Subhasish Chakraborty | PassionforCinema

I'm a software Engineer by profession. I'm an Operating System designer. I love movies and music. I've been writing poems and content for a decade. I've also done fine arts for over 10 years. I'm currently learning guitar. I'm a hobbyist film maker with no formal training. I shot a movie 3 years back with hobbyist musicians and self made actors. The finances ran dry and now I'm in software developer mode for the time. In love with open source too you see. I have some stories in mind and some visuals too. Will put them on celluloid in a few years time.

Subhasish Chakraborty's Blog

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Wake Up Sid is genteel
Over the years, my expectation from Karan Johar movies have steadily declined to the point that despite the good music and good promos I didn’t have much expectations from Wake Up Sid. But cut to the end of the first half, and I thoroughly liked the movie. Wake Up Sid is a simple story based on the coming of age genre and compared to other recent Bollywood films...
by Subhasish Chakraborty at October 2nd, 2009 at 04:10 am
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Let The Right One in is delicate poetry
“Let the Right one in” is one of those rare movies which leave such an indelible impression on you that it doesn’t let you move on. It doesn’t leave you long after you have watched the movie. Some rare cinema achieve having an altogether different medium of expression. The silences and the stills, the languor of movement and lack of speech. True...
by Subhasish Chakraborty at September 24th, 2009 at 01:09 pm
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Anurag kashyap’s journey – NDTV interview
Anurag Kashyap – Journey – NDTV Just found one link for this interview in NDTV site. So thought many of us might not have seen this. Anurag Kashyap speaks about his inspirations, his films, personal life and future. This interview is dated before the news came in that Bombay Velvet may have SRK and Aamir with Danny Boyle being the producer.
by Subhasish Chakraborty at September 20th, 2009 at 06:09 am
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Love Aaj Kal Review : No Jab We Met
All along while watching Love Aaj Kal, I was constantly reminded of Jab We met. The mannerism of the movie, the overall feel, the characterization of the lead female protagonist and her dialogues, they all had the distinct Imtiaz Ali touch. The movie largely feels fresh. There are sequences which are definitely typical Imtiaz Ali specials. But overall, this movie falls...
by Subhasish Chakraborty at July 31st, 2009 at 12:07 pm
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angels and demons is an opportunity lost
Dan Brown’s novels possess tremendous intrinsic speed. The narrative is so fast that the reader is always hooked and his books are always a one go start to finish affair. His books may not have anything profound to convey but there’s a formula to his writing which makes his books such bestsellers. There’s a ticking time bomb in the back ground and there’s...
by Subhasish Chakraborty at June 27th, 2009 at 01:06 pm
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The Requiem Or the Dream ?
“What man of you, having an hundred sheep if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?” Luke 15:4 Whether it’s Paulo Coelho’s “The Alchemist” or “The Zahir“, the recurrent dream, the pursuit of a goal has been a winner’s...
by Subhasish Chakraborty at May 27th, 2009 at 02:05 pm
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Contemporary Indian Cinema, our Society and Youth
Watching Indian films and making films in India can be inordinately difficult if one’s thoughts and sensibilities are radically different from those of the accepted Indian society. A society gets the kind of cinema it deserves and therefore the popular mainstream cinema that rakes the moolah in Bollywood is just the kind of stuff the popular and mainstream Indian...
by Subhasish Chakraborty at April 30th, 2009 at 11:04 am
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Do You want to make a film (Open Cinema Foundation)
“Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.” – George Bernard Shaw. Think Different. “Do You want to sell sugared water for the rest of Your life or do You want a chance to change the world?” -Steve Jobs We, who love...
by Subhasish Chakraborty at March 26th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
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Straight – lovably imperfect
I’m still listening to “Saanson ka rukjaana …” . I was forwarded the link for this song by a friend. Against my better judgement and undergoing priority inversion for the tasks at hand, I landed up in Fun cinemas for the 10′o clock show on Sunday night. I had a lot of important stuff at hand and if the movie let me down, it would really have...
by Subhasish Chakraborty at March 23rd, 2009 at 08:03 pm
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Gulaal Review- Indian cinema is freed.
I watched Milk and Revolutionary Road over the last weekend. From the first scene to the last, Milk looked like one of those timeless movies which even while you are watching, you know is landmark. I watched Revolutionary Road the very next day. On the basis of personal experiences, the movie was so relatable that it disturbed me immensely. It was such an assault, it took...
by Subhasish Chakraborty at March 13th, 2009 at 11:03 am
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Rajuben – Kashyapian Cinema meets Television
*Assumption(s)* Not everybody watches TV, Not everybody watches TV in India, Not everybody watches Sony Entertainment Television anyways. *FAQ* What’s Rajuben? It’s a four episode tele-film which is being Telecast in Specials@10 in Sony Entertainment Television. Timing, Detials etc – 10 pm, Last monday and next three mondays, Sony Entertainment Television. DVD...
by Subhasish Chakraborty at March 4th, 2009 at 12:03 am
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Dev.D and Anurag – Drug, Revolution, Inspiration.
Disclaimer: *For all the people in India* If you haven’t seen the movie yet after 15 days, You fully deserve all the spoilers in this post. For the viewers who haven’t been fortunate with a release, the post is full of spoilers, please do not read it. Tomorrow, it’s going to be Fifteen days, a fortnight; What a fortnight it has been. Film lovers of at...
by Subhasish Chakraborty at February 19th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
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Dev.D- Profound,honest and outrageously brilliant.
Dev.D – Profound,honest and Outrageously brilliant. My joy knew no bounds when I saw Dev.D get 5 star rating in TOI review yesterday. And then, last night I saw another review in Timeout Mumbai which I didn’t like. So, finally, when I went to Inox today, at 10 in the morning, to catch the first day, first show of Dev.D, there was a lot of trepidation. Is...
by Subhasish Chakraborty at February 6th, 2009 at 04:02 am
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Dev.D – Before the dawn.
Dev.D – Before the dawn. There are lots of interesting things going so right for Dev.D that there’s this audacious hope that it’s going to be that outrageous piece of art which is also going to rake in the box office riches. Recently I was in a north India trip and I saw the curiosity among the youth. The college goers and the Young professionals in their...
by Subhasish Chakraborty at January 29th, 2009 at 10:01 am