V.P.S. MENON April 19, 2004.

DY. GEN. MANAGER [Exp.]

Telefax: 00 91 22 2497 3364/2496 0694

Dear Participants,

Re: CANNES – 2004

The National Film Development Corporation is a premier film production and marketing company, promoted by the Government of India. We will be at Cannes in Booth No. B-6 Riviera. We have some interesting Bollywood films to offer to you both from art house and mainstream circuits and would be extremely happy to discuss the details with you while we are at Cannes.

We are sending you the product list of some of our new films with brief synopsis. We have a library of several well acclaimed films on different subjects.

The following Executives will represent at Cannes Market 2004.

Mr. D. Mukhopadhyay, Managing Director

Mr. V.P.S. Menon, Dy. General Manager

Mr. S.D. Kulaskar, Dy. Manager.

We welcome you to our Booth and shall be grateful if you could inform us the date and time convenient to you for a meeting at our Booth B-6 Riviera.

Looking forward to meeting you, we remain.

Best regards,

Yours sincerely,

V.P.S. MENON

Film : “DANCE LIKE A MAN”

Genre, Running Time : Drama (100 Min.)

Language : English

Director : Pamela Rooks

Producer : National Film Development Corp.Ltd (India)

Cast : Shobana, Anoushka Shankar, Arif Zakaria

Delivery status : Completed

Year of Production : 2003

Country of origin : India

Brief synopsis : A young dancer takes her parents’ profession though they had to undergo suffering to pursue their passion.

Film : “DEVI AHILYA BAI”

Genre, Running Time : Drama (145 Min)

Language : Hindi

Director : Nachiket & Jayoo

Producer : National Film Development Corp. Ltd (India)

Cast : Shabana Azmi, Sadashiv Amrapurkar

Delivery status : Completed

Year of production : 2003

Country of origin : India

Brief synopsis : In the early 18^th century, Devi Ahilya Bai becomes

a widow in her early childhood. Her father-in-law

does not want her to disappear from life.

Film : “PARINAMAM”(Change of circumstances)

Genre, Running time : Drama (130 Min.)

Language : Malayalam

Director : Venu

Producer : National Film Development Corp. Ltd (India)

Cast : Nedumudi Venu, Matampu Kunju Kuttan

Delivery status : Completed

Year of production : 2003

Country of origin : India

Brief synopsis : Balakrishna Marar retires from service, faces problem of

adjustment with the rest of the family.

Film : 1:1.6. AN ODE TO LOST LOVE

Genre, Running time : Drama (110 Min.)

Language : English

Director : Madhu Ambat

Producer : National Film Development Corp. Ltd (India)

Cast : Atul Kulkarni, Gulshan Grover, Mausami, Sonali

Kulkarni, Rati Agnihotri

Delivery status : Under production

Year of production : 2004

Country of origin : India

Brief synopsis : Set against a back drop of film shooting, the film tries to

analyze the eternal question - is creation more important

than life

Film : “SAPHALAM (A Fruitful Journey)

Genre, Running time : Drama (118 Min)

Language : Malayalam

Director : Ashok R. Nath

Producer : Anil Thomas

Cast : Balachandra Menon, Sumithra, Manoj K. Jayan

Delivery status : Completed :

Year of production : 2003

Country of origin : India

Brief synopsis : ‘Saphalam’ provides an insight into familial relations -

individuals still have their lives to live.

Film : “PADAM ONNU : ORU VILPAM (Lesson One : A Wail)

Genre, Running time : Drama (110 Min.)

Language : Malayalam

Director : T.V.Chandran

Producer : Aryadan Shoukath

Cast : Meera Jasmin, Irshad, Mamu Koya, Suja Karthika

Delivery status : Completed :

Year of production : 2003

Country of origin : India

Brief synopsis : A poignant story of a young girl caught in shackles of

social system, her valiant attempt to break free to pursue her dream to continue her studies

Film : “ORUTHTHI (A Girl)

Genre, Running time : Drama (91 Mins.)

Language : Tamil

Director : Amshan Kumar

Producer : S. Thara

Cast : Poorvaja, Ganesh Babu, Balasingh

Delivery status : Completed :

Year of production : 2003

Country of origin : India

Brief synopsis : This story is about a lower-caste village girl who

challenges upper caste people.

Film : “TOK JHAL MISTI”(life is Sour, Life is Sweet)

Genre, Running time : Comedy (150 Min.)

Language : Bengali

Director : Basu Chatterji

Producer : NFDC

Cast : Ferdous, Priyanka Trivedi, Arjun Chakraborty

Romaprasad Banik

Delivery status : Completed :

Year of production : 2001

Country of origin : India

Brief synopsis : Two families that of Dilip and Mukund, do not mix with

each other because of their difference in status.

Film : “FIVE BY FOUR”

Genre, Running time : Drama (90 Min.)

Language : English

Director : Roopa Swaminathan

Producer : NFDC

Cast : Carey Edwards, Divyadarshini, Eashwar, Sapna, Usha,

Hardeep Minhas, Preetha, Sujatha Panju

Delivery status : Completed :

Year of production : 2003

Country of origin : India

Brief synopsis : Five By Four is a story of five women and three men. It is

laid out like a novel. It has a prologue – main story

- epilogue.