What are you looking at?

DD News – our old and faithful Government Owned National Network News, is airing a documentary on the amateur porn industry and this website had a lot to do with it!

No, not really. We have an aggregate readership of about five people – HOWEVER, our ace commentator, occasional contributor, part time comic strip artist and full time documentary film maker – Bharath (the ‘Actionist’ on Gmail, WordPress & Youtube – or T.A.O.G.W.Y.) is the chap who made it… and got DD to air it. It wasn’t easy – as the mail he sent out suggests – and the All CAPS fonts are more likely out of relief and ecstasy that one feels while dealing with anything associated with the Government. Way to go dude. While you’re too modest to mention it, can you please let me know if this is the same film that won you the grant to shoot a film on self published Manga?

The film airs tomorrow night – the unholy asterisk at the bottom does mention the prospect of a last minute change – and I’m setting a reminder for it. A few questions you can answer once we’ve seen the film:

1. When’s the DVD coming out – you know with the uncut version, deleted scenes, research material, stock footage, more stock footage, more research material?
2. What did you do with the research material?
3. Who names their kid Tulika?
4. Seriously dude… if one would like to take a look at the research material how do you suggest we go about it?

Enjoy!

IF ANY OF YOU CARE TO WATCH DD NEWS, PLEASE TURN ON THAT CHANNEL ON YOUR TV SETS AT 10.30 PM ON JULY 12TH.
MY DOCUMENTARY CALLED “WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?”, WILL PLAY AT THAT TIME.

THIS FILM IS ABOUT AMATEUR PORNOGRAPHY, AND MORE SPECIFICALLY ABOUT ‘MYSORE MALLIGE’, AN AMATEUR VIDEO THAT MOST PORN WATCHERS IN INDIA LOVINGLY DESCRIBE AS THE BEST PORN FILM EVER MADE IN INDIA.

IT TOOK ME THREE VERSIONS AND TWO YEARS NEGOTIATING WITH PSBT (PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING TRUST) TO BE FINALLY SCREENED ON DD NEWS. NOT SUCH A BIG DEAL, BUT BIG ENOUGH FOR ME, FOR IT IS A RARE THING THAT ANY FILM OF MINE IS SCREENED TO A WIDE AUDIENCE.

SO, PLEASE WATCH IT…

BHARATH

Dear Bharath,

Doordarshan has scheduled What Are You Looking At? telecast for July 12th at 10.30 pm on DD NEWS *.

tulika

* Subject to last minute change by Doordarshan