I have been searching high and low for a dvd of English August. Finally I decided to ask you :-). Where can I get one?

Cheers

Vikas

Thank you!

please atlease let us know what is going on with that project

dear fan
muthuvel

thanks

Thank you so much for this really interesting and informative article on Subrata Mitra, unarguably the greatest Indian cinematographer ever. I read about his innovative ‘bouncing light’ technique from Satyajit Ray’s famous book ‘Our Films Their Films’ and how he invented the “bounced” lighting technique in Ray’s Aparajito by a simple and inexpensive device as a white outstretched cloth, to achieve shadowless diffusion, even though Ray and Bansi Chandragupta were little doubtful of Subrata’s experiment. Ray went on to claim that this is the most effective technique in films made under realistic format. Subrata’s technique led him to innovate what became subsequently his most important tool – bounce lighting and this a whole 10 years before Sven Nykvist claimed to be its originator in American Cinematographer
Subrata can clearly be placed along side the great cinematographers of the world, like Sven Nykvist, Vittorio Storaro, Vilmos Zsigmond or Gregg Toland. I an avid Satyajit Ray fan (infact I worship him, like many others) and I am excited to read such an interesting article about Ray’s famed cinematographer. Thank you so much.
The fact that you have seen him, interacted with him, observed his work, and surely learnt a great deal in this process, is some kind of a life time opportunity, right?
When Ray died, I was 14 and didn’t see many of his films at that time (largely feeding upon Bollywood crap), though, being a Bengali, I had indubitably heard of him and his work as he became a household name. But after few years, I got introduced to the ‘World of Ray’ and his cinema, and that changed my perspective about cinema forever. Its interesting to note that Subrata Mitra is a distinguished sitar player and had composed music and played the sitar for The River and Pather Panchali!

Has the DVD/ CD now been released. Is there a way one can see English, August.

How can I see EA now? Do help.

BUT… for a special copy of English, August? Now that’s an offer I find hard to refuse.

Aparna: Why do I sound like a geek? Stanley Kubrick once said if a few directors get together all they talk about is technology. You should read my tribute to Subrata Mitra and perhaps that might give you an insight.
In any case I prefer to let my movies speak and not come across as some painful, pompous intellectual.

If you are looking for insights into filmmaking they are scattered all over this blog. Like clues one has to discover in life. But if you’d prefer some “gyaan” then there are several websites where directors and filmmakers wax eloquent.

Kuntal: Yes, you are persistent. And boy, has Prasad Lab screwed up the negative of English, August. The DVD will take A LOT OF TIME. But it will be there. I assure you!!

And yes, read ALL of Murakami. I am a total fan of his.

And Mice and Men. It’s a perfect book to read especially if one wants to know how to write a good screenplay.

oh, almost forgot. I share my birthday with you, fellow libran! and, I’m sure you know who we share it with? why the illustrious Lata Mangeshkar, no less!

blog more often, Dev!
Bye.
Aparna.

Also, thanks for introducing me to Haruki Murakami…
Read A wild sheep chase and loved it ….

A few days back happened to read about Kiran Nagarkar.
Any progress on ‘Ravan and Eddie’ ?