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Writing for books and writing for a visual medium
The topic for today is “The difference between writing for books and writing for a visual medium”. It is precisely the kind of debate that
Cinema in India has travelled a Long Journey of 100 Years
Cinema in India has travelled a long way in the last hundred years. It’s time to have a bird’s-eye view of that journey. Here are
Women and Sensuality in Popular Indian Cinema
The portrayal of women in the popular Indian cinema has been a subject of great interest to the sociologists and psychologists alike. In any society
From Literature to Cinema
It is easy to look at a movie, as simple as gazing at a picture or listening to music. The surface of a film is
‘Maya Miriga’: The Making
I joined the Film Institute of India way back in 1968 and graduated with a Diploma in Film Direction three years later. I can now
Unravelling The System That Goes Into Creating Silver Screen Stars
The star is a byproduct of cinema, a product of divinity and idolization – the modern protagonist of the ‘hero myth’. The stars of today and yesterday have woven more legends around them than was ever recorded in human history.
Barefoot into Reality
“The image is indivisible and elusive, dependent upon our consciousness and on the real world which it seeks to embody. If the world is inscrutable, then the image will be so too. It is a kind of equation, signifying the correlation between truth and the human consciousness, bound as the latter is by Euclidean space. We cannot comprehend the totality of the Universe, but the poetic image is able to express that totality”
– Andrei Tarkovsky
A Creative Artist’s Dilemma
The present economic structure which supports the film industry, distorts the true values of the author-audience relationship, dehumanizes its symbiotic nature and converts it into one of mere merchandise-consumer equation