Day: December 19, 2008

  • New Inspiration for Bollywood Scripts

    New Inspiration for Bollywood Scripts

    Mint 20 Dec 2008

     

    “The age old trick of borrowing from literature for movies has found a new manifestation in contemporary literature and has gained currency in multiplexes” – Mint

    Is Bollywood finally waking up to realize that it helps to have a good script to make a good movie? I don’t know if we can apply that broad brush to paint all directors in the same color. Mint in its issue dated 20 Dec 2008 has a piece that talks about the growing desire of directors to pick a bestseller since it has all the ingredients – gripping narrative, pre-soaked audience and of course name recall. (more…)

  • The List That Matters

    The List That Matters

    The Asian Age runs a list of best sellers for the week. For two weeks now the Booker award winning novel The White Tiger has been topping the list. The others that follow have been pretty consistent too.Asian Age bestseller list 7 Dec 08 Brisinger has been at the silver medal winning spot and Meenakshi Madhavan Reddy who writes the immensely popular blog called The Compulsive Confessor is holding forth at spot number three while I am holding fourth (could never resist a cheap pun!) … I missed even the bronze. But I don’t crib. I am made of a different “metal” 🙂 (more…)