It was an honor to receive the Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus) Award for the Best Children’s Film from the President …
The Last Kannada Superstar
When I had first heard about a film actor called Vishnuvardhan, I was already a die hard fan of ‘our’ …
The Barter
Once upon a time, many years back, I had made a short film that was budgeted to around three hundred …
Lage Raho
As the last shot of the film ran through the sound studio projector, the three minute flute piece for the …
The one print party
‘The audience does not want to see your images. It shells out money because it wants to see faces’, declared …
The Devil’s Advocate…
The thrill of meeting a celebrity is something that one can’t describe with words. As a kid, when I first …
Director’s Note: Putaani Party
A Gram Panchayat or a village governing body in rural India facilitates the formation of the Makkala Samiti or Children’s …
Judging the judges…
It is quite a job to be judging someone or a film or a work of art; leave alone adjudicating …
Once upon a time…. a Haiku
A few days back, when I had just finished the shooting of a project, the children who were with us …
The BEST Caesura
Caesura (noun): A pause or an interruption as in “After an ominous caesura the speaker continued.” One fine morning the …