Thanks to Ashish J. for pointing out Shekhar Kapur’s new short film – ‘Passage’. It is based on Swarovski’s Passage, and has music by A.R. Rahman.
This is a marvelous little film, not to be missed. The theme is passage while the plot is open ended and left to the interpretation of the audience. The music by Rahman is refreshing (especially the use of an unlikely instrument for the given setting – sarangi), and we deserve this after Blue.
The winner, though, is the cinematography – the visuals are spellbinding. Never before have I seen a movie where each frame seems like it has been painted by an artist, at leisure, relishing every stroke. It has some very creative use of every aspect of the cinematography – lighting, focus, shape, orientation. You should watch it for the visual effect alone.
The movie is freely available for viewing in HD here. So you don’t really have any excuse to miss it.
Internet speed is one, but I’ll give that only to South Indians.
I love the vocal track ‘aria’…the feel is brilliant. Singer is a Californian girl with indian orgin. Shez fighting cancer…
her letter to shekhar :
http://www.shekharkapur.com/blog/archives/2009/09/voice_of_an_ang.htm
By: Ashish on October 20, 2009
at 3:36 am
Just going through your older stuff
you might want to catch this movie, just going by what you wrote – Hero by Zhang Yimou. Its the most beautiful movie I’ve ever seen.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0299977/
By: Rohit Nair on November 14, 2009
at 10:26 am