Saturday, 29 September 2012

When art imitates life quoted film personality in the history of moviemaking

Charlie Chaplin is perhaps the most quoted film personality in the history of moviemaking. One of his famous lines about art (read: life) is: “Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long shot.” There is a semblance of truth in this observation. When the news of the torching of Capri, Prince, Nishat and Bambino cinemas blared out from television sets on Sept 21, perhaps the scale of the destruction, from a long shot, had not been ascertained. It could not have been

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