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Harry Callahan: Where’s the girl?
The Killer: You tried to kill me!
Harry Callahan: If I tried to do that your head would be splattered all over this field - now where’s the girl?

As we move from the opening telescopic view of a psychopath killer eyeing a PYT bathing in the rooftop sun set against a brilliantly sparse, sexed-up Lalo Schifrin jazz, blood slowly brings in the elements of crime so smoothly in the City by the Bay perfection and serenity. In enters an iconic cop, call him a detective if you will, the frame and moment he enters you know he will satisfy all theories of ‘exception’ that you know of in context of cinema. Adding the much needed spice to a 70’s classic narrative, set-piece grandeur, Inspector Harry Callahan walks the sun like he is gracing the moon bathed coastline of North Beach, his cool coefficient doesn’t need …

Surrealism. Check. Magic realism. Check.
An infirmary with its One flew over the cuckoo’s nest environment. Check. Check again. Or may be not. An infirmary in WWI times. No money. No Rajesh Khanna for optimism. No O’ Henry either. A disproportioned Pan’s Labyrinth kid girl with dysfunction and dreams.
Exotica. Ya right. Go on.
Americana Exotica.
Blood Brothers. Separated by blood.

“My father is dead”.
Grief has gone. Enter smile. Pirates. Correction bandits. Four corners of the earth. Wherever they are.
Governor Odious. Good name for a villain. Otta Benga. Even better. Go on. Alexandria. Oh, that reminds me of…yes I know. Alexander. Alexander The Great. Stranded in magnanimity. The water episode. Stupid? Exemplary? Stupid.
Maps. Human maps. Maps on a human. Let’s navigate now.
Wallace the Monkey. Darwin the Charles. The Tashan.
Mystic. Nature man. Birds in the belly. Trees in the heart. He hates Odious too.
The …

Once starts off as a self-confessed song on the street.

The healing has begun…

The song picks up, and the apparent admirer of the said song picks up the jhola of our street-singer protagonist instead. As the camera soon establishes it’s an indie film, we feel a little eased off, of the commercial hangovers. You know, all the discounts that come along with an indie film. What’s good here, though, is that you never think about it again. The film moves on, along the smooth strained guitar and the bearded hero.

Titles
Glen Hansard
Marketa Irglova

C from top
O from left
N from bottom
E from right

Scratching out the surface now
And I am tryin’ hard to work it out
So much is gone misunderstood
And this mystery only leads to doubt
And I didn’t understand

When you reached out to take my hand
And if you have something to say

You better say it now

‘cus this is what I’ve waited for…

In …

Aaj main gaaoon jo
Aisa wo geet ho

Geet kitne hain….

Geet baarish ke
Geet baadal ke
Geet boondon ke
Geet kirano ke

While there is no particular reason to mention this forgotten song from Little John, a little film featuring a big miracle of science(no, I don’t mean Jyothika by that) in the typical streak of Singeetham Sreenivasa Rao, I thought it would make for an appealing start nonetheless for a post on music.So coming back to the song, this and the other pleasant songs of the film were composed by AR Rahman’s long time buddy and assistant, Praveen Mani, jinke mainstream career ki udaan take off se pehle hi crash ho gayi. Sorry for the dialog, and it might not be true considering Mani is a talented whizkid and is behind many Rahman hits, an inkling of which is also evident in the breezy ‘Paadava Paadava/aaj main gaaon jo’ from Little John …

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Second note: I am competing with Acharyaji.

A screenplay or script is a written plan, authored by a screenwriter, for a film or television program. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing works such as novels. A screenplay differs from a script in that it is more specifically targeted at the visual, narrative arts, such as film and television, whereas a script can involve a blueprint of “what happens” in a comic, an advertisement, a theatrical play and other “blueprinted” creations.
The major components of a screenplay are action and dialogue, with the “action” being “what we see happening” and “dialogue” being “what we hear” (i.e., what the characters utter). The characters, when first introduced in the screenplay, may also be described visually. Screenplays differ from traditional literature conventions in ways described below; however, screenplays may not involve emotion-related descriptions and other aspects of …

It started with Hassan Jehangir, Salma Agha, then later went on to Ali Haider. Ofcourse, Ustad was always there. But we are not talking about Ustad here. Our focus is the pages of memory that got fader through the years. The music from sarhad ke us paar that knew no barriers. And never will. Lets go over few pages of past and come to where we stand now.

Late 80’s
Hassan Jehangir is what I call ‘salad days’ memory.
The song that made Hassan Jehangir a household name across the 2 countries - Hawa hawa.

Hawa Hawa was a revolution of sorts for reasons best known to the late 70’s/80’s borns.

This song was followed by aaja aaja dil hai deewana. And the only image that comes to my mind is a shoddy album cover with a guy …

There are ways in which one follows a different culture, a different set of values, beliefs and mannerisms. It’s all highly subjective, but you do grow to be more inclined towards a particular way of life and less inclined towards the other. Your beliefs keep changing as you move through life. Lessons learnt, and stories heard.

Similar is the case with me. I see Bengali culture as an assortment of colors. Good bad ugly unforgettable, and like that.
Films make sense to me for the most or least weird reasons in the world. But sometimes, films are fun even if they have to scream to reach you. This entire hurdle to the screaming bit sometimes gets more visible while one is reacting to a medium. In cinema, that part manifests in the look of a film, the camera and the likes.

A film works on multiple levels. The story, the way the …

A fidayeen attack is a suicide tactic used by militants. Such attacks are especially common in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. In a fidayeen, an extremist equips himself (most fidayeens are men) with weapons and a sizeable amount of ammunition. He then proceeds to gain entrance into a public gathering or other crowded area and proceeds to open fire on law-enforcement personnel and the general public. He continues his attack until he runs out of ammunition, at which point he is either gunned down by security forces or committs suicide. Fidayeen militants sometimes do attempt to escape but are almost always shot by anti-terrorist squads shortly afterward due to the fact that the militants rarely have a “getaway” plan chalked out. These militants, like suicide bombers plan on being killed during the execution of the attack.

-from Wikipedia

Cinema is a rewarding experience for the world it creates when …