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How To Name It | Nothing But Wind | India 24 Hours | Ramana Geetam
India 24
Hours
During the first week of February,
1995. 150 Indian filmmakers and 18 of India's finest
photojournalists fanned out across the country to record for
posterity a collective adventure of enormous fascination and
complexity - a visual time - capsule of a unique nation caught up at
the moment of dramatic change. The result was a docu-feature, which
premiered simultaneously on DD1 (doordharshan) and ATN on 26th
January 1996 to mark India's republic Day. India 24 Hours also cover
coffee table book with 174 color photographs and a CD with an
original musical score by Dr. Ilaiyaraja
From glacial Ladakh
to steamy Kerala, the many photographic teams sought to capture the
contrasting forces that have shaped the subcontinent. India 24 hours
is a photosensitive odyssey that attempts to advance the luminous
possibilities of the country, offering re-invigorated definition,
injecting new vitality, pressing toward the borders of
interpretation and response if only by subtle shades and subjective
increments. here lies choreographed the boundless freedom of
eighteen of India's most gifted photographers, working
simultaneously throughout the country, ravishing the eye, inflaming
the senses, provoking the heart and stirring the imagination
India 24 hours is a collective impression born of many
situations, paces, shades, and definitions. Familiar idioms are here
transformed into a transformed language that is both of the everyday
and the fantastic. Inner perceptions and outward marvels captured by
the photographers lenses testify to celebrations, hard work,
memorable incidents, visions, haphazard encounters, pains, pleasures
and passions, two winks for every grimace, and the odd miracle. It
is not mere visual provocation or splendour that typifies these
images, but the profound diversity of a country, as she randomly
greets a small armada of great photographers. The results and
uncanny, a shock wave of insights and upliftment.
India 24
Hours took shape under the production and editorial guidance of
Internationally acclaimed writer, ecologist and film maker, Michael
Tobias, renowned Indian photographer, Raghu Rai and Kirit Mehta,
Managing Director of CMM Studios, Bombay(Mumbai). The many
photographic teams logged in some 100 hours on the road in nearly
every state and union territory to touch and uncover the elusive
passions of a country that defies easy definition. These have been
fused into a sumptuous portrait of the nation as she lives,
breathes, dreams, India 24 Hours.
1. India 24 Hours
2. Journey
3. Awakening
4. Hope
5. Inspirations
6. Enternced
7. Illusions
8. Sesineance
9. Devotion
10.Heart Beats
11.Asiration
12.Mission
13.Over Time
14.This Mortal Coil
15.Home Wards
16.Ideas
17.Themes ofIndia 24 Hours
The original music score for the film was composed and arranged
by Dr. Ilaiyaraja. Proclaimed by the world's critics as a composer
of a new kind of music. Ilaiyaraja is something of a phenomenon
having composed music for more over 700 films, In 1993, he composed
his symphony No.1 with the royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London
under the baton of John Scott. he has been the winner of the
Government of India's national Award for his film music in the year:
1981, 1986 and 1987.
Source:Rakkamma.com
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