Patna roughcut / Siddharth Chowdhury.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Picador India, 2005.Description: 187 p. ; 20 cmISBN:- 9780330438766(pbk.)
- 915 CHO
Item type | Current library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books | H.T. Parekh Library | SIAS Collection | Meenakshi Mukherjee Books | 915 CHO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | K5008 |
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If you are the original Cinema Paradiso kid, you are going to love Siddharth Chowdhury. For his hero, who announces Anthony Gonsalves style, "My name is Ritwik Ray" is that quintessential of celluloid buffs who not only dream in black and white, but who also act out their lives in short movie style riffs which pay homage to all the cinema greats.
In a chapter entitled Waiting for Godard, he even manages to throw in a line that should crack up all fervent worshippers of print and film, when right at the end, Ritwik asks, "Waiting for what? For Godard, of course.
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