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  1. `DAM999′ is not about Mullaperiyar

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    / November 24, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By Ashish Vidyarthi It has been almost a year since I finished my portion of the shoot for `DAM999′, the movie that has now been banned by the Tamilnadu government because it apparently feels it could create a law and order situation in the state and create panic among the...

  2. And then Anna happened

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    / April 9, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Ashish Vidyarthi As I shared with friends about how children too are joining in to participate in Anna Hazare’s movement, one of them raised the following point. “It is sad that we are getting these children to do this and get involved at an age when they do not...

  3. Everything we are not …

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    / April 2, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By Ashish Vidyarthi A friend shared, how she was glad that she was not. There are so many things we want so dearly, so desperately. And then the other day saw a three-wheeler tempo, stacked with Blue plastic boxes used to transfer milk packets. The distance between the point at...

  4. I am John Abraham !

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    / January 30, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Ashish Vidyarthi Some four months back, Nandini Reddy, the director of `Ala Modalaindi‘ met me. Strange as it may sound, she told me upfront that she had finished shooting the film but now she wanted to shoot another portion, another track. Her argument was that while she had a...

  5. The design of life

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    / January 12, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Ashish Vidyarthi Life for me has been an amazing series of episodes, which have happened when they did. Clearly, there is a plan. And all that I need to do is stop coming in the way of fulfilling it. I have discovered that failure and success are but expressions of...

  6. Distant rain and the magic of Ilayaraja

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    / December 26, 2010 / 2 Comments
    By Ashish Vidyarthi   As we readied ourselves for the night sequence in the bungalow, our director Jawahar set up a crane shot to capture the exterior lit-up for the wedding song, against the blue of the gathering dusk. The humidity and heat of the day had given way to...

  7. How Vidyarthi Samman came about

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    / December 18, 2010 / Leave a comment
    By Ashish Vidyarthi   One evening in 2001, a sudden pack-up was declared at the location of Pugali, the first Tamil film I had signed. The film never got completed ! We were shooting at Mahanantwadi in the Wayanad hills in Kerala. Though my village Dharmadam, was a good 5...

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