Earlier this year I worked on an experimental sci-fi short film, “Memoirs of a Spore” (Chapter I, The Rains). Plot Summary: Once in a long past future, a cyborg ponders their rehabilitation in a metabolic society ravaged by the war, continuous rains, and other artifacts. I’ll…
I’ve been reading a lot about “Augmented Reality” lately. Just the other day, I saw this beautiful short film titled ‘World Builder‘, that also depicts this powerful holographic technology to express the fusion of the physical and virtual worlds. Augmented Reality (AR) is basically…
Ready for another Slumdog Millionaire? After Vikas Swarup’s Q & A was made into Slumdog Millionaire by Danny Boyle, it’s the turn of Aravind Adiga’s Man Booker Prize winner The White Tiger. The book’s rights have been acquired by Revolutionary Road producer…
There’s something rather allegorical about people who do just one small thing all their lives, but do it better than anyone else. So bloody true. Whether it’s the Omelette Man, or the Joker, they both suffer from the same quality of being persistent. I’m…
I went to a train station today and learned that the distance between railway tracks is always 143.5 centimeters or 4 feet and 8.5 inches. Why this absurd measurement? I asked my girlfriend to find out and this is what she discovered. When they built the first train…
\Val`i*da”tion\, The act of giving validity.…
No matter how good you are, don’t ever let them see you coming. That’s the gaffe my friend. You gotta keep yourself small. Innocuous. Be the little guy. This quote from “The Devil’s Advocate” has stuck with me for a long time.…
The other evening, we watched “Ghajini“, a much anticipated (or should I say hyped) Hindi film. Said to be based on the cult classic, “Memento“, unfortunately it wasn’t even close to what I was expecting of an Aamir Khan film (specially after his previous…