Life and death are conjoined twins. Nothing makes us ruminate more on life than the news of death. During those demonetization days if everyone became an economist, on the demise of Sridevi everyone seems to have become a philosopher. This was evident from the first tweet and the first whatsapp message that I came across. …
Tag: Bollywood
love is the way
Late nineteen eighties. Just when we thought we were out of our teenage hangovers and stupidities, and the advent of TV and DVD players would sound the death knell for Bollywood, a spate of romantic films ruled the box office. These movies also launched the career of a lot of stars: the innocent looking Juhi …
one life is not enough – the paradox
One life is not enough, yet for now, this moment is full in itself. One life is not enough, yet for now this moment is enough unto itself. The statement may seem to be a paradox, self contradictory, and outright goobledygook. However, it is not when you see different parts of the statement from different …
moving adaptations
There would be, perhaps, half a dozen movies for which I must have read the original book either after or before I saw the movie. Of course, unlike the Hollywood ones the Bollywood productions have been disappointing. Gone with the Wind In case of Gone with the Wind, first I saw the movie, for the …
girlfriend by two
When I first came across the word Half Girlfriend during the launch of the eponymous book written by our great Indian novelist and twenty first century intellectual Sriman Chetan Bhagat ji, I wondered what might be the meaning of such a word. In Indian hotels, we are used to the rate card of a …
Sunday Musings and Random Notes #3
Of course I am talking of life, from which you cannot escape alive. It was after a long time that I was watching a quality Bollywood movie. That the movie was educative, or rather refreshed my understanding about certain basic fundas of life was an added bonus. At the same time the movie was not …
Sunday Musings and Random Notes
Our movies are like our food While switching channels ( Sometimes I enjoy this bad habit), got stuck with Star Action. The movie was - The Other Man. It was supposed to be an action movie. There was so much silence. The dialogues were few. Some of the dialogues were not complete sentences. Yet the …
A few Good Movies
A few good men Finally, last week, I could catch up with a few good movies that had been on my watch list for a very long time. One of them is –‘A few Good Men’. People with some military background would appreciate certain nuances of ‘military ego’ better. The movie is superbly acted and …
Happy New Year – When Writers / Directors Run out of Ideas
When singers/music directors run out of creativity they bring out remix albums. When writers /directors run out of original ideas, the product is 'Happy New Year'. The movie has just the right remix to entertain the Indian audience, particularly those who are not great fans of Holllywood movies, or so the director thinks. And the …
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Hyder – To Rank or not to Rank
If Shakespear's Hamlet gave us the famous dialogue "to be or not to be- that's the question”, the dialogue – “Ek alag nazaria bhi to ho sakta hai" from the movie Haider haunts me time and again. True to this dialogue – ‘Ek alag nazaria bhi to ho sakta hai’, which has been used in …
