Posts Tagged ‘Acting’

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    Tribute to Non-Actors
    To me, everything about cinema is fascinating and most fascinating are the people who work in it. This is a post, about the people, more than the cinema. Specifically, this is a post about people we see on screen. It’s amazing to see and hear those people in normal life, and realize how they get transformed on screen. I used to be amazed to see how Sridevi used to come...
    by A. Singh at August 26th, 2009 at 05:08 pm
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    Memories about a Lion!
    Once upon a time, I saw a lion in Nandan Kannan zoo. I had seen lions in Chennai’s vandalur zoo as well, but this lion, I saw was bigger and it looked every bit like the lions I had read about in the stories as a child. It evoked a kind of fear and awe in me, the feeling you have when you see the smaller hair in the back of your head rising in a moment of electric...
    by V.P. Jaiganesh at July 20th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
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    1.5 Years As An Actor-Writer In Mumbai
    I moved to Mumbai in December 2007, full of trepidation, but also with a certain bit of confidence in that I knew my strengths and weaknesses. My intentions were fourfold – acting, writing, voice work and music. I don’t believe in praying – I only believe in hard work – but I guess the uparwala has been quite kind to me, and so has the city of Mumbai. I’ve made...
    by Kenny at July 13th, 2009 at 01:07 am
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    When I Met Danny Denzongpa!
    Before I made the move to Mumbai a year and a half ago, I thought that I’d probably get my first break as an actor playing Danny Denzongpa’s son in some movie. I met the man himself last Saturday and had a wonderful chat with him. I’m still not over it. Shivajee Chandrabhushan, director of the much-awarded (and finally to-be-released on May 8th) Frozen, told fellow...
    by Kenny at May 5th, 2009 at 03:05 pm
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    Farhan and Abhay herald the return of the character actor hero?
    So, most of us are going to see Luck by Chance this weekend. Some of us are sure to gloat about the movie’s prospects and some of us shall remain dissatisfied. Then, we shall have other stellar cinema coming our way in the next few weeks. Delhi 6, Dev D, Billo Barber, etc. It is surely going to be quite exciting. Slum Dog Millionaire has set the ball rolling. Raaz...
    by Indraneel at January 30th, 2009 at 02:01 am
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    Warning: (A) Rated Post
    Good boy that I am, I finished my first draft for Sankalan two days before zero hour, only to be informed that the deadline’s been extended by two weeks. So to celebrate I’ve again decided to write a self-indulgent rant; even I’m not sure what shape this article will ultimately take. People who have been kind enough to follow my audition ki kahaniyan,...
    by Kenny at December 22nd, 2008 at 06:12 am
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    My TV Acting Debut: In a Torture Series
    I still get the shudders when I think of my on-camera acting debut. This was back in Guwahati in 2005. I felt like committing filmy suicide on every day of the 21 day shoot. It was for 8 episodes of a serial commissioned for Doordarshan North-East. The producer and director treated me very well, but alas, they were PhDs in GPD&S. GPD&S bole toh Gheesa Peeta Dialogue...
    by Kenny at October 29th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
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    1971- Simply Superb!
    1971- Simply Superb! When I was a kid; I used to like watching Ramayan, Alif Laila, Krishna and all those stuff made by Sagar brothers. But at the same time; I did not like their terrible technical ignorance and over over over the top acting. Can you imagine a camel cart with rubber tyres in age of Alif Laila or that typical hindi filmy back ground music in Ramayan. In...
    by Shailesh Limbachiya at March 19th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
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    The Phenomenon called Shah Rukh Khan
    iView Author: Medha Dutt (Kolkata, India) Email: primidutt [at] gmail [dot] com The Phenomenon called SRK The first memory of Shah Rukh that I have is something that is far from flattering. I was at a boarding school, and on our weekly television viewing sessions, we watched perhaps the ugliest of heroes being bumped around in a bus (or was it a train?) by a group of...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at March 17th, 2008 at 06:03 am
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    Forget awards : Can’t we celebrate performances
    As per the wisdom of ancient Indian sages and scholars, desire to earn name has been among one of the four basic desires any human being follows in his/her life. One wants to see his/her name inscribed in history and if not for long then local history chapter also helps in boosting his/her ego. If its not international award then national will do and if that’s also...
    by Rk at March 12th, 2008 at 05:03 am
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    AANCH (2003) – CLOSE TO COUNTRY SIDE
    AANCH (2003) – CLOSE TO COUNTRY SIDE Aanch (2003) is the story of two lovers caught between fake egos and cultural rules of villages. It is an unusual story and perhaps based on a true incident. The story takes place in two of the UP villages. A boy (played by Suchindra Bali-son of veteran actress Vaijayanti Mala) and a girl (played by Sharbani Mukerjee- who played...
    by Shailesh Limbachiya at December 12th, 2007 at 09:12 pm
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    Performances of the Year
    I know I know. The year is not over yet. We still have some big ticket movies coming up but most of the year is out and it could be a good time to take stock, you know like a dress rehearsal. So here are my choices for best acting performances in Bollywood this year-till now. Kareena Kapoor for Jab We Met- Believe me, if someone had told me before I saw this movie that...
    by Anand Bharadwaj at November 18th, 2007 at 07:11 pm
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    Making of a PFCOne Movie
    Movie making is not easy, man. Making the PFCOne movie is a big lesson to many armchair critics here including me who wax eloquently on where a movie worked, where it didn’t, blah blah blah…I made a couple of movies which are now listed among the entries. It was my first time that I ever attempted making a movie of any kind (excluding random home movies) and it was...
    by Anand Bharadwaj at November 8th, 2007 at 09:11 pm
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    REMEMBERING… AMRISH PURI
    REMEMBERING… AMRISH PURI It was one sentence in the post of George Thomas on Dhaal “It is with Pilot Baba that this film strikes gold” made me desperate to think and write about Amrish Puri. Very few actors have that capability that when they come on screen, then concentration of audience immediately shift to them. You forget the opposite actor; your eyes ignore...
    by Shailesh Limbachiya at November 3rd, 2007 at 06:11 am
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    as DHAAL as it gets
    Responsible for Divyashakti, an adequately downbeat tale of revenge driven by principles and loss bolstered by an interesting villain, Tau (pronounced: taauu), played by Amrish Puri and two films with Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan (Main Khiladi Tu Anari, a rip-off of The Hard Way and Keemat), Sameer Malkan was last heard of when he finished a songless thriller shot in...
    by George Thomas at November 1st, 2007 at 08:11 pm
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    NTR
    iView Author: SRINIVAS N (Mumbai, India) EMAIL: Witheld May 28, 1923, 4.32 PM was a defining moment for the people of Andhra. No one has realized it that day but after a few years, everyone would feel the impact of the meteor that stuck them and their lives being changed forever. In a small village called Nimmakuru, Andhra Pradesh which was then a part of Madras state,...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at October 31st, 2007 at 02:10 pm
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    A personal list of the greatest performances
    Name: Shashank Sahai Email: shashanksahai [at] gmail [dot] com City/Country: Tallahassee, FL, US A personal list of the greatest performances What better way to jump on the PFC bandwagon than by unleashing yet another list of favorites! Ah, creating a list – that holiest and laziest of the film fanatic’s occupations! Of course it can be anything from listing...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at October 21st, 2007 at 03:10 am
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    Making a mark, without any noise
    The first thing you notice about Nitinsathyaa are his intense eyes; maybe that is what helped him get under the skin of the character he played in ‘Satham Podathey’ (Don’t make any noise). He shone as the impotent sportsman, even though the role was not too well written. Even though his role in ‘Chennai-28’ endeared him to the masses, but it was the role of the...
    by venky at October 18th, 2007 at 01:10 pm
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    GEMS REVISITED
    GEMS REVISITED Doston, peechle hafte hindi cinema ki teen anmol ratan jaisi movies dekhne ka mauka mila. Waise pehle bhi kai baar in movies ko dekh chooka hoon, par jitni baar dekhta hoon, kuchh naya sikhta hoo, kuchh naya paata hoon , aur in filmo ke prati mera aadar aur badh jaata hai. 1.Dosti (1964) Do doston ki kahaani. Ek andha hai aur ek handicapped (played by...
    by Shailesh Limbachiya at September 20th, 2007 at 02:09 am
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    Villains
    There is a special place for villains in Indian cinema. Especially in the 70’s, 80’s and early 90’s before the Hum Apke Hain Kaun phenomenon, our writers created iconic bad guys. Amitabh Bachchan would have never succeeded as the Angry Young Man if he didn’t have equally dynamic enemies to defeat. Personally, I always found villains to be way more...
    by Vijay at September 12th, 2007 at 04:09 pm
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    Ten tips for being “Good in a Room”
    If you’re in the entertainment industry, sooner or later you’ll find yourself to be a door-to-door salesman, albeit in various forms. And unlike most 9-to-5ers you may not have the technical qualifications on a resume to back you up, which is when it becomes even more necessary to realize the power of words. The power of conversation can hold the power to...
    by striker at July 31st, 2007 at 03:07 pm
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    first principals of screen acting
    this is an article i have written for my research paper and i would like to share it with PFC readers for comments. FIRST PRINCIPALS These are things that every one who is associated with the medium knows but still there is a need to drive it across again and again. These are guiding principals and common place wisdom by the gurus which I have read across many books and...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at July 14th, 2007 at 09:07 pm
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    3 politicians back in to the films – Wake up Hindi film Industry !
    Dharmendra, Vinod Khanna and Govinda have one thing in common. All the three are members of parliament and have registered their come back in the films in last 6 months. Dharmendra : He has registered his accomplished work in the history of hindi cinema. He gave successful films belonging to different categories. He was equally good in the role of police officer as he...
    by Rk at June 26th, 2007 at 08:06 am
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    Amrish Puri : Mogambo Khush hota on his 75th Birth Anniversary
    Amrish Puri : Birth – 22nd June 1932, Death – 12 January 2005 What was contribution of Amrish Puri in Hindi films, can be understood by the fact that if someone who has been watching hindi films regularly and if he closes his eyes then he will be able to recall atleast 20-25 films where he liked Amrish Puri very much. This is a fantastic achievement which very...
    by Rk at June 22nd, 2007 at 06:06 am
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    SARFAROSH (1999) – ORIGINAL AND AWESOME
    SARFAROSH (1999) – ORIGINAL AND AWESOME Perhaps all of PFC guys have shown this superb film but I want to discuss this film as this film has impressed me lot with respect to story telling, griping script, dialogues, characters, performances and music. Sarfarosh was John Mathew Mathan’s first film after making ads and in his first film he seems to be prominent director...
    by Shailesh Limbachiya at June 22nd, 2007 at 05:06 am
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    Romancing like Shahrukh Khan!
    One Sunday afternoon, after a delicious lunch of Rajma Chaval (red kidney beans and rice), went in to my bed room to find my phone ringing. The name ‘Toto’ was flashing. Toto is Anurag’s still photographer in No Smoking. I pick up the phone and go, “ haan bhai Toto Singh”(yeah tell me Toto Singh).The voice from the other side doesn’t sound like him, it goes,”...
    by Manjeet Singh at June 21st, 2007 at 10:06 am
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    Back in to time of Charlie Chaplin :: debut by a deaf and mute actor !
    Charlie Chaplin was not mute but he worked in the silent films. Without uttering dialogues from his mouth he was able to create magic on screen through his acting ability and he proved that you don’t need heavy dialogues to make impressive presence on the screen. Presence has to be generated through facial expressions, expressions in the eyes and body language. Almost...
    by Rk at June 19th, 2007 at 11:06 am
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    RANT: “Actor” vs. “Character” in Hindi films
    Disclaimer: This rant is restricted to mainstream films and in particular their stars. I am aware of brilliant actors the calibre of Irfan Khan, Kay Kay Menon, Arshad Warsi, Ranvir Shoery who’ve proven their abilities in both lead and supporting roles. But I’m in the mood to rant and rant about “popular” cinema, so here I go… I find that...
    by Tony Mera Naam at June 15th, 2007 at 11:06 am
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    Turtles Can Fly – Unforgettable Cinema
    Iranian filmmakers for long have thrived on their unmatched ability to reflect upon their times through the eyes of their children. Majidi is perhaps the finest examples of exploring the issue through the viewpoint of the children who live it, because they are perhaps the only ones who see the world for what it is. They don’t judge, they observe. They see it, and...
    by Vijay at June 11th, 2007 at 03:06 pm
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    Amu: Heart, Anger, and a Mirror
    Orwell’s prediction of the horrors of 1984 would seem mellow compared to what humanity really saw. In Delhi at least, thousands were massacred, families destroyed forever, the scum of humanity exposed, as justice still remains to be served. It’s a disgusting piece of our history that our government, which still employs many of those directly responsible, chooses...
    by Vijay at June 6th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
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