Posts Tagged ‘shakti’

  • Wake Up Sid: Bombay to Mumbai : A matter of Love
    There are two love stories that progress in the Wake Up Sid. And these two love stories can not be given any first and second order ranking as they both happen simultaneously. When an outsider Aisha (Konkana Sen) comes to the city then it is Bombay for her and like this city Sid (Ranbir Kapoor) is also a stranger but Sid (a born Bombay walla who now lives in Mumbai)...
    by Rk at October 4th, 2009 at 11:10 am
  • “9″: The Women as the Warrior
    Growing  up  one of  my  favorite  stories  in  Indian  mythology,  was  that  of   Durga,  the  fierce  warrior  form of   the  Divine Mother or  Devi.   As   per  legend,  when  the  demon  king  Mahishasur,  was  wreaking  havoc  on  the  3  worlds,  the  Gods  went  to  the  Trinity( Brahma,  Vishnu,  Shiva) seeking  help....
    by Ratnakar Sadasyula at September 4th, 2009 at 04:09 pm
  • Taxi Driver : An odd scene in the diary of Travis Bickle
    Somebody occupies the omnipresent’s role in a film and this unknown/unseen shows the film to the audience. This “somebody” uses the camera to show a tale. Even if there is a complete darkness on screen this darkness comes via camera to the audience. This somebody could be director whose presence, though invisible, is present in all the frames of a film....
    by Rk at September 2nd, 2009 at 03:09 pm
  • Amitabh Bachchan – A look at the personalities behind the persona
    iView Author: Akshay Manwani (New Delhi, India) Email: akshay.manwani[at]gmail[dot]com ‘Amitabh Bachchan – A look at the personalities behind the persona At the risk of courting infamy, I write this piece. For what else can be expected to come ones’ way when you critique Amitabh Bachchan – arguably the biggest superstar ever to have appeared on the Indian...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at April 15th, 2009 at 03:04 am
  • Mahaleela by A. Sivamani : if music knew no barriers…
    Introduction: Siva – the creator!…. Creates magic with just about anything from his conventional cymbals to the timbale to the batajon to the vastly unconventional shells and conches and “Biryani Kadai”. Siva’s style is deceptive for the uninitiated. Deeply profound and mysterious at one moment; tantalizing and exuberant at the next. However,...
    by Tushar at January 30th, 2009 at 03:01 pm
  • Death : An absolute truth that changes everything
    Every second of every day we are approaching towards the death. We can ignore anything and everything in the life but we can not ignore this fact that one day death will finish this cycle of our activities and we will have to go from this planet. Before that event happens death shows us its face many times in our life time through death of people living around us. It does...
    by Rk at October 7th, 2008 at 08:10 am
  • REMEMBERING… AMRISH PURI
    REMEMBERING… AMRISH PURI It was one sentence in the post of George Thomas on Dhaal “It is with Pilot Baba that this film strikes gold” made me desperate to think and write about Amrish Puri. Very few actors have that capability that when they come on screen, then concentration of audience immediately shift to them. You forget the opposite actor; your eyes ignore...
    by Shailesh Limbachiya at November 3rd, 2007 at 06:11 am