A Point of View
It is good to know that the film that you have believed in and backed – is appreciated
9 nominations at Sanskruti Kala Darpan Awards. As Shyam would say in the film “jhing Chik Jhing”
Best Film – Jhing Chik Jhing, Cogito Entertainment
Bets Director – Nitin Nandan
Best Cinematography – Amalendhu Chaudhary
Best Actor – Bharat [...]
Madh Island, Mumbai, is dotted with bungalows that are often used for shoots. They are called shoot bungalows – as compared to the private or company bungalows that dot the landscape.
We were shooting for a show called Golden Age, hosted by Kitu Gidwani – that goes on Samay Mumbai from next week. The show [...]
(Bharat Jadhav & Chinmay Kambli in Jhing Chik Jhing)
On Sunday,20th of February, before a star studded audience made up of luminaries of Marathi stage and screen, at Andheri Sports Complex, Nitin Nandan took home the Zee Gaurav award for Best Story “Jhing Chik Jhing”.
As Anand put it, we can actually say that Cogito [...]
Saturday was a strange sort of a day. i was shooting from dawn, outdoors around Mumbai. By dusk, i was knackered. 15 years earlier, i would have gone to edit – but on Saturday, all i wanted was to get home. My mind had packed up.
SK called – Bharat, Madhavi, Chinmay, Raju, Story, Direction and [...]
Jhing Chik Jhing – the Marathi film that my company Cogito Entertainment produced – is ready.
It was part of the panorama at the Pune International Film Festival (PIFF) on Wednesday – and ran houseful to an appreciative audience.
The last year has been a roller coaster. Producing a film, especially one that is made out of [...]
At one time Mumbai had a plethora of shooting floors – at Natraj, Navrang, R.K, Kamalistan, Mehboob, Mohan – floors that were linked to banners & great film makers. But over a period of time it became more commercially viable to construct residential and commerical complexes on studio land, rather than let them out [...]
After a few weeks of being immersed in Disaster Risk Reduction – thanks to the documentary, Farmer Suicides and the way out – thanks to our Marathi feature film “Jhing Chik Jhing”, and politics & elections – thanks to the elections; I am back to my normal reading. (disclaimer: my normal and other people’s normal [...]
One of the things that I do love about the world that i have chosen to inhabit is the kind of stuff that i get to do, occasionally.
I am in Indonesia. To be precise in Java. To be even more precise in the province of Yogyakarta – called by its inhabitants as Jogja !
I [...]
the last 6 weeks have been a kind of blur.
the visit to Orissa disturbed me more than i let on. i have nightmares about the place. of waking up, being stuck there with no way out. There is a part of me that shakes with fear, and there is a part of me that [...]
all of us have lives that are footprints in the sand.
but, each life has value. not just in the monetary sense but in the civilizational sense. each life has love, family, friends and experiences. and, their loss matters.
this is the crux of the film, on disaster risk reduction, that i am working on. it is [...]
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