Posts Tagged ‘Ray’

  • 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
  • Charulata- ‘The one with the least defects’
    That’s how Ray described his famous masterpiece in an interview. According to him, this was the movie which he would make exactly the way it was if he had to do it again. That’s a very interesting claim because when it was released in 1964, there was intense debate and criticism about how Ray had adapted Tagore’s novella “Nashtanir” (The Broken Nest). Ray apparently...
    by Anand Bharadwaj at April 4th, 2009 at 04:04 pm
  • Ritwik Ghatak, the lone voice
    iView Author: Siddhartha Banerjee (Kolkata, India) EMAIL: sidban1 [at] gmail [dot] com Title: Ritwik Ghatak, the lone voice Ghatak’s films were an artist’s rebellious, painful, naked howl that cuts through the entire fa'§ade of so called decorative and bourgeois art; screaming with a brave and indifferent ‘I deny’. Creativity, more than the art-form,...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at August 9th, 2008 at 07:08 am