I have been reading Raja Sen's reviews...To me he looks like very knowledgable..Any movie he reviews he can easily relate or tell from which hollywood or sometime french flick from where it is copied or inspired.. His english and narration also makes the reading interesting but sometime boring coz of the length.. He gets carried away while playing with words and exactly doesnt tell whether the film is bad / good, coz those views are left to the individual to judge.. I many times doesnt agree with his ratings though.. e.g Sarkar he gave less rating but the movie was excellent.. For Nishabd/Eklaya he gave good ratings, and I agreed with his ratings even though the films were flop.. I think he gave high rating to OSO which I didnt agree ..these r few I can recollect..but by and large he comes out with points which probably other reviewer cannot visualise.. Other reviewers simply either trach or prise the movie/actor etc.. but Raja does some investigation as from where it is inspired, how it is narrated etc.. which I belive r qualities only few can possess.. in fact all Oscar nominated movies are reviewed by him and I guess no other reviewer wud have made justice to reviwing those movies..A reviewer has too see something beyond normal man just like Photographer can see something in a photograph which he/she cliks which a normal individual can not..that sets the class from mass apart.. So Raja, if u r reading this...it is good going Keep it up..
RE:Raja Sen
by CB Prasad on Apr 15, 2008 07:24 PM Permalink
Pavan Prasad & SN,
For long I thought I was the only one who earnestly read Raja Sen's reviews. There's so much RajaSen-bashing going on here. So much that it's now become quite fashionable, I guess. If you don't understand him, you are licensed to abuse him & tear him to pieces ... that seems to be the credo.
Yes, there are times at which I couldn't agree with him, but we can't bash him up. Should we ? However much we keep adding to our understanding of this art form, we do have something called 'individual taste'. So, each to his own. I agreed with his JodhaaAkbar review, but disagreed with his criticism of TZP's climax. Overall, there's no doubting his knowledge of the medium, as you mentioned.
After seeing so much of 'Sen'sational abuse here over the last so many months, felt like raising my hat too.
3 Cheers. Mr.Sen, to repeat what others like Pavan & SN have already said here... keep going.
RE:Raja Sen
by Chaklam on Apr 15, 2008 06:49 PM Permalink
I think u.. SN is the one RAJA SEN.. RAJA sen in disguise.. u both write real long and.. make ppl lose intrest in ur writings...
RE:Raja Sen
by CB Prasad on Apr 15, 2008 07:37 PM Permalink
Have a dictionary nearby. And if that doesn't help, a grammar book explaining simple/compound/complex sentences, with special reference to "a refresher on clauses".
