Archive for March, 2008

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    PANCHAM UNMIXED: AN UNENDING JOURNEY
    Pancham UnMixed: An Unending Journey, is a film-documentary on RD Burman, by Brahmanand Singh. It is more than a film, in fact, the film is a tribute or a Shradhanjali to the legend Rahul Dev Burman. The film explores RD Burman’s life through his works, colleagues, family, close friends and admirers, which include personalities like: Gulzar, Asha Bhosle, Shammi...
    by Honhaar Goonda at March 31st, 2008 at 09:03 am
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    Angling For A Shot
    The other day a friend of mine buttonholed me as he was itching to narrate his debut feature film script. Off drinks, off non-veg, he was a bit put off by my not adhering to Bollywood convention of listening to a script. Somehow he had always given some weightage to my opinions—perhaps that was the reason—as he agreed to go ahead with the narration in this non-Bollywood...
    by krysh at March 31st, 2008 at 05:03 am
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    The wallet renovation(A short)
    An excerpt from Nikhil’s Personal Diary: ‘A lost Saturday Evening’ I had just finished doing what I had set out to do, but wasn’t happy. This feeling of being outdone by things totally out of my control. I did not know what it was or why was it so pricking; just this feeling of utter despair. Maybe retracing an evening that had clawed into closure would do the...
    by Sreehari. at March 31st, 2008 at 12:03 am
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    shayar and the lyricist
    There has been a trend in Hindi cinema that only people from Urdu background could write songs for the films. In some senses it sounds true but upon revisiting the Hindi music scenario one has to believe that only writers with progressive thoughts had written good songs. Be it shailendra or Majrooh Sultanpuri. But since I have discussed these lyricists in my earlier posts...
    by Dipankar Giri at March 30th, 2008 at 09:03 pm
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    Prabhu Deva – Renaissance Man
    Yes. I said it. I called Prabhudeva a renaissance man. This is not going to be an objective post. A glowing hagiography is more like it. He may be the most talented person working in Indian movies today (hyperbole never hurt anyone). But he is wonly a dancer you say. No. Item Dancer, Choreographer, Actor, Star, Director, Writer. Writer/Director? Yes. That too of hit movies. He...
    by dabba at March 30th, 2008 at 04:03 pm
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    Life, a full circle for Dith Pran
    Theres no way I can remotely hope to recount the effect of watching “The Killing Fields”, no amount of words can effectively portray the heart wrenching effect the movie had on me and millions who saw it. Regardless of ‘when’ you watch it, it still resonates within you, the emotional aspect of the story as much as the craft of narrating this true...
    by DPac at March 30th, 2008 at 08:03 am
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    Kundan Shah to Ashwani Dhir
    iView Author: Indraneel Majumdar (Mumbai, India) Email: indraneelmj [at] gmail [dot] com Kundan Shah to Ashwani Dhir Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron (Dir: Kundan Shah)…that was the film I saw in 1984 and it went on to become one of India’s biggest cult satires ever. A homage had to appear..but in this form!
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at March 30th, 2008 at 07:03 am
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    Anjaadhe – Great effort and it shows
    In Anjaadhe Mysskin has proven what film makers, story writers, screenplay writers, creative people in general can DO, if given the liberty by the people with money who think they have figured out what audience want. In spite of so many masters who have made so many masterpieces, thamizh cinema is still a local fiefdom where the produers and distributors decide what is...
    by V.P. Jaiganesh at March 30th, 2008 at 02:03 am
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    Sunday 100: April Fool
    I know it is on Tuesday, but on last night K For Kishore show Amit Kumar, Bappida and Sudesh Bhosle played an April Fool prank. I could not believe it. Well, actually the show played a prank on its audience and contestants. But still, I still cannot believe those three were part of the prank. April fool banaaya to unako gussa aaya Toh mera kya qasoor zamaane ka qasoor Jisne...
    by Honhaar Goonda at March 30th, 2008 at 12:03 am
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    Turning The Clock Back
    “I’d give anything to be you and hear that for the first time”. Have you felt that way before? When you want to go back in time and savor again that first time when you read, listened to or watched something which has since become a life-long passion. Or has the relentless march of time ensured that like everything else, diminishing returns have set in. Do you wonder...
    by Subrat at March 29th, 2008 at 04:03 am
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    PICNIC
    iView Author: Gajendra S Shrotriya (Jaipur, India) Email : gshrotriya [at] yahoo [dot] com PICNIC – A short thriller After a long gap, I am back at PFC, though not with a new film as promised in my last article. However, I have more exciting information to share with PFC readers. I have just completed the shoot of my new film PICNIC, a short 35 minutes thriller in Hindi,...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at March 29th, 2008 at 02:03 am
  • 23
    My Own Film Festival
    A few days ago I was chatting online with a friend of mine about an upcoming project of hers for an NGO she works and in the midst of our banter she happened to mention an documentary film festival that they organize each year. She went on to ask whether I would be interested to do programming for it. Now I love documentaries as much as I love burritos (a lot) and I was...
    by Mitch at March 28th, 2008 at 11:03 am
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    Love Story 2050… preview – now this could be a surprise!
    Anand sent in this link that gives the first look of what Harry Baweja’s Love Story 2050 will be. First we are no fans of Mr. Baweja. Second, we thought this was gonna be one trash of a movie, cause (a) It’s a love story by Mr. Baweja who gave us the dreaded “Teesri Aankh” (b) Not much was expected from the special effects that would be needed to...
    by oz at March 27th, 2008 at 01:03 pm
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    Race …Raja Sen and more
    It’s the first big hit of 2008 and the trend continues …heyy babyy ….welcome and now Race …..it’s one of the most amateur effort seen in recent times ……One can tolerate Heyy baby or a welcome ….. they don’t claim to be serious whereas on the other hand we have Race,which is heavily promoted as a thriller and what it turns out to be is laughable ….the...
    by Anand Kadam at March 27th, 2008 at 07:03 am
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    RAWNESS IN HINDI MOVIES
    RAWNESS IN HINDI MOVIES There were movies in 80s and early 90s which can be defined as rough movies. These films had rawness in their treatment. Those movies were not sophisticated, not stylish. Here director does not want to impress you by stylish action, weared camera angles, soft music…but had only story, action & dialogues. Story is situated mainly Mumbai or...
    by Shailesh Limbachiya at March 26th, 2008 at 09:03 pm
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    Shantaram: And OSCAR may go to Amitabh Bachchan!
    Shantaram may bring an OSCAR to Amitabh Bachchan in the category of best supporting actor. If Khader Bhai’s character is given same importance in the film as it has been given by Gregory David Roberts in his book then this character provides a solid ground to AB to play the role in a wonderful manner and perhaps he grabs an OSCAR for this powerful supporting role. ...
    by Rk at March 26th, 2008 at 05:03 am
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    Me @ India Screenwriting Workshop 2008 in Goa
    It all started off from PFC only and a link in a post not at all related to Screenwriting. A wonderful person had put a link to the workshop and I thought “Why Not?” so promptly wrote off a concept that was brewing in my head for quite sometime and sent it to the jury who, although my concept was written like a teaser & not complete, seemed to like it and called...
    by Thermoman formerly known as Deepak at March 26th, 2008 at 01:03 am
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    Screenplay Writer Needed
    A couple days ago we received an email from Omi Vadiya of Red Tide Entertainment and they are looking for a screenplay writer for their next project – film. And so if you are interested in the job then, here is more information on the job and the film: Red Tide Entertainment is seeking and experienced feature screenplay writer for a new comedy film. Name Talent...
    by Honhaar Goonda at March 25th, 2008 at 10:03 am
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    Tumse milke, armaan huye poore Dil ke – A meeting with Big B !
    iView Author: Talabgaar (Ann Arbor, U.S.A) EMAIL: withheld Starstruck on Amitabh Bachchan’s 60th Birthday It was the morning of October 11, 2002. I was on an impulse trip to Bombay, having driven from Pune the previous night. Staying with my in-laws in the suburb of Andheri, I had woken up at 4:30 that morning, pleasantly surprising my IAF Officer father-in-law, who...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at March 25th, 2008 at 03:03 am
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    An Evening with Mira Nair
    iView Author: Bharat Vineeth (Boston, USA) EMAIL: plan32 [AT] gmail [DOT] com An Evening with Mira Nair
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at March 24th, 2008 at 08:03 pm
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    Billoo Barber.. Unusual Coming Together…
    Which of the following (unusual) pairs sounds most interesting of the three? a. Priyadarshan with Shahrukh Khan b. Shahrukh Khan with Irrfan Khan c. Priyadarshan with Gulzar.. The next film of Red Chillies Entertainment titled ‘Billoo Barber’ features all of them together for the first time. (Shahrukh’s guest presence in Krazzy 4 can be ignored)…...
    by Pavan Jha at March 24th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
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    The Gumshoe – my short screenplay
    In 2006, my Indian co-worker’s 8 year old son came into the office for “bring your kids to work day.” The boy was precocious, and for some reason I took a liking to him (may be I was projecting my id). I conjured up an image of him in a chocolate brown Fedora, and brown overcoat with a magnifying lens in his hand. He was solving some kind of case. The...
    by dabba at March 23rd, 2008 at 08:03 pm
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    French Film Festival in Australia
    This Friday evening, I climbed onto the plane to Paris. The take off was so bad that to take off my mind from the uneasy sensation in my stomach and head, I picked up the Air-france magazine. I was turning pages looking at pictures, cursing the pilot and the weather when I stumbled upon advertisements of these two interesting film festivals. Unfortunately the first one...
    by Neeraja at March 23rd, 2008 at 06:03 pm
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    FICCI-PwC report on Entertainment and Media Industry
    The FICCI-PricewaterhouseCoopers 2008 report on the Indian Entertainment and Media Industry is being released on March 25 in Mumbai during FICCI-Frames, but some highlights of the report makes interesting reading in so far as showing the fast growth � in monetary terms � of the industry. It says that the Indian entertainment & media sector has now become...
    by Runumi G at March 23rd, 2008 at 05:03 am
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    Sunday 100: Time Machine
    I had thought of a brilliant title, which I was going to post this week, but I have forgotten that. I have other titles in mind, but I wanted to use that title, cos it was an interesting title and now it is bugging me. Being inactive is not a good thing for your memory and I should eat loads of almonds! I haveta find out the title otherwise….. So without further...
    by Honhaar Goonda at March 23rd, 2008 at 12:03 am
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    The Proposition: A Weary Traveller Has Blood On His Hands
    Civilization and progress has its own flotsam-jetsam buried away and forgotten like old Ghost Towns. Hollow mines, empty wells, overgrown graveyards, hotels with broken windows, a junkyard carnival gathering rust and time ending up as faded black and white curios that grace the archives. Or they are woven into the ballad of a weary traveler. Original soldiers of fortune...
    by Siddharth Pillai at March 22nd, 2008 at 12:03 pm
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    Plagiarism in Hindi Film Industry
    iView Author: Vikrant R Bhakta (Dallas,TX) Email: vikrantbhakta [at] gmail [dot] com Plagiarism in Hindi Film Industry: a discussion on possible strategies
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at March 22nd, 2008 at 07:03 am
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    Shoban Babu – Andhra Andagadu
    iView Author: Srinivas N (Mumbai, India) Email: Withheld Shoban Babu – Andhra Andagadu
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at March 22nd, 2008 at 12:03 am
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    Race is shit funny!! And so bad, its a must watch!!!
    SPOILER ALERT!! When was the last time you saw something so bad that it was funny? If its been quite sometime, then it’s time to waste your money on a supershit called Race where six superstars walk in and out of the frame, all in style. The most interesting aspect of the film is the story, the plot. Forget about characters and their motives. It’s all about how they...
    by Phoenixnu at March 21st, 2008 at 06:03 pm
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    Find Of The Week: ‘Hinglish’ Song
    I had mischievously put forward a trivia question: First ever Hinglish Film song?, to the PFC authors. I did not know the answer, but I was confident that the Trimurti: PavanSaab, RKSaab & SubratSaab would know the answer, or Google will have the answer. I had a backup as well; I would have bluffed Kishore Kumar’s song “Oonche Sur Mein Gaye Ja” as...
    by Honhaar Goonda at March 21st, 2008 at 02:03 pm
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