WORLD CINEMA in INDIA - The BIG and the small of it ...

The promise looks big, atleast the content part of it. With just a beam of information to hold on to, we reached Renaissance. Knowing what its about, but hardly what!

World Cinema, accessible legally .. even right to your little home screens. Movies that only pirates knew about, talked in underground forums or elite media community. Now, UTV together with PALADOR takes that step to bring what has been missing all this while, something 'hatke' from the regular hollywood blockbusters .. and ur cheesy bollywood masala! Akira Kurusawa, Abbas Kiarostami, Chaplin, François Truffaut .. just a few names in the collection. And if you really don't know who or what they are, welcome to the club .. its time to be enlightened! :-)

Cidade De Deus (aka City of Gods) comes to a theatre near you on April 16th, kick starts a noble vision. Followed by other screenings on Zee Studio, and a independent channel to take it where it belongs finally! Us :D

Lots of questions to ask. Price, availability, choice .. coverage .. will be answered along the march! Piracy can't be ignored, much like the narrow target audience that they plan to address!

Smell of roasted meat fills the air, more later ..