Harini Calamur's Writings
Cogito was my entrepreneurial venture. From 2003-2013.
We won some, we lost some. But, overall, it was fun.
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,…
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…
(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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…