I’m a big who-dun-it fan. Poirot is my favorite detective of all, followed by Precious Ramotswe and Sherlock Holmes. Poirot is Poirot because of all his eccentricities, so when I read of a desi equivalent, it piqued my curiosity. In this book, Tarquin Hall writes about Vish Puri, a 51 year old, portly, Punjabi private […]
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Tum jo mil gaye ho : Redux
Imran Khan and Kalki Koechlin (of DevD fame) in this rather nostalgic (musically) ad. What an absolutely wonderful derivation of an old classic – I wonder if they have the full-fledged song somewhere ! Remember the original ? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fkq6EpbKgM]
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Filmi yore has it that when recalcitrant children wouldn’t sleep, Mothers would coax their children to bed with the warning “Beta, so ja varna Gabbar Singh aa jayega” (Sleep child or else Gabbar will come) ! Gabbar Singh of Sholay, that much remembered villain, with his maniacal laugh and gleaming eyes, asking that question “Kitne […]
Read the rest of this entry »Podcasting hindi movie reviews
Podcasting is that thing I said I would do which I was never sure I’d get to. I have a whole list of such things; things I would do when (and if) I had the time. But then really when do I have the time ? An older (and much wiser) friend once told me […]
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An excellent editorial in the Indian Express : The second dimension of this crisis is the blot it represents on our freedoms. We tend to see each episode of Sena mania in isolation: sometimes it is taxi drivers, sometimes Shah Rukh Khan. The Sena may be a weakening electoral force. But the price it extracts […]
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I’m watching TV. The husband comes in. He : Why are you watching this crap ? I : What crap ? “This”, he points at the TV. “This is not crap, it’s Perfect Bride.” “Same thing.” He exits. Cut to 2 weeks later. He tells me, eyeing the clock “Your program is coming on” and […]
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Watched this news on NDTV, and it is bone-chillingly horrifying. A wounded policeman lies on the side of the road, begging for help. Gangsters have chopped off one of his legs. The ministers and their convoy pass by, stop, but dither around and then call for an ambulance, which does not come. It takes them […]
Read the rest of this entry »2009 : The Top 10 Films . . .
. . .or my experiments with Youtube. And they were good let me tell you, for a novice Youtube uploader. I started off with lofty goals. As a part of my yearly round-up I do a Best Films of the Year post, and this time decided to make a Youtube movie to showcase the notable […]
Read the rest of this entry »Bollywood romance : now and then
Love, they say, makes the world go around. It can also make your head spin, if you go by Hindi films nowadays. Not surprising, if you realize that this is the Facebook Generation, where “friending” is instantaneous, and requires little more than a mouse click. The more friends you have the better. And, apparently these […]
Read the rest of this entry »Never Forget
On 9/11/09 Yahoo ran a photo on it’s main page, which showed a banner fluttering in the wind, hung on the top of a building with the words “We will never forget”. Search for the words “We will never forget” on Google, and you get hundreds of images, all etched with these words and pictures […]
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