An Indian film with most film festival screenings

This years Oscar’ staged “Water“, a film set in India, but an official nomination from Canada for the Best Foreign Film category. However, it didn’t win, despite the media hype surrounding it. And then there’s this less known short film from India called…

Pan's Labyrinth

Your thinking creates your reality, that’s all there is between you and what happens to you. After reading the Rediff Oscar predictions for the Best Foreign Language Film I was tempted to watch Pan’s Labyrinth (Mexico’s entry). An encapsulating fairy-tale with a complex political…

When the world closed its eyes, he opened his arms

I’ve always believed that one should “strive, and the rest will follow”. Do your bit of thinking and hard-work, and leave the results to time (destiny). But, more than often it also leaves a non-aggresive notion in us, because we often wait for the right moment…

Nokia Shorts 2006

I wrote about mobile short films in brief last year. This year, the Nokia Shorts 2006 competition (15 second mobile handset-shot films) has announced the finalists of the Handset category. The shorts are also now screening at the Raindance Film Festival. Preview the Nokia Shorts finalists and vote for your…

Life is beautiful

If you speak my name, I vanish. What am I? Silence. Well I’ve been silent for sometime myself. Taking a break from blogging is a tough job, at times as tough as writing something meaningful. Thoughts fly wild in my mind but they need to be tamed. Been…