poor folk

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Sat, 18 May 2013 15:11:44 -0400

At an intertexutal level, the Victorianism of the interior...

Fri, 17 May 2013 03:23:30 -0400

At an intertexutal level, the Victorianism of the interior depicting the nineteenth century penchant for all things plush and patinated, evokes as well the useless expenditure and sensationalism of mainstream Indian cinema, in which both gods and humans are given a high-gloss “Color-by-Technicolor” appearance implicitly critiqued by the film. In contrast to the opulence of the interior, the countryside depicted in Devi has none of the lushness of the panoramic views that characterize the depiction of a mythical India in mainstream cinema—with their hills and dales, waterfalls and sunsets, skies and clouds through which heroes and heroines, gods and goddesses pass.

The distance between the exterior landscapes and the interior of Kalikinkar’s household is only too marked. For there are no elements of relief in the landscape in Devi: no baroque ornamentation, no carapaces or coverings that give the bourgeois nineteenth-century imagination its substance or twentieth-century escapism its content. The modern is coded as the shellacking of the private sphere in which more and more layers are added to protect the “private rooms of our prosaic understanding,” to use [Walter] Benjamin’s phrase, from exposure to the public. In contrast, the countryside in Devi reveals that the poor have no such escape to draw into. Importantly, neither does prakriti (or nature) herself, stripped as she is of vegetation or plenitude.

—Keya Ganguly, Cinema, Emergence, and the Films of Satyajit Ray

THIS IS A LOOK

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:14:25 -0400

THIS IS A LOOK

Taal (1999)

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:52:21 -0400

Taal (1999)

wow mita vashisht in taal!!!!

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:21:37 -0400

wow mita vashisht in taal!!!!

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Wed, 15 May 2013 01:20:25 -0400

Interview With Deepti Naval

Wed, 15 May 2013 01:16:07 -0400

Interview With Deepti Naval

Be peaceful; he will return.

Sun, 12 May 2013 04:12:45 -0400

Be peaceful; he will return.

“Sanwariya Dekh Zara” Shubha Joshi (Sardari Begum,...

Sun, 12 May 2013 03:13:20 -0400

“Sanwariya Dekh Zara” Shubha Joshi (Sardari Begum, 1996)

“Bombai Se Gayi Puna” Alka Yagnik (Hum Hain Rahi...

Sat, 11 May 2013 22:55:00 -0400

“Bombai Se Gayi Puna” Alka Yagnik (Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke, 1993)

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Sat, 11 May 2013 02:56:48 -0400

pyotra: r.i.p to me b/c i died from repeating the same song for...

Sun, 05 May 2013 19:08:30 -0400

pyotra:

r.i.p to me b/c i died from repeating the same song for 12 hrs

Mammo (1994)

Sun, 05 May 2013 02:38:57 -0400

Mammo (1994)

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Sun, 05 May 2013 01:16:14 -0400

gleemie replied to your photo: Right from his early documentary Forms and Design… Any idea...

Sun, 05 May 2013 01:08:26 -0400

gleemie replied to your photo: Right from his early documentary Forms and Design…

Any idea where I can watch this film?

no not for free :(

What can you tell us about yourself?

Sun, 05 May 2013 00:15:28 -0400

Nemai Ghosh - Satyajit Ray and Beyond

Sun, 05 May 2013 00:00:15 -0400

Nemai Ghosh - Satyajit Ray and Beyond

Right from his early documentary Forms and Design (1968), which...

Sat, 04 May 2013 21:51:00 -0400

Right from his early documentary Forms and Design (1968), which sets up an opposition between functional forms of industrial age and decorative ones from Indian tradition, Kaul makes it, more or less, apparent that is he is interested in the possibilities of a form itself more than the question if it can convey a preconceived thesis.

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“Main Albeli Kitni” Sitara Bai Kanpuri (Meri...

Sat, 04 May 2013 17:37:00 -0400

“Main Albeli Kitni” Sitara Bai Kanpuri (Meri Aankhen, 1939)