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An Artist & Repertoire professional and Documentary Filmmaker, Roy has been creating and managing content related to music and films since the last 10 years. After working in advertising as a copyhead and major record labels, Roy wanted to use his experience and knowledge base to make films that would convey various stories that need to be told.
It all started while uncovering tapes of documentary footage in 2007, that he had shot of amazing experiences with Iranian friends in India, that possibly sparked a new wave of creativity in him.
NAFiR is his debut directorial effort. Currently Roy's working on two other projects that would be revealed later this year in 2015.
Home >> NAFiR ~ 'Musical Impressions of a New age Dervish'
NAFiR ~ 'Musical Impressions of a New age Dervish'
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An Artist & Repertoire professional and Documentary Filmmaker, Roy has been creating and managing content related to music and films since the last 10 years. After working in advertising as a copyhead and major record labels, Roy wanted to use his experience and knowledge base to make films that would convey various stories that need to be told.
Producer:
Roy Dipankar, Mohammed Saqib
About the Producer:
<p>Mohammed Saqib<br />
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A professional economist, educated in India and Canada, began his career as a researcher. He has worked at renowned think tanks of India like Institute of Economic Growth, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) and Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies, Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, New Delhi.<br />
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Consultant to various government and international organisations such as The World Bank, UNDP, UNCTAD, EU, ADB, Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Environment and Forest, Govt. of India, SIDBI and many others.<br />
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Founder and Secretary General of India China Economic & Cultural Council (ICEC), a foremost Think Tank on India China economic and cultural issues. (www.icec-council.org)<br />
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Founder and CEO of Bureau of Research on Industry & Economic Fundamentals (BRIEF) a Think Tank on Socio- economic issues and consulting company. (www.breifindia.com)<br />
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Founder of “Muslim Business Chamber (MBC)” a not-for-profit organization to uplift and bring millions of downtrodden and neglected Muslim artisans of India to the mainstream of Indian business.<br />
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Editor-in- Chief of India China Chronicle, a bi-monthly magazine on India and China social, economic and Cultural issue published from New Delhi.<br />
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Member of Eminent Citizen Group established by Ministry of Rural Development, Govt. of India to review social sector programmes. On Advisory Board of various industry associations and is on the Board of Directors of several companies.<br />
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Authored several books, hundreds of papers and popular articles. He continues to do research and teaches as a guest faculty at prominent management institutes.</p>
Film photographer:
Dev Shankar Prasad, Dilip Dutta, Adams
Film synopsis:
<p>Nima Lavafpour is a travelling musician from Iran, who has had a deep intimate relationship with India. And ever since a child, he has been visiting and re-visiting India to discover his spiritual quest. And on one such visit, he gets to re-discover a memoir.<br />
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Taking us back in time (2007) when his band Nafir was a blend of traditional Persian and modern world fusion sounds of the tanboor, khamanche, daf or dafli, with a dash of nu-jazz guitar and steel flute intertwined with howling dervish chants & contemporary vocal styles.<br />
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This film is a musical exploration of memoirs of travels, sanguine performances, candid moments and exchange of philosophies reminding us of an age-long spiritual and cultural bond between India and Iran. For those who are following open lines of Sufism outside and beyond any pre-conceived doctrine of law or institutions.<br />
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It took 8 years for the filmmaker to shape, form and mould documented evidence into a story that unwraps and explores the <i>Kadiri dervish </i>form of Sufi music (Persia) and an age-long cultural & spiritual Indo-Iranian bond. This film is also a kind of a unique proposition towards building an international exchange of music and expertise between the two great nations of India and Iran, who've left a huge cultural impact on the world...</p>
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Between $100 000 and $10 000
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<p>Roy Dipankar<br />
Flat: 205, Tower no. 2<br />
DLF Garden City,<br />
Semmancherry, Sholinganalur OMR,<br />
Chennai<br />
Tamilnadu, INdia<br />
Pincode: - 600119<br />
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phone: +91 - 91766 10467<br />
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