Logbook of a Screenwriter
I won’t start this the usual way I do, by flashbacks to my own past. In fact, on this day, since I am feeling a bit down and depressed, a state of mind I can’t explain to myself – I am in no mood to talk about my past connection with Santanu Mitra. Perhaps it should suffice to say that…
4 CommentsEditing 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…
2 CommentsWhen Sreekar Prasad, the ace film editor, agreed to talk to me for my blog, I was totally baffled. I have grown up drooling at his work, from the time I bunked school to watch ‘Raakh’ till I gaped in awe at the visual opulence of ‘Ashoka’, from the understated poignancy of ‘Vanaprastham’ to the coming of age with ‘Dil…
4 CommentsThree months is nothing in the lifetime of a blog…But yes, you do get to know where you are heading, and think…!!! Let’s see.In the past three months, at therewillbetime, we have discussed screenplay writing with Farookh Dhondhy and Soumik Sen, Copywriting with Stanley Pinto, Satire Writing with Akash ‘Deshbhakt’ Banerjee, and Travel Writing with Nishi Pulugurtha. We have also…
5 CommentsIt’s bizarre how some songs stick to your head. Like this one, C Funk from Popcult. I heard it quite by accident – since Gaurab ‘Gaboo’ Chatterjee is the percussionist of the band, and he remains a blast from my now largely defunct past in Calcutta. I used to assist his father Gautam Chatterjee in my early twenties. Gautam-da, a…
Leave a CommentThe theme puja I covered on 100 years of Bengali Cinema has been awarded the best creative pandal in Delhi NCR.Kudos to the entire team of Prantic Cultural, Indirapuram. And a special thanks to Tapash Maity, the artist, for spending so much time with me. That’s one update I had to make upfront. Now for the ‘making’ story… NOSTALGIA REVISITED…
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