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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.)

In case you are wondering what are the ties which bind the trio, the answer is they are all literary adaptations , based on novels by Ian McEwan, Cormac McCarthy and Upton Sinclair, respectively. Although adapted screenplays are not a new thing, the recent trend shows an upsurge like never before. So what is it that attracts writers and directors to bring out the reading glasses?

For one, one of the biggest hurdles of filmmaking is easily overcome when you have an engrossing story on hand. While some directors prefer …

Manik grew up influenced by writers, artists, musicians and even a “cameraman turned film maker” who comprised his maternal uncles extended family. It was here that he developed a fascination with western classical music and American movies… a fascination which would one day fructify into a film career and make him one of the most revered directors in the world … Satyajit Ray.

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 not have that reputation.

When i was talking to my friend about the Indian Cinema who lives in US i came to know the downfall of standards of Indian Cinema.

Indian had produced some wonderful film makers like Satyajit Ray, Bimal Roy,Shaym Benegal,Guru Dutt,K.vishwanath etc… but do we have any hope of finding film makers mentioned above in the futre? answer is very simple and straight –NO

There are many reasons for this condition of Indian Cinema and one of the reasons is the awards.I feel …

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 represented by AB and Ashutosh Gowarikar by AG.

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[Following is the translation of the Hindi Interview and may not do full justice to the original interview so to read the exact sayings of Ashutosh Gowarikar, one should go through the original interview. This is simply a trial to expose the interview to those readers who can not read Hindi]
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AB: Where you spent your childhood. You belong to Mumbai or came here from outside. When you were introduced …

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SUDDHASATYA GHOSH
(Kolkata, India)
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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 coinage for it. As I went on reading it I faced a few questions and am trying to present those in my write.

Let me start with a cinema by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, ‘Ali-Fear Eats the Soul’. It starts with an apparently incorrect title in original German. Brigitte Mira and El Hedi ben Salem was cast respectively as an old German woman …

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 together

Keep the essence of the above mentioned poem with you as it will be supporting the whole hypothesis.

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Are you a person related to some parts of cinema? Actor? Director? Producer? Writer? Cinematographer? etc etc ?

You believe that you want to do work, taking cinema ahead and you are not interested in doing regular stuff only? …

Life is always changed in a blink of eyes, sufficiently a long time for a major event to happen. Easily 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 he does not get enlightenment but he does take a middle path and in the end follows (or he is forced to follow) the life as it comes to him.

Siddhartha is forced by the circumstances came in his life to leave his medical education in between because his father has been died and his family is unable to bear the cost of his education and now he has to take a job to support …

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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 famous new wave Bengal trio – the other two were Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen.
Ray was the most feted of the three and received almost all-important recognitions including the Lifetime Achievement Academy award. Ghatak has been acknowledged as the eccentric genius – the one who broke all possible rules of the film book to create his masterpieces. Posthumously his work became the cynosure of all film institute students. Mrinal Sen, …

iView Author:
ANIRUDH JAYARAM
(NAVI MUMBAI, INDIA)

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Books to CINEMA - A Journey through Mediums

Dear fellow bloggers, today I read an article on PFC about Guide. This set me thinking about movies based on books.

Hollywood has a grand tradition of movies made on books. From “To kill a mocking bird”, “Ben Hur”, “The Wizard Of Oz”, and so many great films to the Star Wars series, The Lord Of The Rings trilogy, and the Harry potter series, all of them have been based on books. Just for reference, the LOTR books were written by J.R.R.Tolkien and the Harry Potter books by J.K.Rowling. Now you have movies based on the “Inheritance Trilogy” by Christopher Paolini, the first of which was Eragon, and a movie on C.S.Lewis’s “The Chronicles Of Narnia”, the second movie of which is scheduled to be released soon. Even Roald …