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Archive for February, 2009

Roadtrip Pictures

upstate NY Smokestack.

Toronto: My cartier bresson hommage

Queens Park

Sick kids hospital Ad

Toronto silhouette

Upstate Snowscape

Niagra Giftshop

What a complete cutie!

Jetty

Trees near a lake (beautiful day)

Check back for the next roadtrip! happenning soon!

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Tahaan (Sivan 2008)

Tahaan
Is Cinema Propaganda? It certainly is argument. The clearer the visual images are the better framed they are , the better cinema is at making its visual argument.
The next question is , is a narrative argument propaganda? It certainly is a way of writing your history. The more simplified a narrative is, the more focused [...]

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Naan Kadavul (2009 , Bala)

Bala is god.
He’s not a god -one of the thirty three crore in Hinduism, he’s not god part of a holy trinity. He’s God. This is why his films are irreligious and sociopath. God makes human beings. HE creates from chaos. He creates chaos. Nietzsche wansn’t even scratching the surface of the parts of the [...]

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Dev D Falls on its face…in the gutter…after throwing up….

It does n’t actually. I just liked the headline. Anurag kashyap is a talented filmmaker. He’s also a mouthbreather geek poser gutless yellow lizard. Given an opportunity he’d settle in a bank clerk’s job and carry a tiffin box to work for life and [...]

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Please visit michael blowhards site for part 2 of Ramesh on bollywood.

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koi aane wala hai

Click on the first little box preview thingy in the video, and it will play. go here if you cant see the vid above.
Koi aane wala hai: Strings

dhadkan keh rahi hai, yahaan koi aane wala hai
My heartbeats fortell Someone is going to be here
saawan keh raha hai, baadal koi chaane wala [...]

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This is a short note to blast A R Rahman (who is currently in quest of the statuette, and people have done more bizzare things for  it) ’s statement about slumdog.
The AP report quotes him as saying  “  “In my opinion if creative people want to comment on a film, and if I were a [...]

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For a film that crashed and burned like it did at the box office, I didn’t think I needed to shoot this wounded puppy in the head.It was like a coronation to which noone came. Then I saw the echo chamber repeat it’s tardy lies about how “wonderful” this film was. Ugh! One thing is [...]

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