All Things Considered

1/ BRTFF   After almost  a year of dormancy, BRTFF ,which is really a bunch of lazy cinephiles such as me,  twitches it’s muscles. Come and watch us laze around. You can read up on earlier ones here, here and here.
2/ This blog.   This is only just a mean trick […]

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If I honestly (i.e if you still believe in that outdated idea) have to put something nice here with that theme, I’d have to go out and shoot some to start with. If I know myself well, that ain’t gonna happen for a long time. But if I know KK well enough, you should see […]

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DasAvathAram: Sirippadha, azhuvadha ?

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“Education doesn’t make you happy, and nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free, if we are,
or because we’ve been educated, if we have, but because education may be the means by which we realise we are happy.” (From Iris) And now what an incentive *that* is ;)
And for a change, it […]

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Ricky Roma (played by Al Pacino) doles out a world of wisdom sitting at a cafe to Lingk (played by Jonathan Spruce). Did you say you have’nt watched the movie ? Blimey ! ;)
Read ONLY if abundant patience is your virtue. Quite a long extract, this one.
A restauraunt. Roma strikes a conversation with Lingk who sits in the booth […]

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The song ‘Enjoy yourself’ from Woody Allen’s wonderful entertainer ‘Everyone Says I Love You’  (Woody Allen, Julia Roberts, Drew B.more, Ed Norton, Alan Alda, Goldie Hawn. Talk of a star-studded movie !) ! The movie, though not Woody Allen’s best, is extremely entertaining nevertheless !
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Total YouTube gratefulness happening..

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Thanks to the age of free speech, things like this continue to happen. And what is more disheartening is that there is a sizeable population EVEN amongst filmbuffs that supports this.
We’ll do all that it takes to stall the shooting of ‘Water’ in Varanasi. And then a Deepa Mehta would have to go all the way to SriLanka to shoot the […]

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Sylvie sends me Jeux interdits, L’odeur de la papaya verte, La Mariée était en noir and makes my day ! :)
For someone whom I’ve met just twice, she reads my mind about things in general and movies & books in particular spectacularly well. It is almost impossible to believe how two very different people from […]

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BRTFF is on India Today (so am I). There is a photo of the first get together too. Pick up a copy of this week’s India Today and turn to Page 4 on Simply Bangalore too see the gang. And dont forget to look for me in the picture.
To think that I got *this* close […]

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[This is a long post. Grab a coffee, answer your urgent IM messages,  do the loo]

 The Event:
For those of you who attended the last BRTFF, I’ve to tell you that this BRTFF was a lot different from the last. A lot more independent films, bigger audience. And a very different flavor.  To those of you […]

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Some folks just can’t stop having a good time ! So, BRTFF is back with a bang ! (1st timers: Read as Bangalore Roof top film festival)

Riding on the success of BRTFF launch and the first screening last month, the second of the monthly screenings is this happening this weekend. You’ll notice a few new […]

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Well, The Bangalore Rooftop film festival happened indoors. But who cared – It soo rocked !! Cussing Bangalore traffic (Now that is a surprise!) the squad of Thejesh, Kiran ,  Bikram & I reached about an hour late (But this long trip brought a lot good travel info about Sikkim) with the projector.. In about […]

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A bunch of film buffs get together for a movie night ! And it is happening in Bangalore. The Roof Top FF just turned into indoors, given the flaky Bangalore weather. (plus lack of a good roof top – what a pity!). So if you are ‘listed’ J , the address where you’ll have to get […]

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