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Jhing Chik Jhing – 9 nominations at Sanskruti Kala Darpan Awards

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 [...]

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Jhing Chik Jhing wins Best Story at Zee Gaurav

(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 [...]

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Jhing Chik Jhing – Nominated in 7 Categories @ Zee Gaurav

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 [...]

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Jhing Chik Jhing – a peek

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 [...]

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One Line Review – Avatar

One Line Review – The Day the Naxals won !
summary – on a planet far far away, computer generated ancient people – who live as one with nature – face off against wicked humans who want to mine a rare metal ! And, of course, with bows and arrows, other primitive weaponary, a wing and [...]

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The Nightingale Sings – Solo

Two years ago – i had blogged the bulk of this post. I am using it as a base and just refurbishing it with a few more favorites. Tomorrow, I will look at the duets. September 28th – The birthday of Lata Mangeshkar …. the woman with the golden voice.The first lady of Hindi [...]

Happy Birthday Asha Bhosle

Asha Bhosle is like good wine. she has gotten better with age And today on her birthday – here are some of the songs that i would take away with me to a desert island !
The list is in, more or less, alphabetical order. If you are reading this in my FB notes [...]

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Classical Kishore

Lazy blogging. Yesterday, was Kishore Da’s birthday. and, i thought i will re-cycle last year’s post on classical Kishore- (origianl post August 16th 2008)
Kishore Kumar was a genius. And, it was his birthday about 10 days ago (4th August) yesterday . I had wanted to do a little blog piece on my favourites sung by [...]

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It is Raining :)

Rains have been delayed terribly this year. Intermittent, sparse and playing hide & seek with all of us. It has been terribly depressing – without the rains. The body and the mind have both been feeling extremely tired and as thought there is no hope of renewal.
Yesterday, it finally rained. the proper monsoon downpour. the [...]

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Quick Review – Pride & Glory

i kind of know why I stopped watching movies. They got bad. Then, they got terrible. And, then they just got plain unwatchable. And, i went from being someone who would watch a movie a day to one who watches one every 2 months, and that too because it is work
This year, part [...]

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