Posts Tagged ‘Shakespeare’

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    Arriving at Originality
    Ratiocination While watching Kaminey, I arrived at a flawed definition of originality. Any work that can inspire an imitation is original. Two corollaries follow: 1. Any work that doesn’t inspire imitation isn’t original 2. It is possible for an imitated work to inspire another imitation, in which case, it becomes original Yes, I am in a mathematical state of mind...
    by Subrat at August 20th, 2009 at 05:08 am
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    Writer’s Block, A Cure and Some Juvenile Poetry
    I HAVE TO CONFESS. I’ve finally been infected. I was dreading it would happen to me someday.  There’s a disease which  strikes us writer’s once in a while, or may be more than just once in a while.  It’s happened to a few people I’ve known.  I also now know that it’s happened to so many people I’ve never known, but still somehow know,  because...
    by Arun Prakash at June 22nd, 2009 at 10:06 am
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    Chronicles of Transformation:Life to Movies
    *Disclaimer Number One: This post has no whatsoever connection with Chronicles of Narnia. ** Disclaimer Number Two: The post doesn’t talk about cinema, but my road to cinema, so those not interested, don’t scroll further. “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in...
    by Jehan Handa at March 7th, 2009 at 09:03 am
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    Lear stirs, he lives…
    Towards the end of Rituparno Ghosh’s The Last Lear, in a scene, Amitabh Bachchan’s Harry is about to take a step which can put his life at risk. As the tension builds up towards the moment I suddenly felt what if Bachchan died today. Yes, what if Bachchan died today. This man, who had failure pinned on him from the day he faced the arclights, had 12 flops back...
    by Pratim D. Gupta at September 12th, 2008 at 01:09 pm
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    The Last Lear: Bachchan’s best? Maybe, may be not, but….
    In a Shakespearean tragedy, one cannot but get sucked into the emotional cauldron. Be it Othello or King Lear or Macbeth or Hamlet, its all about great emotional upheaval when it comes to the core of the Bard’s plays. In Rituparno Ghosh’s The Last Lear, Amitabh Bachchan’s (as well as most of the cast’s) first full-fledged English role, Harish ‘Harry’...
    by Runumi G at September 11th, 2008 at 11:09 am
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