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P K Nair

P K Nair

 
Founder Director National Film Archive of India, Pune. Film historian, Film critic, Film Teacher, Film Festival Consultant and a Film Archivist of international repute. The chief architect behind the NFAI (National Film Archive of India), for nearly three decades, right from its inception in the mid sixties, first as Assistant Curator, then Curator and finally as the Director PK, as he is fondly known among FIAF (International Federation of Film Archive) colleagues, and as Nairsaab among FTII graduates, Mr. Nair did pioneering work in the field of film preservation, documentation and dissemination of film culture in the world's largest film producing country. He is largely responsible for developing the NFAI, Pune, virtually from scratch to an institution of international reckoning. As the first Asian member of FIAF's Executive committee for three consecutive terms he could bring to the notice of the International Archive community, how to come to grips with the problems of film preservation in a tropical climate like India, by indigenous means and with limited resources. Did serve as Chairman / member of several national and International Film Festival Juries . Written extensively on Indian and world cinema and guided several Indian and foreign scholars on research projects pertaining to Indian Cinema. Continue to be actively involved in designing film courses and developing indigenous training methodologies for the spread of film literacy and media awareness in the subcontinent, as well as promotion of Indian film studies abroad. At present he is engaged as a consultant for preparing the concept paper and project report for setting up a Museum of Moving Images (MOMI) at Films Division, Bombay for the Govt of India.
Vidyarthy Chatterjee

Vidyarthy Chatterjee

Vidyarthy Da, (born 1948, Jamshedpur, India) as film society activists fondly call him, studied history and political science in Calcutta’s historic Presidency College where his interest in cinema as an art form and a vehicle of social investigation was born. For more than three decades he has written on documentary and drama for leading Indian publications, notably The Statesman (Calcutta/Delhi) and The Economic Times (Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta). In the past few years he has been conducting appreciation courses for budding film lovers. He has edited Motif (established 1973), a respected avant garde journal devoted to public affairs, film and allied arts for more than two decades. He has served on juries at Bombay (MIFF), Zanzibar international film festivals and IDFA, Amsterdam. He was invited to participate in film festivals at Dhaka, Mannheim and Rotterdam. He is currently researching for a book on Anand Patwardhan, India’s best known and most respected documentary filmmaker.
Jugu Abraham

Jugu Abraham

Jugu Abraham is a senior film critic. He has been working with UN organizations for over 20 years as a resource mobilization specialist for international non-profit agricultural research. He was earlier a film critic with the Hindustan Times Group, New Delhi, from 1978 to 1985, and continues to write from time to time on good quality international cinema. He has traveled to some 50 countries. He has interviewed directors like Miklos Jansco, Zoltan Fabri, Roman Polanski, Lindsay Anderson, Peter Brooks, Istvan Gaal, Margarethe von Trotta, Nagisa Oshima and Shohei Imamura among others.
Bhawana Somaaya

Bhawana Somaaya

Bhawana Somaaya began her career in journalism in the late 70’s while studying for her BA degree in Psychology. Commencing with Free Press Journal’s Cinema Journal as chief reporter, she moved to Super as a special correspondent while completing LLB at the Government Law College, Mumbai. In ’81 she joined Movie as an assistant editor and was promoted in ’85 as its joint editor. In ’89 Chitralekha asked her to launch their first English publication g and in 2000 she joined as editor Screen film weekly of the Indian Express group. She is the recipient of several prestigious awards and has contributed columns to Sunday Observer, Afternoon, Janmabhoomi, Pravasi, Hindustan times, The Hindu, The Pioneer and Newstime. She has written six books, Amitabh Bachchan- The Legend, Salaam Bollywood, Take-25, The Story So Far, Cinema: Images and Issues , Hema Malini-The Authorised Biography and Fragmented Frames. Krishna- the God who lived as Man is Bhawana’s eigthth book with two more in the pipeline.
M. K. Raghavendra

M. K. Raghavendra

M. K. Raghavendra received the National Award for Best Film Critic in 1997. He is the author of Seduced by the Familiar: Narration and Meaning in Indian Popular Cinema (Oxford, 2008). He is the founder-editor of the web journal Phalanx (www.phalanx.in) and he has written on international cinema for web sites like www.jacques-rivette.com. He is particularly fond of film noir, David Cronenberg and French cinema.
Bikas Mishra

Bikas Mishra

Bikas is the founder and editor of DearCinema.com. Bikas was a part of the selection committee of the 10th Mumbai International Film Festival, organized by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI), a body comprising of representatives of Mumbai Film Industry led by noted filmmaker Shyam Benegal. He is also a part of the selection committee of the 7th Third Eye Festival of Asian Cinema, organized by Asian Film Foundation, Mumbai. Bikas has interviewed renowned international directors such as Márta Mészáros, Carlos Saura, Shyam Benegal and Mehreen Jabbar to name a few. He contributes film reviews and articles to leading Indian publications such as Mint-The Wall Street Journal and NDTV.com. Bikas is a member of Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique (FIPRESCI) also known as The International Federation of Film Critics.
Aniruddha Basu

Aniruddha Basu

Aniruddha Basu is the co founder and Executive Editor of DearCinema.com. An avid movie buff he worships Swedish master Ingmar Bergman and great Russian FilmmakerAndre Tarkovsky. He holds a masters degree in Mass Communication from MCRC, Jamia and a B. A. in English Literature from Delhi University. He works as a business correspondent with an International Newswire agency in Mumbai and dedicates rest of his time to his passions cinema and DearCinema.com.
Rituparna Chatterjee

Rituparna Chatterjee

Independent journalist, writer and photographer Rituparna Chatterjee writes for several international publications. Chronically obsessed with world cinema, she is trying to masquerade as a marketing analyst to fund her compulsive addiction. Rituparna is currently based in San Jose, California and regularly reviews films for South Asian publications.
Amitava Nag

Amitava Nag

Amitava Nag has been writing film reviews and articles on films regularly for the last 8 years now. He was a part of the gang that revived the Presidency College Film Club, Kolkata in the early nineties. He writes both in Bengali and English and his articles have been published in Silhouette magazine, South Asian Cinema (edited by Lalit Mohan Joshi) , Film Buff (edited by Rwita Dutta) and New Quest (editted by Jayan Deshpande / Dilip Chitre).
Devang Ghia

Devang Ghia

Devang, a chartered accountant by training, works for a mutual fund in Bombay(Mumbai). He is a self-confessed movie-buff and a critic, he hopes to catch the Oscar awards and the Cannes Fest live some day!
Srikanth Srinivasan

Srikanth Srinivasan

"Srikanth is a cinemaniac from Bangalore and likes to hunt down the most obscure films from around the world.He firmly believes in the quote:"Every man has two professions - one his own and the other, a film critic", and that gives him the drive to write on films. He is of the opinion that films can increase people's sensitivities and sensibilities and eventually lead to cultural tolerance. Additionally, he is an engineer from Bangalore."

Tom Elce

Whenever he’s not watching movies he’s either writing about them or continuing his training in agriculture-related industries. He loves watching films from all around the globe and loves discussing them too. A compulsive cinephile, forever occupying a cinema seat or buying a film on DVD. He lives in Nottinghamshire, England.

Smriti Mudgal

Smriti is a journalist by profession and choice. She loves watching films and does make it a point to watch at least one a week.
Pranjal Medhi

Pranjal Medhi

Pranjal Medhi works with a leading English news channel as a Video Journalist. He holds a Masters Degree in Mass Communication from MCRC, Jamia. Pranjal’s passions include music, photography and paintings. He is an avid moviegoer and admires visual artists like Wong Kar Wai, Andrei Tarkovsky and Kurosawa.
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