1. What has been the role of Mumbai towards cinema since the past one hundred years? 2. You have recently mentioned that cinema has now being reduced to a commodity. What makes you say that? How do you respond to movies like Court and Fandry? 3. You have been associated with the film society movement […]
1. What is Thumri and how did it emerge? 2. How does Thumri sit in over all scheme of Traditional Hindustani classical music? 3. Even thumri format has set rules and it’s own framework. Did Thumri face problems when it was evolving? If yes, what kind of challenges? Why did people ventured into another lighter […]
1. How do we define dissent in these times? Why do plays from the times of the Greeks and even Bhasa attract the most number of dissenters? 2. You have directed plays by Vijay Tendulkar to Mahesh Elkunchwar. And Shafaat Khan to Ramu Ramanathan. What could be the reasons these playwright try to voice controversial […]
1. Massimo Vignelli quoted, “if you can design one thing you can design everything”; that being true, don’t you think if you cover the width, depth can fall short? 2. You have been referred as industrial sculptor in a lot of places. What is it? How is an industrial sculptor different from industrial designer? What […]
1. What is the difference between typography and calligraphy? Is calligraphy independent of typeface? Can calligraphy be standardised? 2. Why do you think handwriting is so critical when the world is going digital? 3. How critical is to learn the language in order to do calligraphy in that language? What’s the role of language? Can […]
