Bollywood and beyond: Looking Back at the 9th Indian Film Festival Stuttgart

Festival regular / Stammgast des Festivals (Photo: ©Peter Jebsen)

The festival formerly known as „Bollywood and beyond“ was highly enjoyable this year (July 18-22, 2012): After several years at the impersonal SI-Centrum, the 9th edition of the Indian Film Festival Stuttgart finally returned to the great Metropol cinema in central Stuttgart. Some of the festival highlights happened at the 5 Bar * Restaurant * Lounge * Club next door – including the impromptu a cappella singing of Tannishtha Chatterjee („Brick Lane“ / „Shadows of Time“) at the opening party (around 1 am).

7th Film Festival „Bollywood and beyond“: The Tweets (incl. Trailers)

Short Twitter reviews I posted after each screening during the Bollywood and beyond festival in Stuttgart:

Today’s Special (USA 2010): Deliciously funny & touching indie food movie. Naseeruddin Shah steals every scene he is in. I liked the movie right from the start – any film movie starting off with the music of 1957’s „Eena Meena Deeka“ & food scenes is my thing. The movie will be released in the U.S. on October 8, 2010. Check out the official website and the Facebook fan page. ***** of *****

Einmal Bollywood und zurück, bitte!

Wie jedes Jahr befinde ich mich gerade beim Filmfestival „Bollywood and beyond“ in Stuttgart (offizielle Website). Ich werde hinterher darüber bloggen, während des Festivals gibt es nur aktuelle Twitter-Updates.

Film Festival „Bollywood and beyond“: The Tweets

In July, I visited the sixth Indian film festival „Bollywood and beyond“ in Stuttgart and sent short reviews to Twitter. The tweets apparently got lost during one of the many Twitter crashes – since they originated at identi.ca, I was able to save them (I included some trailers):

Bollywood (and beyond) im Erlebniszentrum

Wie jedes Jahr im Sommer besuche ich gerade das Filmfestival „Bollywood and beyond“ (offizielle Website), das mittlerweile zum sechsten Mal in Stuttgart stattfindet.

Leider ist es in diesem Jahr wohl auch wg. mangelnden Budgets besonders lieblos gestaltet: Es gibt kein Programmheft, die schlecht vorbereiteten „Präsentatoren“ haspeln durch ihre Anmoderationen, und es kursieren für die meisten Filme unterschiedliche Anfangszeiten und Saalnummern.