As on Friday, the cream of the selection will play at South Mumbai theatres. Aniruddha Guha recommends films to watch on Saturday, October 20 at the Mumbai Film festival.
The first weekend of any festival is what sets the tone. Saturday and Sunday have some big films lined up at venues in South Mumbai, Sion and Versova, so audiences at all three locations should be happy. However, as on Friday, the cream of the selection will play at South Mumbai theatres. Aniruddha Guha recommends films to watch on Saturday, October 20 at the Mumbai Film festival.
South Mumbai (NCPA, Inox & Liberty)
When you get the opportunity to watch an Abbas Kiorastami film first thing in the morning, you grab it. Like Someone In Love plays at 10am at JBT at NCPA, and you’d be wise to watch it. Other options include The First Aggregate at Inox Screen 1 and Redemption Street at Inox Screen 5.
For the noon show, Father’s Chair playing at Inox Screen 4 is a good bet. But once again, JBT at NCPA will screen Babis Makridi’s debut directorial L at 12:30pm, which is playing in International Competition. L is stunningly shot and a treat for art cinema lovers.
The 3:30pm slot has more than one good option. From Tuesday To Tuesday will play in competition at JBT at NCPA. The Delay is another great choice, and it’s playing at Inox Screen 1. But my pick for the afternoon show will be Ravi Jadhav’s Balak Palak, a brilliant film on the need for sex education in India. It’s among the Indian films at the festival that deserve an audience.
For the evening show, there’s Rust & Bone at JBT at NCPA. Jacques Audiard, who made the fantastic A Prophet, returns in this film that once again shows how good an actor Marion Cottilard she is. However, while R&B is a film you can catch up on another time, you shouldn’t miss the chance to watch Uday Sharma’s hypnotic dance film, Kalpana, restored by Martin Scorsese’s World Cine Foundation. I wrote about the film after I saw it at Cannes, and you can read it here.
While JBT shows the Takeshi Kitano’s Outrage Beyond at 8.30pm, MFF gives you a rare chance to watch India’s earliest films at Inox Screen 5, where bits from Dadasaheb Phalke’s Raja Harishchandra, Kaliya Mardan, Shri Krishna Jamna and Lanka Dahan will be shown.
The final plan for South Mumbai (NCPA-Inox-Liberty)
10am: Like Someone In Love at JBT at NCPA. Second option: First Aggregate.
12.30pm: L at JBT at NCPA. Second option: Father’s Chair.
3.30pm: Balak Palak at Inox Screen 5. Second option: From Tuesday To Tuesday.
6pm: Kalpana at Inox Screen 3. Second option: Rust & Bone.
8pm: Dadasaheb Phalke’s films at Inox Screen 5. Second option: Outrage Beyond.
Film picks for Cinemax Sion
10am: A Respectable Family
12.30pm: After Lucia
3.45pm: Stories We Tell
5.45pm: After The Battle
8.15pm: The City Of Children
Film picks for Cinemax Versova
10.15am: The Gardner
12.30pm: -
3.30pm: -
5.45pm: The Angel’s Share
8.15pm: Antiviral. Second option: 7 Days In Havana
Click here to see Day 1 (October 19) film picks
DNA’s Aniruddha Guha is part of the selection panel for International Competition and World Cinema films at the Mumbai Film Festival. You can badger him for film recommendations and general between-the-films talk on Twitter. His handle is @AniGuha
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