About My Work
- Rahul Rao
- PUNE, MAHARASTRA, India
- I m a media student and perusing my Graduation in Media and Entertainment and B.B.A (Communication & Broadcasting)from Annamalai university. Have worked in student Short film... http://youtu.be/4-ad_W5t3fE (check this youtube video for my film). Want to work with this industry day and night .... I am working on 2 other movies and Written a script for my first directorial film "THE NIGHT".... from Pune(Maharashtra).
Friday, June 15, 2012
Sunday, June 10, 2012
IDENTITY(Ek Nayi Pehchan).avi
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Saturday, May 14, 2011
SPANISH FILM FESTIVAL...
WEBSITE ANALISES
Users may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users may join common interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics.
The name of the service stems from the colloquial name for the book given to students at the start of the academic year by university administrations in the United States to help students get to know each other better. Facebook allows anyone who declares them to be at least 13 years old to become a registered user of the website.
Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities before opening to high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over.
A January 2009 Compete.com study ranked Facebook as the most used social networking service by worldwide monthly active users, followed by MySpace.
Entertainment Weekly included the site on its end-of-the-decade "best-of" list, saying, "How on earth did we stalk our exes, remember our co-workers' birthdays, bug our friends, and play a rousing game of Scrabulous before Facebook?" Quant cast estimates Facebook has 135.1 million monthly unique U.S. visitors in October 2010. According to Social Media Today, in April 2010 an estimated 41.6% of the U.S. population had a Facebook account.
Users can create profiles with photos, lists of personal interests, contact information, and other personal information. Users can communicate with friends and other users through private or public messages and a chat feature. They can also create and join interest groups and "like pages" (formerly called "fan pages", until April 19, 2010), some of which are maintained by organizations as a means of advertising.
To allay concerns about privacy, Facebook enables users to choose their own privacy settings and choose who can see specific parts of their profile. The website is free to users, and generates revenue from advertising, such as banner ads.
Facebook requires a user's name and profile picture (if applicable) to be accessible by everyone. Users can control who sees other information they have shared, as well as who can find them in searches, through their privacy settings. The media often compare Facebook to MySpace but one significant difference between the two websites is the level of customization.
Depending on privacy settings, anyone who can see a user's profile can also view that user's Wall. In July 2007, Facebook began allowing users to post attachments to the Wall, whereas the Wall was previously limited to textual content only.
On February 23, 2010, Facebook was granted a patent on certain aspects of its News Feed. The patent covers News Feeds in which links are provided so that one user can participate in the same activity of another user. One of the most popular applications on Facebook is the Photos application, where users can upload albums and photos.
Facebook is the most and popular where all people come and connect with each other and with the world also.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
An inspiring story of the creators of LAGAAN................
- development of script
- casting film
- location managers
- planning pre and pro production.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
some truths about Bollywood...
ARTICLE
Bollywood films are multi-million dollar productions, with the most expensive productions costing up to 100 Crore rupees (roughly USD 20 million). Sets, costumes, special effects, and cinematography were less than world-class up until the mid-to-late 1990s, although with some notable exceptions. As Western films and television gain wider distribution in India itself, there is an increasing pressure for Bollywood films to attain the same production levels, particularly in areas such as action and special effects. Recent Bollywood films have employed international technicians to improve in these areas, such as Krish (2006) which has action choreographed by Hong Kong based Tony Ching. The increasing accessibility to professional action and special effects, coupled with rising film budgets, has seen an explosion in the action and sci-fi genres.
Sequences shot overseas have proved a real box office draw, so Mumbai film crews are increasingly filming in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States, continental Europe and elsewhere. Nowadays, Indian producers are winning more and more funding for big-budget films shot within India as well, such as Lagaan, Devdas and other recent films.
Funding for Bollywood films often comes from private distributors and a few large studios. Indian banks and financial institutions were forbidden from lending money to movie studios. However, this ban has now been lifted. As finances are not regulated, some funding also comes from illegitimate sources, such as the Mumbai underworld. The Mumbai underworld has been known to be involved in the production of several films, and is notorious for their patronization of several prominent film personalities; On occasion, they have been known to use money and muscle power to get their way in cinematic deals. In January 2000, Mumbai mafia hit men shot Rakish Roshan, a film director and father of star Hrithik Roshan. In 2001, the Central Bureau of Investigation seized all prints of the movie Chori Chori Chupke Chupke after the movie was found to be funded by members of the Mumbai underworld.
Another problem facing Bollywood is widespread copyright infringement of its films. Often, bootleg DVD copies of movies are available before the prints are officially released in cinemas. Manufacturing of bootleg DVD, VCD, and VHS copies of the latest movie titles is a well-established 'small scale industry' in parts of South Asia and South East Asia. The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) estimate that the Bollywood industry loses $100 million annually in loss of revenue from pirated home videos and DVDs. Besides catering to the homegrown market, demand for these copies is large amongst some sections of the Indian diaspora, too. (In fact, bootleg copies are the only way people in Pakistan can watch Bollywood movies, since the Government of Pakistan has banned their sale, distribution and telecast). Films are frequently broadcast without compensation by countless small cable TV companies in India and other parts of South Asia. Small convenience stores run by members of the Indian diaspora in the U.S. and the UK regularly stock tapes and DVDs of dubious provenance, while consumer copying adds to the problem. The availability of illegal copies of movies on the Internet also contributes to the piracy problem.
Satellite TV, television and imported foreign films are making huge inroads into the domestic Indian entertainment market. In the past, most Bollywood films could make money; now fewer tend to do so. However, most Bollywood producers make money, recouping their investments from many sources of revenue, including selling ancillary rights. There are also increasing returns from theatres in Western countries like the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States, where Bollywood is slowly getting noticed. As more Indians migrate to these countries, they form a growing market for upscale Indian films.
For an interesting comparison of Hollywood and Bollywood financial figures, see chart. It shows tickets sold in 2002 and total revenue estimates. Bollywood sold 3.6 billion tickets and had total revenues (theatre tickets, DVDs, television etc.) of US$1.3 billion, whereas Hollywood films sold 2.6 billion tickets and generated total revenues (again from all formats) of US$51 billion.
Advertising, many Indian artists used to make a living by hand-painting movie billboards and posters (The well-known artist M.F. Hussein used to paint film posters early in his career). This was because human labour was found to be cheaper than printing and distributing publicity material. Now, a majority of the huge and ubiquitous billboards in India's major cities are created with computer-printed vinyl. The old hand-painted posters, once regarded as ephemera, are becoming increasingly collectible as folk art.
Releasing the film music, or music videos, before the actual release of the film can also be considered a form of advertising. A popular tune is believed to help pull audiences into the theaters.
Bollywood publicists have begun to use the Internet as a venue for advertising. Most of the better-funded film releases now have their own websites, where browsers can view trailers, stills, and information about the story, cast, and crew.
Bollywood is also used to advertise other products. Product placement, as used in Hollywood, is widely practiced in Bollywood.
Bollywood movie stars appear in print and television advertisements for other products, such as watches or soap (see Celebrity endorsement). Advertisers say that a star endorsement boosts sales.
Thus all the Bollywood members earn a lot in all ways.
“Vincent van Gogh” life............
| “Vincent van Gogh” Birth Year : 1853 Vincent van Gogh, for whom colour was the chief symbol of expression, was born in Groot-Zundert, Holland. The son of a pastor, brought up in a religious and cultured atmosphere, Vincent was highly emotional and lacked self-confidence. Between 1860 and 1880, when he |
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| finally decided to become an artist, van Gogh had had two unsuitable and unhappy romances and had worked unsuccessfully as a clerk in a bookstore, an art salesman, and a preacher in the Baronage (a dreary mining district in Belgium), where he was dismissed for overzealousness. He remained in Belgium to study art, determined to give happiness by creating beauty. The works of his early Dutch period are sombre-toned, sharply lit, genre paintings of which the most famous is "The Potato Eaters" (1885). In that year van Gogh went to Antwerp where he discovered the works of Rubens and purchased many Japanese prints. In 1886 he went to Paris to join his brother Theo, the manager of Goupil's gallery. In Paris, van Gogh studied with Cormon, inevitably met Pissarro, Monet, and Gauguin, and began to lighten his very dark palette and to paint in the short brushstrokes of the Impressionists. His nervous temperament made him a difficult companion and night-long discussions combined with painting all day undermined his health. He decided to go south to Arles where he hoped his friends would join him and help found a school of art. Gauguin did join him but with disastrous results. Near the end of 1888, an incident led Gauguin to ultimately leave Arles. Van Gogh pursued him with an open razor, was stopped by Gauguin, but ended up cutting a portion of his own ear lobe off. Van Gogh then began to alternate between fits of madness and lucidity and was sent to the asylum in Saint-Remy for treatment. In May of 1890, he seemed much better and went to live in Auvers-sur-Oise under the watchful eye of Dr. Gachet. Two months later he was dead, having shot himself "for the good of all." During his brief career he had sold one painting. Van Gogh's finest works were produced in less than three years in a technique that grew more and more impassioned in brushstroke, in symbolic and intense colour, in surface tension, and in the movement and vibration of form and line. Van Gogh's inimitable fusion of form and content is powerful; dramatic, lyrically rhythmic, imaginative, and emotional, for the artist was completely absorbed in the effort to explain either his struggle against madness or his comprehension of the spiritual essence of man and nature. |
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Get the list of the kapoor family since generaions...
Kapoor family
Originally hailing from the city of Samundri, District Lyallpur, Punjab of Hindu origin, five generations of the Kapoor family have acted, directed or produced in the Bollywood industry, starting from Dewan Basheswarnath Kapoor right down to Ranbir Kapoor. It was founded by actor Prithviraj Kapoor, whose eldest son Raj Kapoor became a superstar in the Hindi film industry, and his two other sons (Shashi Kapoor and Shammi Kapoor) became stars in their own right. Most members of the family have either acted in, produced or directed films, and have had a major impact on Indian films.
Though all three of Prithviraj Kapoor's sons became actors, it is Raj Kapoor's descendants that have carried on the family legacy. His sons, Randhir Kapoor and Rishi Kapoor went on to become well-known actors whilst his youngest son Rajiv Kapoor was not as successful as his brothers. Randhir Kapoor's daughters, Karisma Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor, have gone on to find success in the film industry, although the former has temporarily retired due to marriage. In addition to that, Rishi Kapoor's son, Ranbir Kapoor made his debut in 2007 opposite Sonam Kapoor, the daughter of Anil Kapoor, in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Saawariya.
Family tree
Members of the Kapoor Family
1st generation
* Dewan Basheswarnath Kapoor - a retired policeman and son of Dewan Keshavmal Kapoor who made a cameo in his grandson Raj Kapoor's movie, Awaara (1951)
2nd generation
* Prithviraj Kapoor - eldest son of Dewan Basheswarnath Kapoor; married to Ramsarni Mehra
* Trilok Kapoor - second son of Dewan Basheswarnath Kapoor
3rd generation
* Raj Kapoor - eldest son of Prithviraj; married to Krishna Malhotra
* Shammi Kapoor- second son of Prithviraj; married to Geeta Bali (first wife) and Neila Devi (second wife)
* Shashi Kapoor - youngest son of Prithviraj; married to Jennifer Kendal
* Urmila Sial - daughter of Prithviraj
4th generation
* Randhir Kapoor - eldest son of Raj Kapoor; married to Babita
* Rishi Kapoor - second son of Raj Kapoor; married to Neetu Singh Kapoor
* Rajiv Kapoor (Chimpu) - youngest son of Raj Kapoor
* Ritu Nanda - eldest daughter of Raj Kapoor; married to Rajan Nanda
* Rima Kapoor Jain - second daughter of Raj Kapoor; married to Manoj Jain first son,name of Mohitjain
* Kanchan Desai - daughter of Shammi Kapoor; married to Ketan Desai, son of Manmohan Desai
* Aditya Raj Kapoor - son of Shammi Kapoor; married to Priti
* Kunal Kapoor - eldest son of Shashi Kapoor and Jennifer Kendal, married to Sheena Sippy, daughter of film director Ramesh Sippy
* Karan Kapoor - second son of Shashi Kapoor and Jennifer Kendal
* Sanjana Kapoor - daughter of Shashi Kapoor and Jennifer Kendal; married to Valmik Thapar
* Namita Kapur - daughter of Urmila Sial, married to Vicky Kapur
* Anuradha Kheta - daughter of Urmila Sial
* Priti Grover - daughter of Urmila Sial, married to Sandeep Grover
* Jatin Sial - son of Urmila Sial, married Kavita Sharma
5th generation
* Karisma Kapoor - eldest daughter of Randhir Kapoor and Babita; married to Sanjay Kapur
* Kareena Kapoor - second daughter of Randhir Kapoor and Babita; in a relationship with Saif Ali Khan
* Ranbir Kapoor - son of Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh Kapoor
* Armaan Jain - eldest son of Rima and Manoj Jain
* Aadar Jain - second son of Rima and Manoj Jain
* Riddhima Sahni Kapoor - daughter of Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh Kapoor; married to Bharat Sahni
* Nitasha Nanda - daughter of Ritu Nanda and Rajan Nanda
* Nikhil Nanda - son of Ritu Nanda and Rajan Nanda; married to Shweta Bachchan-Nanda, daughter of Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan
* Pooja Desai - eldest daughter of Kanchan and Ketan Desai
* Rajrajeshwari Desai - second daughter of Kanchan and Ketan Desai
* Vishwapratapraj Kapoor - son of Aditya Raj Kapoor and Priti Kapoor
* Tulsi Kapoor - daughter of Aditya Raj Kapoor and Priti Kapoor
* Zahan Prithviraj Kapoor - son of Kunal Kapoor (Kapoor family) and Sheena Sippy
* Shaira Laura Kapoor - daughter of Kunal Kapoor (Kapoor family) and Sheena Sippy
* Hameer - son of Sanjana Kapoor and Valmik Thapar
* Anisha Kapur - daughter of Namita Kapur
* Vibha Kapur - daughter of Namita Kapur
* Varun Kapur - son of Namita Kapur
* Nushka Kheta - daughter of Anuradha Kheta
* Priyanka Kheta- daughter of Anuradha Kheta
* Sukriti - elder daughter of Priti Grover and Sandeep Grover
* Nainika - younger daughter of Priti Grover and Sandeep Grover
* Ammeya Sial - daughter of Jatin Sial
* Myra Sial - daughter of Jatin Sial
6th Generation
* Samaira Kapur - daughter of Karisma Kapoor and Sanjay Kapur
* Kiaan Raj Kapur - son of Karisma Kapoor and Sanjay Kapur
* Navya Naveli Nanda - daughter of Nikhil Nanda and Shweta Bachchan-Nanda
* Agastye Nanda - son of Nikhil Nanda and Shweta Bachchan-Nanda








