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Making of English Film "THINKING OF HIM"

Indo-Argentinian co-production
Indian Producer: Suraj Kumar
Argentinian Producer :Mr.Pablo Cesar
Associate Director to Mr.Pablo Cesar : Satya Prakash Gupta

My experience about filming India part of English Film "Thinking Of Him" is very exciting,enthusiastic,interacting in various locations in West Bengal with Indian and Argentinian cine-professionals.

The film "THINKING OF HIM" is based upon platonic love between Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore and famous Argentinian authoress Victoria Ocampo. Indian poet Tagore was recipient of this most laurel award in literature in 1913 for his book of poetry "GITANJALI".  Its English version had charmed the world's literature scholars and intellectual. The young Victoria was so fascinated to Tagorean piece of Poetry and she begun writing letters to Tagore at Shantiniketan in Bolpur (West Bengal), India. Tagore was given a laurel designation as Gurudev ( God of masters) by Mohan Das Karam Chand  Gandhi. Gurudev designated Gandhi with Mahatma. Gandhi is still called by Mahatma Gandhi.

Mahatma and Gurudev had been ventilating their thoughts about growing freedom movement of India with growing belonging between Tagore and Argentinian intellectual young lady Victoria Ocampo with poetic and lyrical letter exchange. Time pulled them so close at her house in Buenos Aires ( capital of Argentina) in 1924 while Tagore was shipping out to Peru but continuous sea voyage had fatigued him with sickness  and weakness.Victoria gets berserk to know of his pathetic condition. She does not care  even of her stranded husband. She humbly forced Poet Tagore to stay at her residence.Tagore interacted with Victoria in 1924.

 

Film has two different time 1. FLASH BACK
                                              2.PRESENT DAY
Flash back is the part of real characters of years 1924 through fictional medium and present day part of the film has been crafted through various imaginary characters in Argentina and India. Non-linear screen play and long take are the device feature of making the film.

Flow of direction of screen movement is so watery  in the script itself that one gets so immersed into  the progression of events of story. The script by Gironimo Taube is an Argentinian author of the film.So film goes ahead through the eyes of Victoria Ocampo and Felix( present day character of Argentina). That's why, Film title is  relevant and catchy " Thinking of Him".


Film has three major locations in three countries:
1.India,
2.Argentina,
3.France

Film has interesting artists 

1.Victor Bannerjee as Rabindranath Tagore

2.Raima Sen,as Kamali ( Present day girl of Tagore's school)

3.Eleonora Wexler as Victoria Ocampo

4.Hector Bordoni as Felix (Present day character of Argentina)

Other than this, the film has various characters in India,Argentina and France.

I will be writing about the films in a series of blogs to enhance aesthetic and technical knowledge of the film. 

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Inflated Nationalism : Banning Film/Banning free-culture/ Damaging to PM Modi’s “MAKE-IN-INDIA”

By Satya Prakash

Film has always been a soft target to ban it or to attack upon it to galvanize and arouse cultural Nationalism .Let the film release, the citizens of country will take decision whether or not they will go to the theatres on 28 th of october 2016 for watching Karan Johar’s film Ae Dil Hai Mushkil.

Pakistan being supported by Chinese does not suggest Government of India to ban import and export of the necessary things bilaterally. India exports its many things to China. However, social media is flooded with a request statement of our PM Modi not to buy the Chinese items in Indian Market. Such a request is ridiculous and dangerous for Indian businessmen who import Chinese-made-things from China. Who will compensate the loss of manifold of million Dollar. Is the whopping amount of businessmen a miniscule money for inflated nationalists for showing jingoism?

Prime Minister Modi must ban the business treaty between India and China that helps Pakistan’s nefarious design of terrorism attack on India. Terrorism across the border is heinous and it must be deplored. Government of India’s request is going to give a big jolt to Indian businessmen on the eve of Festival of lights and so is to huge financial and cinematic cultural loss to producer and director Mr.Karan Johar who had signed two Cine-artists from Pakistan, much before the recent attack of Pak-supported-Terrorists, that has embittered its relation with India.Indian soldiers who lost their lives, cannot be irreparable. This fatal activity is, really, deplorable.

Banning of screening of Mr.Johar’s film “Ae Dil Hai Mushkil” by Association of Distributors & Exhibitors will leave a cultural and cine-business malaise in the Art Field of country. Government of India must intervene and calm down the bigot-jingoism of few people at least three states like Maharashtra, Gujarat, Goa being governed by BJP.

PM Modi must request these distributors to run the film in theatres to flow free culture and the business of cinema. Banning the film is against PM’s vocal programme “Make-in-India”.

The film “Ae Dil Hai Mushkil” has Indian actors like Ranbir Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Anushka Sharma as well as Pak-artists like Fawad Khan and Mahira Khan.
A nation cannot settle its score with another nation by banning one’s artist’s performance into another’s. Such prevention of cultural flow is not healthy for the revival of the relation between the two nations in the days to come in. Only flow of culture sweetens the dead bridge into cultural bridge of two countries. Whipping patriotism or nationalism by killing the cultural bridge does not benefit any country.

If Film Makers like Anurag Kashyap and others question the guardian of the country, the social media gets flooded with abusive attacks upon them, ordering to seek apology from PM Modi. Anurag Kashyap has surfaced the things before PM, seeking his sorry too to him if PM feels offended. Although inflated jingoism is not sparing the film maker Mr.Anurag. All the theatres of country barring three-four BJP-ruled states do not have much brouhaha to release the film. The timid distributers and exhibiters have taken a patriotic position in lieu of business position.

Our Prime Minister Modi must appeal his governments of four states, distributors and passionate patriotic people to allow Karan-Johar’s high-budgeted film for the sake of free cultural flow within and across the border and free business too instead of appealing citizens of India to be away from the Chinese items in Indian Markets run by Indian businessmen who have invested a whopping amount of money to run their business.

As a Film Maker, I appeal my PM Modi to expedite the process of releasing the film as soon as possible.

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The film “PINK” underlines, “Bollywood is changing.”

The film “PINK” has gripped me till its moving end-credit roll with a powerful poetry in the voice of Amitabh Bachchan. I shivered, trembled and my tears jumped out with a voice. A touching hand of one of the spectators had sensed me back. I wiped my tear.

Film “Pink” creates a catastrophic turmoil in me and makes me feel ashamed of being man who are so disgraced, prejudiced, feudal, egoist, reluctant, bigot, arrogant and male-centric that existence of being woman gets misplaced and degraded in society. The man is growing from infant to young without hindrance with full freedom whereas the girls are grown with care of negation.

Film “PINK” by its name implies that woman is so rosy that she has been made to please the lust of man.The progressing India has given a little space to the woman to modernize in comparison to man. In Metro cities,the educated middle class girls interact with boys and they go far with their mutual consent but boys make their dirtiest opinion for girls. Those very girls are misunderstood by the boys for ever.This very film beats such an evil dust of the feudal-infested-man and a retired old lawyer who is distress and distraught of his ailing wife, kindles the hopes in the eyes of three victimized girls who are sexually harassed, molested in the car,racially tortured by the boys who belong to powerful feudal sort of politician.

The court-drama makes audience stunned. After the court, pathos, mental agony and suffering of girls bizarrely produce a horrific ambience not on the celluloid but on the mind of audiences in the hall. Pin-drop-silence pierce each spectator sitting in the theatre with gripped breathing. The reluctant -feudals go berserk to see the picture of her sister, drinking liquor in a party and he patronizes the woman of his high-blooded-family.

The last judgement session of court listens seriously to the experienced lawyer who adds, saying,” No means always no…No does not have any description except no. Either in certain stipulated time, consented girls deny or the prostitutes deny. No means always no.

The film has wonderful locations of country’s capital, “New Delhi” that has modern and educated women only but men are less in the number who understand these sensitive girls. The lawyers and the owner of the house can be counted in such less populated civilized gentry of capital of country, that throws frequent heart-wrenching incidents against woman to the people of country.

The Big B , Taapsee Punnu,Kirti Kulhari.Andrea Tariang,Angad Bedi,Piyush Mishra,Mamta Shanker and Vinod Nagpal and others have put their hearts into their characters. Amitabh Bachchan( Big B) has scintillated his character.

The Back ground score churns the audiences.Music by Shantanu Moitra,Anupam Roy and Faiza Mujahid relate to the prevailing situations of the film.

Producers Sujit Sarcar and Rashmi Sharmi have dared to make such an parallel cinema amidst of flood of commercial Cinema, is a welcoming step.

I can underline that Bollywood is changing.