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Samrat Chakrabarti stars in Soham Mehta’s Fatakra, Shiva Bajpai’s Raju, and Rehana Mirza’s Zameer & Preeti at NYIFF
Award-winning actor and musician Samrat Chakrabarti scores another trifecta starring in three short films at the Tribeca Cinemas – Rehana Mirza’s Zameer & Preeti: A Love Story on Friday, May 6, and Soham Mehta’s Fatakra and Shiva Bajpai's Raju on Saturday, May, 7, as part of the 11th Annual New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF).
Rehana Mirza’s ‘Zameer & Preeti: A Love Story’ screens on May 6 at 3:30pm. copyright 2011 Rehana Mirza
Last year, Chakrabarti’s talents were on display in three films at the Festival. He created the score for Sundaram Tagor’s documentary The Poetics of Color: Natvar Bhavsar, and had roles in Claire McCarthy’s The Waiting City opposite Radha Mitchell and Joel Edgerton, and in Ajay Naidu’s Ashes.
The New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF), presented by the Indo-American Arts Council (IAAC), is the oldest and most prestigious Indian film festival in the country. NYIFF continues through May, 8, 2011 and tickets are available online at http://www.iaac.us/nyiff2011/
Friday,
May
6,
2011,
Tribeca
Theater
1,
3:30pm
Chakrabarti
plays
a
Muslim
groom
about
to
wed
a
Hindu
bride
in
New
Jersey
in
Rehana
Mirza’s
Zameer
&
Preeti:
A
Love
Story.
When
the
groom
gets
a
case
of
cold
feet,
will
the
wedding
become
just
another
case
of
religious
conflict?
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Ajay Naidu's Ashes Screens on May 15 at 6th Annual Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival in Edgewood, PA
Actor
Ajay
Naidu’s
directorial
debut
Ashes
screens
during
the
6th
Annual
Silk
Screen
Asian
American
Film
Festival
on
Sunday,
May
15
at
5:30pm,
at
the
Regent
Square
Theater,
1035
S.
Braddock
Ave
in
Edgewood,
PA.
Faran
Tahir,
Samrat
Chakrabarti,
Firdous
Bamji,
Heather
Burns,
Maurice
Carr
and
Piper
Perabo
are
also
featured
in
the
Ashes
cast.
The
6th
Annual
Silk
Screen
Asian
American
Film
Festival,
presented
by
the
National Cherry Blossom Festival Invites Public to Stand with Japan on March 24
The National Cherry Blossom Festival is sponsoring a fundraising event called Stand with Japan at the Washington Monument on March 24, 2011. Meet at the Sylvan Theater, 15th Street & Independence Avenue, SW at 6:30pm and join others who are gathering to reflect and participate in the walk around the Tidal Basin, where the cherry blossom trees, gifted to Washington, DC from Tokyo in 1912, have stood the test of time for 99 years. The relationship with Japan is at the heart of the Festival, and the evening of hope and perseverance occurs before the 16-day celebration begins on Saturday, March 26. All donations will go directly to the American Red Cross and their Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami fund.
A ful list of Festival participants and partners holding events to benefit the fund can be found at www.nationalcherryblossomfestival.org
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