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…
…Auschwitz and Birkenau – Poland : A Photo Journey
On a gloomy, grey afternoon in May, I traveled 50 km outside Krakow, Poland to visit Auschwitz and Birkenau, or Auschwitz-2 as it is also referred to. Which are 2 of the surviving camps of the 3 that the Nazis set up to eliminate the Jews and other lower races. Auschwitz was spread over 92…
Book Tagged! :)
The rules of this Tag: 1. Name the person (of course with the link) who tagged you. 2. Describe what you are asked to do, in this case publish 5th paragraph of page 123 of the book you are currently reading. (if the page does not have 5th paragraph, take the last paragraph. And if…
Take 3! :)
Blog-hopping one lazy afternoon, I came across Freespirit’s rather interesting blog. Spotting a Tag *my favorite weakness*, I decided to filch it off her, with her kind permission of course.Here it is.I happily Tag Iris and Anuja and am hoping they’ll oblige :)) 3 things that scare me1) Death2) Fanatics 3) Being underwater 3 people…
Is it just me…
…who thinks Shahrukh Khan’s wax replica, recently installed at Madame Tussauds in London, looks like a cheap, plastic version of him? Not that it comes as a surprise, what with a disappointing Amitabh Bachchan and a most unlike her, Aishwariya RaiCompared to all the other perfectly cast, Non-Indian people set in wax the 3 Indians…
Go Watch…
..the testosterone – charged, delightfully visual treat of a movie simply titled, ‘300’. Based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel, “300” set in 480 B.C the story is about the Battle of Thermopylae in which the King of Sparta, ‘King Leonidas’, led his army against the advancing Persians. An hour and a half of slick direction,…