CHAUDHVIN KA CHAND(Ckc)
https://www.amazon.com/Chaudhvin-Ka-Chand-Guru-Dutt/dp/B07NBKHTJB Watching CKC on Prime Video last night, I realized how little I had understood of the dialogue the first time I saw the movie. I had a general idea of the plot but couldn't understand more than one word in ten. I knew it was a great classic. That's why I agreed to see it. I hadn't expected to like it much. I didn't like the highly mannered acting of Hindi commercial cinema. CKC was certainly stylized and extremely sentimental. But: beautiful and moving too. I discovered that I loved it. That was maybe 30 years ago, in Bombay. LAST NIGHT Last night, there were subtitles, so it was possible for me to follow the conversations. The opening scenes were ridiculous. There was middle-aged Johnny Walker pretending to be a youthful buffoon. The crowd of young women twittering like sparrows at dusk, calling to one another in high-pitched squeaks. Rehman, one of the two romantic leads, handsome but not young enough to be convincing. All the secondary characters were card-board stereotypes. Then the story got underway. I began to fall under the spell of that vanished way of life. The gracious language, the sweet-silly pranks played by full-grown adults upon one another. The vast homes...
THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES
The struggle to keep a blog going, I mean. It's odd. It used to be something I did every day. Then FaceBook got in the way. I could either post FB pages or Blog content. But I plan to keep trying. For instance, I'm going to try to add just a little content here, every day. One of the problems is that I'm not comfortable using WordPress. I know that it's believed to be very good and very intuitive, but I've not got the hang of it yet. And I don't want to spend any length of time reading a how-to tutorial. So these next few posts are likely to seem extremely choppy. Amateurish. Weird. Bear with me. Or – better still – COMPLAIN! Complaints are good. I can work with complaints. The SEO analysis informs me that it's good to include links. So okay. Here's a link to a short reading I made, with very crude animation, from my performance piece, BLIND DATE. The analysis also likes images to be inserted. So there's the double-headed snake, right at the top. It's from the Annex Art Society's April 2021 Creative Challenge. It represents the prompt: LEFT OR RIGHT. Here is another one: This one represents FACE. ...
First Update
“You MUST have an author web-site!” That’s what everyone says. So I DID have one for a while. I was happy with it. Until suddenly one day, it was no longer there! Just … *pop* Not there. I emailed the design-group who had set it up for me. They wrote back to say, “Sorry, Ma’m. It’s gone. You didn’t pay the annual fee in time.” I asked when I'd get it back and they wrote, “Never, Ma’m. It’s gone. Dead. Deceased.” It’s possible that they used less dramatic language. Four years later, however, here we are!!! I have a BEAUTIFUL NEW WEBSITE, designed by Austin Bullock. I am really happy with the way it looks and handles. Here’s his web-address: https://hollerataustin.com The drawing is a teaser-trailer for my show of reproductions at the Art Annex, 304 Broadway, Newport, RI. There will be more about the show in future blog-posts! Bye now. Leave comments. Live long and prosper. ...