This is India: Cinema Halls

Let me be clear. I hate Bollywood movies. They represent everything I dislike about movies – over acting, escapist stories, suddenly bursting in to song for no reason, formulaic plots, etc. Add in Tollywood, Kollywood, and for good measure Hollywood too. I love Film – capital F. I’ve spent countless hours studying the great Films and my list of favorite Directors – Kieslowski, Welles, Kubrick, Lynch, Coen, Malick, Almodovar –

5 Revisions: Ra.One

1 – Indian Setting :

The setting is Mumbai – or a fictional Mumbai-like city (New York has Gotham, Mumbai has… Lemuria? Look it up.) This is a new hero for India.

2 – Ra.One is Fear :
He’s a computer program, that inhabits angry people. We should care about the people he’s inhabiting. In this case a brother figure that is opposite Shekhar, someone who is very close to him, but jealous of

This is India: Face Worms

A few months ago I woke up early in the morning with a funny feeling in my left eye. It itched a bit. So I went to the bathroom and washed my face. Then it started to burn. This feeling passed, and the feeling went back to the mild itch… and I went about my day.

The next morning I woke up with a slightly puffy left eye, and