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Film Dukhiyari.
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I write this post with a heavy heart. In the morning Dinesh Srivastava shared the sad news from Mrs Phatak. Shashikant was my roommate for almost 6 years when we were doctoral students at the University of Pittsburgh (1969-1975).
Here is the message:
"An extremely bad news. My husband Shashikant Phatak is no more!!! He was suffering from lungs infection. He was admitted to Deenanath for about two and half weeks. He was discharged after that and he was improving. But after about a month, that is on 6th Oct night, he breathed his last
meera phatak"
Durgadas and Shashikant, Pittsburgh, early 70s.
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As far as I can tell the first international film festival was held in Venice in 1932.
The festival is still very active. From their website
The first "Esposizione d'Arte Cinematografica" came into being in 1932 as part of the 18th Venice Biennale (from 6 July to 21 August 1932) under the auspices of Count Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata, President of the Biennale, the sculptor Antonio Maraini, General Secretary, and Luciano De Feo, General Secretary of the International Institute for Educational Cinema, based in Rome. Luciano De Feo was the very first director-selector.
It was earlier called The Exhibition of the Cinematic Arts, now simply The Venice Film Festival.
In the second festival held in 1934, they invited the Indian film industry to send information about the industry, films to be shown and photos.
It was here that the first ever Indian film to win an international honorary diploma was shown, Seeta (1933).
I will be posting some photos from the festival report.
The next photo is that of the music director G Walwalkar.
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