Katharina Suckale‘s journey into the world of cinema began 25 years ago. She began by working in film distribution and sales with MK2 – Marin Karmitz in Paris and later moved to film production. She founded Suckale Film Produktion in 2003 and directed documentaries, short and experimental films and produced in Germany, France, Africa and…
Directors Ruchi Joshi and Sriram Ganapathy‘s short film Murakh a.k.a The Idiot is the story of a man (Arfi Lamba) arrested for hijacking a plane and the chaos that ensues. Through this premise, the film which uses dark humour to drive its narrative, attempts to shed light on a society plagued by bigotry and paranoia. At a time when incidents of communal clashes and…
My first question is about your skill to become a domestic drama in a kind of Greek tragedy. Did you do the same in A Separation, The Past and now in The Salesman. How did you know that you are in front of your next story? I’d been taking notes for this simple story that…
Anand Surapur is no stranger to the world of showbiz. He began his journey by making ad films under the banner of Phat Phish Productions and directed ad films for brands such as Dominos Pizza (which featured Paresh Rawal), Thumbs Up (which featured the popular Telugu star Chiranjeevi) and the ad for Bajaj’s range of…
Interview with Deepanjana Pal on mentoring college students in the Mumbai Young Critics Lab for the Jio MAMI 18th Mumbai Film Festival.
In this freewheeling chat, actor Naveen Kasturia gave us an insight into his struggles to fame and process as an actor. How did the journey in the Industry begin? I was working after engineering, when I decided to quit job and move to Mumbai to become a director. I never wanted to become an actor.…
In part 1 of our conversation with popular subtitling expert Rekhs we discussed a variety of topics including her journey into films and subtitling, the process involved, subtitling for songs, challenges involved etc. Here is Part 2, the concluding part of the freewheeling chat with Rekhs. (You can check out Part 1 of the conversation…
