• 10.00 – INDIA-ITALY BUSINESS FORUM

‘Entertainment industry within a growing global partnership’

Auditorium Parco della Musica

Screening of Bollywood films

• Casa del Cinema – L.go Marcello Mastroianni 1 Roma

15.30 – GURU (Add. screening: 20.10.2007, h 22:30, Metropolitan 4)

Directed by Mani Ratnam, starring Aishwarya Rai and Abhischek Bachchan.

SYNOPSIS

An ambitious, ruthless boy from the country, Guru, moves to Mumbai to achieve his dreams. Here he learns the business world is dominated by a handful of rich and powerful people who are not prone to handing out opportunities to new arrivals. In spite of the difficulties, Guru starts the Shakti Trading company and begins to climb the ladder to success. Nanaji, the owner of the Swatantra newspaper, treats Guru like a son, but when he realises that the young man’s get-rich-quick proposals are not ethically correct, he decides to expose his tricks.

·        18.30 – GANDHI, MY FATHER (Add. Screening: 20.10.2007, h 19:00, Metropolitan 1)

Directed by Feroz Abbas Kahn.

SYNOPSIS

During one of the most turbulent periods of Indian history, Mahatma Gandhi fights to save his country’s fate, while his son, Harilal is unable to find his own identity. Gandhi discourages Harilal from following his ambitions, and as a way of rebelling, the young man throws his life away. He wanders like a vagrant on the streets of India, converts to Islam   but then goes back to Hinduism, he becomes an alcoholic and finally dies of rejection. Mahatma Gandhi, who saved the soul of his nation, did not manage to save that of his own son.

·        20.30 – THE LAST LEAR (EXTRA SECTION)(Add. Screening: 20.10.2007, h 19:00, Metropolitan 4)

By Rituparno Ghosh, with Preity Zinta

Auditorium Parco della Musica per Roma – Sala Petrassi

SYNOPSIS

Tired of the world of showbiz and trivia, the great Harish Mishra, legendary thespian  for generations of audiences, decides to withdraw from the scene and live like a hermit, dedicating all his time to Shakespeare. His only contact with the outside is the window of his studio, out of which he can observe the world undisturbed, until someone convinces him to come back onto a film set. Cinema within cinema, a penetrating study of characters suspended between irony and melodrama.

·        21.00 KHOYA KHOYA CHAND (Add. Screening: 20.10.2007, h 22:30, Metropolitan 1)

By Sudhir Mishra

SYNOPSIS

The actress Nikhat and the screenwriter/director Zafar have a volatile and tumultuous relationship, but they are unable to put an end to it. Set to the backdrop of the “Golden Age” of the Hindi film industry, they have to take some difficult decisions. This is the 1950s and ’60s, exceptional years when huge talents, extremely self-centred people infused with the luminous aura of fame, live in a magic world, made of sparkling dreams and harsh reality, golden and yet cruel at the same time.