Sameer Puri: Delhi Boom [film to watch for]

The astute blogoisseur [here thinking: connoisseur du blogs], perusing the present blogger's weblog, will not have failed to notice the bracketed categories [as they would seem to be] that nestle, or sit, or (with whatever such vague or particular nuance of reposeful disposition construed) dispose themselves (this "dispose themselves" being intended, I daresay, in the spatial rather than trashal [a neologism, that] sense) -- so: you [Dear Reader, astute one that you are] will perchance have noticed those brackeed tags that abide, then, in short, up yonder toward the rightward end of these blogo-items' [respective] titular lines. (Yes, one could write "titles." But does not tutular titillate betimes?)

To the point: I hereby introduce a new category of kirwani blog item: the "[film to watch for]". I'll aim , at some point, to catelogue these entries. But will start merely by tossing one out now & then. Twice or so in a blue moon.

[wistful aside]: Perhaps this amounts to my modest, early January, Saturday morning bid toward tangential connection w/ world-at-large.

Particulars: What you, Gentle Reader, are mildly encouraged to keep eyes peeled for, in the instance, is a certain film —

Delhi Boom, written & directed by one Sameer Puri. I have neither seen the film, nor any film by Puri (who is anyway said to be a first-time director). Some sequence of websurfing brought me to the film's website, I liked the impression received, and hey presto! it has established itself as the thing-to-be in the inchoate [film to watch for] category of item, here on this ledge of possible existence.

TAGLINE: "All that remains after everything has burnt away is ashes."

(From which one might infer...? — well, one could make a range of guesses.)

What to add to this mini-teaser? Note, the film's release date is given as July 2006. Time is always with us in this world. Sometimes past, sometimes future. In this case, six months down the road.

An outfit called Celtic Sorcery Productions evidently has some kind of co-producing role. I'm not aware of the UK outfit GAP 2000 who appear to be primary producers (perchance an ad hoc company created for the project, is my out-of-left-field guess). Anyway, it's the gestalt of story and director and actors from Delhi Boom's website that nudge this into a sense of being something to watch for. (We'll leave the production shoptalk to others.) To our left is seen actress Maya Markotia, whose character "Jennifer" is conceived as human catylist in the tale's explosive mesh (so, paraphrasing, the blurb tells us). But we'll wait & see.

Well, the production stills (or maybe they're plain movie stills) -- a bit heavy on the dramatic guy-with-a-gun image -- do point to a thriller. But I'm hoping for hints of Kieslowskian how-humans-are profoundly-intertwined cinematic insight. Time will tell.

[For altering Maya's b&w headshot photo, I dabbled w/ the simple Microsoft Photo Editor. But note, Sameer's self-portrait is evidently his own creation (or anyway not mine). It's not an image assoc. w/ the official film stuff, but found elsewhere on the world wide whatchamacalit.]