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A century through the eyes of a city
A book as unusual as dates.sites: Project Cinema City: Bombay/Mumbai is best described through the words of Madhushree Datta, who came up with the concept and authored the text. “This volume presents a timeline of the city of Bombay/Mumbai in the 20th century, anchored to its most adored public institution – cinema.” The book, thus, “is divided […]
Bitty Ruminations 76
March 7, 2013
So this morning, I get a fit, and it is brought on — I think — by my nearing the close of the book I am reading. As pleasurable as it is to notch up another scalp, the bibliophile’s answer to compulsive womanising, something happens when there are fewer and fewer pages to be turned. […]
Lights, Camera, Conversation… “Hardboiled tweets”
February 8, 2013
Thanks to social media, the world has become an even more unfair place. And there’s nothing anyone can do about it. Every time a major release ends up being savaged on social media, there rises a question about the fairness of it all. The points made by the filmmakers and their PR people are these: […]
The land of the unfree
February 3, 2013
With every passing controversy, we’re learning to redefine our rights. This is the story of two YouTube videos. The first one came up bare hours before I sat down to write this, and it featured an actor, a producer, a director announcing to a media gathering that he was now homeless in every sense. His […]
Bitty Ruminations 71
December 8, 2012
There are many canonical authors you’re meant to like, and you pick up one of their books as a means of putting a toe into their literary waters, but after 100 pages or so, you’re still waiting for that epiphany. Some of those with whose books I’ve had that epiphany are Thomas Hardy, Dostoevsky, Nabokov […]
Lights, Camera, Conversation… “The lives of others”
November 30, 2012
We don’t make many movies based directly on books. Neither do we make many movies based on people whose stories are more spectacular than fiction. Last week, I wrote about the problems some people – okay, I – have in surrendering to films made from books, and one reader wrote in wondering why not many […]
The launch
November 27, 2012
Lights, Camera, Conversation… “Paper worlds, picture worlds”
November 23, 2012
With films adapted from books, it’s stressful when the movie version inside our heads, from the page, does not match the movie version on screen. By the time you read this, Ang Lee’s Life of Pi would have been released, and I would have seen it and – who knows! – probably awarded it 3.14 […]
‘I wanted to tell people’s stories’
November 3, 2012
Akash Kapur talks to Baradwaj Rangan about writing a book whose India isn’t so much shining as becoming. In the unhurried pages of India Becoming: A Portrait of Life in Modern India, we meet the farmer Sathy, the BPO employee Hari, the call-centre worker Selvi, the cow broker Ramadas, the gypsy rag picker Raghu, the marketing […]
Reviews…
October 17, 2012
A review by Satyam, in the blog ‘satyamshot’, is here. An excerpt: But these ‘conversations’ also offer vignettes into the mind of the formidably insightful Baradwaj Rangan, really the peerless Indian film critic. From his own charmingly presented autobiographical raison d’etre for this work’s inception to his unmatched familiarity with the Ratnam corpus and perhaps […]
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