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10 Best Hindi Films of the Noughties
The noughties saw a spurt of films, hitherto unfancied and at times unacknowledged, that dabbed the viewers and the Hindi Film industry (HFI). This decade in Indian films has perhaps been the strongest in terms of ideas, style, narration, and development of new talent. Although it is nothing like La Nouvelle Vague, it surely will find an epochal footing in the history...
by Nikhil Kumar at December 24th, 2009 at 09:12 pm
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Baabarr: A violent tale of a don of Kanpur
Film starts with a good promise. Narration, first by Om Puri and later by a boy, sets the nature of the film very well for the audience. Boy’s narration sounds raw but interesting. Initial twenty minutes or so maintain the impression that rest of the film may present similar good material. A good beginning gets strength from a realistic (but/yet impressive) touch in...
by Rk at September 14th, 2009 at 01:09 pm
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IFFLA 2010 Announces Call for Entries!
IFFLA 2010 Call for Entries The Eighth Annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) seeks narratives, documentaries, shorts, music videos, experimental, children’s and animated films of any length and format for our 2010 festival taking place April 20-25 at ArcLight Hollywood, a state-of-the-art facility in the heart of Los Angeles. Jury and Audience Choice...
by PFCdesktop at September 8th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
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Taxi Driver : An odd scene in the diary of Travis Bickle
Somebody occupies the omnipresent’s role in a film and this unknown/unseen shows the film to the audience. This “somebody” uses the camera to show a tale. Even if there is a complete darkness on screen this darkness comes via camera to the audience. This somebody could be director whose presence, though invisible, is present in all the frames of a film....
by Rk at September 2nd, 2009 at 03:09 pm
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Dreams in the cans- A Filmmaker’s worst nightmare
A few days ago I was having a conversation over coffee with one of my friends who works in the industry and had just attended the first screenwriting workshop organized by Kamal Haasan’s Rajkmal Films in a tie-up with IIT-Madras. While my friend was sharing his insights about the workshop, he mentioned that apart from the various films screened as part of the course,...
by Sethumadhavan at June 16th, 2009 at 03:06 pm
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Shyam Benegal and Anurag Kashyap : In conversation
iView Author: Salik Shah (New Delhi, India) Email:salik.shah [at] gmail [dot]com Shyam Benegal and Anurag Kashyap : In conversation [ When I asked Benegal who were his favorite young directors, he said 'that young man' looking at Anurag's direction. And throughout the interaction @ IHC, he kept on shifting the focus to the young filmmaker] Excerpts from this conversation...
by PROJEKT iVIEW at April 10th, 2009 at 09:04 pm
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Out-of-the-box works from Hindi Cinema
iView Author: Vishal Chaturvedi (Bangalore, India) Email: vishalc2005[at]gmail[dot]com Out-of-the-box works from Hindi Cinema I’m quite obsessed with lists, the best movies I’ve watched, the best Indian movies, the greatest English movies, the greatest Italian movies, the worst cricketers of the world, the best songs, the best albums, the list goes on and on. Running...
by PROJEKT iVIEW at April 8th, 2009 at 09:04 am
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Thus Spake Indian Cinema
iView Author: Ram V (Bangalore, India) Email: Shrey.dna [at]gmail[dot]com Thus Spake Indian Cinema : a brief history of propaganda in our films ‘In 1921, W Evans, a cinema expert in British Government was sent to survey the cinema scene in India. With remarkable foresight, he saw the possibility of cinema being used for political purposes. He recommended close...
by PROJEKT iVIEW at April 4th, 2009 at 07:04 pm
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Film Editing in an Ideal World
Editing is an invisible art form. The less people notice it, the better it is. Unless one is specifically sitting down with a film and watching it to study the way it is cut, a good editor only allows the audience to experience his or her work on a subconscious level. When editors themselves watch a movie for the first time, it is but natural to be observing the cutting...
by Vijay at March 27th, 2009 at 01:03 am
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Shekhar Kapur on Anurag Kashyap
Shekhar Kapur on hig blog writes what he thinks about Anurag’s film. Its a small post but nevertheless, very well put by him. Whether you agree with him or not, Anurag kashyap is one of the most compelling Directors in India. His innate rebellious natures transforms itself onto the screen so effectively that he is constantly challenging any preconceptions that you...
by OM at March 18th, 2009 at 09:03 am
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The Underrated Series : Pavan Malhotra
iview Author: SRIDHAR MAYUR (Hyderabad, India) Email: withheld Content: “The Underrated Series – Pavan Malhotra” Today I am writing about the one whose acting potential is as brilliant as his personality and attitude. He is Pavan Malhotra. Mostly recognized by face than his name. Sadly, thats the truth( for most of the underrated ). No...
by PROJEKT iVIEW at January 23rd, 2009 at 04:01 am
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Slumdog Millionaire Review
The film starts with this question Jamal Malik is one question away from winning 20 Million rupees. How did he do it? A: He cheated B: He’s lucky C: He’s genius D: It is written Anil Kapoor escorts Dev Patel(Jamal Malik) to the hot seat in the game show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire.” The next scene is where Jamal Malik is brutally interrogated...
by Krishna at January 9th, 2009 at 07:01 pm
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Defining Cinema of Indian New Wave
iView Author: Njudo-E-Dara (Nagpur, India) Email: withheld Defining Cinema of Indian New Wave ——————————————————————- Disclaimers : I think English language is better way communication to large audience, hence this post is in English. Otherwise...
by PROJEKT iVIEW at January 6th, 2009 at 06:01 am
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Opening Scenes in Movies
iView Author: Ratnakar Sadasyula (Bhubaneshwar, India) Email: ratnakar.techie [at] gmail [dot] com ——————————————————– Opening Scenes in Movies ——————————————————– When...
by PROJEKT iVIEW at September 23rd, 2008 at 03:09 am
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Anurag & I… Jab Imtiaz Spoke
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...
by Pratim D. Gupta at September 3rd, 2008 at 09:09 am
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K J Singh: Interview Part 1
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...
by Sourav Bhuyan at August 18th, 2008 at 01:08 pm
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Online Critics Society
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...
by PROJEKT iVIEW at June 16th, 2008 at 02:06 pm
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Endings ….that stayed with me
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...
by Anand Kadam at June 9th, 2008 at 07:06 am
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Black Friday party – The Aftermath! Video
Alright! Whoever said the Black friday party video will be my next post is absolutely right! Here it is .. ‘The Aftermath!’ – By the way, i am quite impressed with how much Windows Movie Maker can accomplish! Watch it – you’ll know. So – here it is – The Aftermath – kitsch at its worst! (but a few laughs guarenteed) Starring...
by Smriti Vij. at February 20th, 2007 at 11:02 pm
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BLACK FRIDAY- INTROSPECTING?????
The Author loses his authority over what he has created the moment his work is put into the commercial arena, or in the public domain..thats the first lesson i learnt about filmmaking..Black Friday is finally released and i am not able to react..i have been locked in, tired of answering the same questions..seeing all the euphoria around..they are doing to black friday...
by Anurag Kashyap at February 13th, 2007 at 11:02 pm
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Black Friday’s Brilliance Over-hyped?
Two viewings of Black Friday….worthwhile…Friday night..took my breath away, maybe more so by the euphoria created by the media and the response on here, after all it was in waiting for more than 2 years…Sunday i find something missing….does it mean the movie dies on you? I have no answer to it….On the first viewing I loved it, but I also felt...
by OM at February 12th, 2007 at 09:02 pm
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Black Friday :::: Reverse Engineering
Film’s major achievement is the creation of many, so lively, scenes that audience forget that they are watching actors, merely playing their roles. There are several such solid scenes right from the begining when a cop slaps Gullu. And creation of such lively scenes in the film is the greatest achievement of Director Anurag Kashyap. Usually emphasis is given on actors...
by Rk at February 12th, 2007 at 07:02 am
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Black Friday – reactions from Delhi
Reactions from Delhi: Two of my writer friends from Delhi have requested to forward their reactions to Anurag & team, on watching Black Friday with the Dilli crowd. These are fairly long emails so i am pasting them here as a combined post. From Sucharita: Dear Anurag, Have you ever heard of the phrase “Do not cast pearls before swine”? You’ve made...
by Smriti Vij. at February 12th, 2007 at 03:02 am
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BLACK FRIDAY
Hey everyone…since you all have become essential part of our team…I need to share this with all you at PFC…YESTERDAY…was a very big day for all of us…it started on a great note with me reading TA’s review on Black Friday…after I informed you guys that anurag is in Patna, I ask SMS him to check PFC for TA’s review…five minutes and he calls back…what...
by Rajkumar at February 9th, 2007 at 11:02 pm
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Anuragspeak – Videos 2 & 3- Black Friday
Two more videos from Anurag’s discussion with the PFC team 1. Chaitanya asks Anurag about whether the stay order on Black Friday was justified and AK explains.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVa_rp_nTYA 2. Kartik asks Anurag whether the Badshah Khan track in Black Friday was required to be so long… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab6OXo2rAlY All for now!
by Smriti Vij. at February 9th, 2007 at 09:02 pm
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Black Friday Movie Review – An Old One
Since I haven’t seen any Black Friday movie reviews here, I thought I would re-post this review I had written when the film premiered in LA in 2005, winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles. —- By Vijay Venkataramanan On Friday, March 12, 1993, Mumbai, then known as Bombay was rocked by serial bomb blasts in its most densely populated...
by Vijay at February 8th, 2007 at 03:02 pm
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BLACK FRIDAY SCREENING
Saurabh Dixit, PFC’s ardent fan got a chance last night to watch the special screening of Black Friday in LA. Got an excited mail from him about his experience, Saurabh says: Black Friday Screening 7:20 in the evening I am still at my desk. The plan was to leave at 7 and go the fallbrook theater to catch the screening of Black Friday. Me thinking “First we...
by OM at February 8th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
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Anuragspeak – video 1- dialogue vs. actor’s performance
Here’s a video snippet from Anurag’s discussion with PFC. You’ve already heard the entire discussion that Chaitanya and Vasan uploaded earlier. I am just pulling out some portions from the video that i shot . Here’s one in which he explains how dialogue affects an actor’s performance. Enjoy! or go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcxOlWQbHtQ
by Smriti Vij. at February 7th, 2007 at 11:02 pm
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BLACK FRIDAY: I STILL REMEMBER
I still remember getting that call from AK…to come to TAJ LANDS END…some time in the afternoon…for the narration of the script of BLACK FRIDAY…Great…will be there…some time in the afternoon…We all are seated in the conference hall…Arindam Mitra, ChanderMohan Puppala, Anurag, Dev…I can’t recall if there was anybody else…we just wait for Mr.Sudhir Mishra...
by Rajkumar at February 3rd, 2007 at 12:02 am
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BLACK FRIDAY-How the cast and crew came together..
The casting process took two months..Dr. Gautam Kishanchandani was the casting director, he hates to be called a doctor..we had two doctors working on the film..The first actor to screen test was also a doctor,that was dr.satish sharma who was rejected in the audition process but was with us during the Tashkent shoot of No Smoking.. Anyways, while writing the script few...
by Anurag Kashyap at February 2nd, 2007 at 05:02 am