In which I give gyaan and get to pose for a Vanity Fair style portrait with eminences on the cover of Mint Lounge.
With Smriti Kiran, Meenakshi Shedde, Radhika Apte, Vikramaditya Motwane, Amit Masurkar.(Photo courtesy: Abhijit Bhatlekar/ Mint)
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Baradwaj Rangan 
harish ram
June 10, 2017
Great POINTS, BR – especially the part about India should attempt to be an hub for South Asian films . I have always noticed that you try to look at a problem by embracing the situation and parameters involved. Hence what many see as problems and thus go for ‘ellathayum maathanum’ type solutions, your ideas and opinions are more of doing a positive spin. In marketing we call it sticking to the core.
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Madan
June 10, 2017
Masurkar says going to the movies isn’t a fun experience anymore. This is a curious statement (though he is obviously entitled to his perspective). Maybe it would hold true from a first world perspective but in India, the experience has improved a lot, if anything. Anymore is relative to what, exactly? If it means tickets are costlier without the tax break multiplexes had for the first ten years, yes. But compared to single screens, the experience is better once compared without a nostalgia-tinged gaze. In the 90s, SoBo had good cinema halls, in fact very classy ones (you could get a variety of alcohol-tinged chocolate at Central Plaza) but going to the movies was a horrible experience in the suburbs. I got malaria from watching Bombay in the theatre, no kidding.
As for cell phone lights flashing and all, I don’t think it’s an insurmountable distraction but to each their own. I still find it hard to devote undivided attention to a film at home the way I can when I watch it on the big screen. I watch a film better, as such, when I watch it in the theater. At home, I may have to watch it a couple or times to get certain aspects that I may pick up in the first viewing on the big screen. Which is why even at home I try to play it on the home theatre and draw curtains to somewhat recreate the cinema hall effect.
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tejas
June 10, 2017
BR, did you tell Radhika Apte that you are a fan of her onscreen crying?
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brangan
June 11, 2017
Ramki Bellur very kindly colour-corrected the image. Thanks as always.
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