Winds From The East

The Madcap Laughs: IA TABLE OF CONTENTS: Volume no 2 Issue no-1, March 2010 E-Mag Read Online Download Online Articles on the web AUTEUR Postmodernity and the Cinematic Object in the films of R. W. Fassbinder - Devdutt LA Bande Designee Omniyam- Kamal Swarop/Jay Krishnan Cover Story Shion Sono Exposed - Jasper Sharp The Man of the Moment : Sono Sion- Anuj Practical Joker and AirMan- Ebrahim Kabir Dreaming in Darkness - Sagorika Singha Exposing Memories - Sachin Gandhi From The Vault Cinema and ethics: Somo Sahi

Six months or half an year ago, we launched Indian Auteur with a certain set of objectives in mind – the primary among them being the need to protect our notion of cinema – one of a personal, uncompromising, unflinching artist who wields the camera – instead of one whose film is a result of populism, rather than it being the other way around. The notion of an auteurist cinema. In these six months, we have been called confrontational, controversial, direct, and romantic. We have also been called cinephiles. The former is what we would call the collateral damage of the exercise we have undertaken. The latter is our reward. But the idea is in the penultimate stage of its life cycle. As we come out with the sixth, the half-yearly issue, we seek a restitution and a renewal of ourselves as an organization. Hence, in September , we will reveal ourselves in a completely new format. Therefore, with the promise of rewarding our loyalists, and provoking those who are not, we will take this exten...

Our second issue looked at the legacy and the cinema of Ritwik Ghatak which has continued to thrill and find new audiences across the world. The following Interview is from his book of essays( Cinema and I) that was later published in Rows and Rows of Fences . Both books are now out-of-print and it is a testament to the sad state of affairs of his legacy. I hope in times to come we can be instrumental in protecting, preserving and making his movies and writing accessible to a wider audiences. Here is an excerpt from the Interview, the full Interview can be read from the link specified below. ........................... Q. Mr. Ghatak, what inspired you to turn to film making? R.G. You could say that I strayed into films down a zigzag path. If may father had had his way I should have been an income-tax officer. I got the job but left it to join the C.P.I. if I had stuck to it I might have become a Commissioner or Accountant General by now. But now I am only a street dog! After quitti...