well, done a lot of documentary watching over the past two days. watched this film called naata by Anajali and Jaishanker from TISS...good film..interesting pattern of narrating...based on Dharavi and the relations betweent two people bhau korde and Waqar khan, the film looks into their efforts at bringing about communal harmony..also the whole history of dharavi..apparently it's a sequel to their first film on the city, Saacha. there was this intersting bit where the narration is about how Dharavi was entirely built by the locals residing there, and how they reclaimed the marshy lands to reside...and the visual is that of a potter moulding his clay...reminded me of our awesome jalebi sequence in our gujarat film...which we might screen at TISS this week!!

went for the film with mum..she was wondering why these arty farty people are always so strange ..and go all out to prove it right from the way they dress to the way they talk...actually the crowd had a healthy mix of downright pseuds to pretty creative people...i saw anand patwardhan..he looks good...but couldn't meet him...should probably watch his film before i meet him though...

the discussion was a disaster...people were asking stupid questions bout all kinds of social evils rather than focussin on the film..and then this guy reminded them that they should stick to the film..and nearly got into a verbal WFF with this other dude..haha.

Bhau korde came up with this really funny line in the film..."Dharavi ke upar itne log likh chuke hain, research kar chuke hain, ki shaayad unhone sabse zyaada paper kharach kiya hai aur sabse zyaada kachra kiya hai." haha.
we journalists need places like dharavi so that we can continue to write about these places and never run out of issues...a selfish lot that we are.

and thenwatched Great Britons on BBC. i wish i could work with the BBC, just for the sheer joy of writing to visuals and creating classy docus. So this week's great briton was Chruchill. well, they obviously made him look like the greatest hero. A few days before dyign he had said, " i am prepared to meet my creator, but whether my creator is prepared to go through the ordeal of meeting me is another matter." I mean what a line...reeks of arrogance, but what a line! I am sure when i die it will be such an anti claimax..like everything that has to do with me.