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OSCARS 2021
Mature cinema viewers don’t care for Oscars. They don’t care who are nominees, they don’t care who got snubbed. They watch cinema that appeals to them whether it has created waves at The Academy or not. It is because they know Oscars are all about power, politics, publicity and propaganda. It is not necessarily an ...
WRITER IS NOT HIS WRITING
I was introduced to the stories of Sri Paresh Patnaik by a respected filmmaker. I read several of his stories; even made a screenplay out of the two for that filmmaker. All of his stories have flavors, variety and point of view like many of other storytellers but Sri Patnaik’s stories can also be called ...
Film Watching Through The Age
I began to consume audio-visual ‘content’ in the 90s. We get together for a week or month in the summer and other vacations. All cousins, uncle aunts spend time celebrating the togetherness for those few days under the roof of our ancestral home. Watching cinema was a big part of this celebration. That was the ...
About Puri
Puri is my home. Workplace is Bhubaneswar. Puri doesn’t have fancy restaurants chinese fast food joints like Bhubaneswar; it doesn’t have malls and multiplexes those available abundantly at the capital; it doesn’t have much trees on the streets like Bhubaneswar; it is dirtier than Bhubaneswar, the slangs here have more natural vibe than the Bhubaneswarians. ...
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