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The Year that was
Traverse the highs and lows of 2008
with Rajinder Puri
Images of the year
Art mart gets bigger
The Rs-15 billion domestic art market is pegged to grow around 35 per cent annually, writes
Soudhriti Bhabani
THE
Indian art scenario this year has been through both good and bad.
Great demand, great works, but on the other side, darker forces trying
to mar artistic creativity.
Saas bahu soaps
lose TRP race
Amar Nath Wadehra and
Randeep Wadehra look at the trends that dominated
the small screen in 2008
FROM
just one channel in 1991 to over 300 channels (with more than a
hundred 24X7 news channels) today the television in India has come a
long way from being an instrument of the state for forging a uniform
thought process throughout the country to be a multi-dimensional
platform for eclectic infotainment.
Return of
the plot
THE
year 2008 also saw the TV entertainment scenario getting over its
self-imposed inertness. Advent of the Colors television channel has
heralded the dawn of serials with original plots.
Small budget big hits
As recession sweeps
across the globe, several low-budget, non-star productions are being
green-lighted, most of them with first-time directors, writes Derek
Bose
AS the year draws to a
close, some clarity is beginning to emerge on what the future holds
for Bollywood. For one, directors, rather than stars, would determine
the fate of films at the box-office. For another, the role of heroines
is getting minimised.
A million dreams
Even before its release in
India, Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, the story of Jamal,
an underdog from the slums of Mumbai who becomes a millionaire, has
won accolades at many a film festival, writes Ranjita
Biswas
Living
in a slum and earning millions? Whom are you kidding? Well, if it’s
a plucky kid like orphan Jamal who grows up in abject poverty in the
slums, but still makes a million, you have to believe it. Because that’s
how typical rags to riches stories are churned out by Bollywood with
the mandatory happy ending with the ladylove in tow.
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