2012 … the year that was
It is as usual the award season, and while I was disappointed as always by the nomination list of the Academy Awards 2013 and the winners at the Golden Globes, I was even more shocked by our own Filmfare Awards that were held recently. Let’s be honest here, everyone...
Favourite Romantic Comedies – Part II
50 First Dates (2004) Director: Peter Segal Starring: Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore A prime area where a romantic comedy fails is that fact that it is considered to be a complete female territory. It is all roses and unreal men, but once a while comes a film that...
Favourite Romantic Comedies – Part I
(500) Days of Summer (2009) Director: Marc Webb Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel Bollywood did try to rip this one with the disappointing ‘Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu’, but some films are best experienced in their original form. This beautifully fresh film is...
Damn You, Rachel Dawes!
Katie Holmes and Maggie Gyllenhal as Rachel Dawes * (This is purely derived from the Christopher Nolan Batman franchise) So I was thinking about how massively depressing watching ‘The Dark Knight’ is and how the dude (Batman) cannot catch a break ever and I somehow...
Blasts from the past
L-R: Satish Kaushik, Anil Kapoor and Anupam Kher in 'Jamai Raja' As a young child you don't have much of a choice in terms of what you watch. My time was spent lapping up whatever was there on Doordarshan and DD2 (the more entertaining of the two). There was also DD3...
200 and more to go
These are the best from the 200 films i have watched this year. 100 more to go before the year ends.... 1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - Space fantasy, Science Fiction 2. A Clockwork Orange (1971) - Fiction, Sexual content 3. All About Eve (1950) -...
For those who have been complaining about Ironman 2
So everyone i knew, who saw Ironman-2 after me, has been asking me why i liked the movie when they didn't. And i can't believe i am actually writing an explanatory post of a movie as casual as 'Ironman-2' but well, such is life. I went in expecting nothing because of...
Waiting for that open road again
So there are tonnes of people who complain about the traffic jam everyday. The roads are too small, the pollution is killing and obviously the traffic is maddening. In Bangalore, the metro will start 'god knows when' and even when it does it won’t be connecting the...
Different Strokes
I am personally fascinated by the differences of the two opposite sexes and how the world seems to be completely different place when seen through the eyes of each. And it’s all too clear from the way we explain similar experiences. Recently I had the pleasure of...
Repair almost anything?
So what do we learn out of the entire Mumbai/Shiv Sena/Khan incident? There are many ways of looking at it. While I am not going to speculate whether it was a publicity stunt or not (If it was...it was brilliant) but what really struck me during the entire episode was...
What’s happening TONIGHT?
It’s been some time since the anger/backlash/madness/comedy at The Tonight Show, ever since the news of Conan O' Brien being dropped came out. What actually has been catching my attention is the hoards of celebrities who have been showing up on the show and actually...
Love or something like that
As cliché as it may sound, I think DDLJ made a point that no other motion picture did and that is a prime reason for its popularity. It put forth the idea that love not necessarily comes at hand by hatred but still takes a lot of courage to achieve. For years we have...