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Filmmaking
Director, producer, actors, editor – a film is a remarkable process where thousands of small details and hundreds of people come together to do their special bit and create magic.
Film Jargon
What is a take? If you are asked to cheat, what are you being asked to do? When you are on a film’s set, you’ll need to know certain words and phrases.
Cinema Cinema
Are you a film buff ? Here’s a chance to prove that you are. Even if you are not, try this quiz. We promise it will be interesting.
The Little Gold Man
And the winner is…Popularly known as the Oscar, it never ceases to make the heart skip a beat. After all it’s every person’s dream in the film industry.
Talkie Star from the Silent Era
Talkie Star from the Silent Era [] August 19: At times the story of an actor’s life is no less adventurous than the exciting roles he plays on the film screen. P Jairaj was such an actor, who chose to leave the comfort of an aristocratic life for the ups and downs of a career in the magical art of cinema, which was a big novelty then. The acting bug that bit him during his wide-eyed viewings of the films of India’s first filmmaker, Dadasaheb Phalke, never left him....
Acting Colour Blind?
October 6: England’s world-famous Royal Shakespeare Company has made a break with tradition. It has cast a black Nigerian actor, David Oyelowo, in the lead role of Henry VI, whose insanity unleashed a 30-year bloody civil war between two ruling parties, called the War of the Roses. Acting Colour Blind? [Illustration by Anup Singh] The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is one of the oldest and most prestigious theatre companies of the world....
The Common Man's Film-maker
September 23: From the rollicking ‘Chupke Chupke’ and ‘Golmaal’ to the shades of jealousy in ‘Abhimaan’, from the quiet seriousness of ‘Anupama’ to the tragic ‘Anand’, veteran film maker Hrishikesh Mukherjee has covered an entire range of emotions and relationships in his films. In a career spanning more than four decades, he became known as the man who touched a chord in the common man – the middle class in particular. And the ordinary film viewer responded to his quiet flowering in the only way he or she knew – by seeing Hrishi_da_‘s films again and again....
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