August 7, 2010: On the eve of the release of her film Aisha, Rajshree Ojha, the director of the film, tells Jyothi Venkatesh that if the content of a film is good, the rest will fall in place.
Did you assist any director before you made your debut with Chaurahe?
I confess that till date I havn’t assisted any Indian director. I had been an assistant to Charles Herman-Wurmfeld, who, besides being my mentor, had directed Legally Blonde 2. Jonathan was an independent director, who had also made the film Kissing Jessica Stein.
In what way is filmmaking different in India?
Filmmaking, per se, is the same whether in India or abroad. What I feel is lacking here is the will to respect the director. In filmmaking.
Did you assist any director before you made your debut with Chaurahe?
I confess that till date I havn’t assisted any Indian director. I had been an assistant to Charles Herman-Wurmfeld, who, besides being my mentor, had directed Legally Blonde 2. Jonathan was an independent director, who had also made the film Kissing Jessica Stein.
In what way is filmmaking different in India?
Filmmaking, per se, is the same whether in India or abroad. What I feel is lacking here is the will to respect the director. In filmmaking.
- 8/7/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
This weekend's opening of Julie & Julia came and went without a ton of fanfare - at least not the kind of fanfare that came with G.I. Joe. But Julie & Julia represents a watershed moment in cinematic history. It's the first blog to be adapted into a feature film. Since Fsr actually started as a blog (and evolved into what is clearly an online equestrian health magazine), we have a soft spot in our hearts for them right next to the soft spot we have for movie theater butter and the actual, physical soft spot that was created by eating too much movie theater butter. The future of filmmaking is bound to include more than a few blogs as subject material (since studios love playing follow the leader), so we figured we'd get a head start and present 10 of the Blogs we think would do well on the big screen. 10. Andrew...
- 8/11/2009
- by Dr. Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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