I’ve updated the Best Films by Year page with the Top 10 movies of 2005. Looking back I see some really good films in the Best Films of 2005 ; Paheli, Sarkar , Sehar – you name it we got it – The Best of the Best ! Desi cinema sure is going places. Check […]
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The Kite Runner
This is the first novel by Khaled Hosseini, and I’d describe it as stunning. And I actually mean stunning – I’m not saying it for effect. Once in a while you read a novel where the prose is so clear, that each word has impact, and you can see the events unfolding before your eyes. […]
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Flight plan released this past weekend, and its getting good reviews. Went to see it, and one of the theatres sold out right before my eyes. Made it into the second one. This is a Jodie Foster film – Panic Room was another. Foster in this film is the mother of a 6 year old, […]
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Recently saw 2 chinese martial arts films : “Kung-fu hustle” and “House of Flying daggers”. The first is more recent (as in release date), and is not dubbed; i.e.; you must read the sub-titles. The second, which is a much acclaimed film, has been dubbed in English. I enjoyed both films, although they have vastly […]
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Just finished reading Bharati Kirchener’s “Sharmila’s book”, and its OK, just OK. The story is off-beat in that an American born Desi female goes back to India for an arranged marriage, and steps right into our patriarchial Bharat, complete with cliched (although true – you really meet people like that) characters. The main reason I […]
Read the rest of this entry »Two paths diverging in the woods
Ah, the eternal question ! What to watch, you know, filmwise ? I know which movies are on DVD, but I don’t know whether I’ll like them, hence end up seeing some real stinkers. I mean, the premise looks good, but whaddya know, the movie isn’t. So on my random movie-pick up sojourns, I recently […]
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