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Aryan
PostPosted: Fri Jun 27, 2003 4:46 pm 
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Trust RGV to be practically the only Indian filmmaker
truly interested in process of filmmaking - and making films for people who go to the movies to watch movies - not to watch so called stars.


Ram Gopal Varma to publish film magazine

By Subhash K. Jha, Indo-Asian News Service

Mumbai, June 27 (IANS) We've had instances of journalists like Khalid
Mohamed and Prakash Belwade turning filmmakers but the opposite hasn't been
heard of. Ram Gopal Varma plans to change that.

The director will be publishing a trade-and-craft related film magazine.

Varma told IANS: "I've been thinking about this idea for a long time.
There're so many trade magazines in Mumbai, and mine wouldn't purport to be
in competition with them. It would be a monthly analytical review-opinion
magazine where we'll look at cinema from the makers' viewpoints. For
instance, if a film doesn't do well we could have its director talk about
why he thinks it failed.

"A well-known critic may give us his view of a film and then we'd publish
the director's responses to the criticism. So filmmakers will finally have a
voice. Also, my intention is to make box-office figures completely
transparent and discernible to the common man."

Continues Varma: "The magazine would also have in depth articles on the
production aspect like the sound of 'Bhoot', the cinematography of 'Devdas'
and art direction or production design of 'Lagaan'.

"And why should this interest only filmmakers? I believe there's a sizeable
audience out there that wants to know of the technical aspect of cinema.
This isn't obtainable to the film buff."

The magazine will also have experts of creative and technical aspects
talking about the art and craft of cinema. The blueprint for the magazine is
being prepared now, and Varma hopes to launch it by year-end.

"It requires very elaborate planning. I want to bring out a magazine that I
as a film buff would like to read. Considering Bollywood is the
second-largest producer of films in the world, it's about time we took
various facets of our cinema seriously in print.

"One thing I'm sure of. There'll be no gossip in my magazine. Actors would
be featured but only as professionals doing their jobs. I think it would be
very interesting to read how Aamir Khan prepared for 'Lagaan'.

"When I read an informed film journal like American Cinematographer, I feel
humbled. I always wondered when we in Bollywood would have a magazine that
doesn't talk incessantly about stars' lives. I think a magazine that tells
us about the process of filmmaking is long-due in Bollywood."

--Indo-Asian News Service
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 28, 2003 8:42 am 
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Aryan wrote:
Continues Varma: "The magazine would also have in depth articles on the
production aspect like the sound of 'Bhoot', the cinematography of 'Devdas'
and art direction or production design of 'Lagaan'.

This is a great idea...I hope RGV can teach a thing or two to film makers in Bollywood about proper use of sound and 'objective' cinematography....
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 02, 2003 4:12 pm 
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Aryan wrote:


Mumbai, June 27 (IANS) We've had instances of journalists like Khalid
Mohamed and Prakash Belwade turning filmmakers but the opposite hasn't been
heard of. Ram Gopal Varma plans to change that.

Not entirely true. In the early eighties Sharmila Tagore used to edit a magazine called Take-2 (or something like that). It closed shop in about 2 years or so.....this has been attempted. But it is certainly a first one for a completely technical magazine.....looking forward to the same.....
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