Doshi is a documentary by Bangalore based Ar. Bijoy Ramachandran and his film-maker brother Premjit Ramachandran. The subject of the movie is the greatest Modern Architect of Indian origin, Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi.
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Doshi is a documentary by Bangalore based Ar. Bijoy Ramachandran and his film-maker brother Premjit Ramachandran. The subject of the movie is the greatest Modern Architect of Indian origin, Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi.
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Tarsem Singh of The Cell fame, released yet another fantastic movie in May 2008, The Fall. The movie is set in a hospital in 1915, where an LA stuntman, bedridden by a stunt gone wrong, narrates a fantastic story to a young girl with a broken arm.
This movie finds mention here, due to the sheer brilliance of Tarsem's art direction and the exotic locations the movie is shot in. Shot in more than a dozen countries of which I'd like to bring attention to some of the Indian location that have blown my mind.
Agra, Fatehpur Sikri and Jodhpur.
Having seen Agra and Fatehpur Sikri once before, I was surprised at how Tarsem's use of costumes, colours and the lack tourists in those locales, transports us into believing that what we see was infact a page out of his fantasy and not something that has existed for a few centuries.
The movie in its entirity seems wanting in the real substance of a movie, a story. At times, where the story is lacking, the director seizes the moment to dazzle us with his amazing art. Another notable aspect of the movie is the excelent acting by a cute little 9 year old, Catinca Untaru. Over all its a great movie to watch and feel amazed.
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I would first like to wish all a Very Happy New Year. I would think that along with this an applogy for the delay in blogging would be just apt. A month of exams sent my brains into a state of recession. But never mind all that. We have lots to look forward to this year and thats what I intend this post to be. A preview.
2008 brings a lots of varied and important events from US Presidential Elections in November, Beijing Summer Olympics in August and locally the opening of Bangalore's very own International Airport sometime in Mar/April. It is doubtless that after some interesting work in the Athens Olympics by Santiago Calatrava, which of the previous topics would most interest us. No Olympics would disappoint in the Architectural sense and definitely not if China is involved.
There are three important projects that I would like to look at,
The "Bird's Nest" - the National Stadium by Herzog and de Meuron;
The "Water Cube" - the National Aquatics Center by PTW + CCDI + Arup and
The "CCTV" building and its sister the "TVCC" building by Rem Koolhas's OMA - the most expensive building in the world.
Ok, lets face it, these buildings are definitely engineering marvels. China is looking to prove its Economic Prowess, and what better means to showcase it than in the Olympic Games. Which brings me to a slightly disturbing thought, "Do the Chinese really know what the Rem Koolhas and Herzog de Meuron are trying to achieve in the large canvas they have provided?" Probably not.
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