Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani Review

Yeh Jawaani hai deewani is a emotional journey. Its a film worth watching at cinemas. Ayan Mukerji as a director is successful in evoking the emotions as I walk out of the cinema hall one can not let away those good deep heavy feelings as you leave the theater with the small moments and the soul touching song and lyrics just like he did in his previous movie Wake up S!d.

Ranbir and Deepkia are good pair on the film and even the actors Farooq Shaikh and Tanvi Azmi makes you feel home who play the parents of Ranbir Kapoor who prefers to be called as Bunny.

The friends Aditya Roy Kapoor and Kalki Koechlin are confusing but they do spice up the screen with humor and support to bunny even though Bunny is lost in his world of ambitions to live his dreams to travel the world.

The special appearance by Madhuri Dixit as Mohini in the song does add up to the film where Ranbir's character a out going and adventurous young lad explores the world as he dances with Mohini in a intership for a foregin tv crew as the first song of the film looks too forced and early but it sets the character of Bunny a 'besheram' (Shameless) a person who lives the moment.

The character of Deepika as Naina the 'scholaar', the character who takes on taking challenges as she transforms from a reserved bookish topper to a fun loving girl.

Off course is a commercial Indian movie and it showcases foreign locations but also captures the Indian hill stations of Manali and Kashmir. 

Hangover 3 Review

Hangover 3 is a continuation of disaster before a wedding at a bachelor party but Hangover 3 seems to be a reunion more of a intervention to Zach Galifianakis as Alan lives his reckless life. Its a laughter riot. 4 friends coming back together once again. The movie also takes on famous Hollywood iconic scenes which is cool to watch. Leave your brains and just enjoy the joy ride with the wolf pack.

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WWIL GAP Diploma Film 2012

This is a student diploma short film made at Whistling Woods 2012.

WWIL DIPLOMA FILM - JULY 2012 - GAP - Short Film

Camera: Sony F-35

Format: HD

Cast: Debashish Naha | Usha Kiran | Yash Salvi | Ashika Dahya | Mehul Dawar| Vivian

Directed by Viral Desai

Producer Mansi Shah

Story and Screenplay Harshith Bangera and Viral Desai

Cinematography Kavya Sharma

Editing Utsab Bandopadhyay

Sound Rahul Badwelkar and Rakshit Thantry

Music Ragini Shankar

WWIL 2012 Diploma Film House For Sale

Jaya an old women of age 60, has to sale her house, different customer come to see her house, but in end no deal happens but one day old man name Prabhakar who is a friend of old lady comes to see Jaya’s house & truth is revealed about Jaya & her house.

WWIL DIPLOMA FILM - JULY 2012 - House for Sale
Camera: Sony F-35
Format: HD

Cast
Sharmila Goenka | Mukesh Rawal | Ashika Dahya | Kaushal Pratap Singh | Mansi Shah | Vipul Tyagi | Agnimitra Sharma | Digvijay Singh  | Akash

Written and Directed by Harsh Bablani
Cinematography Nam Ngo
Edited by Utsab Bandopadhyay
Sound Recordist Abhishek Pant
Sound desinger Rakshit Thantry
Music Advait Nemlkar
Line Producer Mayank Dhanuka and Agnimitra Sharma
Unit Production Manager Santosh Kadam

Go Goa Gone Review

Watched Go Goa Gone..! I am sorry to say its a crapy film.

What all we know? what we have done?
A. G#@n£@

The film is well crafted no problems with the story too. Its just that the Zombie genre for Indian Cinema is too late to hit the screens.For audience like me who have seen the episodes of 'Walking Dead' and watched films like Zomieland and other films of same genre would only love the jokes. But hey its not that bad if you are bored watching animals in the zoo focefully caged in the zoo in the name of science or hate your Italian Pasta or Sushi looking out something new for food, how about some human flesh for a change or how about some shooting practice. Oh wait the bullet shots generated on Nuke or after effects in cgi, well didn't get the software since the theater "My Cinemas" cut short the end credits to save time and lamp change cost for "Shoot Out at Wadala".

Bombay Talkies Review

I spent a lovely evening all alone by myself with Rs. 300/- spent for a ticket at a suburban multiplex seated on a comfy mechanized leather seats to watch a film after 5 months inside a air conditioned room with complete strangers to watch 'Bombay Talkies' a film, which showcases the regular people and their connection and livelihoods connected with cinema. It is a series of 4 short films with 4 different stories.

Go watch the film its a good movie. :)

Why digital film looks so milky

A job of a 'Digital Image Technician' is to set and decide workflow to avoid conflicts when dealing with mixed formats from different digital cameras and take secure backups and transcode for the editor to do offline edit before the Digital Intermediate process takes place so that EDL's, XML and the VFX sequences and sound match with the offline edits during the post production process till your content is distributed through Digital Cinema Package (DCP).

A 'Digital Image Technician' is generally from post production background who is a editor who understands the process of pre production to post production and various other aspects of film making which comes handy to guide different departments of a film unit to achieve best from their art and times breaking new grounds which creates a feeling of 'Awe' in the minds of the audience.

The ARRI Alexa camera is a digital tape less camera which records digitally on cards with images up to 3k size which is higher than 1920X1080 pixels HD resolution recorded on Sony F3 and Sony F35 on tapes but latest *Sony F65 is tape less (updated).

On my seventh day as a DIT on location I was asked "Why the SXS Apple Pro Res QuickTime 444 clips looks milky" for which I had no proper answer. I just knew that a LUT (Look Up Table) has to be added to the Apple Pro Res 4444 QT's to make it look like the live video feed from calibrated monitors on set in the post stage while trans-coding as decided with the team.

The older ARRI Alexa camera gives two outputs one in SXS cards in Apple Quick Time 444HQ format with roll numbers as a clip name and .ARI Codex in Gemini card which records .ARI file in folders or in the Codex recorder as a raw proprietary extension like the .dpx sequence is given in form of .ari you can switch on and off the Rec709 looks set by the cinematography department while trancoding a process to makes high res footage for editing to save disk space and easy data management .

The camera records on 24 fps (Also on 25 fps and other fps). The ARRI Alexa camera shows you the live feed REC 709 look that you see on the monitor with no milky image but you can see a milky image in the ARRI Alexa Apple Pro Res 4444 QT MOV on XT or 444 HQ on the SXS cards. Its because the image has additional gamma (brightness) to give more control of colors while doing the color correction so its only the meta data same goes for Red epic (5K) and Red Dragon (6K) (Updated). Its just representation of looks via meta data.

You have to add custom LUT's to make it look like raw live feed on the camera .ARI file sequences while trans-coding with Davici Resolve lite or any other software which accepts LUT's to make the C-log/S-log/red-color look like the way you recorded on ARRI Alexa/Red/F-65/Black Magic Pocket Camera (Updated).