Kung Fu Panda is our favorite these days
Kung Fu Panda I accidentally downloaded the promo of Kung Fu Panda for my three-year-old daughter from YouTube and ever since then it has been a regular part of our staple diet of videos while she is...
View ArticleUgly Aur Pagli is a ditto copy of My Sassy Girl
We saw My Sassy Girl (with English subtitles) a few months ago. Its an excellently made Korean romantic comedy about an engineering student and a girl who has just broken up with her boyfriend. The...
View ArticleInsaf ka mandir hai ye
My Guruji had asked me to learn this song so I was listening to it while having breakfast. The rendition brings tears to your eyes. The same goes for the performance, especially by Dilip Kumar....
View ArticleA. R. Rehman, Slumdog Millionaire Get the Oscars
A. R. Rehman Finally, the Indian movie and music talent gets recognized by the International audience, screamed almost all TV news channels and people are falling over each other to get sound bytes...
View ArticleDid Karan Johar do the right thing by apologizing to Raj Thakery?
Many theaters in Pune and Bombay (Mumbai) had to take down the recently released Karan Johar produced film Wake up, Sid when some MSN (Maharashtra Navnirman Sena) stopped its screening for using Bombay...
View ArticleZindagi bhar nahi bulegi – great song, great acting
After doing my riyaaz (singing practice) while having breakfast I was listening to this song zindagi bhar nahi bhulegi wo barsat ki raat (Im never going to forget that rainy night) as my effort to...
View ArticleWhat Sanjay Dutt did was a lot more than purchasing illegal weapons
The latest to join the bandwagon of “pardon Sanjay Dutt” is Mamta Bannerjee, the whimsical chief minister of West Bengal. Before her, almost entire Bollywood, the so-called “prominent” political...
View ArticleAtonement is a strange movie
Yesterday my wife and I watched “Atonement” which is quite a strange movie if you want to take the title verbatim. It has a late 1930s background. It’s about a teenage girl who is constantly writing...
View ArticleThe slick trailer of the new version of The Evil Dead
My sister shared on my Facebook timeline the trailer of the new version of The Evil Dead knowing that the original movie is one of my favorite horror movies. I watched it on a VHS video and I had to...
View ArticleWhy non-disabled actors play disabled characters
This is quite an interesting article exploring an idea very few might have come across: why do non-disabled actors play disabled characters? Take for instance Daniel Day-Lewis; he probably won an Oscar...
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