“I Think I’ve Just Been Lucky” “I’m what some people call a teenage star. But really. I think I’ve just been lucky. I’m told that I was born on the night of December 28. 1951, precisely at the moment the first star appeared in the sky over Bombay. If so, that star was a good…
It took me eight months to discover that I was living next door to a film person. And that too, because the chap appeared in a “daring, all-clothes-barred” gatefold In a girlie mag. Yes. My neighbour was there in B & W. in all his hairy, slightly paunchy evidence. Undressed. In disabille. There was a…
On four Rock evenings beginning Christmas Eve, a few hundred Bombayites Filled the Bhulabhai Desai auditorium to watch, and to listen to, the Theatre Group weave two and odd hours of phantasmagoric GODSPELL. The musical presentation of the Gospel according to St. Mathew was produced and directed by Pearl Padamsee. GODSPELL, conceived by John Michael…
A really good film should not be concerned so much with its plot, as with its characters and the interplay of those characters. Though the characters, the intelligent filmmaker aims at establishing in the consciousness of the spectators the elements that would lead them to the idea he wants to communicate; he attempts to place…
Kem Chho, Chandra Bhai? Fine, I see. Thought I’d discover what makes you tick. Tell me what’s doing. Chandra Barot does not answer at once. He’s busy buttoning his cuff. And then: I’m directing Don. And this is keeping me on my toes right now. It’s a fun experience, shooting with Amitabh and Zeenat…
An American who acts in Hindi movies? And who’s Indian except for his fair skin and blond hair? “I don’t believe it” was the reaction of most people who met Tom Alter at the recent screening of diploma films arranged by Mr. Girish Karnad, the Director of the Film and Television of India, at Bombay.…
Mr. Girish Karnad, the Director of the Film and Television Institute of India, Poona, arranged a screening of the Diploma Films 1974, on the 1st and 2nd September in Bombay. In his brief introduction Mr. Karnad said the Diploma films were characterised by two points: students made films on subjects which they would not normally…
Rajika Kirpalani did not believe in gods of any kind. Yet she must have been beloved of them, for she died young— too young for those who knew her. While speaking on the telephone on the 1st of February, 1974, she was struck down by a massive cerebral haemorrhage. She was just 24. A year…
Pandit Giriraj is one of the few virtuosos of the “gayaki” school of sitar music in India. He recently completed a two-and-a-half month tour of European cities in mid-November. This tour followed close on the heels of another extensive West German tour of his in early 1974. Giriraj’s winter musical itinerary mostly covered West German…
If you’re the sort of person who expects value for every paisa you spend, go see Sholay, 23 reels and three and a half hours later, you’ll stagger out of the auditorium and gulp in the sweet air outside. Your ears will have been assailed by stereophonic sound (If the theatre had facilities for it),…
The Goan Institute present ed its maiden theatrical production on the 25th of August at the St. Xavier’s School Auditorium. Written and directed by Derek Antao, the play, REQUIEM FOR A PROFESSOR, had a plot which sagged so much that the seams were discernible at times. Lloyd D’Mello, as the ageing Professor Joe Varella, succeeded…