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Khamosh is a thriller where every time needle is pointed towards a suspect, audience may feel that no he is just usual suspect at that moment and real murderer is somebody else and one by one needle of suspicion goes to many characters and audience also keep one step ahead as director’s screen play allows him to know it that something is missing in the investigation and real culprit is yet to be found.

And this is the beauty of the film that audience wait patiently and attentively for director to unfold the mystery. Beauty is in reaching at that point and its not a great mystery where one gets a shock that what this person is the murderer.

No, here many audiences may get a clue but this journey is quite interesting.

Khamosh and Saja-i-Maut, two initial films of Vidhu Vinod …

How Shyam Benegal has managed to handle such a vast and loosely scattered subject and presented such a fine piece of cinema? How he has managed to present so many differently looking and behaving characters in a single film? How he has managed to give so different physical gestures and psychological understandings to different characters?

As its known he was born in Hyderabad then how he managed to take that kind of performance from Ila Arun, which could be completely alien for a non-hindi speaking person? Vijay Tendulkar was not present in his team, Pt Satyadev Dube was not writing dialogues for this film and still he has managed so well in characterization department. From where comes, his deep and vast understanding about the people?

Socio-political commentary has been an integral part of almost all the films of Shyam Benegal since the time of Ankur. His films could have some …

There is a little difference between a good person and a person with grey charateristics and exchange between two kind of natures of people can take place very easily with little management. Though they are seen and understood as good men but several times in their life majority of people enter in to this grey shed, though sometime to fulfil their temporary desires, which they can not suppress anymore for the sake of their inherent ideal nature.

CSB?s Amol Palekar could become a man with some villainous characteristics but director shows masterly ability to maintain a fine balance and Amol Palekar comes out clean as a hero else plot had that slippery ground that his character could fall down and then it was not possible for him to remain as Mr White.

CSB reveals difference between genuine person and hunters.

There …

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Books to CINEMA - A Journey through Mediums

Dear fellow bloggers, today I read an article on PFC about Guide. This set me thinking about movies based on books.

Hollywood has a grand tradition of movies made on books. From “To kill a mocking bird”, “Ben Hur”, “The Wizard Of Oz”, and so many great films to the Star Wars series, The Lord Of The Rings trilogy, and the Harry potter series, all of them have been based on books. Just for reference, the LOTR books were written by J.R.R.Tolkien and the Harry Potter books by J.K.Rowling. Now you have movies based on the “Inheritance Trilogy” by Christopher Paolini, the first of which was Eragon, and a movie on C.S.Lewis’s “The Chronicles Of Narnia”, the second movie of which is scheduled to be released soon. Even Roald …