We are delighted to announce that Kaifinama a 90 minute documentary on the life and works of Kaifi Azmi has been selected for 4 international film festivals.
Here are the details.
- Washington DC https://dcsaff.com/opening-night-2019/
- Chicago https://www.eventbrite.com/e/csaff-feature-kaifinama-ticket…
- Seattle https://tsaff.tasveer.org/2019/events/kaifinama
- Sunday 29th September 5:30 pm at Cinema Hall H-110, Concordia University, 1455 De Maisonneuve West, Montreal.
Description:
Feature Film: KAIFINAMA
Director: Sumantra Ghoshal
Country: India
Year: 2019
Runtime: 90 Minutes
Language: Urdu, English
Cast: Kaifi Azmi, Shaukat Kaifi, Shabanaazm, Baba Azmi, Javed Akhtar, Javed Siddiqui, Shama Zaidi
Synopsis:
Kaifinama looks at the life and art of the Urdu Progressive poet Kaifi Azmi, who was both a poet for social change as well as one of the foremost lyricists in the Hindi film industry. Not content with limiting himself to fine writing, he worked ceaselessly throughout his life as a catalyst for change among the disenfranchised.
The film looks at his small-town roots, his commitment to social justice ,his wide-ranging body of work and the enormous changes he brought to the life of the village Mijwan in which he was born.
This extraordinary journey is documented through extensive interviews with him and his wife Shaukat Kaifi as well as insights from his children – Shabana and Baba Azmi – and reminiscences by his friends and colleagues.
Kaifinama thus is both the definitive film biography of Kaifi Azmi and a history of the times he illuminated with his genius.
Produced by Mijwan Welfare Society an NGO thats works for the empowerment of women and the girl child in rural India founded by Kaifi Azmi and now steered by his daughter Shabana Azmi
Kaifinama in 4 International Film Festivals
