Jehan Handa

 

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    Osian Learning Sessions
    I hate waking up on time, neither do I endorse punctuality, be it flights, school, lunches or marriages, I always reach taking my own good time. After a very long time, I especially woke up early in the morning, got ready, running down with my breakfast, and reaching the venue way before time, way before time. Something I don’t remember doing even with the best of my...
    by Jehan Handa at November 1st, 2009 at 11:11 pm
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    11th Osian Cinefan Film Festival: Opening Ceremony
    Sometimes life turns out to be rather very kind to you, very soon, and you’re fortunate to get what you’ve always wanted and wished. Cinema is a passion that I’ve unknowingly been living with for the past sixteen years, only to realise that I’m most comfortable with the cinematic expression, and the artistic form of cinema. I was never exposed to world cinema or...
    by Jehan Handa at October 25th, 2009 at 10:10 am
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    Documentary Film Festival: Taj Enlighten Film Society
    We all complain about being fed around with bad cinema. We all talk about change, and how we dont have Fellinis and Truffauts in our world of Dil Bole Haddipa. But many of us talk, and talk, and simply talk. Very few walk the talk, very few run against the stream, and actually catch something worthwhile, something they secretly admire on this website, or many other movie...
    by Jehan Handa at September 26th, 2009 at 01:09 am
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    Chabiwali Pocketwatch
    Sometimes you havnt heard about a movie, or a filmmaker, or even the actors, but there’s something that attracts you immensely in a movie. There’s this small little connection, this little bond that urges you, attracts you and lures you into watching a rather unknown film, with no credits heaving names like Bergman or Truffaut. It endears you especially when it’s...
    by Jehan Handa at September 25th, 2009 at 06:09 am
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    9 Movie Review
    I have not seen any Tim Burton movie. Neither have I read anything about him or his movies. I know 9 is not made by Tim Burton, but by Shane Acker, but I find everyone around me talking about the film, the expectations, the outcome and most importantly: Tim Burton. I did not carry any expectations. I’ve always been a sucker for real emotions, and rarely have I pushed...
    by Jehan Handa at September 8th, 2009 at 06:09 am
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    9 Months: I feel born.
    I don’t know what to say or how to start. You can call it a cliché, but sometimes things just fall into place, you don’t really plan them, or think about it. Sometimes these things are really small, sometimes rather big, and sometimes the big things in life don’t matter, and it’s the million little things that create the universe around you. As far back as I can...
    by Jehan Handa at September 5th, 2009 at 12:09 am
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    Watch it Aaj or Watch it Kal.
    Everybody’s busy talking about expectations and the hype around Love Aaj Kal. From the maker of Socha Na Tha and Jab We Met, we expect something similarly explosive, with some compelling performances and eventually a feel good entertainer, with boxes full of chocolates and bottles full of wine. Every film stands differently. Expectations and hype is something that kills...
    by Jehan Handa at August 2nd, 2009 at 12:08 pm
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    Requiem for A Dream
    Too many thoughts were gushing through my brain, most of them being melancholic. Best Friend leaving in ten days as she moves to Pakistan forever and ever. The Script is stuck with so many loopholes, that I could enjoy a crap fested bath. Pather Panchali was so depressing, I cant even lift my face up. I decide to make it much more of a mindfuck than it already is, and...
    by Jehan Handa at July 9th, 2009 at 02:07 pm
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    Frozen: The Cold Colours of Life
    Sneaking by that bylane, those deep dark eyes having so much to convey, the starkling innocence awaiting corruption, and that naïve beauty, it all was innocently real, it had nothing false about it, it was innocence packed in a plain package of innocence. The name of the movie instantly conjured up images of either awe, shock, magic and ironically pain, bondage and obviously...
    by Jehan Handa at May 12th, 2009 at 06:05 am
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    Musings and Experiences of a first timer
    The pangs, the angst, the agony, the nervousness, and more importantly the final result, it all kept hitting me a week before I was finally going to have a camera in my hand, and shoot something I believed in, something that could be pure crap, but something that I could cherish and call it my own film, my short film. When I first wrote my short script, the whole journey...
    by Jehan Handa at March 14th, 2009 at 11:03 am
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    Chronicles of Transformation:Life to Movies
    *Disclaimer Number One: This post has no whatsoever connection with Chronicles of Narnia. ** Disclaimer Number Two: The post doesn’t talk about cinema, but my road to cinema, so those not interested, don’t scroll further. “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in...
    by Jehan Handa at March 7th, 2009 at 09:03 am
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    Froze with a glimpse of Frozen
    The beautifully etched first shot, the equisite black and white shades to it, the sheer sensuality and the stunning cinematography, is all you can capture of Frozen by the first few seconds of the glimpse of the movie. We have seen wallpapers, stills, behind the scene videos, but when it is wrapped into that four minute trailer, and the final look comes out, it is worth...
    by Jehan Handa at March 1st, 2009 at 07:03 am
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    Head On for Valentine’s
    Just came out of the theatre, Dev D had just finished, but no the feeling and the madness did not finish, it hogged me for two hours, couldn’t sip coffee properly, couldn’t laugh too loudly, couldn’t talk to that ever so annoying chauffeur of mine, I sank into the Dev D euphoria, the depression, the self pity, the angst, and the anxiety. After enacting...
    by Jehan Handa at February 13th, 2009 at 04:02 am
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    Kurosawa and his magic Rashomon
    The moment I waited for months and months, the moment I recently lost total hope in, the moment that is my first achievement, and the moment that is probably the best moment of my life till now, the moment of being an author on the PFC. After watching many films like The Fountain, The Apartment, Curious Case, and ofcourse Slumdog Millionaire, after reading many screenplays...
    by Jehan Handa at January 29th, 2009 at 07:01 am
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