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Bhatt
Again...
We
keep reading that he's retiring, but he's still very much around. "The
press has got it wrong, despite my repeatedly telling them that I'm only
retiring from film making as a director," snarls Mahesh Bhatt. So
between producing four films which he's also written, putting together
a book-just released-on U.G. Krishnamurthy that's called The Little
Book of Questions, and working on another one on his interaction with
the great philosopher, Bhatt worked into his schedule a documentary on
the Orissa cyclone called The Calamity That Was ...No, no, he did
not direct it (the credit for that goes to Ajay Kanchan). Bhatt conceptualised
and presented it. And last week, he was in Delhi to promote it. Kanchan's
film, by the way, is a sincere attempt to present the trauma of the now-forgotten
cyclone victims. Back to Bhatt ... Not one to retire from shooting his
mouth off either, he adds: "The problem with celebrity endorsement
of a cause is that the celebrity becomes more important than the issue."
So why was he there? Never mind. Try seeing the film.
-Anna
M.M. Vetticad
Occidental
Odyssey
Since we're talking about Ratan Thiyam, there's
nothing surprising here. The theatre director from Manipur has just had
the North American premier of his war play Uttar-Priyadarshi (The
Final Beatitude) as part of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts'
millennium season last week in Washington. Now it's on to other major
US cities before winding up at the prestigious Next Wave Festival in late
October. Uttar-Priyadarshi, says Thiyam, is the journey "of
a confused man who reaches the path of human kindness and peace by eliminating
the evil desire growing within him".
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