Roof top film festival – Bangalore edition

(Thanks to Lavanya for the photo)

On 7th July @ 7:00pm few of us gathered in a Guest House in Hebbal near the being newly constructed “Twin Towers” for the film festival initiated by Hrish Thota. The initial plan to start @ 7:00pm with the significance of all 7’s had to be slightly postponed with no sight of projector & screen. The guys bringing it along were stuck in a traffic jam which is nothing unusual in Bangalore!!
At 8:00pm we managed to start the show and the first movie to be showcased was Sudhish Kamath’s “That four letter word“. Its a typical story of 4 individuals and there were lot that could be related. If you are a guy and not able to relate to the movie then there is drastically something wrong, inherently!!
Pawan next showcased his movie’s and trailers of his upcoming movies. Followed by Vatsa who’s 5minute short movies were viewed. Now he is getting big time into movie direction and we wish him success in future.
Rabi the IIT student who had filmed Silicon Jungle a movie on IITian life was also showcased. If you are an IITian and a guy you can relate a lot to the movie. There were few times when the movie was going into dull moments but still a well done movie and of course with lot of sponsors whom were managed by the contacts. The best thing that can happen to him is Mani Ratnam taking him into his production house!! Now thats an achievement.
The other movies which were shown were Christopher Nolan’s Following. This was his first directorial venture an year before making Memento which was ripped into Tamil as Gajini and is also being remade in Hindi. The movie Following needs a careful watch. If you watch it like yet another movie, you would never understand what is happening. This is a definite recommended movie.
The second of the full length feature movie was Run Lola Run. We saw this in German with of course English subtitles. The audio in this movie is really amazing and having watched this before, it was never like watching it for first time.
The last movie which we saw was Touching the void. This is a truly inspirational movie of the fight on two people who scaled 21000ft above up the west face of Siula Grande in Peru. This is supposedly the most toughest climbs and no one has ever succeeded to do it. Plus there are no rescue teams readily available.

After this the time was 7:00am on Sunday morning. We had a group photo session after which we went in different directions. Well, yeah some of them had a good sleep even through all the fun that we were having. Most of us remained awake the entire duration. Sudhish who had come down from Chennai left after sometime. So did few others. But it never dampened the spirits of those who were staying back.

Tags: RTFF, India, Bangalore