Gulaal : moves in to the final leg of production

iView Author:Gajendra S Shrotriya
(Jaipur, India)
EMAIL:gshrotriya[at] yahoo [dot] com

Title: Gulaal – moves into the final leg of production

2 days ago I had missed to catch the making of Gulaal at Chomu Palace.

I had reached there at Chomu Palace but to be told that the unit packed off around 4’O clock in the morning. All through the way I was excited about meeting Vasan and AK. Excitement was more for the reason that I would get to see these people at work.

A similar excitement I had when I was driving to Hotel Clark’s Amer in Jaipur around twenty years back.
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It was our BE Third year at MNIT. We used to organize an All India Basketball Tournament in which national teams participated. I was in the organizing committee. That day we were planning who to …


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Ardha Satya : Mike Lobo, Actor is The Naseeruddin Shah

3.5 scenes in the film and he still deserves to be called as The Naseeruddin Shah!

Simply because of his brilliant portrayal of Inspector Mike Lobo. “Short role can still be great” is proved by Naseeruddin Shah in Ardha Satya.

Mike Lobo is often discussed among policemen before he actually appears on screen. In the present time, he is a broken man, a drunkard who was suspended from the police department because he could not do compromises with the usual functioning of the department and tried to work in his own manners. He was too rebellious. Its told by other policemen that he used to say that whoever would come between he and his duty he would have to face his wrath. Whoever was found against his opinion of law and order, he fought with him. Vested interests could not bear his presence in the police force and he …


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Ardha Satya: Rama Shetty = Hand pump, spreading poison all around

In continuation with the post Ardha Satya : Silver Jubilee remembrance–Part 1.
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Two things can easily be said about Ardha Satya or by taking clues from Ardha Satya

(1) Fine characterisation is the most beautiful aspect of Ardha Satya

(2) Good director never needs to use harsh back ground music or chanting of shlokas to
introduce a powerful character. Such gimmick is not needed.

It rarely happens that in a 2 hours film, one gets hardly 5-6 scenes consuming not more than 20 minutes, and still his presence is felt all over the film. Rama Shetty (RS) is that character in Ardha Satya and Sadashiv Amrapurkar has played the character with a great command over his craft of acting. Villain always remains an important part in such a story but rarely such a non dramatic villain was presented in the past, who could leave such a deep …


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