Posts Tagged ‘Indie’

  • Announcing- “That Girl in Yellow Boots”
    Yes that’s the title of the movie i am making now. Forget media speculations about “Happy Ending” and “Bombay Velvet”. BV ’s script is not yet locked, its far from complete and who knows how many drafts to go. I was in the Jury of Venice and met a lot of filmmakers, saw a lot of films that shamed me, inspired me, challenged me and i...
    by Anurag Kashyap at October 20th, 2009 at 11:10 am
  • The Marketing of Paranormal Activity — on AdAge
    Paranormal Activity, a horror flick was produced for $15,000 a couple years ago. It opened on limited screens the weekend of October 2nd 2009 for a gross of $500,000, with a wider release the weekend of October 9th for a gross above $ 7 million. As a marketing-advertising geek/student/professional, I believe better business and better marketing = more creativity and better...
    by Sriram Venkitachalam at October 12th, 2009 at 02:10 pm
  • Mohandas – A Man Lost in his Own Nation
    “Fake lives are real and the real does not even exist.” I heard about the movie Mohandas a few months back. I searched on Youtube and after playing with the keywords for a while, finally found the trailer. I was interested as I loved Mazhar Kamran’s work in Satya. After finding the trailer interesting, I kept waiting to hear more about the movie from someone on PFC....
    by Aniruddha Chatterjee at September 4th, 2009 at 02:09 pm
  • The Insomniac is in Town
    The Insomniac is in townThings came together in an unprecedented manner and with our meagre means and limited reliance on others, the three of us as Bad Alliteration Films have made our first film. It has taken almost a year, a lot of sweat, some blood but no tears. Before you call me a douche-bag and call this article a shameless plug; let me admit a few things. I know...
    by Madhav Mathur at August 10th, 2009 at 08:08 am
  • The Hurt Locker
    Imagine having to wake up every single morning knowing that today you could probably be blown into pieces so small, the only remains that would be returned to your family are those inanimate objects you have left behind at the army base. Imagine waking up every morning, going out into the streets of a country where most people don’t want you, having to diffuse IEDs...
    by Vijay at July 6th, 2009 at 06:07 am
  • Factors that can help in the release of a Small Movie in India
    iView Author: Sethumadhavan (Chennai-Vijayawada, India) Email: sethumadhavan.n [at] gmail.com Factors that can help in the release of a Small Movie in India 2009 has started and this year too promises an interesting mix of small and big films whether it’s Bollywood or regional languages. For quite some time we’ve been talking about how small movies need...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at January 11th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
  • A Wednesday Versus Aamir – a toss-up between terrorist movies
    iView Author: Dr. Mandar V. Bichu (Sharjah, U.A.E.) Email: drmandarvb [at] yahoo [dot] com Terrorism fuelled by religious fanaticism has become a burning topic in today’s world. Until recently Hindi cinema just used the populist villain-ish image of terrorism, which served to provide the filmi ammunition for hero’s explosive on-screen violence and clich'©d...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at November 17th, 2008 at 04:11 pm
  • Dasvidaniya : Interview with Vinay Pathak and Shashant Shah
    iView Author: Varun Grover (Mumbai, India) Email: varun.grover26 [at] gmail [dot] com Dasvidaniya – Life and death of a common man I know Shashant Shah since the days when he was directing that whacky, irreverent ‘The Great Indian Comedy Show (TGICS)’ (I was one of the writers, while Vinay Pathak, Ranvir Sheorey, Gaurav Gera, Suresh Menon, Purvi and...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at November 10th, 2008 at 03:11 pm
  • Special
    There have been movies on delusion, but there’s something special about the way Special goes about telling the story of a man going delusional under prescribed drugs!
    by oz at October 29th, 2008 at 03:10 pm