Logbook of a Screenwriter
I usually read and research a bit before I write about anyone – mostly just to find out what others think about them. I did the same with Sarnath Bannerjee, a friend from my Business India TV days. Have to admit, I was a bit surprised. Most interviewers have described him as a difficult subject, respectfully musing about his lack…
4 CommentsMy relationship with Sanjay Singh used to be bitter-sweet; 80% bitter, I should say. That’s when he was in ‘assignment’ and me in ‘production’, at Headlines Today. That’s the norm. The assignment (input) brings in the news and thinks we are doing ‘nothing’ with it; and the production (output) believes that the assignment is doing ‘nothing’ – by not getting…
9 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 CommentSometimes you feel so good that you want to break things; resolutions, for instance!!! Like me, I promised myself that I won’t do more than one blog post a week. But what to do? When I spotted these films made by ‘special’ young adult filmmakers at the FTII Pune Facebook page – I just had to bring them to your…
Leave a CommentI always thought Naseeruddin Shah looks like my father; it’s just that he looks about 10 years younger, which is understandable, as he happens to be ten years younger. I have never seen Naseer sahab in person. So when I heard his play ‘Einstein’ is coming to Delhi NCR for the first time – I booked the tickets, just to…
Leave a CommentI have never been to Kashmir. The only Kashmiri’s I knew were the smiling shawl sellers who used to come with the advent of winter, even 10 years back. At least in my Delhi neighborhood, I don’t see them anymore. They too have disappeared. I also don’t get to watch much of news, unless someone pays me for it,…
Leave a CommentShankar Mahadevan has a couple of molar teeth missing. That doesn’t stop him from laughing out loud. To me, he came across as a simple man, happy with life and mad about music. If he does care about his public image or his fragmented smile, it doesn’t show. At least it didn’t show to me when I met him at…
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