Attenborough and Gandhi

Richard Attenborough (a British) was trying to make a movie on Gandhi’s life since 1962, we made a movie on the father of our nation in 1996 and people are pissed about the fact that Ben Kingsley (half Indian) played the role of Gandhi.’ I guess we Indian filmmakers should …

Dunkrik

Nolan’s Dunkrik trailer says that at the time of crisis and annihilation, Survival is Victory. Although, stumbling upon the wiki page of Dunkrik evacuation, I read Churchill’s comment on this saying, ‘We must be very careful not to assign to this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not …

Indian Film Industry

In 2010, when I was in deep internal conflict, I asked my friend Manish Bhoj, who I fondly call Narayan (because he has all the answers; yes, all of them), to answer this question: Why is the Hindi film industry producing so many crap movies? And he answered in an …