Posts Tagged ‘Mandi’

  • Shyam Benegal: Commitment Personified
    “Benegal has put up a model of committed film-making in a thoroughly professional manner that could be eminently useful for both the mainstream, with its recklessly expensive habits, and art cinema, with its holier-than-thou attitude and amateurism.” It is ironical that talking about Shyam Benegal is extremely easy as well as quite difficult at the same time. Considering...
    by Satyendra Jha at June 19th, 2009 at 01:06 pm
  • WTS : How the hell Shyam Benegal could make this vast socio-political cinematic collage
    How Shyam Benegal has managed to handle such a vast and loosely scattered subject and presented such a fine piece of cinema? How he has managed to present so many differently looking and behaving characters in a single film? How he has managed to give so different physical gestures and psychological understandings to different characters? As its known he was born in...
    by Rk at September 29th, 2008 at 06:09 am
  • Ardha Satya : Mike Lobo, Actor is The Naseeruddin Shah
    3.5 scenes in the film and he still deserves to be called as The Naseeruddin Shah! Simply because of his brilliant portrayal of Inspector Mike Lobo. “Short role can still be great” is proved by Naseeruddin Shah in Ardha Satya. Mike Lobo is often discussed among policemen before he actually appears on screen. In the present time, he is a broken man, a drunkard...
    by Rk at June 26th, 2008 at 05:06 am