Posts Tagged ‘mani ratnam’

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    A.R.Rehman!!! Jai Ho!! – 2
    I shall pick from where Ratnakar left off, in his fantastic tribute to AR Rahman. I had actually started writing this post much earlier, the day after the Oscar ceremony, but when I found that such a beautiful tribute was already adorned to the Mozart from Madras, I changed track and decided to write a sequel starting from post-2001 phase. So, Lagaan was out and Rahman...
    by crazyrals at February 28th, 2009 at 09:02 am
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    P.C.Sriram-An artist with the Camera
      Quite  often   the  director  and  actor  have been likened  to  Krishna and  Arjun.  The  director  is  Krishna,  who  conceives, plans  and  guides  the  cast and crew,  while  the  actor is  like  Arjun  the man  who  executes  what  the  director has in mind.   But  movie  making is not  just  about  the  director  and the ...
    by Ratnakar Sadasyula at February 27th, 2009 at 09:02 pm
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    A.R.Rahman: not just Madras, Bombay, or Dilli
    iView Author: J. RAMANAND (Pune, India) Email: quatrainman@gmail.com A.R.Rahman: not just Madras, Bombay, or Dilli No Indian composer has had such pan-Indian success as A.R.Rahman. Forget ‘crossing over’ to H-Land, just being successful all across India is a feat that has escaped most Indian cultural icons (and they’ve tried hard). This is especially...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at January 12th, 2009 at 01:01 pm
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    80s were not Tortorous down South!!
    iView Author: SRIDHAR MAYUR (Hyderabad, India) Email: mayursridhar[at]gmail.com “While the Bollywood cinema was churning out ‘torture series’ in the 80’s we had a wonderful set of filmmakers in the South who had something better and different to offer….from the likes of K.Vishwananth to Mani Ratnam…real gem of films were being made...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at December 20th, 2008 at 11:12 am
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    Ilayaraja and Maniratnam-I
    June 2, 1943- In a small village of Panniapuram in Theni district of Tamil Nadu, Gnanadesikan, was born as the 3rd son of Ramaswamy and Chinnathayammal, a poor Dalit couple. Exactly 13 years later, on the same date, in the temple town of Madurai, G. Subramaniam, was born into a middle class family. Gnandesikan would go on to achieve fame as a musical composer par...
    by Ratnakar Sadasyula at October 26th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
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    3 Idiots
    iView Author: Santosh Kumar.T.K (U.S.A) EMAIL: santydolby [at] gmail [dot] com Title: 3 Idiots Rarely have I seen such a film poster with so much simplicity yet with so much to say, visually at least! Is it the colors, is it the font, is it the guy’s close hair cut or is it the t-shirt in its multiple folds? or is it the name right at the bottom? If only the...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at July 30th, 2008 at 01:07 am
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    Critical Adoor….
    iView Author: SUDDHASATYA GHOSH (Kolkata, India) EMAIL: withheld Critical Adoor and a few more words for Mumbai industry There is a series of recent releases in Bollywood as usual. With more to come in time I was thinking about a reaction from great Adoor Gopalakrishnan about the mainstream Hindi films. He, in a recent interview to The Telegraph (Graphitti), had said...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at July 5th, 2008 at 10:07 am
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    Their Crime and Our Punishment
    iView Author: Manash Bhattacharjee (New Delhi, India) EMAIL: withheld Their Crime and Our Punishment ————————————————– Despite a frightful and laughable take-off on Sholay, I was surprised to see an excited crowd queuing up on the very first day to watch Ram Gopal’s...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at June 30th, 2008 at 03:06 am
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    Dil Se… One Of Mani Ratnam’s Best
    iView Author: Bharath Vineeth (Boston, USA) Email : WITHHELD Dil Se… One Of Mani Ratnam’s Best I don’t know how many of you still remember Dil Se. This movie was supposed to be the first true mainstream product that wanted make an impact globally like no other movie from India. It had some big names coming together Mani Ratnam, RGV, Shekar kapur. This...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at April 21st, 2008 at 07:04 pm
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    How to write Naach-Gaana?
    After yet another rejection of yet another offbeat screenplay (breakdancing gangstas, ichchadari nags with superpowers, indian zombies, refrigerators that molest little girls, romance between a guy and a dog, serial killer on a shopping spree, etc., not all in the same movie though), I decided to sell out (and hopefully sell a screenplay) by writing a mainstream movie....
    by dabba at April 10th, 2008 at 01:04 pm
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