Harini Calamur's Writings
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(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…
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…
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…
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…
I have been, for long, a huge fan of Alan Moore -the British Comic writer – who has shaped the form that comics have taken since the 1980’s. The 1960’s and 1970’s were the time when comics in general, and super hero…
Irena Salina’s film “Flow – For the Love of Water ” aka “Flow – How did a handful of corporations steal our water” is a well made documentary that looks at the issues regarding clean portable (drinkable) water to the world’s population…
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 [tag]Lata…
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…
Lazy blogging. Yesterday, was Kishore Kumar’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 ….
Take some data. it could be any data. Add a bit of correlation, stir in a bit of causality, simmer with coincidence and garnish with a leap of faith – package well with a chatty narrative style -and bingo – you have…