Apur Sansar

I happened to read a bit of Ram Gopal Varma's blog, rgvzoomin.com. It was not just interesting but it was an amazing experience. I might even become a regular reader of the space as well. The intelligent and crazy answers of RGV towards the reactions section is also amazing to note. Among a lot of things what has inspired me most where the lines which said ' Both praise and criticism don’t matter to me because I already know what I am and what I am not and I also know the reasons for the same.' I have used the same as my status at various social networking sites as well. The reason for the same being the fact that I agree 101% with Ramu. Also having watched Ramu's debut film I'm even more impressed. Though I'm don't know much of Telugu, I saw Shiva and simply loved it. The rawness and the energy and the use of techniques impressed me a lot. The steadicam shots are simply amazing. I believe that everybody should see Shiva for the brilliant way ...

Cinema is actually meant to be the place where a movie which may be shot on film is screened to people. But it has come to be commonly used instead of film and movies. I too personally like it this way. There are things that I love about cinema. Those are the reasons why I have always wanted to be a filmmaker. I don't know if people have felt this but there has always been a lack of clarity of my ideas about movies. I feared a right or wrong in what I said. But since the selection of Irreversible for the festival there has been an air of confidence in me. The lack of clarity in me is almost zero percent now. I now feel that there is no right or wrong in art. Whatever said or done is a freedom, a right to expression. I have always had my own opinions on whatever movie I saw. My analyzing nature tried to criticize everything. I was not satisfied by anything, ever. But indeed I had movies that I loved, but moments I hated in them. There has been a lot of changes ...

The writing that follows may look weird to many. But this is a small article on how I learned about two key words that are often linked with movies and prose. Plot and story are two words that I have used too many times in my writing and talking. It is quite surprising to me that I found it difficult to differentiate between the two when Malayalam filmmaker Jayaraj questioned me on this. Definitely he did have the right answer at hand. Many people in the film industry itself could not differentiate these two commonly used words, adds Jayaraj. I thought it would be interesting to share a write up on this in this space of mine as I have failed to watch a single movie for the past two days! The story or the narrative could be defined as something that tells the course of events. Plot could be defined as the logical structure which connects the course of events. Here goes an example given by E. M. Forster: The king died and then the queen died. This is a story. The plot of this story could...