. But there continuing success in making
politically relevant sincere films is a testimony of India’s great cinematic
tradition once initiated by the like of Satyajit Ray.
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