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iView Author: Ratnakar Sadasyula (Bhubaneshwar, India)

Email: ratnakar.techie [at] gmail [dot] com

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Opening Scenes in Movies
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When the lights get switched off, the hall goes dark, and the curtain rises, its time for you to sit back and enjoy the movie. As a kid, i remembering watching Where Eagles Dare, on the big screen for the first time, and then the thunderous music in background, as the aeroplane flies over the Alps, and the credits flash on the screen. Or the gun shots and images, that make up the memorable opening of The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, to the accompaniment of Ennio Morricone’s score. Over the years there have been opening scenes, that have defined the movie and have proved to be a part of movie lore …

Imtiaz Ali, the man who gifted us Jab We Met and Socha Na Tha, is in Calcutta to shoot a small schedule of his next film that is Saif Ali Khan’s first home production and stars Saif alongside Deepika Padukone. I caught up with the man and having done the Q&A for The Telegraph, we got chatting about other things. Anurag Kashyap, his friend, came up soon enough and I asked him what I always wanted to ask him how two such close friends make such different cinema. Here is Imtiaz’s side of the story…

POV: Anurag and I have this distinct ability of looking at the same thing in very different ways. So if this bottle is kept on the table and we both look at it, very different things will come to our mind. Each point of view will lead to a story and he will be very surprised …

The word “Sound” holds a different meaning for me post interviewing K J Singh.
A little introduction is necessary because this man has been associated with all the possible positions that encompasses music and sound in India. He has worked on Films Background Score & soundtracks like Satya, Maqbool, Rage De Basanti, Omkara, Black Friday and many more. Also he has produced the greatest Indian band ‘Indian Ocean’ and Rabbi’s Shergill debut album ‘Rabbi’. I would like to congratulate Mr.Singh for winning the National Award this year for Audiography for the film “Omkara”. (A full fledged discography of K J Singh can be checked here.)

PART 1 -Straight Q&A
From Guitar Singh (you were fondly known as that - why? any story behind that) of Graffiti to K J Singh Producer/Sound Engineer - how did that all happen? Tell us about your …

iView Author:Krishna
(Hyderabad, India )

Email:moviecentric [at] gmail [dot] com

Online Critics Society

The thought having an Online Critics Society came into my mind by looking at the present situation of the Indian Cinema.

Many people might be under the delusion that Indian Cinema has a good reputation outside India,sorry to say that the present Indian Cinema does not have that reputation.

When i was talking to my friend about the Indian Cinema who lives in US i came to know the downfall of standards of Indian Cinema.

Indian had produced some wonderful film makers like Satyajit Ray, Bimal Roy,Shaym Benegal,Guru Dutt,K.vishwanath etc… but do we have any hope of finding film makers mentioned above in the futre? answer is very simple and straight –NO

There are many reasons for this condition of Indian Cinema and one of the reasons is the awards.I feel …

The most important part of a movie is its end�its climax�..even a dragging dud movie but with a superb climax can make it worth a watch ��..then there are movies which are exactly opposite to this�.how many times have we come out of the theater thinking about how good the opportunity was, but was all ruined in the end ��most of the bollywood movies these days belong to this category�….If I have to recall the best endings from Indian cinema in recent times, then dombivli fast stands tall��.who couldn’t feel for Madhav Apte ? �he is just been shot �injured�and now all he wants is the window seat in the local train �for never did he got a chance to sit by the window, all these days�. all his life…�.The climax totally sums up to what a common man wants these days�…just a peaceful life and nothing more then that��.and …