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Thursday, June 5, 2014

What it takes to produce video reviews of Hindi and English films for a movie website

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From The Commits Chronicle, April 17, 2014: A DREAM JOB THAT JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER AND BETTER! In January, SHIKHA BHATNAGAR (Cl...

Friday, April 19, 2013

Scintillating analysis of Roger Ebert's film review intros

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Any experienced writer can master the short snappy sentence. It takes a good writer to master the long sentence, the one that takes the re...

Friday, April 5, 2013

Roger Ebert: A film critic like no other

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He was the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize. For more than 40 years he worked at one newspaper, The Chicago Sun-Times . He was...

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Monday, September 24, 2012

Who says film reviews have to be text-centric?

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Not Sahil Rizwan, a 24-year-old freelance writer and creator of "The Vigil Idiot". Under that rubric , Rizwan "reviews"...

Friday, June 29, 2012

Anurag Kashyap's tour de force

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To truly appreciate — and understand — Gangs of Wasseypur and to prepare yourself to appreciate — and understand — the soon-to-be-released ...

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Are movie critics totally out of touch with popular taste?

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This is the question posed by veteran film critic Anupama Chopra in a recent issue of Open . She writes in her regular column for the mag...

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

What do filmmakers think of film reviewers?

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That is a tantalising question, isn't it? Going by an eye-opener of an article in Open, filmmakers have a point when they carp at revie...

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Ramesh Prabhu: Bangalore, Karnataka; I have more than 20 years' experience (1981 to 2003) as a journalist in India and Dubai, specializing in selecting and editing news reports and features. From 2003 to 2019, I taught journalism and writing skills to master’s students at Commits, a media college in Bangalore. I joined Cactus Communications ("Serving Science Worldwide") as a copyediting freelancer on October 1, 2019. From the very beginning, I have enjoyed the challenge of working on a new assignment each day. I like to think of every article as a daily crossword puzzle that I need to solve by examining the clues closely. And, finally, when I submit the article that I have tended, I like to think, with love and care, I feel deeply satisfied.

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