letter to dev d maker

First things first; congrats for making dev D .DevDis certainly breakthrough in the public perception of devdas; the immortal character penned by great saratchandra.abhay lucky deol is not usual sunny or bobby .it is welcome to see you cast him as devdas.
Abhay's devdas is not dilip Saab not even shahrukh.new devdas is not memory down lane merely,however motivated on lines of earlier devdas.you have placed devdas in an era of communication exchange, techno savvy personifiacation.the 21st century devdas…tera emotional atyachar!oh oh devdas.devd is appreciable attempt to situation devdas near to in love-separated couples.devdas ka dukh communication k sahare!

DevD is not first instancing of your belief in perceiving things differently. You may have not tried to be your type only, however things are cornering there. it is not unfair to change perceptions but at times one may get overlooked.'paanch' for instance made after so much rigorous research and commitment can be said ended in bitter experience. Directorial venture which saw light of day; black Friday had had to face similar circumstances. The authority by which 1993 Mumbai blasts have been upheld, won the battle for debut…luckily .

The anurag kashyap we know is fighter, journey from u.p. town to bollywood tells it all. A break in 'satya' and rest is known and preferred name in film script writing. Post satya, shool, yuva, nayak, water and goal you r willing to switch direction only.
A cup full of ideas and your belief on their strengths is what makes abrand your type cinemagician.hope such ideas keep coming .a script writer basically, you have made a recognizable name in direction too. Black Friday, no smoking, hanuman returns and current DEVD is worth mentioning.

Mumbai shaped the way u r, as suketu Mehta has quoted, the maximum city. A favorite subject it is not sachin,slums and cinema only ,a city under threat.satya yuva and black Friday have had Mumbai.

Motivated on the lines of great satyajit ray's pather panchali, ended making paanch post the bicycle thief effect.
Most love the kashyap way of making films out of box; devD is not an exception. Post devD; devdas is not only an art house image.

Being media savvy it is projected that kashyap of anurag insist on on generating stories on paper headlines.sudhir mishra-hazaron kwahishen aisi fame says-he 's adventurous spirit and determination to do things differently make anurag stand out'.
The approach you adopt for a film is difficult to be categorized. Trend setting adventurous though is risky at times...DEV D is fresh though an extension to devdas continuity.

Yours dilnawaz

partners in rhyme

Gunguna, gana why anyone would do that? But not anyone most of us somehow repeat the popular numbers. The music is in the air infact.the numbers are in running.fm channels, TV channels, home video, mp3/mp4, car stereo, mobile...Music is there. New releases, hit and popular regular and old numbers. Music binds, heals, cures, conditions, it upbrings.music not only entertains also has message, aesthetics.it has magical way of telling, saying human relations. It delivers where normal common sense fails.

For me there is astory, script running in music. The songs somehow are generating story....
Ek kahani si hai gungunati fiza mein.


In jannat's zra sa dil me de jagah, a love story knocks the door.picturized on imran - sonal
The youth listening the hit number seems to be knocking the door of emotional world.zra SA dil me de jagah Tu... Zra SA apna bana, main chahun tujhko meri jaan bepanah....in the lines seems prepared to expect return.pyar k badle pyar...the initial return. the one sided is to be each sided soon.

Rab ne bana di Jodi's haule haule ho jayega pyar ... is a welcome advice, counselling for who loved and lost. The advice of patience.'shabr aur intezar' sukhvinder Singh's hit number from rab ne has ruled the charts and still a choice. The chartbuster hitting my running car stereo has some how adviced.Those aspiring pyar k badle pyar have also been counseled kindly. The song develops...Patience pays. The script has rested itself to patience. Accept the changes regularize duties. Time sweeps your way. Time is great motivation. Have faith in time. It delivers.haule haule conveyed what it was objected for.

picturized on reel and real life duo,salman-katrina's tu hi meri dost hai...has shifted a perception change in the developing script. Mixing dosti-pyar, the song managed to say''you care'' in a special way, little lite and cripsy.gulzar's lyric in beni dayal's soft voice kindles the 'dost and dosti addressing the emotional bond. The yuvvraj song is good approach to say a communicative concern in casual-lite way.

Bachna ae haseeno's hit number- ke ban Gaye ho tum mere khuda delivers the patronage of love, narrates the highs of mutual relationships. The song runs...Humko kya Lena hai sabse tumse hi sab baten ab se...Ke ban Gaye ho tum mere khuda.each one of buddies believe on each other. Their strenghts...Candidly declaring ki Jo ho tum hi ho.A beautiful duet sung by shreya and kk the song conveys a belief on each listener's side suggesting this is what love probably is. The sad part of story is that buddies have not space to meet regularly...Judai bhi to coin ka ek side hai.

picturized on imran hashmi and sonal each jannat's top number lambi judai speaks up for in love-separated .a telling narration of impossibility of frequent meetings the lines of song-tere bin dil mera lage kahin na...passion pure passion. Agar kabhi passion ka koi color hota, probably it is what. But the problem is burst of emotions is not always logical as cannot escape action. It is not good also but dil kab mana hai...distanced yet not separated hearts pray for togetherness.

Jogi aaya jogi aaya hire moti pyar k sang anokhe laya re film black&white beautiful song aesthetically portrays the returning moments. The patience the wait is approaching the fruitful meet...picturized on female lead of the film is quite popular. Listening jogi post judai is experiencing Milan

tuning in to om shanti om's tumko paya hai to jaise khoya hun proves a delightful response to black&white's chartbuster.

Allah hafiz Allah hafiz ...bhool bhulaiya's hit number picturized with akshay kumar suggests to resume work post fulfilled anticipation. Story cycle has assumed work.

Filmed on gulzar's lyric and sung by alka yagnik yuvvraj's tu muskura has turned out to be female protagonists' voice. The voice of caring and still little regrets, she is not upset about buddy's Allah Allah hafiz sense. Song further reads...tu jahan bhi hai muskura tu dhoop ki trah badan ko chu zra...it is self actualization now.

Ghajini's kaise mujhe tum mil gayee is happiness...thanking fate for a passionate loveable yet caring and understanding pyar...Partners in rhyme.

jodi HIT hai

DIL MAANGE MORE

AAMIR KHAN-PRASOON JOSHI

COKE ADS

RANG DE BASANTI

FANA

TARE ZAMEEN PAR

GHAJINI

AAMIR-A.R. REHMAN

LAGAAN

RANG DE BASANTI

JANE TU YA JANE NA

GHAJINI

A.R.REHMAN-GULZAR

DILSE

YUVA

GURU

YUVVRAJ

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

A.R.REHMAN-MANI RATNAM

ROJA

DIL SE

BOMBAY

SAPNAY

YUVA

GURU

AKSHAY KUMAR-ANEES BAZMEE

WELCOME

SINGH IS KING

AKSHAY-PRIYADARSHAN

HERA PHERI

PHIR HERA PHERI

GARAM MASALA

BHOOL BHULAIYA

BHAGAM BHAG

AKSHAY-VIPUL SHAH

AANKHEN

WAQT

NAMASTEY LONDON

SINGH IS KING

ABHAY DEOL-DIBAKAR BANERJEE

KHOSLA KA GHOSLA

OYE LUCKY OYE

RAJKUMAR HIRANI-SANJAY DUTT

MUNNABHAI MBBS

LAGEY RAHO MUNNABHAI

RAJKUMAR HIRANI-ARSHAD VARSHI

MUNNABHAI MBBS

LAGEY RAHO MUNNABHAI

SHAHRUKH KHAN-YAHRAJ

DEEWANA

DDLJ

DIL TO PAGAL HAI

MOHABBATEIN

RAB NE BANA DI JODI

SHAHRUKH-SUKHWINDER

DILSE

CHAK DE INDIA

OM SHANTI OM

RAB NE BAN DI JODI

SHAHRUKH-KARAN JOHAR

KUCH KUCH HOTA HAI

KABHI KHUSI KABHI GHUM

MY NAME IS KHAN

SHAHRUKH-KAJOL

BAAZIGAR

DDLJ

KUCH KUCH HOTA HAI

KABHI KHUSI KABHI GHUM

MY NAME IS KHAN.

Ek aur Ek Gyarah

SOME OF HOT CHARACTERS SEEN ONBOLLYWOOD BIG SCREEN
AMAR KAUL: vinay pathak's AMAR lives with his mother,at thirty six years of age tries aspire
some amount of his mundane and run out of mill life.his existence was non existent to people around him.his innocence and his obession for making his daily life worthy is what makes him look forward.then one day suddenly he finds that he will die within three months from there begins the journey to work on his final to do list.DASVIDANIA 'S vinay is effortive.

BHARAT BHUSAN: vinay pathak's IDIOT in BHEJA FRY was not just silly man being made fun of but the face of aspiring india who is proud of his talent,pompous,confident,totally unconscious.it was vinay 's incredible detailing in his character that took BHARAT BHUSAN to even greater heights.the indomitable eagerness to help made bharat bhusan one of most quoted characters in recent history.

BHAVANI SHANKAR:utpal dutt's SIR in his hrishikesh mukherjee's GOLMAAL has got to be the funniest characters that have appeared.the man ,the mooch,the madness,the hard straight stare can still send people rolling to the floor laughing.mukherjee and dutt tried to reprise bahvani in NARAM GARAMandRANG BIRANGI but golmaal proved black pearl.

BHIKU MATRE:mumbai ka king kaun? many wiould claim,but when manoj bajpai's BHIKUannounced his arrival to wrld via arabian sea you gave it to him.however chakraborty played the SATYA ,but it was bhiku who ruled the underworld.Ram gopal verma's great BHIKU.

CIRCUIT: the sul of MUNNABHAI films ARSHAD VARSHI's CIRCUIT is so much more tahn just afunny sidekick to sanjay dutt's munna.a yes man to his underworld bhai,circuit can do just about anything to keep munna happy.from smuggling item girls to hospitals to kidnapping gandhian professors.but his inherent innocence that shines through every act and makes him most loveable characters in last decade.

GABBAR:Amitabh bachchan mixed everything from mel gibson's mad max to anthony hopkins hannibal lecter to jack nicholson's joker but his gabban was not a patch on GABBAR.because to gabbar,AMJAD KHAN helped by superb script by salim-javed had brought a raw vitality and lethal body language not seen on screen before.the SHOLAY character an epitome of evil.

GEET: Kareena kapoor's GEET in JAB WE MET is a talking genius.you wuldn't like to put cotton balls in your ears when geet starts talking.just like BASANTI she can talk abit too much but you wouldn't mind listening to her.more thn fun and games kareena's geet in imtiaz ali film was personification of life itself arare sight in plastic pretentious writing that is bollywood.

LANGDA TYAGI: when it comes to to plating othello'sIAGO saif ali is right up there.when it comes to to this character being reinterpreted LANGDA is right there.empowered by vishal bhardwaj adaption,saif was able to take iago out of bard's book and give birth to all new character in langda tyagi in a reptilian performance.saif in OMKARA is almost modern day gabbar.

MOGAMBO: when steven speilbeg saw amrish puri's mouth "mogambo khush hua" he might have understood the language,but he knew he just had to cast the man,mola ram in idiana jones and the temple of doom was very close to mogambo persona .but even speilberg cuolds not create waht shekhar kapur did in mr india.the characterization ,the outlandish styling and the killer smile delieverd a lethal celluloid effect.

SANJAY SINGHANIA: from amobile company enterpreneur to a short term memory loss patient SANJAY of ghajini has shades of change and the effect on man.the shades of larger than life to closer to life sanjay singhania.aamir khan's sanjay takes the revenge of from the barbaric ghajini dharmatma,the villain inspite of being a patient.he his able to put an end to ghajini's barbaric and lethal world.

VIJAY:The original 6'2" anger academy the salim javed penned and amitabh bachchan enacted the vijay persona not only set the cash registers ringing but also introduced boollyaood to many countries and symbolized it.the anti establishment hero in vijay gave the comman man a reson to celebrate.from zanzeer to deewar to kala patthar to trishul,from shakti to agnipath the cause and backdrop might have different but it was the same vijay standing right,very tall,very angry.

Bollywood 2009

LOOK OUT FOR THESE FILMS

CHANDNI CHOWK TO CHINA

DIRECTOR : NIKHIL ADVANI

CAST: AKSHAY KUMAR DEEPIKA PADUKONE RANVIR SHOREY

USP: A delhi cook becomes an action hero in china

WHY: Akshay and Deepika are hot at box office.

DELHI 6

DIRECTOR: RAKYESH MEHRA

CAST:ABHISHEK BACHCHAN SONAM KAPOOR WAHIDAREHMAN

USP:The lives of a group in a delhi neighbourhood

WHY:The rang de basanti man returns with sanwariya beauty.

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

DIRECTOR:DANNY BOYLE

CAST: DEV PATEL FREIDO PINTO IRRFAN KHAN

USP:GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS

STORY: A dhravi boy wins jackpot on a game show to find love and stardom

WHY:Rave reviews

KITES

DIRECTOR:ANURAG BASU

CAST: HRITHIK ROSHAN BARBRA MORI KANGANARANAUT

USP:Two people who don't speak acopmman language fall in love.

WHY: Hrithik roshan home production with anurag basu.

3 IDIOTS

DIRECTOR: RAJKUMAR HIRANI

CAST: AAMIR KHAN KARINA KAPOOR MADHVAN SHARMAN JOSHI

USP: A loose adaption of chetan bahgat's bestseller.

WHY:Munnabahi maker teaming with aamir and karina.

MY NAME IS KHAN

DIRECTOR:KARAN JOHAR

CAST:SHAHRUKH KHAN KAJOL

USP:The trobles of an austic musicman post 9/11 America

WHY:Karan johar shahrukh and kajol together.

LONDON DREAMS

DIRECTOR:VIPUL SHAH

CAST: SALMAN KHAN ASIN AJAY DEVGAN

USP:The namstey london maker teams up with humdi de chuke men and ghajini lady.

WHY: A love triangle lavishly mounted that runs across countries.

BILLU BARBER

DIRECTOR:PRIYADARSHAN

CAST: SHAHRUKH KHAN IRRFAN KHAN KARINA.

USP:A Contemporray take on krishna-sudama friendship.

WHY:Shahrukh khan irrfan khan.

Music star films

taal-a film by subhash ghai
Manav –mansi
Akshaye Khanna plays Manav Mehta, a UK-based rich businessman, who falls in love with Mansi (Aishwarya Rai), daughter of a poor singer, on a visit to picturesque Chamba in Northern India. Wary of the vast gulf between their two families, Mansi initially resists Manav's overtures but is eventually drawn to him.
Humiliation for tarababu
However, Manav has to leave Chamba for Mumbai but promises Mansi that he will convince his family to accept their relationship. But that's easier said than done. When Mansi and her father Tara Babu (Alok Nath) visit Manav's house in Mumbai, they are humiliated and thrown out.

vikrant turned mansi starAs the dejected girl and her father ponder their next moves, they run into a cocky talent manager and musician Vikrant Kapoor (Anil Kapoor)

Vikrant turns Mansi into a mega star and in the process also falls in love with her and wants to marry her.
manav waited for mansiAs usual, Aishwarya Rai looks ethereal while Akshaye Khanna, throwns in a sensitive performance as the young lover patiently waiting for the happy day when Mansi and he will be united.


Anil Kapoor is fine as the brash musician and talent manager. While not out of this world, A.R.Rahman's music is pleasing. favorites songs were Ishq Bina, Taal Se Taal and Rafta Jogi.Fine photography and Aishwarya's dancing add to the overall pleasure that Taal provides in abundant measure.

Abhimaan- amitabh ji jaya bhaduri
Enduring Bollywood romantic drama starring Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bhaduri. A celebrated pop singer falls in love with a simple village girl, but when her musical career eclipses his own, he is overcome with bitterness and resentment

Anurodh - afilm by shakti samanta
This is a great musical movie from the Shakti Samanta - Rajesh Khanna camp which has excellent music by Laxmikant Pyarelal. The characters are very strong- Ashok Kumar, Vinod Mehra, Nirupa Roy put in a good performance. The movie is a remake of a Bengali movie but retains its originality. Rajesh Khanna as usual puts up a great performance and is good in comedy, romance and drama. He shows the class of being a Super Star in the movie. This runaway hit has also good story, excellent editing and good direction. It is a must see and the songs of Kishore Kumar in the movie are excellent, it seems that Rajesh Khanna is singing them. How they suit each other.

Yarana Amitabh amjad khan
The movie is based on two childhood friends, who mean a lot to one another, one loves to sing and the other works on the ship.Amjad bhai would love his friend to come to the city to make a name for himself, who has to be pursuaded in coming as his friend gets real angry and to cool him down, is the song, Bhole oh bhole tu rootha jaag shuta sung by the late Kishore Da.
When he is pursuaded and brought to town he has to be changed from a villager to a city type and here he meets Neetu Singh a town girl.He becomes a top singer, then as usual the villain steps in making problems for his friend and how they face them.Yes this is one movie again you can alway’s sit and watch with your family, like all recent movies of Amitabh ji.

It’s nice to know after a long time we are getting family oriented movies and no rubbish like a few one of them being Bachke rehna re it warns the viewers with the title itself.Songs are real super ones especially the title song of the movie and chukar mere mann ko.

iffi 2008

THREE CLASSICS-BIMAL ROY
DO BIGHA ZAMIN
1953 directed bimal roy starring balraj sahni and nirupa roy in lead roles. The film is known for its socialist theme, and is an important film in the early parallel cinema of India and is rightly considered a trend setter

Like most of movies by Bimal Roy, art and commercial cinema are merged to create a movie that is still looked upon as a benchmark and paved way for future cinema makers in the neo-realist movement, which was about to start in the 70s
Plot

The story revolves around a farmer, Shambhu( balraj sahni), who has been hit badly by a famine in Bengal The real reason of his sorrow is that the zamindar (land owner) wants to acquire his land on the pretext that Shambhu had taken some loan from him. Shambhu has to pay back the landlord and hence moves to the city to look for some other source of money
Scene to remember
The most famous scene from the movie is when Shambhu pushes himself to the limit pulling a RIKSHAW t.he rider on the rickshaw offers Shambhu more money to pull faster because he is chasing (probably) his girlfriend who is in a horse pulled carriage. Shambhu can not resist the temptation, and he keeps smiling in anticipation of getting more money.. In this race, rickshaw loses a wheel and Shambhu is injured.

sambhu's righteousness
through all these hardships Shambhu does not lose his righteousness, which is the moral of the movie.. Shambhu's morality is the only thing that remains his own till the end.Climax-the endingThe movie ends with Shambhu returning to his village, only to see his land sold and a factory being constructed over it
cinematic reference point
Recipient of a special mention at Cannes, winner of the social progress award at Karlovy Vary, and awarded Best Film trophy at the very first Film fare Awards, do bigha zamin has become a cinematic reference point
Renowned auteur Bimal Roy's first Hindi film to make a seismic impact, it is one of the earliest Hindi films to bridge the art-commerce chasm.This gritty tale of an impoverished farmer's struggle to retain his land is realistic and set in a deromanticised rural-urban dystopia. highly dramatic in its narration.
italian neo realism
Bimal Roy turned producerTo make the kind of films he wanted to. He had seen the highly influential The Bicycle Thief (1949) and was inspired by the Italian neo realism movement.
stark subject
he chose a stark subject, eschewed stars and made his cast wear realistically worn out clothes. He imbued the film with overwhelming poignancy
opening
The film opens with images of a parched earth and barren trees. The country has just suffered a two-year draught. The rains have skinny, bare-chested farmer Shambu Mahato (Balraj Sahni) delighting with his wife Paro (Nirupa Roy) and son Kanhaiya (Rattan Kumar), in the genesis of hope that comes with the rains.

Ending
The film ends with the family returning to their land only to witness a factory already standing on their do bigha zameen, the chimney's black smoke, literally and figuratively, blowing away their hopes.
SUJATA
Sujata is a 1959 hindi film. The film starred sunil dutt and nutan in lead role supported by lalita powar and shshikala
subject
The film explored the situation of caste in india. The music was s.d.burman and the lyrics by majrooh
Plot
Sujata is a romance between a brahmin young man, Adheer -sunil dutt and an untouchable woman, Sujata -nutan
gandhism-buddhism
The movie has gandhi's fight against untouchability and the myth of chandalika in buddhism as its subtexts on the basis of which it tries to criticize the practice of untouchability in indiaBrahmin couple Upen and Charu bring up the orphaned Sujata
Although Upen is fond of the adoptive child, his wife Charu and mother never fully embrace Sujata because she is an untouchable. They never fail to remind Sujata that she doesn't belong amongst Brahmins
Blood donate
One day, Upen's wife falls down the stairs and is rushed to the hospital. The doctors tell the family that in order to save Charu, they need blood of a rare group. Only Sujata's blood matches and she willingly donates blood
Happy ending
When Upen's wife knows that her life was saved by Sujata, she realizes her mistakes and accepts her as her daughter. Sujata and Adheer are finally married
BANDINI
Bandini is a film directed and produced by bimal roy .roy earlier directed classic such as do bigha zamin and devdas.Bandini explores the human conflicts of love and hate intertwined in the mind of Kalyani-nutan
The movie tells the story of Kalyani, the all suffering, selfless, sacrificing, and strong yet weak Indian woman. She must make a choice between two very different men

Plot
A female centric movie (one of the rare ones in Indian movies), Bandini revolves around Kalyani or Bandini -the imprisoned
imprisoned kalyani
She is in a prison in India. We learn the circumstances of her crime in flashback. Kalyani had fallen in love with a freedom fighter/anarchistBikash -ashok kumarduring the british raj who later leaves her in the village promising to come back but never does
Migration to city
The society treats them harshly. Broken by her father's misery and that of her own, Kalyani moves to the city, to the singing of the "O Jaanewale Ho Sake To Laut Ke Aana"
Caretaker but poisons
In the city she works as a caretaker of an almost insane woman, who is also the wife of Bikash. Kalyani learns that her father came to the city looking for her and died in an accident. That prompts her to poison her lover's wife, identifying her as the cause of her miseries.
Director Bimalda captures her emotions with light and darkness falling on her face due to a welder's torch and the thumping of Iron in the background

The jail doctor
devenBack from the flashback in the jail Deven-dharmendra the jail doctor falls in love with her. Kalyani is not ready for it and starts to stay away from him. They are always shown with a partition in between after Deven proposes her.
Use of symbolic signs
Another symbolism used in the movie is the occasional shouting of "All is well" by the prison guard when nothing in the movie is.
Imprisoned with love
The lines "Main Bandini Piya ki, Main Sangini Hoon Saajan ki" in the end score of the movie tells us that Kalyani is imprisoned by her love.
Climax song
"Mere saajan hain us paar" is sung by the musician s.d burman himself.The climactic song, it beautifully expresses Kalyani's dilemma of having to choose between Bikash & Deven. Though the movie features excellent songs they all depict the situation like nothing else could.
KalyaniThe character of Kalyani gets lifted from that of a woman who is a prisoner of destiny to one who defines her own freedom
kamal bose
Bandini is brilliantly photographed by Kamal Bose with its rich tonal quality and evocative framing.