{"id":10544,"date":"2015-09-22T14:59:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T14:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogbox.indianeagle.com\/?p=10544"},"modified":"2015-10-06T12:48:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T12:48:09","slug":"washington-dc-south-asian-film-festival-2015-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/washington-dc-south-asian-film-festival-2015-details\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Indian Films to Watch at Washington DC South Asian Film Festival This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Breathless waiting for the Washington DC South Asian Film Festival (DCSAFF) will come to an end this September 25.<\/strong> DCSAFF is one of the popular South Asian film festivals in North America. One of the most exciting Washington DC events for Indian Americans, the film fest screens some of the best thought-provoking films in alternative cinema from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Held annually in the heart of America\u2019s Capitol, DCSAFF has a lineup of full-length feature films and short films on contemporary subjects by Indian and Indian American filmmakers this year.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Washington DC South Asian Film Festival will hold a special screening of Chitrangada<\/em> by the late director Rituparno Ghosh, and Das Capital<\/em> by the late cinematographer Rajan Kothari as a tribute to them<\/strong>, on the opening day. The who\u2019s who of the film fest includes director Aparna Sen, director Suman Ghosh, actor Konkona Sen Sharma, and actor Raima Sen from the Bengali film industry of Kolkata. Indian-American filmmakers such as Ravi Kapoor, Rucha Humnabadkar and Nitin Adsul will be in attendance to make DCSAFF 2015 one of the most glittering events in Washing DC this weekend.<\/p>\n

Indian Eagle<\/span> handpicks seven films from the list of the DC South Asian Film Fest 2015 and reasons why each of them is a must watch for Indian Americans.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Saari Raat<\/em> by Aparna Sen<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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The opening night of the DC South Asian Film Festival will see the screening of Saari Raat<\/em> (All Night Along), a Hindi feature film by Aparna Sen from Kolkata<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. Actor-director Aparna Sen adapted a three-act play by Badal Sarkar, a legendary Bengali playwright, into Saari Raat<\/em> as a tribute to him. Starring Konkona Sen Sharma, Anjan Dutt and Rittwik Chakraborty, the film depicts the story of a couple who gets caught in a storm and seeks shelter in a stranger\u2019s house for the night during a vacation. Aparna Sen\u2019s Saari Raat<\/em> was premiered at the New York Indian Film Festival in May 2015.<\/p>\n