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Scriptwriting redux
This is an interesting phase in terms of writing for me. Probably the most productive phase I have ever been through. I mean in a strict output-time efficiency sense. There have been periods where I...
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The Lunchbox
What is that makes The Lunchbox special? The restrain; the control over the medium. There are no characters here retching out their deepest emotions in a verbal diarrhoea. The background score doesn’t...
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Script writing strategies for 2014
So how was my last writing year? Less regular writing. But more output. Strange, isn’t it? Less internet. Got a bit distant from my friends. I should blame it on my insistence to finish my writing...
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About Time
It was a random choice. I didn’t even know that Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Nottinghill) wrote and directed this until the title credits in the end. I did not know that this was...
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Interstellar
I think it is one of Christopher Nolan’s greatest till now. But it is not going to be that popular. Some will hate it because it is too expository, shallow, cliche-yish and the posturing with ideas....
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Retribution
She couldn’t believe her luck. He hadn’t gone far. She found him lying face down in the drain. Blood from his vomit formed dark stains on his shirt. She looked around. The drizzling rain had coerced...
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Gravity
No contesting that gravity is a breathtaking accomplishment in terms of technology in cinema- the initial relentless looping around of the viewing angle really steals your breath. And yes, the film...
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It’s festival time!
It’s the year end and a number of festivals are coming your way. 44th International film festival of India, Goa (20-30 Nov) Bengaluru film festival (BIFFES)(26 Dec-Jan 2) International film festival of...
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Upstream color: Or why artists should not talk about their work
I liked the subtext of the movie until I read Shane Carruth’s interpretation of it in an interview. My reading of it was a bit more profound and complex than what he intended it to be. I was a bit...
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Badlapur
Revenge is a poisonous plant that grows in the dark island of narcissism. There is a certain lack of abstraction when you go after someone for revenge. If someone pulls the trigger on your dear ones,...
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