‘You know nightclubs are for losers. Only people who can’t enjoy any other way visit clubs. People who are boring and unimaginative’.
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CHASING SUNLIGHT | The Art of Passing Time On a Long Train Journey
The oft repeated advice is -the best camera is the one you have with you right now. Even if the lens has developed a slight crack, and the images flare here and there. In fact, it just adds a spontaneous charm to the whole film.
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COLVA FISHING BOATS | A Short Observational Documentary
The most liberating idea that I came across as filmmaker is the one about camera. Photographer Chase Jarvis said that the best camera is the […]
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POETRY IN A BAR | Audio Drama
The other woman manages to mumble only a few sentences. Maybe by now she is down one drink too many. And suddenly she fishes out a paper on which Charles Bukowski’s poem Hug the dark is written. Listen to the dramatic rendition of Hug The Dark by Charles Bukowski with the accompaniment of stills from Jim Jarmusch’s film Coffee and Cigarettes.
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ARCHIES | Why The Trailer of Zoya Akhtar’s ‘Archies’ Disturbed Me
When these two film related updates are juxtaposed something disturbing emerges. On one hand we have privileged filmmaker with privileged cast heralding a film about Privilege (at least that’s what evident from the trailer)and on the other hand we have a under privileged filmmaker with under privileged cast struggling to get his film released.
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VISUAL POETRY | A Very Boring Window | Peggy Lee + Louis Armstrong
A visual poetry featuring a well-made man (inspired by Walt Whitman’s poem I Sing Body Electric) who lives in solitude in his compact urban home. He does something very special for himself while Peggy Lee and Louis Armstrong sing in the background.
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“Nothing Private About Art, All Artists are on social media”
We caught up with the couple as they were in the middle of their post wedding photo shoot. The chemistry was almost sizzling considering the two don’t even know each other. As is customary in traditional India, they met in the presence of their families, only once before their elaborate wedding.
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THE GREAT INDIAN KITCHEN (2021) | Loses a Punchline Title To a Drooling Plot
Why does it feel like there is still a strong male gaze at the whole woman issue? It is present in both these films, Thappad (2020) as well as The Great Indian Kitchen (2021). Women in these stories perform the same old caricature of the Male Hero.