Winds From The East

Indian Auteur Tm Our Website/First Issue Delhi 6 Review Cinephile Meeting : Last Call FELICITATION! JAI HO! It took us 100 years to win two Oscars. Nevertheless its better to be late than never! We are finally proud of the Oscar kudos being brought back home by our AR Rahman, Gulzar and Mr. Pookutty. And, Yes! Yipee! Hurrah! Champagne, anyone? No one? This is a historic moment. This is history being written as you read. This is us, contained as footnotes in a grander scheme of things. Today is a day to be remembered. This is a day of pride for all of us Indians. After all, a British film took the Oscars home. By an old industry rule, Slumdog Millionaire, is a British film, written and directed by Britishers, and funded by British/American companies. So as much as we ...

Our Website/First Issue Cinephile Meeting: Last Call Pulp Fiction. Anuj writes... On the verge of Oscars, a perspective to the perspective which questions Slumdog Millionaire, as being a derogatory prostitution to the West, of the realities which no one apart from us has a right to show (and see). In the Slumdog debate, most of us, are the policemen. The cynics. We are the ones who cannot believe that a poor chaiwallah(tea seller) can win so much. It’s we who thus fault the film on what we assume is its incoherence with logic. The problem lies with us. Not the film. Read More More on Slumdog: Cinephile Meeting: Patna : Of Slumdog Lookout for Delhi 6 review tomorrow. And...Slumdog Millionaire is not an Indian film. Film Education Anya , writ...