Selection of the Indian Panorama for the International Film Festival of India is not always a happy ending. Most times the list is reviled and the jury pilloried. In quite a few cases, justifiably so. The reason for this widespread anger is the secrecy the whole process is shrouded in. Members are warned against revealing … Continue reading Indian Panorama Selection Should be as Transparent as the legendary Chiffon Saree in a Rain Song
Author: Gangaraju Gunnam
A writer, director, and producer of films and TV serials.
Indian Panorama at IFFI
Recently I had been on the jury of the Indian Panorama for the International Film Festival of India, 2014. I have seen more well-entrenched biases than well-made movies. Panorama Jury biases can take many forms. The most glaring is calling an entertaining movie ‘commercial’ in a denigrating tone. They don’t realise that every movie that … Continue reading Indian Panorama at IFFI
Soon, Devil’s Own Country
The transformation doesn’t take long, from heaven to hell. Prohibit individual choice and in no time you have you have government servants turning into satanic masters. The unholy decision of the Kerala government to introduce prohibition in the state is difficult to comprehend. Many articles have been written condemning the imposition. Nearly all of them, … Continue reading Soon, Devil’s Own Country
Government Service – National Disservice
On Sunday, 29th June, we were given an unmistakable and unpardonable demonstration of Government service. About a thousand candidates who had appeared for the Railway recruitment Board held in Secunderabad forcefully occupied berths in the Falaknuma Express. They threatened and terrorised passengers who held valid reservations. It took police forces in two stations, Guntur and … Continue reading Government Service – National Disservice
New Beginnings – Two States and One Country
New beginnings, without new thinking, will end up as the same old story. Want to see a government that works? For a beginning, pay MLAs Rs. 1 crore and MPs 5 crore a month as salary. And save money. You may think the bill would be frightfully expensive. Let’s calculate: Cost 175 MLAs X 12,00,00,000 … Continue reading New Beginnings – Two States and One Country
18 Plus – Future Minus: First Time Voters of Election 2014
Yes, minus, if you don’t watch out. You are between 18 and 22 years old. Young and raring to go. But where? Not far, if you still bow down to the rule of dinosaurs. Today you can take the first step to making your nation reflect your spirit. By voting; and voting right. Your first … Continue reading 18 Plus – Future Minus: First Time Voters of Election 2014
Dearth Hour
I’m scared of the dark. Obviously many are emphatically not. Today at 8.30 pm, with the flick of a switch, they are doing the suffering globe a world of good. Are they? There are 1.3 billion people who cannot turn off the lights. Because they don’t have electricity. I would shudder to tell them that candles … Continue reading Dearth Hour
Call For a Bandh to Bandhs
If work is worship, a bandh is praying to the Devil. One can never understand how stopping work contributes to general welfare. This method of protest is a remnant of last century’s trade union militancy. It is coercive by nature, tramples on individual freedom, and forces a person to act against his own interests. No political … Continue reading Call For a Bandh to Bandhs
Two States; One glorious Destiny
Rarely does one get a chance to make a fresh beginning. Even rarer it is for a whole family, say six people, to get this chance. But for nearly ten crore people to get such a chance at the same time is like epic fiction. And to think that we Telugu people got this opportunity … Continue reading Two States; One glorious Destiny
Gangaraju Gunnam 