Saurabh Gupta

A young couple in Mumbai find the language for love on a rainy Mumbai night #shortfilm youtu.be/L-mv86w06Xc

"One should make movies innocently…Learn from your own interior vision of things, as if there had never been a DW Griffith, or an Eisenstein, or a Ford, or a Renoir, or anybody." - Orson Welles

Jason Mamoa gets it: "I don't need anything more than a surfboard, a grill, and the people I love nearby. I'm not interested in fame, expensive suits, or luxury cars. I'd rather climb a tree, watch the sunset, and have a whiskey on the beach. My wealth is in my simple life. Because at the end of the day, what really matters can't be bought."

Every single department head on the new Harry Potter TV series is either an Oscar winner, an Emmy winner, or someone who worked on the original films. A few of them are all three. HBO is dropping a documentary this Sunday that shows the scale of what they're building. Alexis Wajsbrot is running the visual effects. He worked on two of the original Potter films at a company called Framestore. He left, spent over a decade on Gravity, the Spider-Man films, Doctor Strange, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (which earned him an Oscar nomination). Then he came back to Potter. Framestore itself has been part of this franchise since the very first movie in 2001. They created Dobby. John Nolan is handling creature effects, meaning he builds the physical, mechanical creatures that move on camera. He did the same job on the original films (Prisoner of Azkaban and Goblet of Fire) twenty years ago. He also built creatures for The Witcher and Mary Poppins Returns. The cinematographer (the person who controls how every shot looks and feels) is Adriano Goldman. Goldman shot 28 episodes of The Crown across all six seasons and won two Emmys doing it. He uses old vintage camera lenses and lights scenes with a single light source rather than flooding them with brightness. The original Potter films were bright, wide, almost like a theme park ride. Goldman's work is darker, quieter, and tighter on faces. Hogwarts is going to feel different this time. Costumes come from Holly Waddington, who won the Oscar and BAFTA for Poor Things (the Emma Stone film). In that movie, she led 40 people who made over 500 costumes in 22 weeks. She trained at Angels Costume House in London, the world's oldest costume supplier. Mara LePere-Schloop is designing all the physical sets and environments. She built the world of Interview with the Vampire for AMC and won an industry award for her work on Pachinko. Hans Zimmer is doing the music. He replaces John Williams from the original films, making him the sixth composer in the franchise's history. The teaser trailer pulled in 277 million views in 48 hours after its March 25 release. Biggest trailer launch in HBO history. 32,000 kids auditioned for the three lead roles. Filming started in July 2025 at Leavesden, the same UK studio where all eight original movies were shot, under the internal code name "Dark Train." HBO is shooting Season 1 and Season 2 back-to-back, so the child actors don't visibly age between seasons. That was a constant problem during the original films, where kids would grow several inches between shoots. Season 1 premieres on Christmas Day 2026. "Finding Harry: The Craft Behind the Magic" drops this Sunday, April 5, on HBO Max. Nick Frost, who plays Hagrid in the series, narrates.

The best part of accumulating wealth is that you can start saying increasingly insane things and people begin treating them as insight instead of retardation

Lost 18kgs by simplifying my diet to basics. Fish/chicken, boiled vegetables, eggs, soup, and fruits nuts and protein biscuits to snack. Thats it. Nothing else.

The sun sets. Like everything the day ends. The great ball of fire descends behind buildings. The young rent ambition and hope. We build. The music continues. Slowly, it ends.

Gender equality ends here. But the real concern is there is no safety 🦺 equipment like safety jacket and gloves and all in this field why? This looks really scary 😱

Riz Ahmed presents the clever idea of a Pakistani-origin Muslim actor auditioning for the part of James Bond with impressive results. My review of the new Prime Video comedy-drama series BAIT: theweek.in/review/movies/…

This board is displayed at Gemini Circle opposite US Consulate in Chennai ! 😂

Aditya Dhar’s journey is pure resilience. • Came to Mumbai in 2006 with nothing • Wasn’t good at studies, struggled with dyslexia • Faced betrayals, had multiple scripts stolen that later became ₹100–200 cr films • Tried making his first film in 2013 & 2016… failed both times • Finally made his first film Uri: The Surgical Strike in 2019. And now… 2 back-to-back ₹1000+ crore blockbusters in just months... ♥️

Krishna Says: You don't need to know how it's going to happen. You just need to believe that it will. The universe loves a stubborn heart that refuses to give up hope.

Some highlights from this interview with Ocean Vuong: 1) "We're out here to write sentences the species has never encountered, and it's possible in this lifetime." 2) "80% of writing is looking and thinking. Only the last part is syntax." 3) "Although I said 80% of writing is perception, that 20% is everything because that is like the spike protein. It is like the downloading mechanism. How we resonate with work, or how work stains us, is dependent on the syntactic clause as it's built." 4) "When you have a sentence, what you really have is consciousness filtered through syntax. For every single person, it's different." 5) "The goal of literature is to make people understand things so that they believe the child. Somewhere along the way we have lost faith in children, in the childlike way, because of language. Definition is the enemy of imagination. The paradox is that we work with material that is defined." 6) "Wittgenstein says the meaning of a word is its use, not its definition. Use changes definition. The dictionary has to catch up to us. They think, 'I need to learn the rules to be a real writer.' No, you use it. How you use it is how the dictionary will change." 7) "What we call art exists in order to give back the sensation of life, in order to make us feel things, in order to make the stone stony. The goal of art is to create the sensation of seeing and not merely recognizing things." 8) "All our workshops, all of our writing seminars are built about capturing and possession, keeping a reader's eyeballs. I'm actually more interested in being haunted. There's a poem by Robert Browning that I can't for the life of me remember, but I read it 20 years ago as a high school student, and to this day, I still think about that poem every other day."

#SujoyGhosh on the Supreme Court Verdict In #Kahaani2 Copyright Infringement Case: Like an “Oscar win” After Years of “One Battle After Another”... "In every film, two people fall in love. That doesn’t mean all films are the same," says @sujoy_g... varietyindia.com/sujoy-ghosh-on…

A 22-year-old unknown actor walked into a birthday party in 1982 and caught the eye of one of the most famous women on the planet and what happened next lasted over four decades, long past the romance and all the way to the very end of his life. His name was Val Kilmer. He was lanky, funny, and almost completely unknown. Cher was 36, a global superstar, and the host of the party her friend was throwing for her. A mutual friend had arranged the introduction, telling Cher that she thought either she or a friend of hers would like this young actor. They started laughing together immediately. They became friends first. They spent a week just talking before they kissed. When they finally did, Cher later said she thought her head would shoot right off her body. The romance that followed was intense, joyful, and full of private jokes only they understood. The 14-year age gap raised eyebrows in Hollywood. They did not care. They gave each other nicknames he was Sid, she was Ethel — so that they could call to each other in public without being overheard. They also called themselves Valus Maximus and Cherus Reprimandus, which tells you everything about how they operated. Cher later said he was like nobody she had ever known. Exasperating and hysterical. Thrilling and funny. A person who simply did not do what anyone else did. They parted in 1984. Val called it off. Years later, Cher told Howard Stern that Val Kilmer was the only ex of hers who had ever broken up with her. She said she was madly in love with him and he left. She never forgot it. But the friendship never left. Thirty years after their romance ended, Val Kilmer was fighting throat cancer. He had first noticed something wrong in 2014. By 2015 the full reality of it had arrived — the hospitalization, the tracheotomy, the chemotherapy, the permanent damage to the voice that had once commanded every room he walked into. He moved into Cher's guest house. One night, he woke up vomiting blood. He wrote later that it covered the bed like a scene from a film. He prayed. He called 911. Then he alerted his hostess. Cher stepped in and stepped up. She was there for every hard day that followed. He wrote about her in his 2020 memoir. He called her the funniest woman he ever met. He said that once Cher worked her way inside your head and heart, she never left. He said their spirits had stayed united even when their paths diverged. In his final years, when speaking required effort and every public appearance was an act of courage, he knew there was one person who would still pick up the phone no matter where she was or what she was doing. Val Kilmer died on April 1, 2025. He was 65 years old. The cause was pneumonia. His daughter, Mercedes, confirmed it to the press. Cher posted her tribute that same week. She called him brave. Funny. Brilliant. A great friend and a pain in the neck. She signed it with his nickname. Valus. Not Val. Not Mr. Kilmer. Valus. The name she had given him back in 1982 when they were young and electric and absolutely sure that the best thing in any room was each other. Some loves don't become marriages. Some loves become something more permanent than that — a person who shows up with no conditions attached, who sits beside you in the dark and doesn't flinch, who still uses your old nickname when everyone else has moved on. Val Kilmer and Cher gave that to each other for over forty years. Share this with someone who has loved someone that way.

He’s not wrong. A big reason films are underperforming is the drop in overall quality since 2020. Too many movies just aren’t good enough to justify the cost of a ticket anymore.

'Project Hail Mary' just opened to $140M+ worldwide, but the real story is how Drew Goddard thinks about writing. nofilmschool.com/drew-goddard-r…

Prime Video has recreated the King of Disco Bappi Lahiri's 1985 hit, and it sounds as if it were composed yesterday.

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Director: “well, I’d say that the final cut!” Disney Exec: “not so fast- first we have to run it by Pazuzu, the Demon that Eats Colors” Pazuzu, the Demon that Eats Colors: “Delicious reds and greens! A feast for Pazuzu!”

I couldn't agree more with this thesis: How Wall Street Has Killed Hollywood: The End of Warner Bros indiewire.com/features/comme…