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MUMBAI:
The second day of the DigitAll Movement (DAM) 09, the digital entertainment
festival organized by Symbiosis Institute of Media & Communication
took shape with the screening of an edited version of reputed activist
and filmmaker Anand Patwardhan's award-winning documentary War and
Peace. The film unveiled the reality behind the façade created
by common-place yet complicated concepts such as democracy and nuclear
nationalism.
The
controversy that arose from the blatant accusations leveled against
the government, political parties and the people in power in the
film caused Anand Patwardhan to go through tedious rounds of court
appeals and cases so that he could receive permission for War and
Peace to be broadcasted on Doordarshan.
Discussing
the film in an hour-long interactive session after the screening,
Anand Patwardhan said, "The film is extremely complex; not
by any conscious attempt, but because of the sheer nature of the
subject. Covering reality requires the movie to be complex."
Patwardhan
believes that the development paradigm prevalent among the people
in our country keeps shifting at regular intervals according to
the change in their ideologies.
The
serious tone of the seminar was lightened with the entrance of advertising
guru Prahlad Kakkar. A role model for all advertising aspirants
and professionals, SIMC Director Prof. Ujjwal Kumar Chowdhury aptly
introduced Kakkar as 'the man with an eye for talent'.
Walking
away from the podium, he promptly set about capturing the audience's
interest with his own unique definition of a 'brand'. He recollected
humorous stories of some of the most successful ad campaigns like
Nestle, Maggi and Pepsi.
The
interactive session that followed the seminar was a revelation with
the audience discovering that he was a man of many hats, literally.
With his love for traveling, scuba diving and food, Prahlad Kakkar
was a dynamic personality who ensured a great finale for the day's
seminars.
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