Posts Tagged ‘Corporate’

  • No way to treat a lady..or women in the movies
    *Hear out the honcho. The movie production house COO (not even the CEO), says airily,“Please not another woman-oriented film.” The implication is that women are the second-rung gender out here. *A TV interviewer, a woman, asks tetchily, “But why always women?” To that you ask, in sheer despair, “Why not?” * A well-meaning producer...
    by Khalid Mohamed at March 14th, 2009 at 08:03 am
  • Fasionably Predictable: How ’stocks’ are killing Madhur Bhandarkar’s Cinema
    iView Author: Sayandeb Chowdhury (Delhi, India) Email: withheld A review of Fashion and the larger aspects of MB’s cinema Bombarded with an endless rain of stupid kitsch every week, we have gradually come to expect very little of the Hindi film industry. That has meant that when Bollywood has churned just decent, watchable fare, we have risen in collective applause,...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at January 9th, 2009 at 05:01 am
  • MUMBAI STORIES 2 – Art for Art’s Sake
    There was an auto-rickshaw strike the other day. The government wants them to change their mechanical fare meters into fancy electronic ones. So the union decided to flex its muscles. Suddenly the streets were empty of thousands of noisy gnats. My car driving friends were very happy they said they should be a permanent ban on them. But the people (like me) who are dependent...
    by PSji at April 29th, 2008 at 09:04 pm