Movie Review : Salaam-e-shit Nikhil Advani made his directorial debut with ‘Kal Ho Na Ho’ his mentor Karan Johar’s production. Heavily inspired by ‘Love Actually’, ‘Dance with me’ and ’50 first Dates’, Advani presents ‘Salaam-e-ishq’, his 2nd film, which is about 6 different couples dealing with love in its various…
K(h)an-not!
I’ve been jumping all over the place, screaming ‘Me!Me!’ each time a deep, baritone in the T.V Promo asks ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati?’ but does anybody ever listen to me ? Not. So, after a futile 2 months of trying to get their attention by the abovementioned act *bad-knee et all*,…
Happy,Happy, Joy,Joy! ;)
Take twelve fine, full-grown months; see that these are thoroughly free from old memories of bitterness, rancor and hate, cleanse them completely from every clinging spite; pick off all specks of pettiness and littleness; in short, see that these months are freed from all the past—have them fresh and clean…
Begaani Shaadi Mein Abdullah Deewana….
Ok, so Sunita Williams has gone into space *stands up and applauds* Even though I had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that she’s reached there, I am happy for her *stands up once again and applauds some more.* What I am not happy about is the fact that…
I Wish….
…the media would have been a little considerate before splashing the news ‘Athlete Santhi is not a girl!’ all over the place. If being stripped of her medals and humiliated publicly wasn’t bad enough, the repercussions that this will/must have already caused on her mind will be irreversible. She should…
Movie Review : Umrao Jaan
Umrao Jaan is an adaptation of the book ‘Umrao Jaan Ada’ written in 1905 by a well known poet called ‘Ruswa.’ Whether the lovely courtesan, who was also known as the ‘heartbeat of Avadh’, and poetess existed or was the imagination of the poet is still debatable. His words were…
Movie Review : Dor
‘Dor’ is a thread or string. Something that binds things together and Nagesh Kukunoor couldn’t have chosen a better title for his movie. Zeenat (Gul Panang) is a tough, fiercely independent woman living life on her own terms in far away Himachal Pradesh. Meera (Ayesha Takia) is a traditional, duty-bound,…
Movie Review:The Devil Wears Prada
The title of the book, The Devil Wears Prada by Laura Weisberger, drew me to it exactly 3 years ago. As I turned the last page, my immediate thought was “This should be a movie!” . No talk of the book being filmed happened for a while and though I…
Booked for life
We at ‘Times of India’ are starting a new series on Bookmark called BOOKED FOR LIFE. It will consist of first-person accounts by book lovers on their relationship with their collections, favorite books, unfavourite books, reading habits and so on. Essentially personal, the pieces can be funny, nostalgic, righteous, ironic,…