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[[File:gandu2.png|'' Gandu:'' fleeting full-frontal nudity from the only clip available so far. The subtitle ‘You can download it for free’ is a translation of the Bengali rap song being played in the background.|frame|left|500px]] | [[File:gandu2.png|'' Gandu:'' fleeting full-frontal nudity from the only clip available so far. The subtitle ‘You can download it for free’ is a translation of the Bengali rap song being played in the background.|frame|left|500px]] | ||
| − | [[File: GanduA.png|''Gandu '' (2010)|frame|left|500px]] | + | |
| − | + | [[File: GanduA.png|''Gandu '' (2010): Rii Sen approaches|frame|left|500px]] | |
| − | [[File: GanduC.png|''Gandu '' (2010)|frame| left|500px]] | + | [[File: GanduB.png|''Gandu '' (2010): Rii Sen: we see her beautiful face. |frame|500px]] |
| − | [[File: GanduD.png|''Gandu '' (2010)|frame|500px]] | + | [[File: GanduC.png|''Gandu '' (2010): Rii Sen: she is angry—and her shoulders are naked |frame| left|500px]] |
| − | [[File:gandu.png|Actually, all of her is. Not since Mera Naam Joker (1970) has an actress ''clearly '' been seen fully naked from behind, so clearly. The subtitle ‘You can download it for free’ does not suggest that the film Gandu can be downloaded from the Web.|frame|500px]] | + | [[File: GanduD.png|''Gandu '' (2010): Rii Sen: her shoulders are naked |frame|500px]] |
| − | [[File: GanduE.png|''Gandu '' (2010)|frame| left|500px]] | + | [[File:gandu.png|Actually, all of her is. Not since Mera Naam Joker (1970) has an actress ''clearly '' been seen fully naked from behind, so clearly. The subtitle ‘You can download it for free’ does not suggest that the film Gandu can be downloaded from the Web.|frame|500px]][[File: GanduA.png|''Gandu '' (2010): Rii Sen approaches|frame|left|500px]] |
| − | [[File: GanduF.png|''Gandu '' (2010)|frame|500px]] | + | [[File: GanduE.png|''Gandu '' (2010): Rii Senas as the Angel. Towards the end of this black and white film there is a colour, copulation sequence |frame| left|500px]] |
| − | [[File: | + | [[File: GanduF.png|''Gandu '' (2010): Rii Sen: The Gandu (Anubrata) fondles her breast. |frame|500px]] |
| − | [[File: | + | [[File: GanduJ.png|''Gandu '' (2010): Rii Sen: Anubrata fondles her breast.|frame| left|500px]] |
| − | [[File: | + | [[File: GanduF.png|''Gandu '' (2010): Anubrata puts his fingers inside Rii Sen’s top|frame| 500px]] |
| − | [[File: | + | [[File: GanduG.png|''Gandu '' (2010): Anubrata puts his fingers inside Rii Sen’s top|frame| left|500px]] |
| − | [[File: | + | [[File: GanduI.png|''Gandu '' (2010): Rii Sen: we get to see what was being fondled |frame|500px]] |
| − | [[File: | + | [[File: GanduH.png|''Gandu '' (2010): Rii Sen kisses Anubrata |frame| left|500px]] |
| − | [[File: | + | [[File: GanduK.png|''Gandu '' (2010): Rii Sen kisses Anubrata.|frame| 500px]] |
| − | [[File: | + | [[File: GanduL.png|''Gandu '' (2010): Rii Sen from behind |frame| left|500px]] |
| − | [[File: | + | [[File: GanduQ.png|''Gandu '' (2010): Rii Sen from behind. |frame| 500px]] |
| − | [[File: | + | [[File: GanduM.png|''Gandu '' (2010): : ‘Lick my a***’: (Anubrata and Rii Sen) |frame| left|500px]] |
| − | [[File: | + | [[File: GanduN.png|''Gandu '' (2010): Rii Sen, after her bra has been removed. Blurred view of her naked.|frame| 500px]] |
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| − | [[File: | + | [[File: GanduR.png|''Gandu '' (2010): B&W again. Rii Sen rises from the bed.|frame| left|500px]] |
| − | [[File: | + | [[File: GanduS.png|''Gandu '' (2010): A naked Rii Sen crawls down to the floor.|frame| 500px]] |
| − | [[File: GanduV.png|''Gandu '' (2010)|frame| left|500px]] | + | [[File: GanduT.png|''Gandu '' (2010): Rii Sen from behind. |frame| left|500px]] |
| − | [[File: GanduW.png|''Gandu '' (2010)|frame | + | [[File: GanduU.png|''Gandu '' (2010): Anubrata gives Rii Sen a head.|frame| 500px]] |
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| − | [[File: GanduY.png|''Gandu '' (2010)|frame| left|500px]] | + | [[File: GanduW.png|''Gandu '' (2010): Rii Sen: woman on top. |frame| 500px]] |
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| + | [[File: GanduZ.png|''Gandu '' (2010): Anubrat (above) and Rii Sen |frame| 500px]] | ||
| + | [[File: Gandu1.png|''Gandu '' (2010): Rii Sen (above)|frame| left|500px]] | ||
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Gandu is a low- budget ‘art’ film in Bengali, much of it filmed in crisp, well photographed black and white. There is a lovemaking scene in colour. Its DVDs are not available legally in India and, from all accounts, it has not been screened commercially in India. | Gandu is a low- budget ‘art’ film in Bengali, much of it filmed in crisp, well photographed black and white. There is a lovemaking scene in colour. Its DVDs are not available legally in India and, from all accounts, it has not been screened commercially in India. | ||
Revision as of 20:32, 6 September 2014
Gandu (2010)
Gandu is a low- budget ‘art’ film in Bengali, much of it filmed in crisp, well photographed black and white. There is a lovemaking scene in colour. Its DVDs are not available legally in India and, from all accounts, it has not been screened commercially in India.
Q is the pseudonym of director Qaushik Mukherjee. (See Q (Kaushik Mukherjee))
Gandu is a North Indian word derived from the Hindi-Bengali term for derriere. Its nearest English equivalent is ‘asshole’ and it implies a male who receives anal sex.
It was the first Bengali film with full-frontal nudity and the second Indian film after Trishagni. Not since Mera Naam Joker has an actress clearly been seen fully naked from behind either. (Parampar was somewhat hazy. The director and photographer saw her naked; the audience had to guess.)
Audience reaction to Gandu was not very different from that to India’s other famous cheesecake films (Chitkabrey, Rang Rasiya, Mr Singh…, Maya…): they were bored. Many viewers could reportedly not sit through Gandu at the Berlin International Film Festival. The film has also been shown at the South Asian International Film Festival in New York and at the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
Mukherjee is reported to have said that ‘70% of [the film had] to be about sex." Most audiences want some sex with a story around it—which Gandu has, and some viewers have even appreciated its narration.
Gandu, Nandini Ramnath writes, was never meant to be released (in India): and it was not. Because its budget was microscopic, what it earns in foreign territories (through the British sales and distribution agency, Jinga Films) more than recovers costs. Chakraborty also subsidises his “cheap [budgets of Rs.25-30 lakh] and dirty pictures about sexual, social or political extreme content that otherwise can’t be made” through films like Tasher Desh (based on Rabindranath Tagore’s play, and exhibited within India as well). He has two label Bangla Black, for offbeat films, and Overdose Films.
