Rahul Surendran

 

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  • For all the unlucky Pinki’s… script for a short film
    Prologue: This year, Smile Pinki (by Megan Mylan) got an Oscar for best short documentary. It was about a poor girl, Pinki, who got her cleft lip surgically corrected, thereby saving her from a lifetime of ridicule and ostracism.  http://passionforcinema.com/smile-pinki-2009-and-dr-murari-mukherji-a-pioneer-of-cleft-lip-and-palate-surgery-in-india/ Though I had felt...
    by Rahul Surendran at August 3rd, 2009 at 08:08 am
  • A storyline for a short-film…
    Intro: Female centric plots fascinate me. Unfailingly. So, when I landed this idea, about the chance meeting of two women, courtesy a conversation with one of my lady friends, it was irresistible. So much so that, I wrote it down, straightaway. It was then that I wondered if it couldn’t be made into a short film, and hence this article…  A disclaimer: This isn’t...
    by Rahul Surendran at July 16th, 2009 at 04:07 pm
  • All from an old film song…(An idea remix)
    [A tale adapted from the evergreen Malayalam film song, ‘Vakappoomaram Choodum’, penned by Bichu Tirumala] Prologue: I have this particular MP3 collection in my car, a random assortment of old Malayalam songs from that golden period of Malayalam music, the 1960-1970 range, where legends like Devarajan, Baburaj, A.T.Ummer, Vayalar combined with the inimitable Yesudas...
    by Rahul Surendran at July 9th, 2009 at 06:07 pm
  • Back to Miranda Junction..
    Life has its own, unique, way of bringing up memories. It’s lovely when it does. Catching up with an old chum at a get-together. Revisiting the classrooms where you studied as a kid. Flipping through the yellowing pages in your old diary. Brushing the sticky dust off the framed old photographs on the wall. But it’s even better when the whole thing strikes you unexpectedly....
    by Rahul Surendran at July 5th, 2009 at 08:07 am