Harini Calamur's Writings
Rani has decided that my room is her room. she sleeps on one of my old bathrobes, and an old lungi of mine is her safety blanket. Yesterday appa and amma got her a rawhide contraption as a treat. Something that she…
I think that i am trying to catch up with 6 weeks of not blogging on one night. What to do? my fingers wont’ stop typing:)There is this almost euphoric feeling of pouring out my thoughts. Besides I blogged in my mind:))…
My first blog in almost 6 weeks. And what a 6 weeks it has been. Work has begun. and how! Almost everything that we pitched at over the last 8 months is paying off one way or the other. And it is…
Rahul Dravid Rocks. Saw bits and pieces of the last match between the shoot, the edit and the proposal. Man, what a professional. Waching him bat reminded me of a bit of the Mahabharat. It is exam day and Dronacharya – the…
One of the questions that we – as media professionals – ask each other is where are the writers? Where are the writers who penned amazing narratives. that made for such compelling viewing. Where are the men and women who could write…
Just finished our first major assignment for a to be launched channel. Our first major success since starting up this March. When i quite a well paying job to start my own company – there was shock among my friends. “you are…
We were shooting a kids cradle. And obviously for that you need to shoot with kids. three to nine month old kids. There is an artist agent we worked with called Ketan Bhai, who had an assistant called Mohammed. Both of them…
There was a famous Amitabh Bachchan film called Namak Halal. His character plays a prince hidden away in the village brought up as a country bumkin with a heart of gold. He comes to the big bad city – Mumbai where else,…
Rani is a comical character. a bundle of energy. and the most innocent pair of doggy eyes that you can see. And incredibly bright. She tripped over her leash the other day, and she got up. picked up the leash in her…
The South Asian Country with the highest birth rate is not India. Not Pakistan. Not even Bangladesh, but Nepal. The land locked, arid monarchy sandwiched between India and China. And the only Hindu country in the world. One of the oft used…