{"id":13119,"date":"2016-04-19T19:09:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T19:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogbox.indianeagle.com\/?p=13119"},"modified":"2016-04-20T13:50:14","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T13:50:14","slug":"saurav-rais-gudh-is-indias-official-entry-for-69th-cannes-film-festival-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/saurav-rais-gudh-is-indias-official-entry-for-69th-cannes-film-festival-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"69th Cannes Film Festival Selects Saurav Rai\u2019s &#8216;Gudh&#8217; Short Film as India\u2019s Official Entry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The festival de Cannes 2016 has started rolling out the red carpet for its inauguration on May 11.<\/strong> A short film from the regional cinema of India, not multibillion Hindi film industry, is the sole official Indian entry on the list of 18 films in the \u2018Cin\u00e9fondation\u2019 category of the international French Riviera.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\"><em>Gudh<\/em> (meaning Nest) by Saurav Rai, a young filmmaker from Darjeeling in the Indian state of West Bengal, is the only Indian film to represent India at the 69<sup>th<\/sup> Cannes Film Festival this year. <em>Gudh<\/em> is a short autobiographical film.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/69th-Cannes-Film-Festival-Selects-Saurav-Rai\u2019s-Gudh-as-India\u2019s-Official-Entry.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13126 size-full\" title=\"69th Cannes Film Festival Selects Saurav Rai\u2019s 'Gudh' Short Film as India\u2019s Official Entry\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/69th-Cannes-Film-Festival-Selects-Saurav-Rai\u2019s-Gudh-as-India\u2019s-Official-Entry.jpg\" alt=\"69th Cannes Film Festival, Cannes 2016, Indian's entry for Cannes 2016, Saurav Rai's Gudh film, Bengali films, Indian Cinema\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gudh is a memoir of my childhood in a very raw and bold form. It also depicts my relationship with my parents and grandparents. My individual style of filmmaking is not pleasing to anyone. &#8211; <strong>Saurav Rai<\/strong>, an alumnus of Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/cheap-flights-to-india-in\/cheap-flights-to-kolkata-ccu\" target=\"_blank\">Kolkata<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Saurav Rai is the fourth SRFTI alumnus to travel to the international Cannes Film Festival. He is currently busy shooting for a travelogue in <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/president-apj-abdul-kalam-memorial-museum-at-dilli-haat-delhi\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Delhi<\/a><\/span>.<\/strong> The last three Bengali films by SRFTI alumni \u2013 Tridib Poddar, Anirban Dutta and Raka Dutta \u2013 to have represented Indian Cinema at the Cannes were <em>Khonj<\/em>, <em>Tetris<\/em> and <em>Chinese Whispers<\/em> in 2002, 2006 and 2007 respectively.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are many contemporary Bengali films on unconventional subjects, which are traveling to international film festivals like New York Indian Film Festival for premiere. The Cannes 2016 has selected only one film from Bengal, while <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/16th-nyiff-2016-schedule-and-film-lineup\/\" target=\"_blank\">NYIFF 2016 will screen seven Bengali films<\/a><\/span> in May. &#8211; <strong>IndianEagle<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Born in Mangwa, a small village in Darjeeling district of Bengal, <strong>the 29-year-old Saurav Rai has depicted his childhood as a tale of two places \u2013 Darjeeling in India and Kathmandu in Nepal \u2013 with hints of the Gorkhaland movement for independent statehood of <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/a-tale-of-most-popular-wonderful-mountain-rail-journeys-in-india\/\" target=\"_blank\">Darjeeling<\/a><\/span><\/strong> in the background. <em>Gudh<\/em> in Nepali language depicts how the political upheaval in demand for a separate state affected his childhood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The selection of <em>Gudh<\/em> as India\u2019s official entry to the 69<sup>th<\/sup> Cannes Film Festival is not his first international achievement.<\/strong> Saurabh Rai\u2019s previous short film <em>Monsoon Rains<\/em> had traveled to the Munich Film Festival in 2014. He aspires to bring alive the untold stories of rural India on celluloid for a global audience.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Saurav Rai admits being influenced by the Satyajit Ray films and Mrinal Sen films from the golden era of Bengali Cinema and <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/hyderabad-on-the-silver-screen\/\" target=\"_blank\">Indian Cinema<\/a><\/span> at large.<\/strong> He likes watching popular art films by late Rituparno Ghosh from the next generation of Bengali filmmakers. Whenever he is accused of defying the grammar of filmmaking in his narrative technique of Gudh, he refers to his grandfather who used to compare him with Einstein as a stupid child.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Saurav along with his sound designer Ankita Purkayastha will leave for the 69<sup>th<\/sup> Cannes Film Festival on May 10. <\/strong>The jury of the Festival De Cannes 2016 selected <em>Gudh<\/em> short film out of the 2300 films from film schools across the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Travel Beats<\/span>\u00a0is a fast-growing news portal for Indians and NRIs by\u00a0IndianEagle, a leading international travel organization. It publishes the latest news about travel, aviation, culture, humanity and entertainment from India and USA.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The festival de Cannes 2016 has started rolling out the red carpet for its inauguration on May 11. A short film from the regional cinema of India, not multibillion Hindi film industry, is the sole official Indian entry on the list of 18 films in the \u2018Cin\u00e9fondation\u2019 category of the international French Riviera. 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