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
The WHY I LEFT INDIA article has sparked a minor freak out with a response from Chetan Bhagat and a follow up by the original author.
A really depressing – and largely true – article on the role of architects in India.
With the death of artist M.F. Husain we get to watch India scramble to reclaim his genius.
Bollywood is changing? Just seems like a new wrapper on an old idea.
This is a just brilliant. Prisoners in India are standing by.