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July 18, 2005

Mani Ratnam on Personal Film-making

I think we are on the threshold of development. Today, a lot more films are made for an international audience. Technology will play a big role with the growth of the digital medium. Filmmaking will become a lot more personal. It will become like writing. Anybody will be able to make a film.

Those are words of Mani Ratnam in a short interview to Deccan Herald. Interesting observtion. Rest of the interview, has already appeared on print before, in some form or other.

With the way things are exponentially progressing, what Mani says will happen sooner than expected. Like blogging, anyone will be able to make a film. By then, most of us would be already standing with a Sony movie handycam and loads of ideas. Ofcourse, rehearsing the script within ourselves. mylazymovie.com !!
July 18, 2005

This morning, with Yej Jo

This morning, with Yej Jo Des Hai Tera looping in my ears, I took a long stroll until Microsoft. I came back home.
July 16, 2005

Potter to be let out !!

I came back home even before the book was released. But it was all fun @ Barnes and Noble. Check out some pictures of Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince book release party. Thanks to my mobile camera !!

Looks like the book is already out in UK. I have ordered the book from the library. Yeah, Harry Potter – Book One.
July 15, 2005

So they actually gave PAGE

So they actually gave PAGE 3, the national award for the best film ? God save the Indian film industry.

I couldn’t believe, Swades lost out to Rituparno Ghosh’s Raincoat on the award for the best hindi film. While I just saw Raincoat and liked it, I still think Swades was one of the best hindi films in the last couple of years. Virumandi was released in 2004 and Aayitha Ezhuthu / Yuva rocked in 2004. What happened to those ?

I know why mature directors still day-dream Oscars. Because we have such screwed up ways to judge ourselves, they have started looking else where for proper recognition. No wonder !!

P.S – I didn’t want to open up yet another comment war but someone posted a comment in the previous blogpost looking for this. Neyar Viruppam.
July 15, 2005

Of Jobs, Books and Gandhi

Three months of wait before iCon Steve Jobs finally arrived from library. After the long wait for the book, when I had my hand on it, I lost interest in reading it. Just browsing through the book gives me a feeling that it’s just a re-hash of The Second Coming of Steve Jobs. I’m yet to read it to confirm my assumption.

The other books that I am reading[reading, reading and reading] are Rushdie’s Imaginary Homelands, Lavanya Sankaran’s The Red Carpet : Bangalore Stories and Suketu Mehta’s Maximum City : Bombay Lost and Found.

Offlate, more than fiction, I’m liking to read non-fiction though I hate to loose the kid in me. But non-fiction, especially by famous fiction writers is always amusing. Imaginary Homelands is collection of essays/criticism written by Rushdie during the 80’s. The essays have a different tone compared to the celebrity writer tone, offlate. In the preface, Rushdie writes about how he managed to get writing jobs for small magazines and how he finally settled in ‘writing-for-food’. The criticism on Attenborough’s Gandhi was a riveting read. For once, I could say, the review of a movie was riveting. It sure was.

Mani Ratnam on Personal Film-making

This morning, with Yej Jo

Potter to be let out !!

So they actually gave PAGE

Of Jobs, Books and Gandhi