Directed by Anil Mehta. Produced by Aditya Chopra.Starring: Madhuri Dixit, Konkona Sen Sharma, Akshaye Khanna, Kunal Kapoor, Divya Dutta, Ranvir Shorey, Vinay Pathak, Raghubir Yadav and others. Running time: 145 mins. Rating : ** A dance studio in New York, where shapely instructor Dia (Madhuri Dixit) is coaching foreigners in dance, in Hema Malini-accented English,…
Year: 2007
I fail to understand …
…why the BMC ( Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation) waits for the festive months to start digging up roads?Come October and the absent-whole-year-through-BMC workers appear with their shovels, hoes, trucks and whatnots and start hollowing out newly laid and concreted roads, spilling their guts onto the surface. To this eyesore, add traffic jams, lengthy detours, no parking…
Things that bring a smile to my face these days…
Reality Shows: Yes, I know they are as ‘real’ as Pamela Anderson (in)famous assets, but I still cant help being hooked onto almost every ‘Reality Show’ that comes along. Lately, I have been watching ‘Nach Baliye-3’ *I am rooting for Aamir Ali and Sanjeeda and Alex and Sweta* and ‘Jhalak Dikhlaja-2’ *Love Ronit Roy, Mini…
Why God, why?
After Himessbhai terrorized little children, and me, to death trying his darndest to act in ‘Aap Kaa Surroor–The Moviee-The Real Luv Story’ I thought there was nothing worse in store for my wide-open-in-astonishment eyes and numb-with-shock brain. But I soon realized how very wrong I was when channel-surfing late one night I came across this;…
…East Europe
May is the perfect time to travel around Europe. Between Winter making the last of its very reluctant exit and Summer gearing up for a blazing entrance, Spring struts about in all its resplendent glory. Multihued flowers sprout and sway out of every fertile spot and lush trees in myriad shades of green pleasantly nod…
Book Review: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
367 Pages. Rs 520 Genre: Fiction My very own Star Rating *** Four years after debuting with his stupendous best-seller, ‘The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini unfurls his latest; a story once again set in Afghanistan and beautifully titled, ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns.’ ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ begins with 15-year-old, illegitimate Mariam, who lives with her…
Movie Review : Aap Kaa Surroor – The Moviee. The Real Luv Story.
HR (Himesh Reshammiya, pigmented and bumpy-lipped) is a world-class singer, an ‘Indian Rock star’ who is on a concert-tour in Heidelberg, Germany. In between warding off wildly-crazed fans and singing at ‘sold-out’ concerts, the want of tickets of which are causing bloodshed all around, HR comes across his event-manager Riaa ( Hansika Motwani, pudgy and…
Tag Along!
I love Tags! And I love being Tagged *experiences a strange sense of Deja-Vu when she says this* And when Wooster tagged me with this ‘have-to-write-and-post-in-8-hours Tag’ how could I resist? Thanks, Wooster!;))) Tag Rules 1) Each player starts with 8 random facts/habits about themselves. 2) People who are tagged, write a blog post about…
…Istanbul, Turkey.
Local Currency: Lira. The Lira is also referred to as YTL. Exchange Ratio: Lira to Indian Rupee: 31.01(Approx) Local Language: Turkish is the official spoken language while Arabic is widely spoken too, among other languages. English is neither spoken nor understood and it would be a smart decision to hire an interpreter to get around….
Movie Review: Jhoom Barabar Jhoom
Rating * Crude boy (Abhishek Bachchan) meets Confused girl (Priety Zinta, looking really haggard) at Waterloo Station in London. Both are there to pick up their respective fiancées who are to arrive on the train from Birmingham. The train delayed by an hour forces Crude Boy and Confused Girl to get talking, and how. Audience…