After his wealthy family prohibits him from marrying the woman he is in love with‚ Devdas Mukherjee’s life spirals further and further out of control as he takes up alcohol and a life of vice to numb the pain. An epic love story set in the 1900s which reveals a portrait of love destroyed by class differences‚ family pressures‚ and character weaknesses. Devdas is the wealthy son of a high-caste landlord. His best friend growing up‚ whom he loved dearly‚ was Paro‚ the daughter of a low-caste family
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“Anurag Kashyap: an auteur demystified” This essay deals with the life and work of celebrated filmmaker and enigma‚ Anurag Kashyap and deciphers his rise from a wannabe script writer to a director whose proficiency earned him acclaim from all quarters‚ be it film critics or the thousands of viewers across all spectrums of society. The essay attempts to explain this versatile artist’s background and personal life and its impact on themes he chooses to explore through
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Celebrities have a moral responsibility to be good role models for the society‚ would you agree? First of all by using the dictionary the main definitions can be broken down; the definition for a celebrity is ‘a famous or well known person’. The definition of moral responsibility is ‘the idea that a person has moral obligations in certain situations.’ The definition of a good role model is ‘a person whose behaviour‚ example‚ or success is or can be emulated by others‚ especially by younger people
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Revisiting The Golden Era Of Hindi Cinema Introduction : A country of 1.2 billion people‚ the ancient civilisation of India is a melting pot of cultures and juxtapositions. It is a land that will assault your senses all around. The vibrant colours‚ exotic aromas‚ cacophony of sounds‚ and the amalgamation of flavours will both enchant and offend. Within it more than 20 native dialects are spoken. But in this diversity there is unity found in the common language of their movies. Such is the
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Film analysis – Slumdog Millionaire Slumdog Millionaire is a successful and popular Bollywood film. Bollywood films are movies that are produced in Mumbai in India‚ and this is one of the largest film productions in the whole world. In the film‚ we get an insight in India’s culture‚ and how the industry is changing. The film is a about a boy called Jamal. He is a poor 18‐year old boy who lives in the slum in India. He joins a TV‐show called “Who wants to be a millionaire” and tries out for
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Name writer: Vikas Swarup Book title: Slumdog millionaire Publishing year: 2005 Summary The story starts with the moment at which Ram Mohammed Thomas is arrested by the police. He has just won an enormous amount of money‚ namely one billion rupees. All that by winning a quiz-show called ‘Who will win a Billion’ a quiz show that is similar to the show that we know as ‘Lotto weekend millionaires’. The problem is that the company who made the show just doesn’t want to believe that a poor‚ 18 years
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untouched by its impact. Today‚ Indian Cinema is completing 100 years of an exhilarating journey. Let us flip pages of the past to dig out the remains of history and understand the impact of those torch bearers whose untiring efforts have led Bollywood to become the biggest film industry in terms of volume. For brevity sake‚ I’ll discuss the article in a two part series. This is the first one dealing with initial half of our cinematic journey. From Dada Saheb Phalke’s humble beginnings to the
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Tilak Wijesundara International Journal of Communicology 2011;1(1) Indian Mass Media: A Sociological Analysis Tilak Wijesundara School of Sociology‚ Wuhan University‚ Wuhan 430072‚ Hubei‚ People‟s Republic of China. Department of Sociology‚ University of Ruhuna‚ Matara‚ Sri Lanka E-mail: wtilak@gmail.com Abstract: Mass media is often linked to the word „communication‟ which generally refers to an exchange of information and messages. Mass media which involves in Newspapers‚ Radio‚ Television
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How McDonald’s evolved its marketing in India Preeti Chaturvedi When McDonald’s India launched in 1996‚ urban Indians in Mumbai and Delhi typically ate out three to fives times a month‚ according to AT Kearney‚ the management consultancy. In the 12 years since then‚ that average frequency has doubled and analysts forecast that by 2011 the Indian quick service restaurant market will be worth 30‚000 crore (about $6.3bn at October 2008 exchange rates). But from their earliest investments in India
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about Andrei Tarkovsky and his cinematography. While we were talking about‚ his movie‚ "Solaris"‚ Erman drew our attention to adaptation of the "Solaris" which is directed and written by Steven Soderbergh. We generally talk about Cinema of Europe‚ Bollywood and Cinema of Asia. If we talk about America‚ it is probably Independent American Cinema. All of us accepted that American Film Industry stinks and we don’t talk about it much except a few directors like Christopher Nolan‚ Martin Scorsese‚ etc.
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