Vidur’s Year End Musings : Films – 2011

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA           JANUARY 15 , 2012           02.15  A.M. 2011 ended on a mixed note .  A very disturbing trend emerged in 2011 . Revenue from theatres went down . Revenue from other sources like ; audio , video and satellite rights are [...]

Vidur’s Film Diary – July 2011

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA                   AUGUST 01 , 2011                05.30 P. M. This is the 27th edition of my Film Diary. First six months of 2011 are over and it was fairly successful. Second half started with a bang [...]

Vidur’s Film Diary – June 2011

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA                   JULY 01, 2011                  06.00 P.M. This is the 26th edition of my Film Diary. It seems drought of the industry is over. Big films are now being released as the IPL is finished and cricket mania finally subsides. First big release of the month of June , ” Ready “ [...]

Vidur’s Film Diary – May 2011

DEORIA – UTTAR PRADESH – INDIA                 JUNE 01, 2011                    01.00 P.M. In this 25th edition of Vidur’s Film Diary, I would like to take stock of the first quarter of the year 2011. Hindi film industry suffered losses of over 200 crores in this first quarter. Of the 67 releases so far [ including dubbed [...]

Wilting Traditions – 1 : Holi & Hindi Cinema

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA           MARCH 26, 2011                   12. 2O A.M. We just celebrated Holi. Indian festivals, specially North Indian festivals always played major roles in the Hindi films of yesteryears. Once upon a time Holi , Deewali , Makar Sankranti [...]

A. K. Hangal & His Communist Comrades

Last month I was traveling. While going out of Mumbai, I came to know about pitiable condition of veteran actor Shri Avtar Krishn Hangal, aka A. K. Hangal. I was saddened and felt ashamed that such a veteran actor should be almost begging for his medical and other expenses. When I wrote an obituary to [...]

Vidur’s Film Diary – January 2011

It’s the 1st month of 2011. First release of the year opened quite well. But bad memories of the last year will take some time to get erased. Most of the films are still bombing with same regularity. Scenario is not very rosy yet and may take some time to stabilize. To emphasise my point [...]

My Association with ” Dhobi Ghat “

Today , on January 21, 2011 Aamir Khan‘s film ” Dhobi Ghat “ is releasing worldwide. Aamir Khan is known for his quality work and penchant for perfection. But Kiran Rao is unknown as for as her working style is concerned. So when I got a call from Advait Chandan , Kiran Rao’s Associate Director [...]

Vidur’s Year End Musings : Films – 2010

From this year [ 2011 ] I resolve to write a yearly reportage of the previous year’s Hindi Films in particular and Indian Films in general. So it is the first of its kind, where I am going to give some significant and some not so significant data of Hindi Films and T V Shows [...]

Vidur’s Film Diary – November 2010

  In November, Box Office mayhem of October is still continuing. ” Golmaal – 3″ opens to bumper houses but ” Action Replayy “ ? It fails miserably. Is it not surprizing that from last Diwali to this Diwali, only 5 films clicked in a big way ? They are : ” 3 Idiots “  [...]