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[22] In The Mood For Love
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As the musical piece titled “Yumeji’s theme” invades the sound space of the visuals of Wong Kar Wai’s “In The Mood For Love” everything slows down as if we are watching a music video inside a movie. The re-appearance of this musical piece (a striking eight times) is a leitmotif to describe the relationship between Chow…
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[21] What is a Story?
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Stories are dreaming with our eyes open. It’s the art of convincing people of a certain idea but with a narrative, they can relate to. A writer puts his scrambled thoughts in a structure which may be linear, non-linear. The most vital stories of our ages are the one where the writers have “something to say”.…
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[17] Thoughts on “Arrival”
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A spoiler-free general review of Denis Villeneuve’s “Arrival” A slow start marked a heart-wrenching ride of the year. I checked the time elapsed and it was 25 minutes, feeling that the director could have cut the scenes faster or remove certain parts. Boy, I was wrong. What he was doing was giving us viewers a slow poison…
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[13] The Balancing Act
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One thing I’ve learned directing my second short film is that management of the crew, actors and the DOP is essential for creating life on screen as desired by you. I’ve only looked at directing from a skewed perspective of it being a creative desire to infuse life into 24 frames a second. Never have I…
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[12] Suspension of Belief
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Everything depends on the preparation…. or does it? I am in the process of making a short film and have completed the principal photography and I will soon start the post-production of the same. I wanted to talk about the problems I faced during the shoot and how control is just an illusion in film-making.…
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[10] A Restart
I am a film-maker. Currently, a short film-maker as my hands is tied to make a feature film. I have written a story for a short film and have failed tried to make it two times. I am restarting it. Doubt creeps into my mind and plays a game with under-confidence which is tied to…
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[9] Forgetfulness of Dreams.
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You wake up from another world, still suffering from the dizziness you were engulfed in. A senseless world it was, weird in nature but some say it tells a lot about your deepest secrets. Dreams. You sleep, ignorant about the world you’re about to get in, yet you will be inside it. A fall, to…
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[7] Thread and the needle.
When I was a child, my favourite pastime was playing with toy cars with my grandma. I used to wait for her to finish the work she did throughout the day and sit on the bed, waiting for her to come. The cars were always ready. I put them in order for her to choose…
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[2] Atlanta.
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Donald Glover, the multi-talented creator of the show “Atlanta” has knocked my brains out with his TV series. It has captured my mind like none and it’s done in less than 30 minutes. The mixture of the real and the surreal, focussing on the tone, and the characters impeccable comic timing makes it stand apart.…