Mohit Parikh's Blog, page 6
August 28, 2014
Manan reviewed by The Sunday Guardian
"Mohit Parikh's debut novel is an eloquent, sensitive and restrained look at the onset of puberty. Its earnest protagonist stays with you long after the last page is turned, says Aditya Mani Jha."
Check out the review at the newspaper website:
http://www.sunday-guardian.com/bookbeat/manan
Pasted below in full too (without permission :|)
ADITYA MANI JHA 23rd Aug 2014
An Urmila Shastry illustration from Mananhen you think about it, literary trends aren't that difficult to predict. The yea...
August 11, 2014
Found this on a paper napkin in my pants
(written eons ago)
When you are saying a thing or two
About you
Why can't I simply listen
Even when I intend to?
Madam, I complain and condemn and preach and flaunt
Sorry
I am yet to learn how to talk.
When you are saying a thing or two
About you
Why can't I simply listen
Even when I intend to?
Madam, I complain and condemn and preach and flaunt
Sorry
I am yet to learn how to talk.
Manan's video trailer
Interesting last three days. We invaded cafes and malls and offices, disturbed the good people there and shot with them video trailers for Manan . Nice of them to acquiesce and to share some very personal incidents and opinions. The videos will be edited and ready by August 20, most likely. August 20 is also the day, fyi, when the book hits the book stores and all online retailers across India.
While there were all sorts of answers for questions on sexuality, puberty, exposure to informat...
While there were all sorts of answers for questions on sexuality, puberty, exposure to informat...
August 5, 2014
Stop being hard on yourself!
I am not a writer. I am a dreamer who actualizes a story through words. My writing regime does not - can not- consist of six hours of writing. It can consist of five and a half hours of dreaming and a half an hour of note taking. Things start from there.
Writing is the last thing in my writing. May I not forget that.
Writing is the last thing in my writing. May I not forget that.
July 25, 2014
April 6, 2014
Erasure
Third sleepless night in a row. I am eating up the words I used to form. Nebula black hole. Empty, empty, empty. Write. Shut up, lock up, act appropriately.
In other words: some habits are dying, leaving behind space. Not for too long. Do, what you have been intending to.
This is how one makes oneself?
In other words: some habits are dying, leaving behind space. Not for too long. Do, what you have been intending to.
This is how one makes oneself?
March 1, 2014
Good things are happening
Never have I had any doubts that this project is going to be a failure. Never. Not even for a second. I close my eyes and visualize the sequences. I jot down notes and quotes and details of random scenes. I discuss it with my friends. I imagine myself on the location, with my "crew", ensuring that the abstract turns into something tangible. And it all feels so GOOD. Like there is something beautiful that is going to happen through this project. And that is what has made me stick to it every s...
February 21, 2014
Where the hell I have been the last three weeks?
To Mcleodganj, and back.
Details soon. Tomorrow.
The movie has become more ambitious in last one week. I think my work for now is to let the script expand, soar, and before I share it with my team, weed out everything except the essentials; and also to work on other components, say, team management and schedule.
Wheels are churning. I sense a momentum building. I hope to flow.
Details soon. Tomorrow.
The movie has become more ambitious in last one week. I think my work for now is to let the script expand, soar, and before I share it with my team, weed out everything except the essentials; and also to work on other components, say, team management and schedule.
Wheels are churning. I sense a momentum building. I hope to flow.
The Remodernist Film Manifesto
From Jesse Richards:
A couple of years back I wrote a film manifesto calling for a new authenticity in cinema, and encouraging filmmakers to strive for this. The manifesto has since been translated into Polish and Turkish, and right now it is in the process of being translated into Traditional Chinese and Slovak. It is also the subject of several thesis papers in progress by students in England, Taiwan and Germany, and has inspired a new, growing, international film movement I was hoping that...
A couple of years back I wrote a film manifesto calling for a new authenticity in cinema, and encouraging filmmakers to strive for this. The manifesto has since been translated into Polish and Turkish, and right now it is in the process of being translated into Traditional Chinese and Slovak. It is also the subject of several thesis papers in progress by students in England, Taiwan and Germany, and has inspired a new, growing, international film movement I was hoping that...
