Notes: 1. I started with my poem about her nose. Then, Angelene and Sridhar followed. I’m looking forward to a warm session devoted to poems about nose this week. 2. I’ve applied for a film appreciation course. 3. And, I’ve moved to The Auteur Age..
Topics: All About Me, Movie Reviews, notebook

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Nature of artist and purpose of his art "Satyajit Ray is the suitable boy of Indian film, presentable, career-oriented, and reliably tasteful. Ghatak, by contrast, is an undesirable guest: he lacks respect, has "views", makes a mess,...
Topics: Art, filmmaking, Movie Reviews, notebook

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We don’t need no lectures anymore. We’re all grown-ups now. Did you like Rajkumar Hirani’s Munna Bhai? Comedy can be very effective to unarm and attract audiences if you’ve a message. Rakeysh Mehta’s Delhi 6 tried to teach a lesson of tolerance.
Topics: Movie Reviews, notebook

{"title":"Anbe Sivam promises humanity","post_url":"http:\/\/kathmanduspeaks.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/anbe-sivam-promises-humanity.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/kathmanduspeaks.blogspot.com\/feeds\/posts\/default?alt=rss","author":"Salik","date":"2009-03-24 22:34:00","summary":"We don\u2019t need no lectures anymore. We\u2019re all grown-ups now. Did you like Rajkumar Hirani\u2019s Munna Bhai? Comedy can be very effective to unarm and attract audiences if you\u2019ve a message. Rakeysh Mehta\u2019s Delhi 6 tried to teach a lesson of tolerance."}

Siddharth Varadarajan, The Hindu, March 24, '09 Varun Gandhi’s bigotry against Muslims is hardwired into the DNA of the BJP and the sangh parivar. That is..
Topics: notebook, Others, Reforming Religion

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I have a screenwriting friend who, when he sees a great movie, gets quite depressed. There's such a gap, he feels, between the work he does and what's up there on screen, how could he feel anything but inadequate and terrible? Then he goes and...
Topics: filmmaking, Movie Reviews, notebook

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