Posts Tagged ‘FTII’

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    Chabiwali Pocketwatch
    Sometimes you havnt heard about a movie, or a filmmaker, or even the actors, but there’s something that attracts you immensely in a movie. There’s this small little connection, this little bond that urges you, attracts you and lures you into watching a rather unknown film, with no credits heaving names like Bergman or Truffaut. It endears you especially when it’s...
    by Jehan Handa at September 25th, 2009 at 06:09 am
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    Sankat City: Pay-off Master
    Befitting the preposterously loony & delightful characters he’s unleashed upon us, Pankaj Advani walked into the cinema-hall Friday night, veiled in a, yes, Burqa. Not surprisingly, the self-aggrandizing ploy didn’t work, at all; as the only straight-faced soul in a hall-full of hysterical communal film savouring, the maker of the film, playing the voyeur that...
    by thani at July 13th, 2009 at 06:07 am
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    What ails Indian Cinema?
    iView Author: Siddhartha Banerjee (Kolkata, India) Email: sidban1[at]gmail[dot]com What ails Indian Cinema? A wrong title at a wrong time, given the mass orgasm Indians are having at the success of ‘Slumdog etc etc…’ The media is almost making us believe that we’ve arrived; the age of cosmetic cinema in the shinning multiplexes of a ‘shining new India’....
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at April 20th, 2009 at 10:04 am
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    Anurag Kashyap: One needs his own method to make a film
    Second and concluding part of the excerpts from a conversation occurred between Director Anurag Kashyap(AK), and Ajay Brahmatmaj (AB), is presented here. [Following is the loose translation of the Hindi Interview and may not do full justice to the original interview. Its advisable that one should go through the original interview to read the exact sayings of Anurag...
    by Rk at November 6th, 2008 at 06:11 am
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    Raju Hirani : Training is very important in film making
    In continuation of the series “Initial Steps“, excerpts from a conversation occurred between Director Raju Hirani(RH), and Ajay Brahmatmaj (AB), are presented here. Ajay writes about Raju Hirani First time I had met Raju Hirani in the office of Vidhu Vinod Chopra. Munna Bhai MBBS was not released yet. Most of the journalists were interviewing VVC. I saw...
    by Rk at August 25th, 2008 at 05:08 am
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    Shatrughan Sinha : Namesake of Self Confidence, Style and Wit !
    Shatrughan Sinha’s biography will be having chapters on his acting career, political career, his real life incidences and his relationship with Amitabh Bachchan. Late Raaj Kumar and Shatrughan Sinha can be said as two truly stylish hindi film stars whose “I don’t care” attitude was not seen with hostility among the film fraternity. Audience loved their cynical...
    by Rk at May 8th, 2007 at 06:05 am
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