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In a world where Film Festivals for films made on mobile phones are getting increasingly in vogue these days, almost every other person who has a digital camera feels like a filmmaker. And one of the best around, at that. And why not, with a Rs. 40,000 digital camcorder, about two dozen video tapes and a good computer with video editing software, one can really make a film worth showing around! The only thing...
They say Amdavadi youth do not join the armed forces. Setting aside being too technical by citing the examples of our cousin and his uncle’s son, we’ll have to admit that it is just about near the truth. Just as Sikhs of Punjab do not venture into stock market, we don’t venture into the armed forces – big deal, right? Well, the example cited and the logic extracted from that is accurate in itself...
“There is a widely held and quite erroneous belief that cricket is just another game”, Duke of Edinburgh had remarked. It would be an equally erroneous belief to consider Brian Charles Lara as just another cricketer. Brian Charles Lara – as a jingle of yesteryears used to say – bas naam hi kaafi hai. We can talk about his many records and an impressive stack of statistics on the cricket...
Unlike most of the Arab countries and other Islamic nations of the world, Turkey practices politics within a framework of a secular parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Prime Minister of Turkey is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the Grand National Assembly...
Roman Polanski, the Oscar winning director of films like The Pianist (2002) had once said, “Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater”. At at time when the entire pursuit of the theater owners is to override the experience of watching a film with the experience of being in a film theater, one struggles to determine whether Polanski’s statement makes the situation ironical or sad. There...
Though Life In Metro was a film based on life in India’s premier city, Mumbai, most of us would agree that it illustrated the decay of human perspective on life in general. The answer to it lies in learning to celebrate life and its various seasons Goans, who have never needed too much of an excuse to celebrate life, recently had a gala time celebrating the annual Monsoon festival, which marks ‘San...
