There is an unwritten rule of cinema and TV direction. It goes something like this: if you are making a period picture or TV series then you must settle on a tone. Read more

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Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Friday, January 6, 2012 at 7:03 pm
Filed under Features, HT Blogs, Media, hollywood · Tagged hindustantimes, hollywood, HT Blogs, Medium term, movies, news, Tinker Tailor, TV series, Vir Sanghvi
A week or so ago, just before the new Steven Spielberg Tintin film was released in India, I spoke to a top fashion photographer about the movie. Tintin had been a favourite of mine for many decades, I said, and I couldn’t wait for the film to be released. Read more

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Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Saturday, November 19, 2011 at 7:23 pm
Filed under India, hollywood · Tagged animation, Batman, Bill Finger, Bob Kane, boy detective, Captain Haddock, cartoon, Christopher Nolan, comics, film, Harrison Ford, Harry Potter movies, Herge, hollywood, India, Indiana Jones, JK Rowling, Joker, movies, Ralph Fiennes, Steven Spielberg, The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn, Thompson and Thomson, Tim Burton, Tintin, Vir Sanghvi
As much as we are delighted by the Slumdog Millionaire sweep at the Oscars, we know in our hearts that this is not an Indian picture. Danny Boyle may thank the city of Bombay but he also thanked various Hollywood studios and when it was time for the Best Picture Oscar to be awarded, it was a Western producer who accepted it.
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Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Filed under Media · Tagged anil kapoor, ar rehman, bollywood, danny boyle, gulzar, hollywood, India, irrfan khan, kodak theater, oscar, slumdog, vikar swaroop, yash chopra