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A monster hit Dangal’s unprecedented success – a worldwide gross of more than $300M – may have surprised even its makers. Clearly the film industry was stunned – for instance when Kangana Ranaut was asked if she was jealous of any other movie’s success at the ‘Koffee with Karan’ show, she mock-cribbed: “… the fact that Dangal made so much money… like so much?!” How did a movie starring new actors depicting two female athletes from rural Haryana playing a low-popularity sport become such a global monster hit? Clearly, among many factors, it was the story that resonated strongly with the audience …
These paintings reflect on being ready for what’s to come and like the trees knowing we’ll get through it. There will be blossoming once again in the spring. …
We had looked at a detailed post on story narrative earlier, which involved the use of the Pyramid Principle. However I felt that such an important construct needed a separate post of its own. So here goes. Pyramid Principle: The tool that McKinsey uses to build a story Is business storytelling an art or a science? As with most such questions, the answer is: “a bit of both”. But the most fascinating proponent of the “it’s all science” theory is a Harvard-grad and ex-McKinsey consultant called Barbara Minto (probably the most important person in storytelling not to have her own Wikipedia page). Minto …
Two ways: unearth new facts or new perspective from old facts There are two ways to make facts interesting to the audience: Come up with new, surprising facts through research or analysis Come up with a new, surprising way of looking at known facts The master of the latter approach, in my mind, is a lecturer at the Department of History, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Professor Yuval Noah Harari. If you haven’t read his ‘Sapiens‘ (or the latest one, ‘Homo Deus‘), just drop everything and order a copy now. In his book ‘Sapiens’, he looks at human history with a radical, …
These paintings reflect on being ready for what’s to come and like the trees knowing we’ll get through it. There will be blossoming once again in the spring. …
These paintings reflect on being ready for what’s to come and like the trees knowing we’ll get through it. There will be blossoming once again in the spring. …
These paintings reflect on being ready for what’s to come and like the trees knowing we’ll get through it. There will be blossoming once again in the spring. …
These paintings reflect on being ready for what’s to come and like the trees knowing we’ll get through it. There will be blossoming once again in the spring. …
A very short post I gotta admit: the radio silence from my end was gnawing at me from the inside. I did have a few ideas for posts, but all of them would take some time to write. Hope to make up for the delay with a bunch of upcoming posts. Meanwhile I came across a lovely thought in an old Mani Ratnam interview, and thought of sharing it. Songs in movies – why? Do you sometimes wonder why do all Indian movies have songs? Let’s leave out the song-and-dance, item-number routines, which exist to serve a different purpose. Even ‘sensible’ movies – …
These paintings reflect on being ready for what’s to come and like the trees knowing we’ll get through it. There will be blossoming once again in the spring. …
