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Shankar Nag is widely revered as one of the best film personalities of all time for KFI. His films have always been regarded as being ahead of his time. These were stories that were adamant on breaking the norm and doing something that was unheard of in the cinema landscape back then. Multiple films have served as inspiration for film and filmmakers working today. There are many films that can be dissected and broken apart to reveal his genius but there is one film that has always stood the test of time and been the most popular way to witness his genius again. A movie that is a testament to the reason Shankar Nag is held up as one of the greatest talents to ever grace the industry. Humour, messaging and raising cultural questions all done in one single film. Simultaneously a family entertainer and a representation of the youth of 1980s. It is of course, Nodi Swamy Navirodu Heege. His incredible direction and writing genius helps steer this breezy romance film into an out and out maste...

Damien Chazelle is a man known for his work on movies that portray the vibrancy of art. His Oscar-winning feature is a film that revolves around a star-crossed love story between two artists. The most recent film he made was a chronicle of the landscape of filmmaking from decades ago. He even debuted with a tense thriller about the cost of being great in an art form. These are all films that revolve around the pain and glory in the creation of art; immaculate portraits of the tumultuous journey one has to undergo to excel in fields unbeknownst to margins of success. In the midst of this rather unconventional filmography lies an even more bafflingly audacious entry. With First Man, Chazelle attempted to tell the story of the first man to make it to the moon: an engineer who defied all the bounds put on man to reach beyond the skies. A story so wrapped up in complex mathematics and quite literally, Rocket Science. This is a film that feels the farthest from the filmmaking language in whi...