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“meri Rimmi” (comedy)
Even before he could reach the station, his heart had started to play hockey in his chest. “Why is the train so late”, he kept muttering, every second seemed to him like an hour, “When will Indians Improve. They are all lazy and KAMCHOR” he shouted which startled his neighbor and he moved to a respectable distance. “Only an angrez can run this country, all the railway babus should be lined up and shot on their chest, when will…this train…” [...]
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How to patao your boss (a twist in the story)
“So!” I burst into a forced smile, “Where have you been for all these years, you just disappeared, vanished like an old film.” “Film, flame, all old story!” He said slanting his head to his left in style, “But what about you!” He grabbed my cheeks and pulled it to right and left, “Still a bachelor! han.” “I am into turbines now.” “Turbines haan, good, But it's time for you to change” he muffled casually chewing the juiciest chunk of my poor lobster. “Beyond a certain point” he continued, “Its all dirty politics and you are stuck with the label ‘Senior Engineer’ for all your life...right boy.” “Actually, I am quite happy!” I responded softly with confidence. “NOoo you are not.” he gave me a stern glance. “To be happy means to be in control, to be your own demon, to have the power to make and break things. “Happiness!!!” he paused opening his eyes as wide as he could, “Is the growth and maturing of all that which empowers you and makes you feel strong and godlike.” I kept sipping my vodka and smiling back at him unable to make any sense of his contentiousness. [...]
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The Ghost
What is a ghost, but a memory trying to escape the boundaries of its time, a memory that has by a mere accident become one with its surroundings. A delicate repeat of events in its minutest detail that arise, appear and in its rising gathers itself into the same and familiar. Time on the other hand is certainly a mystery, and still, it is only memory that holds time and oblivion within the very same region, and it does so by letting each shine forth in its own light. [...]
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What's good about the film is the internationalization of our Bollywood archetypical film formulas: Two brothers (lost in Kumbh mela archetype) discovering their identity and topped over by an over the wall rescue from the sure jaws of death has always worked in our films; It is a happy feeling to know that the international audience is also enjoying what we have savored for all these years. And then the nauch of Basanti in Sholay where the villain Gabbar aka Aseef in this case makes Sohrab the son of Hassan dance to the infectious tunes of classical music to the point where the ghungroo breaks and shatters. [...]
In several ways, the book dangerously misleads, and does so in its own seductive way. It charms you in as it slips through its liminal gap its US specific Neo-Imperial world picture. In doing so, it sets about to pass in the counterfeit by filling its page with such gross misrepresentations and all done on such grand and massive scale that one is left wondering at the actuating politikreal of the author; often one gets the feel that one is reading a new genre, the ‘new age’ American novel, like the ‘new age’ spirituality of Deepak Chopra, a chick-lit or rather a choc-lit verity of it; even eclipsing the sentimental high tide of ‘Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi’. [...]
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- June 8, 2010 at 12:55 You have one life and what if you have got it all wrong. The Gods have gone the furthest, known the furthest, they were the first eyes and ears. They became the discriminating awareness that makes us what we are today. But even before them, that existed. What do we know of it today, What [...] #Go to the blog page
- June 5, 2010 at 5:57 When has reason got the better of man. Where does this thought that reason means being reasonable and it can in some way govern human affairs for its own good arise from? On the other hand, reason seems in its heart to be a contrapted excuse by a speaker who has his reason anchored to [...] #Go to the blog page
- April 27, 2010 at 1:02 There are no good and bad stories, but stories that don’t pretend and stories that pretend that they are not stories. A man who teaches you a trick or two against knowing is a dangerous man, more dangerous than he who pretends that he knows a few things about you and is here to help [...] #Go to the blog page
- February 25, 2010 at 8:02 Rumors are that Blender may well become a featured application in the upcoming Ubuntu LT release. Up to now one 3 such application have the honor, they being, Firefox, OpenOffice, and Gimp. Well this is a welcome news and proves that Blender has reached maturity levels unheard of any OpenSource 3d animation and compositing package [...] #Go to the blog page
- February 23, 2010 at 6:16 Ghost films are usually cut to order canned films. Even the good ones borders on the tried and tested cinematography techniques, slide cut editing and sound kicks. Can there be a ghost film that avoids the usual canned techniques of cinema and approach the film like an art. I am sure Ghost films can rise [...] #Go to the blog page
- February 15, 2010 at 10:38 The problem with poetry film-festivals or any film festival, especially if it happens to be Indian is the imitation-westo; a sort of low grade western fascination that reduces poetry to a visual commentary and skits on social issues and disabilities (for example see the works of Dutch Filmmakers Leendert Pot and Anja Hiddinga where sign [...] #Go to the blog page
- February 13, 2010 at 8:45 When George Lucas decided to shoot Star Wars on HD, he knew what that meant for the whole of film industry. The Transition from film to tape meant that they could not only shoot in the morning, but also edit the very same content in the evening and by nightfall the clips would be ready [...] #Go to the blog page
- February 11, 2010 at 7:42 Every species or living organism lives by securing the conditions that guarantees its comfort and the possibility for it to be in a state of equilibrium. A will to power, if it be that. But this state of equilibrium has its falloffs. Chekhov’s play Uncle Vyanya, depicts this well as a struggle between the other [...] #Go to the blog page
- January 23, 2010 at 9:34 Neil Gaiman at each stop of his 9-city national tour in 2008, read one chapter from The Graveyard Book and answered audience questions. Watch his tour readings below and hear the captivating book in its entirety. Then, watch exclusive tour Q&A videos each week throughout the month of September leading up to the anniversary of [...] #Go to the blog page
- November 4, 2009 at 4:17 The new generation kids might not have heard the name of Raja Mehndi Ali Khan, but he has penned some of the most haunting songs of yesteryears. Surprisingly his songs are in great demand on TV bloops especially the sa-re-ga-ma sort of competition, still he is hardly mentioned in any of them, though Madan Mohan, [...] #Go to the blog page
- October 8, 2009 at 12:07 Well Kino is like a video work horse on Linux. It supports accurate DV capture and playback and is quite similar to Sceneanalyser and boast features that are not available in any dedicated stand alone capture program. Apart from capture it also supports excellent encoding features. HandBrake on the other hand is the portable media [...] #Go to the blog page
- October 3, 2009 at 4:02 Recently one of the studios wanted me to rig, animate and render a train model that they had purchased. The project was supposed to be done on Houdini, but I insisted that It can be done faster in Blender. Any way I did some render test to compare Blender’s Internal renderer with Houdini’s Mantra and [...] #Go to the blog page
- October 2, 2009 at 2:36 I have been wondering as to who visits my site and what OS do they use. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that windowsXP is the clear winner. Its way ahead of everyone. It is followed by Linux, Vista, and at the tail end is Mac OSX. It also shows why Microsoft is so jittery [...] #Go to the blog page
- October 2, 2009 at 4:16 Gamma is the key to highend colorcorrection and color grading. It is the most secret of secrets and knowing or not knowing about breaks or makes a compositors carrier. On the other hand calibrating your monitor is actually quite simple. All you need is compile and install Monica or GammaPage and use the notes that [...] #Go to the blog page
- September 29, 2009 at 1:41 स्वप्न झरे फूल से , मीत चुभे शूल से , लुट गये सिंगार सभी बाग़ के बबूल से , और हम खड़ेखड़े बहार देखते रहे। कारवाँ गुज़र गया , गुबार देखते रहे ! #Go to the blog page
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