SALIK SHAH

Category: Screenwriting

  • The Capra Hyperbole : One Man, One Film

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    Salik Shah
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    Meet John Doe is nothing short of a triumph of Riskin the individual over Capra the institution. The last day of December demands introspection, and I sense a now all-too-familiar pressure to choose the right words for this end note. The year on the calendar upsets my plans. These plans have now become ‘old plans’; plans…

  • Being Charlie Kaufman

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    Salik Shah
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    ee cummings: To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. “Here’s a recent quote that I found: ‘we do not talk, we bludgeon one another with…