The Constant Gardener

¨Only God knows everything. He works for Mossad.¨
-Tim Donohue

Movie with a great sense of direction. The movie´s treatment is in complete accord with the issue at hand. That is the most important thing, I noticed and that´s why this movie works. The African tragedy of war & poverty and western indifference towards it has been [...]

Memoirs of a Gheisha

¨Can’t you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.¨
-Sayuri Nitta

This movie is absolutely stunning visually. I have never seen a movie as beautifully done in terms of cinematography. Before commenting on any other aspect of it. Let me confess, [...]

Thought of the day

¨An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.¨
-GK Chesterton

Why footage is called footage?

¨The origin of the term “footage” is that 35mm film has traditionally been measured in feet and frames; the fact that film was measured by length in cutting rooms, and that there are exactly 16 4-perf frames in a foot of 35mm film, made footage a natural unit of measure for film. The term then [...]

Intro to Ghalib-III

-Ghalib

Reading more, I discovered even more beautiful verses. I cannot claim, I could understand even complete literal meaning, but reading has been a pleasure for sure. Here is my third list of Favourite verses. Again, I have to repeat the same thing – kindly excuse me for any spelling mistakes.
Let me know, [...]

Reading : Film Basics

“The only really important outcome of filmmaking is what happens in the heads of audience members. That is what counts. But the long painstaking route to the audience begins with light and continues through the lens and film in a movie camera.”
-Kris Malkiewicz & M. David Mullen, ASC

I am in the process of learning basic [...]

Thought of the day

-Ghalib

Walk the Line

¨Now I’ve asked you forty different ways and it’s time you come up with a fresh answer. ¨
-Johnny Cash

Walk the line is again a very beautifully done movie. A messed up celebrity life and a love story with so many twists and turns is definitely worth a watch. I loved the music and songs. Powerful [...]

Main Meri Patni Aur Woh

¨Dekho Mithlesh, jab sar okhli main sar diya hai, then why are you afraid of the musan?¨
-mamaji

Enjoyable experience! This movie not only makes you laugh, it makesyou feel touched. It is story of a person married to a very beautiful girl and suffering from terrible inferiority complex. I believe, it is a very much [...]

Thought of the day

-Ghalib

= blisters = full of thorns