Recently I finished reading the tiny book “Devotional Cinema” by Nathaniel Dorsky. The book is an absolute gem. It talks in very simple language about the devotional power of cinema. It talks about how time is one of the key elements of the art of cinema. It reminded me about the way Andrie Tarkovsky talks […]
If you call yourself a musician then you should be able to take anything that makes a sound and then make music with it. Just like our forefathers did it with sheep gut and wood (Oudh, Tabla) or like the grand daddies of hip hop did it with Vinyl records and Vinyl record players or […]
mood – to recreate mood first submerge yourself in it. Then use your knowledge of the medium you are comfortable with to write it. example, If you want to write a sad song then go and get hurt and remember all the sad stuff that has happened in your life. Listen to all the sad […]
Every film is a music video.
Mountains, a rich girl, incidents from the past, running away from home, meeting a stranger and falling in love against society’s will , have become stock elements in an Imtiaz Ali film. With his latest film Mr Ali tries to create a road trip kidnapping/ hostage friendly environment type of experience. This film is also […]
Violence against young men by a group of harmless looking elderly grannies may seem like an unusual topic but not for an unusual film like “Hukkle”. It’s unusual not just because of the kind of story it tells us but for the kind of style that the director chooses to present it with. Since the […]
What a magical film. I would want a lover like her. And if I had one then I would have painted her with moving pictures. I would have written music on her shoulders with rhyming words from Urdu, Hindi and Oriya. I would have used her body like the negatives of celluloid film. Exposing it […]
ACT 1 = Beginning/introduction/the main question Introduce a question and the characters e.g. there is a prince, there is a princess, there is a monster. He needs to kill the monster to save the princess. How would he kill the monster? ACT 2 = The Middle/the rollercoaster ride/ the path / the hurdles / the […]
Imagine that you are pie-maker and not a film-maker. In you world there is only one place that you can sell the pie at i.e. the hospital for Diabetic patients. It’s a very small hospital with a staff of two and about ten patients. At the hospital only two people can have your pie i.e. […]
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