Posts Tagged ‘Santosh Sivan’

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    Film Biographies – A call to arms
    Ever since I became a passionate fan of Hindi Cinema, I also felt the tingling desire to know these dream merchants who light up the canvas, up close and personal. The idiosyncrasies associated with each actor, the journey to fame for every artist and the real woman behind every starlet intrigued me. Was Shammi Kapoor who engendered the image of the rebel hero in the 1960’s,...
    by Akshay Manwani at July 15th, 2009 at 03:07 pm
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    Pasanga- for the child in each one of us
    All of us have been kids at some point of time. We have all had our moments of glory, moments of frustration, moments of success, moments of failures etc during our childhood. And barring certain exceptions I’m sure most of us look back with great satisfaction and happiness when we reminisce over our childhood days. Now haven’t many of us wanted to be an actor, a policeman,...
    by Sethumadhavan at May 22nd, 2009 at 12:05 pm
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    Priyadarshan- The Run Machine of Indian Cinema
    So far this year we have seen the frenzy generated by SDM and the success of movies like Dev D and Raaz- the Mystery Continues. And of late we have been hearing a lot about the ongoing strike in Bollywood. But there was also one landmark that occured in the 1st Qr of 2009, something which did not really get so much of attention. This landmark was achieved on 13th February...
    by Sethumadhavan at April 24th, 2009 at 03:04 am
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    Thalapathy- Tale of a modern day Karna
    /*  Spoiler  Alerts The  Mahabharat  has  always  been  one  of my  favorite  books.  It  is  like an  ocean  for me,  the more  you  know of it ,  the  lesser  you  still  know  about  it.   And  one  of  the  most  fascinating  characters  in  the  Mahabharata  for me  has  been  Karna.   I guess maybe  due  to the  fact, ...
    by Ratnakar Sadasyula at March 2nd, 2009 at 05:03 am
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    Lots of soul, lots of heart – that’s what Tahaan is
    Kashmir has never been captured on celluloid so magnificently. What’s new in that, when Santosh Sivan is the cinematographer, you might ask. Sivan has this innate capacity to capture the character of the locations he shoots his or others films in. But you have to watch Tahaan to find out what I mean. So many films have been shot in Kashmir over the years, from those...
    by Runumi G at September 4th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
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    Sivan’s Before The Rains
    Before the Rains is a landscape movie, a sensuous story of love between an English spice exporter and his married Indian housemaid, shot and directed by Santhosh Sivan in God’s own country, Kerala. Deepak Chopra in his recommendation compared the movie to E.M. Forster’s “A Passage to India” and stories like “In the Bedroom”, “Little...
    by wb at July 10th, 2008 at 03:07 pm
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