…that Madonna is looking to adopt an Indian Baby. I’m offended, Madge. Really! *sulking* I am right here and you need to go looking all over the place! Let me explain. I am Indian. I used to be called Baby, till I refused to answer to it (when I was 10 years old, if details…
Quelle Horreur!
Dear Heather, Now that you’ve managed to get your hands on your ex-husband, Sir Paul McCartney’s millions *a few of the many, many more he still has, mind* I just hope you’d start dressing better. (Truly curious to know what might have made you want to dress like a harlequin. Temporary blindness? Dressing in the…
Movie Review : Juno
Juno (Ellen Page. Precocious, wonderful, confident, perfectly cast. Ah! I could go on and on about her!)is 16. An implusive ‘experiment’ with boyfriend Paulie Bleeker (Michael Cera) and Juno is pregnant. After a few moments of minor disbelief at finding herself pregnant, Juno decides to go in for an abortion. On her way to it,…
Movie Review: 27 Dresses
Jane (Katherine Heigl, endearing) plays the perpetual bridesmaid who attends every wedding she can with the firm belief that the Brides will return the favor when it’s her turn to walk down the aisle. She keeps her bridesmaid dresses, 27 in all, lined up in a bursting closet, even as she dreams and hopes for…
New Year! New Thoughts! New Post!
Ever so often, the desire to evolve drives me to cast a sweeping glance through my attitude, my life, and the people in it. After a swift, and at times contemplative, reckoning, I sift through my thoughts, ideals, people, and everything that affects me and my day-to-day living. Retaining the gist of what has worked…
Movie Review: Aaja Nachle
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,…
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…