"A clean (no subtitles) 35mm Print of "English, August" is discovered at the National Film Archives. The mind is indeed restless, Arjuna: it is indeed hard to train.
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^ "English, August turns 30: A look at Upamanyu Chatterjee's book and the movie adaptation that wasn't". English, August: An Indian Story by Upamanyu Chatterjee My rating: 5 of 5 stars The mind is restless, Krishna, impetuous, self-willed, hard to train: to master the mind seems as difficult as to master the mighty winds. Peripheral centres, central peripheries: India and its diaspora(s). Contemporary Asian Cinema: popular culture in a global frame. ^ Ciecko, Anne Tereska Alexander, Vera (2006). Wood and consists of the following instrumental tracks. The original soundtrack for the film is composed by D. Won a Special Jury Prize at the 1994 Torino International Festival of Young Cinema. Won the Best Feature Film in English at the 1995 National Film Awards, India. Won the Silver Montgolfiere and the Gilberto Martinez Solares prize for the Best First Film at the 1994 Festival des 3 continents. August negotiates this provincial creek with the only paddle he can find Fantasy, daydreams and "self-abuse" become his means of revolt and escape as he escapes from the heat into the mystery and quiet of his secret world of erotic fantasy and contemplation. Moreover, August is surrounded by wild characters: Srivastava, the pompous head bureaucrat and his wife Malti, the fashion and cultural leader of the town Sathe, a local pothead and cartoonist Kumar, the Police Superintendent and connoisseur of porn films and Vasant, the world's worst cook. He feels like a foreigner, but must survive. Culture shock and a language barrier in his own country follows (August's mother tongue is Bengali). He is sent off for a year's training to Madna, the hottest town in the country. He is also an Indian Administrative Service Officer, a member of the most influential and powerful cadre of civil servants in India. A lover of poetry, he listens to Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, rock and jazz and reads Marcus Aurelius. Īgastya Sen ( Rahul Bose), nicknamed "English, August", speaks and thinks in English. However, restoration was brought to a halt in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the film reel is a 35 mm print, the restoration process has begun. In February 2020, a copy of the film was found in the National Film Archives of India. There was an unsuccessful attempt at restoration, following which the film was declared a lost film. The negatives of the film were spoiled due to flooding at a storage facility of Prasad Studios. 
The film is based on the novel of the same name by Upamanyu Chatterjee. This has led the way for other low budget, independent movies such as Bombay Boys and Split Wide Open, which are part of the next generation of "middle cinema". A humorous and irreverent study of bureaucracy and the Indian Generation X, English, August won several awards at international film festivals.Įnglish, August became the first Indian independent film to break the stranglehold of mainstream Indian Bollywood cinema when it was acquired by 20th Century Fox and became a theatrical success in the country. English, August is a 1994 Indian English-language film and director Dev Benegal's first feature film.
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