We all love a good rant. Be it about our lives, career or films. Lets face it, probably Telugu films rank high up the order on which people would love to rant. Everyone has an opinion when it comes to films. It’s something like politics. You don’t have to be a politician to have an [...]
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September 23. 2011. Too many things seemed to happen on the same day. I missed the early morning show of Mahesh Babu’s brand new film, Dookudu and then I had to endure kazillion people boasting or ranting about their experience of watching Dookudu ahead of me. And then, when I finally saw the film and [...]
Posted in Film Essays, Musing Tags: Andhra Pradesh, Brahmanandam, Buzz, cinema, Dookudu, M S Narayana, Mahesh, Mahesh Babu, multiplex, Srinu Vaitla 7 Comments »
So, what exactly is the Akkineni fans culture? Or for that matter what makes an Akkineni fan different from a Nandamuri fan or maybe even a Mega Fan? While it is almost impossible to either deconstruct or generalize the anatomy of a “fan’s brain”, I do know that almost everyone has built huge walls around them. So huge that even Troy would seem like a jujube infront of them. Almost.
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Two years after the Satyam fiasco which led me to full time writing, I didn’t imagine that I would be at the crossroads once again. On June 5, 2011 it happened again. There’s no better way to describe it, but it did almost feel like déjà vu. As some of you already know, I have [...]
Posted in Film Essays, Life, Musing Tags: Actors, cinema, directors, Film Journalism, Journalist, Lessons Learnt, Love, Movies, Telugu Cinema, Writer, Writing 11 Comments »Cinema is one of the few arts which transform you into a different world. The power of the moving images is sometimes so vivid and overwhelming that it’s almost impossible to erase the experience from the memory. There are two types of people who watch films. There are those for whom Cinema is weekend entertainment [...]
Posted in Movies Tags: Arundhati, change, cinema, Magadheera, Movies, Telugu Cinema, telugu film industry, Telugu movies 9 Comments »I understand that each one of us understand cinema in a different way, so I would relate my experiences with Cinema and how it has influenced me. Before going any further, I would like to have a close look at this letter from English Alphabet….”i” What all things can you think of when you look [...]
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