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February 27th, 2013
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Resul Pookutty book Sounding Off review: Not just sound and fury

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Read the review of Oscar Award-winning sound designer Resul Pookutty’s autobiograpy

He may be ‘India’s best known sound designer and audiographer’, as the book jacket says, but Resul Pookutty sounds just like a lad from a small village set deep into the backwaters of Kerala. It could be straight out of Swami and Friends, or Malgudi Days, that RK Narayan classic made for television. The way he tells it (in translation by KK Muralidharan), life was a bucolic existence, full of masti and replete with good things to eat and scoldings — and more — from Umma, Pookutty’s mother. Click here to read more
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December 19th, 2012
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Pune’s FTII to get Institute of National Importance status

Pune's FTII to get Institute of National Importance status
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The Film and Television Institute of India is a premier government-run film school in the country

The Pune-based Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) will soon be declared an ‘Institute of National Importance’ by the government, the Lok Sabha was told on Tuesday, December 18. Click here to read more
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September 27th, 2012
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Cinematographer Rajen Kothari passes away – Bollywood tweets

Cinematographer Rajen Kothari passes away – Bollywood tweets
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Kothari had worked on movies like Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Ghayal, Zubeidaa and the more recent one, Tukaram

Ace cameraperson Rajen Kothari, also head of Cinematography at Subhash Ghai’s Whistling Woods International film school, died in Mumbai on Wednesday (September 26) due to cardiac arrest. He was 60. People from Bollywood and the media associated with Kothari tweeted condolence messages, including Ghai and Shabana Azmi. Click here to read more
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April 30th, 2012
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Cinematographer-director Santosh Sivan gets ASC membership

Cinematographer-director Santosh Sivan gets ASC membership

Sivan is the first South Asian to be selected for membership to the American Society of Cinematographers

Ace cinematographer Santosh Sivan last week became the first South Asian to be given the prestigious membership of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) for his outstanding work. The ASC membership is extended to individuals through invitations from existing members. Click here to read more
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September 18th, 2011
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Happy birthday, Shabana Azmi!

 

Birthdays are just one year gone by, says the Godmother actor who is in a serene state of mind

Actor Shabana Azmi celebrated her 61st birthday at Khandala hill station near Mumbai on Sunday. “Its v early in d day and so many birthday greetings! Thanku so much all..inshallah aaj ka din khushgawar hoga,” tweeted Azmi on Sunday. She and her family, including husband and poet Javed Akhtar, drove to their Khandala home on Saturday. Click here to read more
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July 6th, 2011
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Mani Kaul: RIP

It is with profound sadness that Cineswami notes the passing of Rabindranath aka ‘Mani’ Kaul, a true auteur of Indian cinema. Bollywood fans may not have heard of him at all, save the tenuous connection with Shahrukh Khan

In 1991, Kaul made a television mini-series Ahmak (Idiot) based on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s masterwork and Khan had a key role in it. This was, of course, long before Khan attained superstardom. In 1975, Kaul made the masterly Duvidha that was remade in 2005 by Khan’s Red Chillies production house as Paheli, starring Khan himself in a double role alongside Amitabh Bachchan and Rani Mukerji. Paheli was ostensibly directed by Amol Palekar but in reality it was ghost directed by Khan. Click here to read more
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July 6th, 2011
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Mani Kaul passes away

Noted filmmaker Mani Kaul, a pioneer of ‘new’ Indian cinema, passed away this morning in New Delhi

Mani Kaul, 66, died this morning at 1am at his home in New Delhi after a prolonged illness. He had been hospitalised earlier and was discharged on Tuesday night, his family said. Born in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, to a Kashmiri family, Kaul was ranked among the filmmakers who contributed to ‘new’ Indian cinema with their exemplary productions. His uncle was well-known actor-director Mahesh Kaul. Mani Kaul began his career with Uski Roti (1970), which won him the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Film. His Ashad Ka ek Din (1971), Duvidha (1973) and Idiot (1992), starring Shahrukh Khan, also won honours. Click here to read more
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