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Indian cinema, whether Kollywood, Bollywood, Tollywood, evokes strong emotions in most of us; passion, nostalgia, pride, craze, apathy… The average Indian can hold forth fervently and incessantly on the topic. When this inherent tendency is given a public platform, called passionforcinema.com, on the limitless World Wide Web, it takes on a different dimension.
The genesis of PFC (passionforcinema.com) essentially started with a person who goes by the pseudonym Oz, based in Los Angeles, who used to run a general blog called desitrain.com. There were 5-6 people all over the world who used to comment religiously on his cinema posts. In August 2006, he decided to start a separate blog dedicated to cinema for all those readers who followed the cinema posts. Karthik Krishnan, software engineer cum Passionforcinema author/editor says, “PFC is for you and me. You watch films, you like watching films, you discuss films after watching them, this site’s for you.” Passionforcinema has been defined, on the site as “a passionate attempt to bring together all movie fanatics, cine lovers, and those who eat, breathe and drink cinema.” The posts range from highly esoteric to the familiar … “To be Howard Roark, you have to kill your family” – a weighty essay on creative angst, “Making a mark without any noise” – a post on Nitinsathyaa, or “NTR- Pride of India” – a eulogy to the legend.
While the site does not claim to promote new talent, all those closet film makers out there, do get an opportunity to share their work. Like it happened with Vasan, “I always wanted to become a film maker and would have tried anyway. But yes, PFC did prove to be a conduit for me.” Vasan participated in the annual festival hosted by the Ability Foundation in Chennai and posted his film on the site. He also got a chance to interact with Anurag Kashyap, and landed an opportunity to assist on Anurag’s next film, “Dev D.”
Interestingly, PFC is running an online contest called PFCRonin – a search for the next generation of movie reviewers.
TEJUSVINI VARADACHARI
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