Recently I had a really upset fan write to me, who reacted adversely to a TV interview of mine on National TV. Where I said that I was far more comfortable with failure than I ever will be with success. He thought I was looking down upon those that are working hard and striving to [...]
Till the rains come.
Her grandson hung loosely from her hip. Lacking the energy to steady his head lolling from side to side. He was badly in need of food. Yet as she implored me for some money I knew she had not been doing this for long. For the hundreds of beggars I pass every day have a [...]
Melanie Hogan
For those that remember Melanie's blogs in the Golden Age diary, know that her film releases in Australia today, and if u want to read a brilliant review of the film, go to http://sunday.ninemsn.com.au/sunday/
The Astrophysicist and the Filmmaker
5 yeras ago at the World Economic Forum in Davos I met an amazing mind and soul. Piet Hut is Dutch, married to the beautiful Eiko, who is from Japan. His is Buddhist and a proffesor of at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton University. The meeting led to an amazing series of e [...]
Is God real, daddy ?
It's late in the night I hold your little hand in mine we lie in bed as u stare at the ceiling what is God, Daddy is God real ? of course my love God is real God is love but does God exist, Daddy or is he in my imagination ? both, my love [...]
The Break
I am travelling in India right now taking a break, while my editor, Jill Bilcock is getting the assembly ready. Which essentially means that she is interpreting the masses of material I shot into something that actually makes emotional and narrative sense to view !! A film is always.. first interpreted at the script level. [...]
Before
we never met the first time we never met there was no such time.. for u were there and so was I before.... we shall never meet the next time we shall never meet there will be no such time for you'll be there and so will I before ... I know I had posted [...]
Welcome to Eternity, bye bye Big Bang
Have always struggled with the idea of the Universe actually having a 'begining' with the Big Bang and therefore by inference an 'end' ... If the principles of Quantum Physics are to hold true, then surely time has absolutely no linear value. The concept of Timelesness is where the the new Quantum Theorists and the [...]
Ripples
Are we merely ripples created by a universal consciousnes eternally at play ? And if before the ripple subsides, we have known eternal love and compassion, then the ripple perhaps has had some significance. The essential element seems to be humility. So much humility tha it can wash away the ego in it's tide. That [...]
Mary’s Execution : an interpretation thru music
Sushma asked "Mr. Pinto and Mr Rahman haven't met as yet, but have been working on certain parts of the movie on their own, is that right? Back in May Mr. Pollard mentions how ARR's music is being used for the execution scene of Mary, Queen of Scots; hence the question.The post on the execution [...]