Okay.

There are many reasons why I love to blog. The person I am here is the person I hope to be. It’s the person I look at in the mirror and see. It’s the proverbial voice in my head that is responsible for all the things that I can’t possibly say out loud to the … Continue reading »

“Dhobi Ghat”

The evolution of Hindi cinema has come a long, long way. In essence, the Indian film industry is more about business and marketing ventures than it is about art. Yes, you’ll see one incomprehensible art film starring Naseeruddin Shah once every ten years but that’s about it. You’ll have nice subtle comedies (Bheja Fry, Jab … Continue reading »

What Twilight REALLY means .. or .. a Jungian-cum-Freudian analysis.

Let’s not talk about how much agony was inflicted upon me through the first two movies. The first one I watched to see what the hype was all about. The second one I saw because I’d already seen the first. And the third one. Well. I am out of excuses. Sometimes you just want to … Continue reading »

“Green Zone”

When Hollywood makes a movie – they go to town on it. Green Zone stars Matt Damon as Roy Miller – a part of the United States Army deployed in Iraq. The story begins as Chief Warrant Officer Miller keeps hitting a dead end target after target, finding no WMDs. As he snoops around, he … Continue reading »

“Chloe”

Starring Julianne Moore and Amanda Seyfried, this is the story of a couple who’s entering midlife crises. The guy (Liam Neeson) is an irrepressible flirt (a role that does NOT suit Liam Neeson – especially since he filmed this during the immediate-after period of Natasha Richardson’s death) and the wife is insecure about herself and … Continue reading »

Kites, Cade and Kapoofypatooterness.

Hrithik Roshan returns. With a film so vaguely named, it hopes to be stylish. But at the end of it – isn’t. Now in all fairness, Kites wasn’t as badly made as a lot of Indian movies are – but it also wasn’t as perfect as the Roshans hoped it would have been. The plot … Continue reading »

A hindi movie super-lol moment of the day.

(Occurred after randomly flipping channels.) Enter a young Anil Kapoor, with obvious white streaks in hair. Rekha, his wife, tells him she has harbored a fugitive (a young woman) in the dead of the night. Turns out that femme fugitive wants to marry Anil Kapoor’s brother. Enter shakti kapoor, with obvious wig, yelling and screaming … Continue reading »

And the flicks shall set you free.

Given the fact that there is precious little to do in a country that is currently living in the fourteenth century, cinema-less and battling issues like child marriage and polygamy and female genital mutilation, the one thing that keeps expats going (apart from tiny coffee shops and secluded neighborhoods with high-end restaurants) are movies. And … Continue reading »

“Ajab Prem ki Ghazab Kahani.”

Bollywood seems to go through seasons. And fads. There were seasons of movies being all about unfaithful wives and marital disruption (Murder, Jism, Ajnabee, etc) and then there were seasons of loving your parents (Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Ghum, Baghbaan) and then there is the evergreen season of romantic comedies being ripped off from popular American … Continue reading »

Books, Movies and Hillary Clinton.

You know one of those books which you pick up from the shelf because they look terribly interesting and you flip page after page after page and nothing happens and the book ends and you realize you’ve just wasted four hours of your life reading something that didn’t make any sense and whether the author … Continue reading »