Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Sometimes even when the ingredients are all perfect, movies fail to taste as they should. For me ‘Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close’ ended up to be something like that. It has endearing Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock. It has a highly emotional core where a son loses his father in the 9/11 attacks. The kid [...]
The Artist
There are many ways to tell a story. But the thing is, with an overdose of movies from all direction, nothing looks original anymore. At a time like that, it is the format, style and the way the story often take over. I’m not talking about the junk entertainment that is churned out in Bollywood [...]
Why Women are Bad Drivers… Really?
I’ve encountered plenty of ‘drivers’ who never give sides, overtake from wrong sides even on highways without a signal, honk or a light. I’ve witnessed plenty of accidents too… Strangely enough, none of them have involved women, at the max, women slow down traffic or scratch some cars here and there…. And yet, I was [...]
Dad, I just spoke to DEV ANAND…
There are memories and then there are special memories. Suddenly when my timeline started with RIPs for Dev Saab, a simple memory just turned special. My first filmi article for Ahmedabad Times in early 2005 was all about when and if sequels will ever take off and boy they did. Krish, Dhoom, Sarkar and what [...]
What’s in a surname?
The French women do not want to be called ‘mademoiselle‘ any more, they prefer ‘madame’ that doesn’t give out their marital status. Now as this TIME article says Germans have done away with Fraulein and cosmo women in English speaking world prefer Ms. instead of Miss and Mrs. Many in the comment section of the [...]
Where is my voice?
No one ever tells you how much book reading or movie watching or net surfing is enough. There is no calorie count on in-take of stories. Even though you digest bizarre old plots recycled again and again, taste music, experience the relationships of characters, it often leaves you with post-Rajma effect. Irony is, more and [...]
Midnight in Paris, there is something about Woody Allen – part 6
A Woody Allen movie gives only two possibilities, either you love it, or you haven’t got it. Now you can mix and match with these two, for example, you can love it without getting too. If you claim to get it and don’t love it, you’ll automatically fall down the ‘haven’t got it’ rabbit hole. [...]
Postcard from Upleta
Upleta is a town in Saurashtra region of Gujarat. As a kid when taking an overnight bus to Porbandar, visiting Nanabapu during vacation, Upleta came as a stop in the early morning. Today, it has a whole new meaning to me. A Mr Gambhir K R from Upleta, wrote a postcard addressed to my dad [...]
Of celebrating Independence Day and gauging fan-fiction
Those who are away from home miss it the most. But as they say, if you are feeling homesick, it means you come from a happy home. Celebrating India’s Independence Day with some episodes of Shyam Benegal’s version of Bharat Ek Khoj. I’ve left reading Nehru’s Discovery of India half way some time back in [...]
Remembering Shammi Kapoor
My last memories of Shammi Kapoor were in Twitter last year when he invited Deepika Padukone for a cup of coffee. The man kept in with the rhythm of the world till his last moments. He was the one who ‘moved’ on screen to the rhythm. Men didn’t budge even when they were singing on [...]
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