The Storyteller's Lens
For the scenes that linger and the words that echo
Category: Filmmaker Reflections
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It took 25 years, a blue bra, and Ranveer Singh’s English — but he finally got there. In 1998, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai released to screaming crowds and all-time blockbuster labels. Everyone loved it — except me. I walked out of the theatre midway (a first for me, and I’ve sat through some truly questionable…
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Where silence speaks, the camera thinks, and the craft outruns the cliche. Another movie that made me pause. Not because the story was unique or the dialogues were out of this world. But because it changed something fundamental — the way a story is told. At the heart of it, OG is a regular Telugu…
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A title reveal that showed us everything — except the filmmaker we once knew. The title-reveal event of SS Rajamouli’s Varanasi was nothing short of a spectacle—lights, choreography, music, crowds, scale. A full-blown show for a title reveal.Not a trailer.Not a thematic teaser.Just a carefully controlled glimpse of Mahesh Babu and a soundtrack engineered to…
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