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Notice
18 March 2021.
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The Movie Club, XYZ School, Thrissur FILM FESTIVAL Dear Friends,
The movie club of XYZ School, Thrissur has decided to conduct a film festival as part of the silver jubilee celebrations of the school. Sri. Adoor Gopalakrishnan, renowned film director inaugurates the festival. . Date : 20 Mar 2021 Time: 10 am Venue: School Auditorium.
All are welcome.
Programme Details
Welcome Speech: Secretary, Movie Club Presidential Address: Principal Inauguration: Sri. Adoor Gopalakrishnan Felicitations: PTA President Vote of Thanks: School leader.
Thrissur Secretary, |
Narrative
Goopy and Bagha and a Tiger Satyajith Ray was in need of a trained in order to shoot his film ‘ Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne’. After long searches, he managed to get one from the famous Bharat Circus company. Ray found a suitable bamboo grove in Notun Gram for shooting the scenes. As arranged the ringmaster of the circus company Mr. Thorat reached the shooting location with two tigers in a lorry. Mr. Thorat and his men took a thin but strong steel wire and tied one end of it to an iron rode fixed to the ground. They tied the other end to the tiger-skin collar the tiger was already wearing around its neck. Ray and his crew set the camera and everything ready to take the shots, and Mr. Thorat opened the tiger’s cage. But contrary to their expectations, the tiger misbehaved. Instead of walking sedately, it started prancing and charged at the audience pulling its trainer Mr. Thorat. But after a short while, the tiger calmed down and they managed to take the required shots. After two days when they reached back to Calcutta and checked the shots, they realized that the camera had failed to work properly. All the shorts were too dark. They had to take all the shots over again. Ray found a suitable bamboo grove in Boral village and made all arrangements for the second attempt. Mr. Thorat and his men reached the location with the tiger. There were about 150 villagers gathered behind the camera to watch shooting. They were instructed to stay away. But nobody listened to the instruction. When Mr. Thorat opened the tiger’s Cage, it sprang out and charged violently at the villagers. All of them vanished as if magic. The tiger soon calmed down and behaved like an obedient child. They took all the required shots successfully. This time the camera also behaved well, which they realized when they checked the shots.
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Animal Actors are Famous Stars Ray says that no one can beat Hollywood in making films with animals. We can substantiate his arguments by citing examples from his own personal experiences. He remembers certain films he watched in his childhood in which the main characters were dogs. He says that there was an Alsatian dog named Rin-tin-tin whose acting was more impressive than a human actor’s. He also remembers another collie dog called Lassie. The directors could make Lassie play whatever role in a film. These animal actors were famous stars and had human stand-ins. In Hollywood, the animal actors are treated very reverently. The money they earn is not less than what a real film star gets. Every animal in a Hollywood film is well-trained. It is not difficult to train a horse or a dog. But in Hollywood, what we think impossible has been made possible - making trained ravens act in films – as in the film ‘Birds’ by Alfred Hitchcock. Though trained animals are not so easily available, in Indian film industry also some films have been made with elephants, horses and tigers. Ray himself made the film ‘Pather Panchali’ using the trained dog Bhulo. Ray says that it is possible to get good performances out of the animal actors, if the directors are patient enough. In short, some animal actors are, no doubt, famous stars!
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Cinema – A Reflector of the SocietySince the origination of cinema, it has become a powerful medium for exchanges of culture, education, entertainment and propaganda in connection with human societal life. Just like the people are varied in their passions and priorities, their approach to cinema is also different from one another. For some people cinema is only a medium of entertainment, and for some others it is a reflection of their own life. The influence and impact of cinema on a person’s life are tremendous. So, we should have the ability to distinguish between fact and fiction. Films as an entertainment medium, most often project things in an exaggerated way. It is the viewers’ duty to realize that facts are more often far away from the dazzling presentations of things on the silver screen. While films on scientific and historical facts and documentaries on nature and environment provide us with information and knowledge, there are certain films that endanger our generation with all sorts of negativism – vulgarities, violence, terror and horror. In a sense, all films are instructional, and they can teach us good and bad alike. We, the viewers, should be the followers of good and should never be the bearers of everything. The Indian legendary filmmaker Satyajith Ray’s memoir ‘Project Tiger’ and the Iranian director Majid Majidi’s screen play ‘My Sister’s Shoes’ tell us not only some noble stories but also convince us the amount of hard work behind a film. Nowadays, computers and the internet may have decreased the efforts of film making and increased the publicity and profitability of films, but at the same time acts of piracy have also increased; that must be discouraged. |
18 March 2021, Thursday 11:oopm What a bad luck! All our efforts went in vain. I had taken great pains to get a trained tiger and to shoot the scenes. When the tiger misbehaved we thought we would fail in our attempts. But the animal behaved well soon. Then, who thought the camera would cheat me! Anyway, all the scenes I’ve to shoot again. I’ll speak to Mr. Thorat. I hope he will cooperate. I have to look for a new location. A nearer place will be better. No need to be disappointed in failures. Hard work will bring success. I’ll work till I succeed. |
Mr. Thorat Mr. Thorat was the ringmaster of the Bharat Circus. He played a major role in realising Ray’s film Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne, and Ray gratefully remembered him in Ray’s memoir ‘Project Tiger. He was a South Indian, but looked like a Nepali. He was very well-built and around forty years of age. He was in charge of the risky tasks of training and keeping wild animals in the circus company. He had to face many tiger attacks, and he had a scar on his forearm which had been caused by a tiger. He was a man with enough practical wisdom. He brought two tigers instead of one to the shooting location. His idea was that if one tiger did not behave well, the other one could be used. He seemed not to be confident enough about setting his tigers free on their own at the shooting location. But he himself suggested a solution. A thin but strong iron wire could be fixed around the neck of the tiger and it would not be visible to the camera. He was seen very much frightened and helpless at the unexpected behaviour of the ferocious tiger. He failed to control the animal when it turned violent. But Mr. Thorat was hard working and adventurous and a man of high regard for others. When the first shooting attempt failed, he readily agreed to take the risk of bringing the tigers for the second time. He was a very cooperative person, and without his cooperation Ray’s film ‘Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne’ would not have been realized.
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Flat No 14 Vasanth Vihar Marcus Square Calcutta
18 March 2021
The Chairman Animal Welfare Board of India New Delhi Dear Sir,
Subject: Getting permission for using a tiger in a film shooting. I am Satyajit Ray, a film director from Calcutta. I have a plan to direct a film in which there is a scene of the main characters meeting a wild tiger in a forest.
I have already arranged with the Bharat Circus company to get a tiger with its trainer. I know the rules of Animal Welfare Board connected with treating animals. I and my team will follow those rules strictly and will not do anything harmful to the tiger.
I will be obliged and grateful to you if you kindly grant me permission to shoot my film with the tiger. Thanking you,
Yours faithfully,
Sd/ Satyajit Ray. |
Imagine that the tiger brought for the shooting turned violent. Prepare a news report about the unexpected behavior of the tiger at the shooting location.
Tiger Goes Violent at Shooting Location 18 March 2021, Thursday, Staff Reporter,
Kolkata: The shooting of the long- awaited film Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne by the legendary filmmaker Satyajith Ray began yesterday at Notun Gram. In the film, there is a scene in which heroes of the film Goopy and Byne meet a tiger in a forest. To get it filmed, a trained tiger from the Bharat Circus was brought to the shooting location. When the trainer opened its cage, the ferocious animal suddenly turned violent and charged at the villagers. The frightened crowd ran for their life and some of them fell down and got injured. Fortunately none of them injured seriously.
The tiger’s trainer Mr. Thorat could not bring it under control even though he made many strenuous attempts. After a while, the tiger became calm and Mr.Ray and his crew managed to take the required shots successfully.
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Project Tiger
The movie club of your school conducts a film festival as part of the silver jubilee celebrations of your school. You are, being the secretary of the club, asked to prepare a notice. Prepare it.
Narrate the events that took place both at Notun Gram and Boral villages while shooting the film ‘Goopy Gyne and Bagha Byne’.
Write-up
1. Ray begins his article with the topic sentence, ‘No one can beat Hollywood when it comes to making films with animals in them’. Prepare a write-up about the animal actors in films based on your reading of ‘Project Tiger’.
2. Are films just a means of entertainment? Do you think films are instructional in nature? What are the functions of films?
Based on your reading of the lessons My Sister's Shoe and Project Tiger, prepare a write-up on the role of films in our society.
Diary Entry
Satyajith Ray was very disappointed when he realized that his first shooting attempt went in vain. He expressed his feelings in his diary. Prepare the likely diary entry.
Interview Questions
Imagine you have an interview with Mr. Sathyajit Ray. What questions will you ask? Complete the following conversation asking suitable questions.
You: Good morning Mr. Ray. May I ask you some questions?
Ray: Good morning. Yes, of course. You may ask your questions.
You: ……………………1………………………….?
Ray: Yes, I have planned to make a film with a tiger.
You: ……………………2………………………….?
Ray: I got a trained tiger from Bharat Circus.
You: ……………………3……………………….?
Ray: Its trainer is one Mr. Thorat.
You: ……………………4……………………….?
Ray: The shooting location is a bamboo grove in Notun Gram village.
You: ……………………5……………………….?
Ray: It will take two hours for the shooting.
You: ……………………6………………….?
Ray: Yes, the location is a little far away from here.
You: ……………………7…………………………?
Ray: It will take two days for the travel to and fro to reach the location.
You: ……………………8…………………….?
Ray: We will take the tiger to the shooting location in a lorry.
You: ………………………9……………………….?
Ray: If we allow the villagers to watch the shooting, the crowd may irritate the tiger.
You: ………………………10……………………?
Ray: I expect I can release the film in a month.
You: Thank you Mr. Ray for your cooperation.
Ray: You’re welcome!
Answers:
1. Have you planned to make a film with a tiger?
2. Where did you get a trained tiger from?
3. Who is its trainer?
4. Where is the shooting the shooting location?
5. How long will it take for the shooting?
6. Isn’t the location a little far away from here? (Is the location a little far away from
here?)
7. How long will it take for the travel to and fro to reach the location? (How many days
will it take for the travel to and from to reach the location?)
8. How will you take the tiger to the shooting location?
9. Why don’t you allow the villagers to watch the shooting?
10. When do you expect you can release the film?
Character Sketch of Mr. Thorat
Formal Letter
Mr.Satyajit Ray wants to get permission from the Chairman of Animal Welfare Board of India for shooting a film in which a tiger is used. Prepare a likely letter.
News Report
