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ON THE EDGE: THE SUKANT PANIGRAHY ‘ATTITUDE’

Sukant Panigrahy’s hustle with life could perhaps be best understood as osmotic. He did some odd things to make life happen, and life did some course corrections to make him happening – while all of this interactivity seeped across a thin diaphragm of uncertainty, always. Or else, how else would you decode him? His phenomenon? A boy from remote, backward…

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THE RIGHT MIX OF EMOTIONS: THE ‘HITEN GHOSH’ DICTUM

The story of Hitendra Ghosh is the saga of walking willingly into a maze of amazement. His insatiable quest for meaning partnered with his indomitable will to experiment. It didn’t take any time for his skills to be noticed, recognized, and efficiently used across the spectrum. Be it the multi-layered aesthetics of ‘art’ cinema, or the heightened emotions of ‘pop’…

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‘WHAT IF’!! THE ‘SUPER DELUXE’ CRACK CODE

No, I can’t wait any more. This self-imposed exile from blogging is gnawing at my ligaments like a regiment of termites; the wobble in all my joints are asking me, can you really do anything at all about the ‘situation’ out there? If you can’t, why don’t you do what you can? Just write, without spreading misinformation; let the experts…

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THE ‘BHRAM’ WITHIN: ALL IN THE MIND

I have never been a huge fan of classical horror flicks; they freak me out. Probably because, despite my earnest efforts, I have never been able to grow out of my childhood. Getting spooked by ghost stories were a large part of that experience. That apart, those highly synthetic B-Movie comic-capers that bootlegged as horror-films in my young adulthood never…

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CRAFTING REALISM: THE ‘TO LET’ SOUNDSCAPE

‘To Let’, I sincerely believe, is a textbook in cinematic realism. Every student of cinema should watch it carefully, again and again, to find those various ‘moments’ and study their ‘making’ that makes this film memorable. A film like this can’t be possible without a like-minded team coming together and working in unison – to attempt something that remains somewhat…

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THE ‘RAAKH’ FILES, DUSTED: WITH ASIF NOOR

Asif Noor, the producer of Raakh, shared an interesting story with me, about a train journey, in 1990. It was during his stint with fashion, when, by his own admission, he did 1,80000 kms in Rajdhani Chair Cars in a single year; during one of these whirlwind tours, while travelling from somewhere to elsewhere, he met a Gujarati trader. Inevitably,…

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ENGAGING ‘POETICS’: WITH SANTANU BOSE

Can the principles of ‘Poetics’ apply to Indian Cinema? More specifically, commercial Hindi cinema? Is it possible to deconstruct a blockbuster hit Hindi ‘tragedy’ on the basis of Aristotle’s rules and principles of storytelling? Ever since I spent time with NSD Professor Santanu Bose, discussing the essence of ‘Poetics’, I had been thinking. Am I stretching things a bit too…

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PACE AND RHYTHM: THE ‘SREEKAR PRASAD’ PERSPECTIVE

Editing is the process where the story takes it’s real shape – but that’s what we already know, don’t we? What we probably do not know is the role that the film-editor plays during the entire creative process of a film. Yes, he is there, all along, and not just as a spectator – as an active storyteller. That’s how…

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COPYWRITING, THE STANLEY PINTO PROTOTYPE

There’s absolutely no reason why advertising legend Stanley Pinto should give me an interview. Yes, I had infrequently tried my hand at advertising copy writing, rather unsuccessfully. The fact that I did that to tide over my frequent bouts of depression as a natural fallout of being a documentary script writer, isn’t a strong enough reason to impress him –…

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MEETING VINCENT

There’s something disconcerting about Vincent Van Gogh that has always attracted me, even while I was in no position to understand the depth or the significance of his work. I might still be not qualified enough to even appreciate him, but what to do; that enigmatic pull has only increased with time…!!! Is it about his seemingly abandoned brush strokes?…

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THE SYD FIELD ‘DOCUMENTARY’ RESPONSE

Aviva Field is true to her words. She took my question rather seriously, and has shared a response, which could probably be called the first step to a long journey. Now, by storytelling, one is normally inclined to think fiction; more specifically, feature films. Syd’s books, whatever I have read, are replete with a strong focus on cinematic storytelling of…

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THE SYD FIELD ‘DOCUMENTARY’ PARADIGM

I wanted to ask screenwriting guru Syd Field a question when I first read his book, two decades back. It remained unanswered, mainly because I never asked it. After starting this blog, and browsing through his books again, the question returned. Since Syd wasn’t there any more, I thought of approaching the one person that might consider responding to my…

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