Posts Tagged ‘debut’

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    Dvandva-Making of Duality
    Dvandva, is the continuous duality of right & wrong that engulfs the daily lives of everyone. Five seemingly unimportant events weave a fabric… And this fabric unveils the story. In other words, the film is a mesh of interleaved stories & inter-related characters. And it revolves around the search of a mysterious contract killer. Dagadoo leads a gang of street-dacoits…...
    by Chhatrapal at November 23rd, 2009 at 10:11 am
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    DVANDVA – Duality of an Independent Filmmaker
    My upcoming and First Feature Film During second year of my PG, I was quite aware that I made wrong career choice. Not only grades, attendance and most importantly my interest was “land low”. I just could not see myself as a Manger working for some multinational company. I was deep in Identity crisis. And that point of time filmmaking was definitely not the choice. MBA...
    by Chhatrapal at October 10th, 2009 at 06:10 pm
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    How does it feel to be born?
    I was born in a not so fancy government hospital on 15th February 1981. I always had this deja-vu about my birth. As if I remember the visuals on the day I was born, and me being this excited individual shared this thought with most of my family & friends and the leg-pulling that followed was unexpected, atleast for me. May be they felt normal by doing so. Their favorite...
    by Arvind kamath at September 10th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
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    Shooting TGIB
    The Great Indian Butterfly We shot TGIB in 35mm in 16 days with approximately just 65 cans of raw stock. 14 days on the road and 2 days in Bombay. I do not know till date, what prompted Parth Arora to put his own money, whatever little he made from his earlier film, ‘Dhoop’, on an unconventional film like this? It wasn’t like we were childhood friends or anything....
    by Sarthak DasGupta at August 28th, 2009 at 03:08 am
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    Love and Lovelessness
    Lives become dysfunctional when love evaporates. Cinema portrays this evanescence in the finest possible manner among all other art forms. It has the intrinsic advantage of combining image with sound and then accentuating that with music to create the desired emotional response. The sheer agony of living a loveless life is painted best in movies. It makes you feel the...
    by Sudipto Chattopadhyay at August 27th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
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    First glimpse As The River Flows (Assamese)
    As The River Flows This is the first-ever glimpse of upcoming Hindi movie As The River Flows (click here to watch the video). It will also have an Assamese version, titled Ekhon Nedekha Nadir Xipare, which literally means “Across an unseen river”. It’s Bidyut Kotoky’s debut movie (he had won a special jury award at the 2005 National Film Award...
    by Runumi G at August 18th, 2009 at 08:08 am
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    Memories Of Our Ancestors
     Life offers you a plethora of choices; the onus is on you to choose what you choose. I chose the portrayal of the human predicament as my aesthetic canvas to paint on. I guess it stems from that specific tradition of art that you identify with and wish to highlight. Robert Browning’s statement, “My only interest is in the development of the soul, little else is...
    by Sudipto Chattopadhyay at August 16th, 2009 at 11:08 am
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    The Quest for Flight
    Since recorded history, mankind’s greatest quest has been for flight. Human beings were always fascinated by birds wanting to approximate and emulate them. They failed for centuries but never gave up. I think this is almost a metaphor for the mass human psyche—- forever wanting to soar above circumstance. Poets have likened their spirits to birds; painters have...
    by Sudipto Chattopadhyay at August 13th, 2009 at 08:08 pm
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    TGIB-ing the dream
    The Great Indian Butterfly, releasing on Sept 4, 2009A lot of film makers made star bestsellers and Rishteys those days. I had some stories brewing in my head. But I had not written them down. I would catch hold of just anyone and make him/her hear my stories. Some years later, I learnt in his own Masterclass, even Paul Schrader uses this method before penning anything...
    by Sarthak DasGupta at August 11th, 2009 at 08:08 pm
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    Accident in Bollywood
    First look of Accident On Hill Road posterAs a child I used to hate my dad for making us wait at railway stations to catch the train. I have often waited at  the Chandrapur railway station in Maharashtra to go to Palakkad in Kerala.  For a 5.30pm train we would be there at 1pm. I would my spend time counting the number of coaches of umpteen trains that pass by.  I would...
    by Mahesh Nair at August 10th, 2009 at 11:08 am
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    At Sea
    At Asian Sky Shop, I was responsible for the 1 minute demonstration films that ran on the Zee channels. Since I didn’t know the ass from the elbow when it came to film making, I had to stick to the company policy of commissioning these films to outside producers. Watching the guys on the floor, I could just about get a hang of only some yell-words like ‘roll’, ‘action’...
    by Sarthak DasGupta at August 2nd, 2009 at 01:08 pm
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    Jumping without a Parachute
    At the outset, thanks PFC readers, for accepting me as a blogger, for showing me that there are still people out there, who care. My story is neither different nor more (or less) dramatic than any one of yours. Each day has come and the same day has passed. When you bunch a lot of such days and look hard, you begin to see some pattern. Carrying on with the tale… I...
    by Sarthak DasGupta at July 29th, 2009 at 01:07 pm
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    Schrödinger’s Cat
    This was the summer of 2003. I hated the afternoons. Weekday afternoons were the times I would feel very lonely and frustrated. My wife would leave for office early in the morning and would come back late in the evening. The BBC World office was still at Nariman Point then and we lived in the suburbs. Though there were people in the house, it made no difference to my...
    by Sarthak DasGupta at July 27th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
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    Luck By Chance: Some thoughts.
    When Anurag Kashayp first approached Shahrukh Khan for the role of K in No Smoking, SRK refused. He answers that circuitously in the movie Luck By Chance, when he advices Vikram that, in this industry it is very important what kind of choices you make. The first film chooses you, now, you are going to choose your films. Choose well. The answer could very well have been...
    by Tanul Thakur at January 31st, 2009 at 10:01 pm
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