Category: Bollywood
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Redefining houseful !!
Nope this is not about Parthiban’s Houseful. That was a gem. Outlook’s note on how multiplexes are re-defining the meaning of houseful, in this not-so-interesting article, is interesting. Strangely, alongwith the outsourcing stuff, we are also inheriting the Hollywood’s way of movies in India. Bollywood with it’s wider audience, is obviously the first market to…
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Black Movie Review – Bhansali Blacks-out Bollywood !!
The screen dissolves into black. A little androglossian strained voice starts to speak-out, feebly. It narrates a story as a first-person account. A story that is nothing but a state-of-mind. A story that transforms the mind and vision of blackness into white. All this transformation accompanied with a lot of trouble, anguish, agony and zillion…
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Ravi K Chandran goes Black
[Pic : Rediff] Ravi K Chandran’s interview to Rediff on Sanjay Leela Bhansali‘s Black is passionate. He talks and talks about Bhansali at length and why the film Black is so special to him. Ravi says that handling camera for Black as the most important event in his film career until now. Black starring Amitabh…
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Swades website up!!
Set in modern day India, Swades is a film that tackles the issues facing the citizens of this nation on a grass roots level, says the Swades website. To add more, what begins as a simple mission prompted by nostalgia and affection turns into a journey into the heartland of rural India, both literally and…
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Music as a metaphor in the Morning Raga
Reading this In Conversation, this morning in Hindu, with Mahesh Dattani, the director of Morning Raga, I started to expect the film. For it promised a intact movie on a carnatic musician, played by Shabana Azmi. Most important, it had Nasser, the cinematographer was our own Rajeev Menon and edited by Shreekar Prasad. A dream…