Well, I did come out of denial and blues. After experimenting with a lot of new style-sheets the old one started looking a bit grim. Here we are, babbling amidst new colours, but we are still not lost for words… I’ve to sit down and list the things I’m yet to blog about…There is a [...]

I finished reading Emma after ten years two days back. I’m again in one of those ‘I don’t want to do anything but read’ phases. And every year when I’m visited by this phase, I end up reading a lot of books that I’ve already read, some of them are now almost memorized. I’m in [...]

Larry King recently returned from watching Woody Allen’s Whatever Works and twittered that it was Allen’s best work so far. Almost every time someone sees his good movies, they would be tempted to say this is his best. But then I’ve derived to this thought that Woody Allen is a creator whose best might never [...]

Lots of things happening.. Or perhaps I should be singing my Ghulam Ali favourite – Dil Mein Ek Laher Si Uthi hai Abhi…  First of all, mom and dad have peacefully reached Ahmedabad after having a blast in Dubai. I couldn’t have had more energetic time here in Stuttgart. There is something very electric about [...]

About three things I am certain. First, Edward Cullen and Bella Swan romance is refreshing since Lizzy Bennett and Mr Darcy. Second, there is a part of me, and I didn’t know how dominant that part might be, that doesn’t think Twilight is a superlative work of literature. And Third, I am unconditionally and irrevocably [...]

I want to write about this while my Easter vacation trip to Barcelona is still fresh in the memory. It is a city dripping with enthusiasm. Many replicas of New York and Paris and Venice are scattered around the globe. Barcelona is quite new compared to other cities with unique identities. And it stands out [...]

Taking my Woody Allen, something-holic experience to the next step, here I am, writing from Manhattan of Brussels, about one of his controversial (ha!) flicks, Manhattan.  Allen himself was so dissatisfied with this movie that he offered the production house to direct the next movie for free. And ironically, the movie made more money than any [...]

I was looking up for quotable quotes from Annie Hall and ended up reading half the script of the movie. This would give you some idea of the strength of a tight script with very little happening in the story. Though majority of dialogues are, what you may call ‘blabbering’. I used to label some [...]

There is something inexplicably interesting about Woody Allen and he knows it. He exploits that something and has ended up with a wide range of faithful fans and turned them into that something-holic. Instead of trying to find out what this something is all about, I plan to talk about his movies in separate posts [...]