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#VintageDirectors - Directors at their best

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Every time a new Film-maker brings out the First movie , he brings out a new flavour, rather his/her own flavour to the current Cinema. This New sense of Cinema can be explosive and ahead of age or sometimes even be unique and catchy. Though the directors have often fallen prey to their very own Trick's of the Trade, it is best to revisit the starting point of this New Ageness or rather the starting point of "What they are in Cinema" - as they may not have made classics, but surely have made something more than entertainers . Puri Jagannadh   -    Pokiri                     Pokiri is the story of an Under-cover Cop joining the lurking Mafia of the city, camouflaging into their crimes and once for all finish the empire (as a Cop) and clear the city of this dirt. This plot is quite common in Cinema and we also have movies fleshing out on these lines. But what Puri brings to this plot is his Perspective of a Protagonist – A Sleazy Bastard, but for a Ca

Synccinema Quickie - HIT - The First Case

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HIT- The First Case – With its Commendable Story and genre def(in/y)ing choices, HIT becomes a landmark for Cop Thrillers in Telugu Cinema. Thrillers, at a bird’s eye view, have a broader scope of cinema, especially when it comes to its texture of narrative structure. Telugu Cinema had a gleeful shift in its movies in the last decade, especially, when it comes to thrillers, thanks to budding filmmakers and/or scriptwriters like Adivi Sesh, Chandoo Moondeti (Karthikeya(2014) fame) etc. The thrillers in this fresh era have been a step ahead and strictly followed the rule that defines their genre “Show! Don’t tell”, leading to a frequent fine-tuning of this milieu and adding an extra layer of storytelling (and freshness).  HIT- The First Case, one of the first Cop Thrillers in this decade, again breaks the norms of a quintessential thriller and aces it’s part in challenging the audience of what to expect and whatnot. Firstly, it breaks the 3 Act structure shifting its focus