Posts Tagged ‘ketan mehta’

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    Rang Rasiya : Colors from the life of Raja Ravi Varma
    Ketan Mehta has captured the colorful world of Raja Ravi Varma in his latest film Rang Rasiya. A biographer documents the life of his subject. An art critic/historian explores the artistic creations of an artist. A novelist may explore deeply the moments of the life of an artist. Hopefully Rang Rasiya , based on Ranjit Desai’s novel, does full justice to the different...
    by Rk at October 25th, 2009 at 08:10 am
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    Mirch Masala (1985) – Sonbai walks tall
    Sonbai walks in the lanes of an unnamed village with a ghada (metal matka, water container) on her head.  She is in the middle of her hen-party, with all members skillfully balancing the ghadas on their heads, and you know that Sonbai is a leader. As the group of these exotically dressed women pass through a gang of by-sitters loitering around the quintessential banyan-tree-chowraha...
    by tejas at September 9th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
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    Habib Tanvir Passes Away
    One of the most popular playwrights, poet and actor, Habib Tanvir, was found dead early this morning. He was in hsopital for last 20 days due to respiratory disorder and his struggle with life finally ended. He was a man of progressive thoughts and will be most remembered for his plays Agra Bazaar and Charandas Chor. He acted in very few movies like Attenborough’s...
    by crazyrals at June 8th, 2009 at 01:06 am
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    Hero Hiralal – A Reality Show Ahead Of Its Time
    The advent of cable-tv happened in India in the early 1990’s when foreign channels were beaming in the houses of the privileged upper-middle-class. A decade later came the age of the reality shows with Channel V running a contest to form a girl-band on the lines of Spice Girls; and in 2002 Viva happened. But much before cable-tv was introduced and much before reality...
    by crazyrals at April 21st, 2009 at 06:04 pm
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    IFFK’08 – Day Two – 15 hours of Cinema
    Note : This post does not contain any reference/digs/mentions of Rab ne whatever…. Note 2: This post contains the combined creative energies of two world-cinema-depraved junkies creating a historical blogging event.Taaliyaan. Note 3: Please read this post for sake of world cinema, Kerala Tourism & as KK would say, Baaaaaaa… 0930 AM Boarding Gate : I walked...
    by Tushar at December 13th, 2008 at 04:12 pm
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    The Shells of Pride
    iView Author: Vishesh Mankal (New Delhi, India) Email: Vishesh_Mankal [at] hotmail [dot] com The Shells of Pride Even though cinema is a very young art form compared to its predecessors it has already been subject to many controversies and theories. Over the years, films have been divided into many camps but the most enduring battle has been fought between the “Artistic”...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at September 10th, 2008 at 05:09 am
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    Raju Hirani : I strongly believe in Gandhi Ji
    Second and concluding part of the excerpts from a conversation occurred between Director Raju Hirani(RH), and Ajay Brahmatmaj (AB), is presented here. ————————————————————- [Following is the translation of the Hindi Interview and may not do full...
    by Rk at August 26th, 2008 at 03:08 am
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    Prakash Jha : Deepti Naval and I never cherished any negativity between us
    Second part of the interview of Director Prakash Jha(PJ), taken by Ajay Brahmatmaj (AB), is presented here. ——————————————————————————————————————————- [Following...
    by Rk at July 3rd, 2008 at 06:07 am
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    Prakash Jha : Hrishikesh Mukharjee cried after watching my film
    To continue the series “Initial Steps“, excerpts from an interview of Director Prakash Jha, taken by Ajay Brahmatmaj , are presented here. Ajay writes I had started my interview series with the interview of Prakash Jha. He is my elder and to some extent my guide also. Perhaps it is difficult, at present, to evaluate the contribution of Prakash Jha to...
    by Rk at July 2nd, 2008 at 09:07 am
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    Bura na mano holi hai
    Bura na mano holi hai .. holi hai bhai holi hai .. Bura na maano holi hai The aforementioned used to be our (i.e me and my aawara delhi lodi colony waalas’) slogan during holi, while under this pretext we would apply colour to all the females of the locality who normally wouldn’t even bother to acknowledge us as human beings let alone Dudes/Guys/date-able...
    by kartik krishnan at April 16th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
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    Gup-shup
    Its not everyday that a bunch of filmmakers I like, get together and converse on the medium. For such occasions I always had to depend on film festivals or even take a trip back in time during those glory days of DD. Most such occasion are fruitful when the moderator/interviewer is as well versed or at least someone who can hold his/her own amongst such august company. Imagine,...
    by DPac at April 11th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
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    Maya Memsaab (’93) : A film inspired by Novel “Madam Bovari” of Flaubert
    A beautiful young woman, who thinks she is intelligent and has aristocratic hobbies lives with her ailing father in a big, palace like house in a small hill station kind of city in India. She is in to reading, music, painting and other kinds of arts. Her father gets heart attack and a local doctor comes to see him. Simple and humble doctor continues his visits and soon...
    by Rk at January 24th, 2007 at 10:01 am
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