Posts Tagged ‘satyajit ray’

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    More anecdotes on Ray
    I feel encouraged by reader’s comments to recollect and write more anecdotes on Satyajit Ray. I still remember Satyajit Ray’s Oscar acceptance speech of 1992 Academy Awards. My generation will; forever!!! I was studying in Class XI . Satyajit Ray was very ill then. He was admitted to Belle Vue Clinic in Calcutta. The Academy members came to Calcutta to give away...
    by Biswa Prasun Chatterji at August 6th, 2009 at 11:08 am
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    Two anecdotes on Ray
    These are two anecdotes on Satyajit Ray. Professor Subodh Chandra Sengupta was a famous professor of English literature of Calcutta’s hallowed institution , the Presidency College. From his autobiography “Te hi no dibasa gota” in Bangla I got this gem. One evening, in the early 1950’s Professor Sengupta was taking a walk in Maidan, Calcutta’s lungs. He met his...
    by Biswa Prasun Chatterji at August 5th, 2009 at 08:08 am
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    Gabbar Singh lives forever
    Amjad Khan and Amitabh Bachan in Muqaddar Ka Sikandar It  was  year  1992,   yours  truly  just  taking  his  tentative steps  into  adulthood,  yeah  was in my early 20’s.  It  was  also  the  age when we were all  agog,  exploring  the  brave new  world  of   Cable  TV.  What a break  from dreary  old  Doordarshan.   Its  another...
    by Ratnakar Sadasyula at July 28th, 2009 at 03:07 am
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    Bimal Roy : A forgotton centenary
    In 1953, when Do Bigha Zameen was released and became an instant classic, winning rave reviews across the world, Raj Kapoor remarked “How I wish I made this film!” This July 12 marked the centenary of Roy and a pity it was that the media did not even care to brush past the legend for it is too busy with pseudo swayamvars of item girls and the umpteen possibilities...
    by Arjun Narayanan at July 14th, 2009 at 02:07 pm
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    The Requiem Or the Dream ?
    “What man of you, having an hundred sheep if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?” Luke 15:4 Whether it’s Paulo Coelho’s “The Alchemist” or “The Zahir“, the recurrent dream, the pursuit of a goal has been a winner’s...
    by Subhasish Chakraborty at May 27th, 2009 at 02:05 pm
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    Amita Malik : the grand old lady of Indian Media journalism
    iView Author: Biswa Prasun Chatterji (Mumbai, India) Email: biswaprasun [at]gmail[dot]com Content : Amita Malik : the grand old lady of Indian Media journalism ‘The grand old lady of Indian film & media journalism’, Amita Malik passed away in February, 2009. She was truly the first of her kind in India. Even, I remember Mr.Prannoy Roy decorating her with...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at April 28th, 2009 at 04:04 am
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    Phatikchand (1983): The boy and the Juggler
    Phatikchand (1983): The boy and the Juggler Direction: Sandip Ray Story, Screenplay, Music: Satyajit Ray Many years ago, in Kolkata, a young boy saw a movie called ‘Phatik Chand’ which his dad took him to. The movie had a major impact on the boy because after Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (The adventures of Goopy and Bagha) this was the next best children’s movie he had...
    by ~uh~™ at April 13th, 2009 at 08:04 am
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    SATYAJIT RAY : WHO ELSE CAN COMPETE
    iView Author: SATYENDRA JHA (Pune, India) Email:satyendrajha30 [at] gmail [dot]com SATYAJIT RAY : WHO ELSE CAN COMPETE? So much has been written about the great man Satyajit Ray, saying anything would be stating the obvious, and chances are, someone else has already touched that facet of the exemplary filmmaker that he was. Still, I personally feel there are many of...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at April 12th, 2009 at 07:04 am
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    Satyajit Ray : From the Apu Trilogy to the Calcutta Trilogy
    The Film Society of Lincoln Center will be hosting “First Light: Satyajit Ray From the Apu Trilogy to the Calcutta Trilogy,” a retrospective of the Indian helmer’s work running April 15-30. Six of the movies will appear in new prints from the Academy Film Archive: “The Expedition,” “The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha,” “The Music Room,” “The Coward and...
    by Rk at April 6th, 2009 at 04:04 pm
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    Kishore Kumar Remembered
    iView Author: Rahul Dravid (Dubai, UAE) Email: dravidarch [at]gmail[dot]com Kishore Kumar Remembered : Shoojit Sircar to meet Lata-Asha This iView has been removed, because readers found the writer has copied and pasted the article from another source without giving it due credit. ~ PFC Admin
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at April 4th, 2009 at 02:04 pm
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    Sanjeev Kumar – Genius par Excellence
    iView Author: SATYENDRA JHA (Pune / India) Email: satyendrajha30@gmail.com Sanjeev Kumar – Genius par Excellence Hindi film industry has seen many stars, but not many actors in the true sense of having essayed a gamut of roles, each as different from the other. One such name that readily comes to mind, and which no one would dispute, is of Sanjeev Kumar. The...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at February 23rd, 2009 at 04:02 pm
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    Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind
    iView Author: Jehan Handa (Delhi, India) Email: jehanhanda580 [At] yahoo [DOT] co [DOT] in Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind ——————————————————– Satyajit Ray, Federico Fellini, Christopher Nolan, David Lynch, now Charlie Kaufman and Michael Gondry. As...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at December 22nd, 2008 at 02:12 am
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    Nayak (1966)
    (4/5) Excellent. Uttam Kumar stands tall in the kind of effortessly charismatic performance that we don’t really see these days. IMDB
    by Jahan Bakshi at October 2nd, 2008 at 11:10 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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    Satyajit Ray’s Pikoo – An Affair to Remember
    iView Author: Rita Bhattacharjee (Jacksonville, Florida, USA) EMAIL: Withheld Title: Satyajit Ray’s Pikoo – An Affair to Remember Pikoo is a short film Satyajit Ray made for the French television based on one of his own short stories, Pikoo’s Diary. It tells the story of a young boy, Pikoo, who comes from an upper middle class family comprising his father,...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at August 3rd, 2008 at 01:08 am
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    Ray’s Kapurush and that story on TV
    I watched Satyajit Ray’s Kapurush few weeks back and it brought back nice memories and interesting thoughts. While watching the movie I was reminded of a telefilm I watched on DD long back. I think it was based on a story by Chekhov (and no it was not a part of the lovely series ‘Chekhov ki kahaniyaan’ which used to be on DD long time back. Whatever happened...
    by Neeraja at July 20th, 2008 at 07:07 am
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    Bookworms and Movie Maniacs : Literary adaptations in cinema
    iView Author:Aditya Mani Jha (Kharagpur, India) EMAIL: amj91288[at] gmail [dot] com Title: Bookworms and Movie Maniacs : Literary adaptations in cinema Following are three out of the five nominees for the Best Film Academy Award: Atonement, No Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood.(No Country For Old Men finally got the nod from the Academy sages.)
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at July 14th, 2008 at 09:07 am
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    Manik and the Magic of Movies
    iView Author: P(L)AYBACK (Mumbai, India) Email: playback2007 [at] gmail [dot] com Manik and the Magic of Movies Little Manik stood in awe clutching at his mothers saree. Meeting Rabindranath Tagore in person was a dream come true for the five year old and he extended his autograph book. Tagore wrote in it in Bengali verse : “For a long time, over many miles, I...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at July 9th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
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    Online Critics Society
    iView Author:Krishna (Hyderabad, India ) Email:moviecentric [at] gmail [dot] com Online Critics Society The thought having an Online Critics Society came into my mind by looking at the present situation of the Indian Cinema. Many people might be under the delusion that Indian Cinema has a good reputation outside India,sorry to say that the present Indian Cinema does...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at June 16th, 2008 at 02:06 pm
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    Ashutosh Gowarikar : I missed the Prem’s role in Maine Pyar Kiya
    As informed in the post Director is like a God walking on earth : Shyam Benegal a new series “Initial Steps” is started with this interview of Director Ashutosh Gowarikar. Thanks a lot to Ajay Brahmatmaj who provided his detailed Interview with Ashutosh Gowarikar to PFC. Here is the first part of the interview. From now onwards Ajay Bramatmaj will be...
    by Rk at June 10th, 2008 at 05:06 am
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    A few thoughts on Bengali cinema……
    iView Author: SUDDHASATYA GHOSH (Kolkata, India) EMAIL: withheld A few thoughts on Bengali cinema…… Passion for cinema has produced a few pages of Sudhir Mishra’s diary for readers and expectantly brilliances of Sudhir came out in open in that space. Sudhir is a name in ‘so-called’ parallel cinema or in good cinema, if I am allowed to use Satyajit Ray’s...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at June 9th, 2008 at 03:06 am
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    Cinema guys: Blog Blog Blog: till you earn your audience
    Before discussing any kind of points, first we must read this wonderful poem of Jacob Riis When nothing seems to help I go and look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock Perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it Yet at the hundred and first blow It w’d split in two And I know it was not That blow that did it But all that had gone before...
    by Rk at June 4th, 2008 at 03:06 am
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    Pratidwandi : reality pushes to do compromises in life !
    Life may change in a blink of eyes. It is comfortably enough time for a major event to happen. Easy going life takes a swift turn when an unpredictable event takes place. This is the story of Siddhartha not Gautam the Budha but an ordinary young man, whose name is Siddhartha. But like Siddhartha he also comes across many situations which change his thoughts and though...
    by Rk at June 3rd, 2008 at 06:06 am
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    Always Being Born!
    iView Author: Nirad B. Bhattacharjee (Mumbai, India) EMAIL: k niradbaran [At]gmail [Dot]com Always Being Born The Indian new wave started almost a decade later than the Italian new wave with Ray’s ‘Pather Panchali‘. This film ignited the imagination of a wave of budding filmmakers. Two other Bengali directors followed Ray and soon they became the...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at May 9th, 2008 at 02:05 am
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    Books to Cinema – A Journey Through Mediums
    iView Author: ANIRUDH JAYARAM (NAVI MUMBAI, INDIA) EMAIL: WITHHELD Books to CINEMA – A Journey through Mediums
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at April 10th, 2008 at 04:04 pm
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    Writer/actor/director/producer connection !
    We read daily that so and so filmmaker insisted that he does not go for stars but he signs the actors who fit in his story. Writers say that sometimes they write by keeping a certain actor in mind. Does it give enough freedom for them to develop the character then? As a certain actor may have limitations as far as his acting ability is concerned. His mannersims may be...
    by Rk at October 17th, 2006 at 04:10 am
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