Take a wild guess – what could be the silliest question that one can ask ace cinematographer / director Santosh Sivan. Especially when, being one among the busiest Industry professionals, whose comeback film in Malayalam Jack and Jill is ready for release – he is not likely to give you…
1 CommentIt does seem a bit odd to write a piece on a film that I consider to be a cult-classic even while the cinema halls are closed, and the nation is under a lockdown. While that’s true, certain things can’t wait, like anniversaries. Let’s revise a old snippet of wisdom…
7 CommentsI 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…
4 CommentsCan 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…
2 CommentsI 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…
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…
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…
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’…
5 CommentsSoumik Sen is the friend who gave me a Woody Allen omnibus as a marriage gift. Whether the gesture had some kind of symbolism I can’t say. It’s just that I continue reading it, till this day, when I am out of wits. The way I remember my friend and…
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