It’s time to officially recognize the arrival of Gen 21. The first mast mast batch of writers in Bollywood. Ironically many find a place to stand in this busy bazaar because of Ram Gopal Varma, whose script sense seems to have gone for a toss...
Dear oz,
With great regret do I have to inform you that your title of being the idiotic joker of an asshole amongst of all human beings has been taken withdrawn and conferred up to someone else.
You will be glad to know that this “someone else”...
You start to uncork the champagne. One of the top actors of our times has come out with his first directorial venture in the land of cinema. Naseeruddin Shah, despite his many lows, is still a powerhouse, a library, a school of acting in himself.
The credits start rolling and I rush out to the men’s room. Do the required thing. Wash my hands and put them under the auto dryer which frugally blows hot air in a micro millimeter thin stream, which I have to search for all around that massive machine bolted to the wall. I find it after a 20 second search, dry my hands, and look in the mirror admiring my freshly shaved head.
Sumner Redstone, the 83 year old chairman of Viacom - that owns the Hollywood company Paramount Studios, started a war of the “starry” worlds recently by breaking away from the golden-boy-gone bad (a.k.a. Tom Cruise)
While the first part was heavily loaded with insights, knowledge, highly straightforward opinions and views - the second part doesn’t let go of the tight grip over you… Kartik begins Day 2 of the the Conference by attending a speech by Sriram Raghavan (Ek Hasina Thi). Over to Kartik...
The Film and Television Institute of India arranged a Screenwriters Conference in Pune. The first ever. I’m so blown away by the coverage of Kartik’s article... From the always straight forward Anurag Kashyap’s insights to Abbas Tyrewalla’s views to Sriram Raghavan to Kundan Shah to Sudhir Mishra to Vishal Bhardwaj (and the incidents at the conference that pissed him off).
Ever tried sitting on your two cushiony bums applying the same pressure on each of them, while forcing your out-to-pop-out-of-the-sockets eyeballs to intensely focus on watching Karan Johar’s Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna?