[Note: No spoilers]
For most part of Grain in Ear, I was considering walking out of the theatre. I’m glad I didn’t. Until a few minutes before the end, it is painful to watch as director Zhang Lu carefully constructs for us the life of a Korean minorty woman in China, whose husband is in jail […]
[Note: Spoilers, but it doesn’t matter]
The theater was empty and slowly filling up since, like me, most others were unable to get tickets for Rituparno Ghosh�s Dosar, and Sudipto Sen�s The Last Monk.
Spring, Summer… begins in spring, and we are introduced to a monk and his young ward, living on a monastary floating in a […]
Today was disappointing. I think I should now go through storylines before selecting films, though I’d hate killing the suspense. Sadly, Dosar was sold out by the time I reached, and I settled for Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter…and Spring Again, which was visually very appealing. Hardly a dialogue in the film. Unfortunately, it was Buddhist, […]
[Note: I went for this movie because I was told that a Stanley Kwan movie would at least be better than the last two that I had seen. Anyway, I didn’t want to give up on the Cinefan Film Fest after watching only the Indian films, which had given me a headache]
Stanley Kwan’s Everlasting Regret […]
YES! It could be you who gets stuck watching this film. It could also be you who walks out of the theatre twenty-thirty minutes into the film. Unfortunately, it was me who stayed for the entire length of the film, and me, who got a once-in-a-blue-moon headache while watching this disaster.
Taranjeet Singh, the director of […]
Anjan Das’ Faltu , which means ‘useless’ in Hindi, is a story that could have been told better. Adapted from Bengali author Syed Mustafa Siraj’s novel Ranirghater Brittanto, Faltu is set in rural Bengal, in a small village called Ranirght that has a population of 148, according to the census mentioned in the movie.
A visit […]
For those who don’t know, The 8th Osian’s Cinefan Film Festival is on in Delhi. 10 days and lots of films at Rs.20/film, unless you have a press pass or complimentary passes.
Went today. Met Jai, his friend Shougat, Annie and bumped into Sushil right at the end. The last time I met Sushil was at […]
February 16, 2006 – 8:54 pm
Partly because I haven’t had the time, and partly because my net connection was down, I was unable to post the following event details in time. You’ve missed out on an ‘opportunity of a lifetime’ though you might get another chance next year :
Literally translates to: 8th National Mega Love Get Together
I saw this placed […]
February 3, 2006 – 7:34 pm
From the 6th to the 9th of Feb, there’s a theatre fest in Delhi. I’d venture that it’s called the ‘Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards’ because the name can be conveniently shortened to META. And I grin as I type this because this reminds me of something that happened in college, that almost got a […]
January 26, 2006 – 10:34 pm
In the evening, on our first day in Jaipur, we went to a bazaar. ‘Main Market’, we told Banwari, and he drove us there. These were taken after we’d shopped. Jai and I posed with the building in the first photograph serving as a background, which Chandrahas (second photo) took the photo. I bought comfortable […]
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