Posts Tagged ‘Direction’

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    Songs in Hindi Films – S D Burman
    Here is Sachin Dev Burman – the grand young man – the Dada of the industry, talking about films, the importance of story/script/direction/photography and how can songs compliment or destroy the films. I feel these views show what a keen observer Sachinda is, and how much dedicated he is towards the art of Hindi Film Music. No wonder his music is evergreen....
    by kcp at May 7th, 2009 at 05:05 am
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    Written ‘and’ Directed by…
    iView Author: Yusuf Tabatabai (Doha, Qatar) Email: symehdi67 [at] gmail [dot] com Written and directed by In the good old days we used to have directors and we used to have writers. Most writers, of course, remained unknown or little known. Then came around Salim-Javed and films written by them used to be publicized with “Written by Salim-Javed” appearing in big...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at May 7th, 2009 at 05:05 am
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    Random thoughts on NAMKEEN (1982)
    Random thoughts on “NAMKEEN” (1982) Caution: Spoilers Ahead This is not a review kind of article but describes my random feelings and thoughts while and after watching Namkeen. Kartik has written an article on Namkeen but I must share my thoughts about this gem, – you have to tolerate this. Pardon me if some lines match with kartik’s article but this...
    by Shailesh Limbachiya at April 10th, 2008 at 05:04 am
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    Angling For A Shot
    The other day a friend of mine buttonholed me as he was itching to narrate his debut feature film script. Off drinks, off non-veg, he was a bit put off by my not adhering to Bollywood convention of listening to a script. Somehow he had always given some weightage to my opinions—perhaps that was the reason—as he agreed to go ahead with the narration in this non-Bollywood...
    by krysh at March 31st, 2008 at 05:03 am
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    1971- Simply Superb!
    1971- Simply Superb! When I was a kid; I used to like watching Ramayan, Alif Laila, Krishna and all those stuff made by Sagar brothers. But at the same time; I did not like their terrible technical ignorance and over over over the top acting. Can you imagine a camel cart with rubber tyres in age of Alif Laila or that typical hindi filmy back ground music in Ramayan. In...
    by Shailesh Limbachiya at March 19th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
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    10,000 B.C. – A Children Film
    10,000 B.C. – A Children Film I did not expect anything great in 10,000 B.C. and the movie is exactly like that. It has good special effects and CGI but thin story line. As we had seen in past; director Roland Emmerich is known to put his hero in larger than life unusual difficult situation (independence day, the day after tomorrow…)…here he puts his hero in...
    by Shailesh Limbachiya at March 13th, 2008 at 01:03 am
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    Forget awards : Can’t we celebrate performances
    As per the wisdom of ancient Indian sages and scholars, desire to earn name has been among one of the four basic desires any human being follows in his/her life. One wants to see his/her name inscribed in history and if not for long then local history chapter also helps in boosting his/her ego. If its not international award then national will do and if that’s also...
    by Rk at March 12th, 2008 at 05:03 am
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    Khuda Ke Liye: The perfect kind of Pak cinema to come to India
    For sometime now, Indian films are having regular commercial releases in Pakistan – as far as I understand, on a case-by-case consideration. And after the initial euphoria of at last getting to watch Indian films legally on the big screen after all these years of watching grainy, pirated DVDs, the Pakistanis, I am told by some of my Pakistani friends from the film world,...
    by Runumi G at March 4th, 2008 at 02:03 pm
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    HISTORICAL HEROES
    HISTORICAL HEROES…WAITING TO BE ADOPTED ON SCREEN. While watching Jodha Akbar; a thought came into mind- why all the time Indian film makers focuses on love story while adopting history characters. E.g. Ashoka- Santosh Shivan focused on love story between Ashoka and kaurvki. Sanjay leela bhansali planned to make historical film on love story of Baajirao and Mastani....
    by Shailesh Limbachiya at March 1st, 2008 at 04:03 am
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    “24 Truths per Second” Godard said, Ghatak showed!
    iView Author: Medha Dutt (Kolkata, India) E-mail: primidutt [at] gmail [dot] com “24 Truths per Second “ The famous French New Wave director, Jean-Luc Godard, was very right when he said of Cinema, that it is “24 truths per second”. And nowhere do we find it more so than in the films of Ritwik Ghatak. I know there are many others, like, Ray,...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at February 28th, 2008 at 03:02 pm
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    The Darjeeling Limited: Musically yours!
    Just saw Wes Anderson’s latest fratricidal fun-on-the-run The Darjeeling Limited! Totally loved it. Love the meandering (and seeking) nature of the narrative, which is similar in structure to the Coens’ comedy work but yet so different. And that’s got a lot to do with Anderson’s dialogues, which sound profound if put on paper but in the context...
    by Pratim D. Gupta at February 28th, 2008 at 06:02 am
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    This Manjha comes with a sharp edge
    54. That is the number of films that I and two of my co-jury members watched in just five days at the 10th Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary, Short & Animation films (MIFF). The festival was held over seven days, from February 3 to 9, but the films in the Indian competition section (in which I served on the critics jury chosen by the Indian chapter...
    by Runumi G at February 25th, 2008 at 04:02 pm
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    Oscars: Coens and the Highlights
    As always I wasn’t really too pleased with the Oscar nominations this time around. 2007 was an awesome year for films but lot of great films which should have been there weren’t, including the best foreign picture category (”Lust, Caution“, “Persepolis” and “4 nights, 3 weeks and 2 days” missing). Hoffman being nominated...
    by Pankaj Johar at February 25th, 2008 at 05:02 am
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    NAYAK (2001)- SHANKAR AT HIS BEST
    NAYAK (2001)- SHANKAR AT HIS BEST I like larger than life movies. I love movie with all commercial masala in it. But condition is that it should be well balanced. It should have fast pace, powerful dialogues, performances and excellent technique. Nayak-The Real Hero fulfills all those expectations. It is intense, emotional as well as humorous and fast paced. Shankar has...
    by Shailesh Limbachiya at February 18th, 2008 at 01:02 am
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    nagesh kukunoor ka kasoor
    bombay to bangkok ke asafal hone ka poora shreya nagesh kukunoor ke hi mathe hoga.woh akeley kasoorwar hain.is film ke liye subhash ghai ko doshi nahi thahraya ja sakta.iqbal aur dor jaisi filmon ke baad bomabay to bangkok jaisi kamjor film ke baare mein nahi socha ja sakta tha.kya ho gaya nagesh ko?kya unki pahle ki films fluke thin. gaur karen to nagesh koi bade aur...
    by ajay brahmatmaj at January 20th, 2008 at 05:01 am
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    HALLA BOL- Mr. Santoshi Delivers What Is Expected
    HALLA BOL- Mr. Santoshi Delivers What Is Expected Director: Rajkumar Santoshi Writer: Rajkumar Santoshi Overall Grading: B+ Halla Bol is a typical Rajkumar Santoshi film having witty and powerful dialogues, dramatic sequences, good performances and an item song. Halla Bol is about a film star’s awakening of inner soul and fight against system ( as usual in santoshi’s...
    by Shailesh Limbachiya at January 16th, 2008 at 02:01 am
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    WELCOME -full of nonsense
    WELCOME -full of nonsense Overall grading: B- Director: Anees Bazmee Pehaps after success of No Entry director Anees Bazmee thought “chalo No Entry hit hui hai to usi type ki ek aur comedy banate hai”. Let’s take love story of Gangster’s sister and an average boy. OK concept is good but then what? How to develop script? OK… add some songs picturised in Dubai,...
    by Shailesh Limbachiya at December 28th, 2007 at 09:12 pm
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    Taare Zameen Par promo & my first film!
    I was shooting at the Rhodesia House, a dormitory of St. Peters School, Panchgani. Rhodesia House fits approximately 40 boys under the charge of a matron….this house accommodates the youngest (7 to 8 years) students. Being a boarding school, the admission at St. Peters starts from 3rd Std. Every time I watch TZP promo on tv, I get nostalgic with the first film(AV)...
    by Ashish Shukla at December 15th, 2007 at 10:12 am
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    AANCH (2003) – CLOSE TO COUNTRY SIDE
    AANCH (2003) – CLOSE TO COUNTRY SIDE Aanch (2003) is the story of two lovers caught between fake egos and cultural rules of villages. It is an unusual story and perhaps based on a true incident. The story takes place in two of the UP villages. A boy (played by Suchindra Bali-son of veteran actress Vaijayanti Mala) and a girl (played by Sharbani Mukerjee- who played...
    by Shailesh Limbachiya at December 12th, 2007 at 09:12 pm
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    Khoya Khoya Chand – Tera Kya Hoga Sudhir?
    “Zafar made many films after that, but Khoya Khoya Chand is considered his best…”. May not be the exact words, as I did not note it down, but something more or less along these lines lit up the screen as an epilogue as Khoya Khoya Chand came to an end. I was at a Press screening of Sudhir’s latest film at New Delhi’s Films Division Auditorium...
    by Runumi G at December 7th, 2007 at 03:12 am
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    JAAGO MOHAN PYAARE!
    JAAGO MOHAN PYAARE! “It is very easy to criticise anyone’s work than doing the actual work”. The old and experienced players of hindi cinema…started their career by redefining the rules of typical bollywood film making. But some how lost their golden touches, cinematic abilities, and trapped in their own success and intelligence. They are thinking...
    by Shailesh Limbachiya at November 13th, 2007 at 03:11 am
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    Making of a PFCOne Movie
    Movie making is not easy, man. Making the PFCOne movie is a big lesson to many armchair critics here including me who wax eloquently on where a movie worked, where it didn’t, blah blah blah…I made a couple of movies which are now listed among the entries. It was my first time that I ever attempted making a movie of any kind (excluding random home movies) and it was...
    by Anand Bharadwaj at November 8th, 2007 at 09:11 pm
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    as DHAAL as it gets
    Responsible for Divyashakti, an adequately downbeat tale of revenge driven by principles and loss bolstered by an interesting villain, Tau (pronounced: taauu), played by Amrish Puri and two films with Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan (Main Khiladi Tu Anari, a rip-off of The Hard Way and Keemat), Sameer Malkan was last heard of when he finished a songless thriller shot in...
    by George Thomas at November 1st, 2007 at 08:11 pm
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    Evano Oruvan – An evening with Nishikant and Madhavan.
    Driving as fast as I could in the treacherous NYC traffic last Thursday I was thinking as hard as I could as to what I would have done if I were to remake Dombivilli Fast, that too in a language of which I knew all but 2 words. How would I even start to write the change in characters or change the sensibility to suit my target audience? How would I even trust the characters...
    by ravptor at October 29th, 2007 at 09:10 pm
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    Laaga Chunari Mein Daag – the ‘inspirations’!
    Laaga Chunari Mein Daag (dir Pradeep Sarkar) is an ‘inspirational’ work. That is what is being said in some sections of the media and the Net. Here are 4 films which have similar story backgrounds. Decide for yourself. 1. Doghi (Sisters) Marathi (1995) Dir: Sumitra Bhave & Sunil Sukhtankar; Cast: Renuka Daftardar, Sonali Kulkarni, Uttara Baokar, Sadashiv Amrapurkar,...
    by Runumi G at October 13th, 2007 at 10:10 am
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    GEMS REVISITED
    GEMS REVISITED Doston, peechle hafte hindi cinema ki teen anmol ratan jaisi movies dekhne ka mauka mila. Waise pehle bhi kai baar in movies ko dekh chooka hoon, par jitni baar dekhta hoon, kuchh naya sikhta hoo, kuchh naya paata hoon , aur in filmo ke prati mera aadar aur badh jaata hai. 1.Dosti (1964) Do doston ki kahaani. Ek andha hai aur ek handicapped (played by...
    by Shailesh Limbachiya at September 20th, 2007 at 02:09 am
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    Villains
    There is a special place for villains in Indian cinema. Especially in the 70’s, 80’s and early 90’s before the Hum Apke Hain Kaun phenomenon, our writers created iconic bad guys. Amitabh Bachchan would have never succeeded as the Angry Young Man if he didn’t have equally dynamic enemies to defeat. Personally, I always found villains to be way more...
    by Vijay at September 12th, 2007 at 04:09 pm
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    Director or Editor or both :: Whose job is this ?
    Some directors are editors also. Hrishikesh Mukharjee always enjoyed editing more than the direction. Tight editing is reflected in his films. Tight editing is the demand of the time also especially when film belongs to low budget category and there is no money to waste. But there are very few directors who are editors also. Shekhar Kapur believes that he should have a...
    by Rk at August 28th, 2007 at 06:08 am
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    Introducing Vibhu ‘Chabi Wali Pocket Watch’ Puri
    In the hype surrounding the controversies relating to the 53rd National Film Awards, the mention of a special jury award to FTII graduate Vibhu Puri’s Chabi Wali Pocket Watch in the Non-Feature category almost went unnoticed. Well, the fact of the matter is, most of the awards in the Non-Feature section go unnoticed by the media these days, as both channels and newspapers...
    by Runumi G at August 20th, 2007 at 09:08 am
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    RAJKUMAR SANTOSHI – “SAABASH MERE CHITEY!”
    Caution: Don’t expect too much stylish English. RAJKUMAR SANTOSHI-”SAABASH MERE CHITEY!” When did the last time you get the effect of drinking Glucon D? Your blood got hot? Released lots of Adrenalin in your body?….. Perhaps after watching A RAJKUMAR SANTOSHI MOVIE. There is lots of energy and dhaka dhak high speed involved in his films that you...
    by Shailesh Limbachiya at August 17th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
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