film fest

Space circle

If you love science fiction then you should be at the Birla Industrial and Technological Museum. A series of films on science and nature will be screened for school students between April 9 and May 18 (except second Saturdays, Sundays and holidays). Some of the films to be shown are Tribute to Columbia, about the STS 107 Mission and the story of seven astronauts on board the Space shuttle Columbia, who lost their lives upon the shuttle’s re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere, Earthlight, Finding Nemo, To The Moon (a video about the Apollo Space Program including the historic walk on the Moon in 1969), Dinosaur, the story of a group of dinosaurs who must face the challenge of their lives, Madagascar (a story about four pampered animals from the New York Central Park Zoo, who find themselves shipwrecked on the island of Madagascar. Contact 2281 2654, 2289 2815 and 2287 7241/42 for details.

comic relief

Reel print

We all took to Gandhi after Lagey Raho Munnabhai, right? Well, Munnabhai will now be turned into comic books. Raj Kumar Hirani, director of the film and Abhijat Joshi, his co-writer, are working to put the comic book together. In fact, there is also a proposal to make an animation film on Munnabhai if the comic books become a success. The comic books will be marketed by Vidhu Vinod Chopra Productions which had also produced the two films. So now you can put up your Munnabhai comic books right next to the Spidermans and the Supermans. Let’s hear it for the Indian superheroes.