Browsing by Author "Kaushik, dr. narendra"

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    Mainstreaming of India’s Art Cinema in the 21st Century
    (Chainany E-Journal, 2020-09-01) Kaushik, dr. narendra
    In any cinema, there exists two streams of filmmaking – mainstream or commercial or fantasy cinema and parallel or art or realistic or indie cinema or third cinema. Hindi cinema, one of the largest entertainment industry of the world, is no exception to it. Films in the last two decades have demolished the wall that separated the two genres creating a new cinema where content, rather than the stars, music, and action, has become the king. This research paper is an attempt to retrace the journey of the indie cinema in becoming the mainstream. It will primarily be based on analysis of the cinematic content generated in the Hindi cinema since the beginning of the 21st century.
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    Underworld in Martin Scorsese and Ram Gopal Varma’s Cinema
    (Chainany E-Journal, 2021-09-01) Kaushik, dr. narendra; Kasana, ajay
    Martin Scorsese and Ram Gopal Varma have their own vision to showcase the mafia world on the silver screen. If Scorsese along with Fritz Lang, Brian De Palma, Takashi Miike, Francis Ford Coppola, and Quentin Tarantino is considered the master of gangster cinema in English, Japanese and German films Varma, Mahesh Manjrekar, Apoorva Lakhia, and Anurag Kashyap have largely portrayed the cool Mafiosi in their films in Bollywood. But nothing quite comes close to GoodFellas (1990) whose inspiration reflects in about a dozen films and television shows. Similarly, Varma is called an agent provocateur largely because of Satya (1998). Like GoodFellas, Gangs of New York (2002) is also about underworld and based on a non-fiction book. In the case of Varma, he followed Satya with Company, a film also about the rise and the end of the underworld. This research study aims to understand the process of direction and the stories of the sample films of Martin Scorsese and sample films of Ram Gopal Varma. It is to analyze the difference and similarities between their craft. The four key elements to be analyzed are portrayal of the characters, fascination of the two directors for the underworld, taking cinematic liberty to tell the story and relevance of the story in today’s time.