OK, so I haven't quite reached the level of Anderson Cooper yet, but not too bad for a first attempt. I actually did my first interview - as the interviewer, rather than the interviewee. The fact that my subject was so interesting and articulate really helped - I talked with Preminda Jacob on her new book titled Celluloid Deities. Preminda is an Arts professor at my university, and when the offer came to interview her on a book that dealt with film posters in India, I jumped at it. The reason is that I used to paint film posters myself while growing up (you can see a few samples in the video).
Anyway, we ended up talking about Bollywood and South Indian politics and ads for Tamil films (which is what her fascinating book is about). [Note: This is the inexperienced interviewer speaking - I must have used the word "fascinating" about 300 times - the last 3 uses in the space of 10 seconds at the end really make me cringe.] But you'll love this video - Preminda has a number of great photos and video clips about film posters that the talented folks at UMBC have spliced in. Plus, we had great fun doing it. The book is wonderful - do read it - you can buy it online.
P.S: You can see some more of my film posters (Hollywood, not Bollywood) on my art website - if you scroll down, you'll catch a poster of "The Death of Vishnu" masquerading as a Bollywood film.
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Indian tamil movie is always great and good...
sivajitv
Posted by sivajitv | September 2, 2009 7:31 AM
Posted on September 2, 2009 07:31