Second part of the interview of Director Prakash Jha(PJ), taken by Ajay Brahmatmaj (AB), is presented here.
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[Following is the translation of the Hindi Interview and may not do full justice to the original interview so to read the exact sayings of Prakash Jha, one should go through the [...]
The school days are so vivid in our memory. Apart from the masti n fun, some nerdy questions. What did I like in school days? Hmm…Drawing, painting and science. What did I hate the most? Languages! Did not really enjoy mathematics that much as it required little bit of practice.
May be the instinct for visual [...]
Is it a first-of-its-kind study? I got this in the form of a press release. I feel the sample size is too, too small. The release does not give details of the “40 questions” that comprised the questionnaire.
Of interest to PFC writers and readers would be this sentence, “NRIs/PIOs consult….PassionForCinema.com (32.2%) on a regular [...]
To continue the series “Initial Steps“, excerpts from an interview of Director Prakash Jha,
taken by Ajay Brahmatmaj , are presented here.
Ajay writes
I had started my interview series with the interview of Prakash Jha. He is my elder and to some extent my guide also. Perhaps it is difficult, at present, [...]
The night before was the one everyone had feared they had coming for quite sometime now. Global warming, atomic holocaust, communal violence, civil strife… the reasons had multiplied and there was some awareness and intuitions but nobody wants to the spoil the show when the going’s great. “Look here,” said the clown,” How would you [...]
iView Author: Hemant G.
(New Delhi, India)
EMAIL: withheld
4 BOYS FROM DELHI
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It’s been almost 2 years that I stumbled upon PFC one fine morning in New York and it has continued to inspire me ever since.
My love for filmmaking started when i ran into a book - Rebel Without A Crew by Robert Rodriguez … I can [...]
Adoor Gopalakrishnan has resolutely been following a style of storytelling on the big screen that has a definite vision and sincerity of approach, never compromising with his ideals as a creative persona. For him, filmmaking is more than an art form – it is also a social statement and documentation. His sincerity to his craft [...]
There are days when I have to pinch myself to make sure I’m not dreaming. To be able to do what you love and be paid for it is well…..COOL. However there are also times when even i go green with envy at what other people do for a living and I’m not talking bout [...]
Two directors from the “Far East”, known for their visually stunning cinematic delights and two films that mark some what of a turning point in their careers. For Wong Kar-Wai last year was finally a time to test the Hollywood waters with his first English language film “My Blueberry Nights”, and Ang Lee went [...]
a late response to Anurag’s No Smoking, but I have said things probably not said before, and have given a larger picture of what the film is about, and defending it against the shamelessly stupid reviews it received
iView Author: Shashank Walia
(Delhi, India)
EMAIL: shashankwalia [at] live [dot]com
Vidhu Vinod Chopra - Where the maverick filmmaker goes wrong OR Am I confused ?
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Now nobody can ignore the contribution of Vidhu Vinod Chopra in bringing quality cinema to India after a decade of qualitative and creative block. He was one of the first few directors who [...]
This ever happened to you? You are watching this amazing movie (maybe your third or fourth time) and suddenly you feel that the scene on the screen/TV/monitor shouldn’t be there at all. That the movie would have been even better without it? I am not talking about the usual suspects, the songs in our movies [...]
I don’t watch horror films ’cause I live alone. At least, that used to be my excuse for the last three years. I had a nice little 3-room first-floor pad all to myself for just 3500 bucks a month in Guwahati. Visitors always asked why I needed such a large place. Well, I [...]
I have been meaning to write this for eons now but as the Dark Knight is just round the corner, it felt as the right time to write this. God how clichéd am I….
Well what can be written about Batman? For those comic virgins, I have a small primer in the next 2 Para(s). For [...]
a larger perspective on Sarkar Raj that brings Ramu’s kind of film-making and the latest syndrome ofthe Bachchans into focus
PRRO MATURE EJACULATIONS urf SHUKRIYA MEHARBAANI KARAM
Thought of this mind blowing title, keeping in lieu the spate of strange sounding titles that one is getting associated with. The films that are releasing are Summer 2007, Via Darjeeling, Bombil and Beatrice, Mr.Singh/ Mrs. Mehta, Colors of Passion, The White Elephant. And most of them are [...]
Indentification points
To be absolutely candid, the responses both in terms of quality and quantity far far exceeded my expectations. Heart bracing to know that there are even far more passionate Ray bhakts than I am.
On re-seeing Pather Panchali — albeit on DVD with a distracting logo of its distributor perched on the north-east tip of [...]
As I sit watching the edit happen on my movie Avakai-Biryani (Mango Pickled Biryani), I am reminded about how all of this first started……..
Back in 2006. Sekhar Kammula’s ‘Godavari’ had just released to good reviews but to an unfavorable box office response, finally ending as an ‘average’ film business wise. Having worked as both the [...]
Okay, so an indulgently kind and persuasive cell phone voice, belonging to Kartik (surname not quoted), invited me over to blogland. Not quite techno-whizzy, I procrastinated. There were thel hmmms, i don’t know, I’m the good old ink and paper type, Remington typewriter was so sturdy..but yes, I can handle PCs with not a little [...]
I had just quit whatever I was doing till then and had taken a solemn oath of eternal poverty and struggle. Cinema…..Was writing for someone those days…..donno what happened to that script. We were having a narration…..half way thru we had a sutta brake. The person whom we were narrating was a reputed editor…..he mentioned [...]
Better late than never. Capturing R.D. Burman’s life in a documentary. And when it finally came out, what a way to do it! Brahmanand Singh does complete justice to the boss. We saw Pancham Unmixed at IFFLA 2007 and were blown away. Its the simplicity with which Brahmanand unfolds the flow of the documentary.
Following [...]
At IFFLA this year, PFC finally got the chance to meet the director of two films that were highly appreciated by the critics and the audience alike. The films being OFFICE TIGERS & SHOT in BOMBAY and the director Liz Mermin.
OFFICE TIGERS was featured in 2007 and it was shown to a packed house. A [...]
Leaving in two hours for Jaipur to finally complete Gulaal. The film I have been trying to do for last six years. All these years before ZEE motion pictures came in , no body wanted to do Gulaal because of lack of star cast. Finally I meet producers who insist on seeing the product than [...]
“Perder el Norte” (to lose one’s North) in Spanish means to lose one’s way, to become disoriented. This also means that the map has no meaning, you wander off from the usual route.
This according to me allows you to look at things in a new way, chart new courses and maybe look at the whole [...]
On reading the premise and then getting a glimpse of the trailer “Via Darjeeling” I went around looking for the director. Here was one of those rare stories that had piqued my interest no end. And then after a few days, Phoenixnu managed to get in touch with the director Arindam Nandy who’s sent in [...]
All the reviews are pouring in and poring how. Everyone, every reviewer, every critic, every channel is raving about Aamir. Unfortunately i havent seen the movie yet, and am not sure if i will be able to watch it soon, as it maynot release in Dallas. If anyone knows of show timings please do let [...]
3/5. Predictable and a bit taxing but worth a watch.
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2/5. Impeccably done up nothingness.
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3/5. Slick but with a confused soul.
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2.5/5. More spiced up than the Ang Lee version, still searching for the elusive formula though
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2.5/5. Caught between a comedy and a drama, it fails to be either.
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My rating: 6/10.
CLOSURE!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1000774/
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0.5/5 Whoa! He’s KRR’s P0ndi-Rangadu. Watch NTR’s original instead.
5/5 Makes me sick with jealously that I didn’t get to work on this film coz I was 9 when it was made.
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4/5
Stylized film-making, respects and exploits the Brit sensibilities to the extreme.
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4.5/5
This is as twisted and enjoyable a rock epic can get, and please don’t call it a spoof.
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