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Meenaxi : Tale of 3 Cities
A Window on Asian Cinema
Literature · Films about Film · Music/Dance
- CountryIndia
- Production Year2004
- Running Time130min
- Format 35mm
- ColorCOLOR
Program Note
M. F. Husain, director of Meenaxi: Tale of 3 Cities, is known as a great figure of Indian art history. Meenaxi: Tale of 3 Cities carries strange colors that seem to cast strange spells. The film does not describe the characters with pretense; on the contrary, they exist as they are. The main character Nawab is a novelist. A mysterious woman named Meenaxi visits him one day and asks him to write a story using herself as the protagonist. As Nawab writes many different stories, the screen is painted with poetic colors. Meenaxi: Tale of 3 Cities satisfies both storytelling and artistic needs while setting itself as a perfect example of successfully combining popular cinema with a director′s artistic vision. The sense of Bollywood, the cinematic form that embraces musical-like storytelling, guides the audience through the film. This may be another story about the relationship between an artist and the muse that inspires him, but the film leaves a poetic aftertaste with its canvas-like colors. (Kim Young-jin)
Director
M.F HUSAIN
Muqbool Fida Husain was born in 1915. One of India’s leading artists, Husain was a special invitee along with Pablo Picasso at the Sao Paulo Biennial in 1971. In 1967, he won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for his documentary <Through the Eyes of a Painter>. He has made several short films since then.
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Credit
- Director M.F HUSAIN M.F 후세인
- Producer Reima-Faiza Husain
- Cast Tabu, Raghubir Yadav, Kunnal Kapoor
- Screenplay M.F. Husain, Owais Husain
- Cinematography Santosh Sivan
- Production Design Sharmishta Roy
- Editor Sreekar Prasad
- Sound H. Sridhar, Rishi Oberoi
- Music A. R. Rahman
- Production Company
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