C. S. Venkiteswaran
{{Short description|Indian film critic and writer}}
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| birth_place = Chalakudy, Thrissur Kerala, India
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| education = Post Doctorate in Commerce and Management
| alma_mater = Calicut University
| occupation = Documentary film director, Film Critic, professor[http://gift.res.in/people/cs-venkiteswaran-/profile.html "Profile - Faculty, GIFT"] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20160421094350/http://gift.res.in/people/cs-venkiteswaran-/profile.html |date=21 April 2016 }}
| years_active = 1970s – present{{Cite web |url=http://allevents.in/events/is-another-cinema-possible-talk-by-dr-cs-venkiteswaran/316047458583936 |title=""Is Another Cinema Possible?" - Talk by Dr. C.S Venkiteswaran" |access-date=14 November 2015 |archive-date=17 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117014843/http://allevents.in/events/is-another-cinema-possible-talk-by-dr-cs-venkiteswaran/316047458583936 |url-status=dead }}[http://gift.res.in/departments/accounting-and-management/people.html "Faculty - Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation"] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20160421094348/http://gift.res.in/departments/accounting-and-management/people.html |date=21 April 2016 }}
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Venkiteswaran Chittur Subramanian (born 23 May 1959) is an Indian film critic, professor, documentary filmmaker, and writer. He is born in Chalakudi, Kerala, India. He won the National Film Award for Best Film Critic in 2009 {{cite news|url=http://hindu.com/2010/09/17/stories/2010091752990200.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101119040614/http://www.hindu.com/2010/09/17/stories/2010091752990200.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=19 November 2010|title=National award for film critic – 2009 | location=Chennai, India |work=The Hindu| date=17 September 2010}} and the National Film Award for Best Arts/Cultural Film in 1995.{{cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/movie-awards/national-awards-winners/1995/108|title=NATIONAL AWARDS 1995 WINNERS | location=Delhi, India |work=The Times of India}}
Career
He has written about the social aspects of cinema and their artistic expression. His writings and reviews on film and media, in both English and Malayalam, have appeared in journals including Deep Focus, Film International, Cinema in India, Bhashaposhini, Pachakuthira, Indian Express, The Hindu, Mathrubhumi, and Madhyamam.{{Cite web |url=http://www.hindu.com/br/2010/10/05/stories/2010100552041500.htm |title="Adoor: the man and the auteur" |access-date=28 June 2011 |archive-date=8 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108150008/http://www.hindu.com/br/2010/10/05/stories/2010100552041500.htm |url-status=dead }}[http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/article2052445.ece?css=print "Quest for ‘the pest'"] He wrote the column "Rumblestrip" (1999–2008) in Indian Express, which covered films and media in Kerala.{{Cite web |url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/kochi/article290121.ece?service=print |title="Critical acclaim" |access-date=22 June 2015 |archive-date=22 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150622051445/http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/kochi/article290121.ece?service=print |url-status=dead }}
He authored a book on filmmaker K. R. Mohanan titled Samanthara Yathrakal – K R Mohanante Cinema and co-edited A Door to Adoor, a book on Adoor Gopalakrishnan, with Lalit Mohan Joshi.{{Cite web |url=http://www.southasiancinema.com/interviews.htm |title="A Door to Adoor" |access-date=28 June 2011 |archive-date=16 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716112212/http://www.southasiancinema.com/interviews.htm |url-status=dead }} Three books containing Venkiteswaran's articles on trends and developments in Malayalam cinema were published by DC Books at the DC International Book Fair and Cultural Fest in 2011.[http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/article2605409.ece "After laurels, the works of a critic"] The book Malayala Cinema Padanangal won a Special Jury Mention in the State film awards for the year 2011. He has interviewed film personalities including Adoor Gopalakrishnan, T.V. Chandran, Werner Herzog and Jean-Luc Godard.Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211205/nwquFZlitTU Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20210304163606/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwquFZlitTU&ab_channel=IFFK-InternationalFilmFestivalofKerala" Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwquFZlitTU&list=WL&index=1| title = Jean-Luc Godard in conversation with C S Venkiteswaran {{!}} 25th IFFK | website=YouTube| date = 2 March 2021 }}{{cbignore}}[http://www.cinemaofmalayalam.net/adoor_df1.html "interview: adoor gopalakrishnan"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120405225525/http://www.cinemaofmalayalam.net/adoor_df1.html |date=5 April 2012 }}[https://web.archive.org/web/20110616135338/http://www.hindu.com/fr/2011/06/10/stories/2011061051030100.htm "Encounters with the living dead"]
He is a documentary filmmaker and won the National Award for Best Arts/Cultural Film in 1995 along with M.R. Rajan for Pakarnattam – Ammannur, The Actor, the lyrical cinematic documentation of the life of Ammannur Madhava Chakyar, the exponent of the ancient classical Sanskrit theatrical artform of Koodiyattam. This film won the Kerala State Award for the Best Documentary category in the same year.[http://www.keralafilm.com/sfa95.htm "STATE FILM AWARDS-1995"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713144248/http://www.keralafilm.com/sfa95.htm |date=13 July 2011 }} His article "Tea-shops In Mayalam Cinema" was included in the revamped Kerala SCERT Class X English textbook in 2011.{{cite news|url=http://expressbuzz.com/cities/thiruvananthapuram/comprehensive-revamp-of-class-x-textbooks/273417.html|title=Comprehensive revamp of Class X textbooks}}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite news|url=http://www.scert.kerala.gov.in/2011pdf/07_english_part_1.pdf|title=SCERT – Class X textbook Part 1|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110626233948/http://www.scert.kerala.gov.in/2011pdf/07_english_part_1.pdf|archive-date=26 June 2011|df=dmy-all}}
He is the Artistic Director of the Signs film festival for short films and documentaries.[http://www.signsfestival.com/contact.html "Signs Festival-Contact"] He was a jury member for best writing on cinema at the 60th National Film Awards.[http://dff.nic.in/National%20Film%20Award%20(NFA)%20Booklet.pdf "Official Catalogue of 60th National Film Awards"]
In July 2018, he resigned from the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy as a gesture of protest against the state government's decision to invite Mohanlal as the chief guest for the event.[https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/2018/aug/01/c-s-venkiteswaran-resigns-from-chalachitra-academy-1851375.html "C S Venkiteswaran resigns from Chalachitra Academy"][https://www.madhyamam.com/movies/movies-news/movie-news-others/film-critic-cs-venkiteswaran-explain-his-resignation-movies "മോഹൻലാലിന് എതിരല്ല; പുരസ്കാരദാനം താരനിശയാക്കരുത് -സി.എസ്. വെങ്കിടേശ്വരൻ."]
Venkiteswaran is also a subtitler, done subtitles for around 150 films.{{cite news |title=Time constraints to convincing film makers, subtitling Malayalam films isn't easy |url=https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/malayalam-cinema-may-be-thriving-great-subtitling-still-stumbling-block-131422 |access-date=18 December 2020 |work=The News Minute |date=23 August 2020 |language=en}}
Awards
- 2023: Kerala State Film Awards – Best Book on Cinema.{{Cite web |url=https://www.filmibeat.com/malayalam/2023/kerala-state-film-awards-2023-live-full-winners-list-best-actor-actress-movie-director-357725.html |title="Kerala State Film Awards 2023: Full Winners List - Best Actors, Movie & Director" |website=Filmi Beat |access-date=12 Feb 2024 }}
- 2011: Kerala State Film Awards. - Special Jury Award for Best Book on Cinema{{Cite news |url=http://www.thehindu.com/arts/cinema/article3658277.ece |title="2012 Kerala State Awards" |website=The Hindu |date=19 July 2012 |access-date=19 July 2012 }}
- 2009: National Film Awards - Best Film Critic[http://dff.nic.in/2011/57thNFA.pdf "57th National Film Awards"]
- 2005: Kerala State Film Award for Best Article on Cinema[https://web.archive.org/web/20060917001549/http://www.hindu.com/2005/07/24/stories/2005072411480100.htm "The Hindu, July 24, 2005"]
- 1995: National Film Award for Best Arts/Cultural Film - Pakarnnattam – Ammannur the actor, shared with M.R. Rajan{{Cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/43rd_nff_1996.pdf|title=43rd National film Award for Best Arts/Cultural Film}}
- 1995: Kerala State Film Award for Best Documentary – Pakarnnattam – Ammannur the actor, shared with M.R. Rajan{{Cite web|url=http://www.prd.kerala.gov.in/stateawards3.htm|title=Kerala films state awards - 1995|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303234157/http://www.prd.kerala.gov.in/stateawards3.htm|archive-date=3 March 2016|df=dmy-all}}
Bibliography
- Malayala Cinema Padanangal , DC Books, 2011 {{Cite web |url=http://www.thehindu.com/arts/books/article3287093.ece |title="Plea for professionalism, April 6, 2012" |website=The Hindu |access-date=10 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120409000106/http://www.thehindu.com/arts/books/article3287093.ece |archive-date=9 April 2012 |url-status=dead }}
Filmography
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