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The 2nd Annual Dallas South Asian Film Festival kicked off on November 13th
with the international award winning film, Chutney Popcorn, at the Angelika Film
Center in Dallas. Winner at seven film festivals, including the Berlin Film Festival,
the Paris International Film Festival, and the Los Angeles Outfest Film Festival,
Chutney Popcorn is a humorous look at the meaning of family and friends from a unique
perspective.
The festival closed with a special reception at the Dallas Museum of Art on November
19th with a screening of the classic Satyajit Ray film - Charulata. Screened in
Dallas for the very first time on a 16mm black and white print, this is vintage
cinema at its very best. In Charulata as in Ghare Baire, Ray explores the emergence
of the modern woman in the upper-class of colonial India. Ray manages to create a
highly charged atmosphere of restrained yet innocent lust. Inspired by New Wave film
makers Truffaut and Goddard, Ray starts to experiment with his visual style. Madhabi
Muherjee's performance was touching.
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