How much do newspaper and magazine readers, internet surfers and television viewers, care for movie reviews? Do reviews help make up their minds on whether to watch a film or not? Do reviews affect box-office returns? Does a lower rating prompt filmmakers (and filmgoers) to take a higher road? The weekend supplement of Business Standard…
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‘There is hardly any good film criticism in India’
Adoor Gopalakrishnan, India’s most acclaimed film maker abroad after Satyajit Ray, took questions from the staff of The Indian Express as part of their Idea Exchange programme. Shubhra Gupta: How do you deal with professional criticism? Adoor Gopalakrishnan: There is hardly any good criticism. What happens is that the people who write reviews, who think…
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