Posted January 15, 2014 under Event News By Annesh Bilas Thakur
Kolkata revisits 'Sholay' with Ramesh Sippy
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t has been 40 years since the "Biggest Blockbuster" of Indian Cinema has released.
Yes, we are talking about the cult film - 'Sholay' - where the characters like Jai, Veeru, Gabbar andThakur have been an important part of popular culture of the country; clearly, Ramesh Sippy couldn't have debuted with a better film!
Four decades on and the film is still a celebrated success in both the public memory as well as the history pages! Kolkata recently played host to the four decade celebrations of this legendary film.
Initiated by Purple Movie Town the Director of Sholay - Ramesh Sippy joined an interactive session with the students of film studies and film-making from the city at the movie town. Students from SRFTI, Jadavpur University and St. Xavier's College, took part in this interactive session and made full use of the opportunity to prick the brains of an ace director who has made films like Shaan, Shakti, Saagar besidesSholay.
The after-party was held at the Oberoi Grand Hotel where the who's who of Tollywood came together to joinRamesh Sippy and wife Kiran Juneja Sippy for the celebratory get-together.
From the likes of Industrialists like Sundeep Bhutoria to Harsh Neotia; from legends like Soumitra Chatterjee to stars like Prosenjit Chatterjee, Saswata Chatterjee, Parambrata Chatterjee - the celebs made all the right noises.
Our Little Birdie also spotted Rituparna Sengupta, Ananya Chatterjee, Gargi Roy Chowdhury, Arjun and Nilanjana Chakrabarty, Srijit Mukherjee, Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury, Arindam Sil, Mahendra Soni among others at the Oberoi Grand.
Understandably, Pritimoy Chakrabarty, the mind behind the event was all smiles all the while!
Pictures by: Dipanjan Ghosh
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