This weekend was a weekend of many movies. I started with the directorial debut Hindi film, followed by a French, a Japanese, and a Chinese movie. Surprises of surprises - "U, Me, Aur Hum" was not the worst of the lot.

It was pretty bad though. I can see that Ajay Devgan was passionate about the subject of the movie, maybe that is the reason he ( Read more... )

AKA Chronicles of a Married Girl - March Update

Last Friday, I managed to make fittingly cute faces to convince the husband, a slightly freaked-out husband, to take me out for dinner to celebrate our six-month anniversary. I know it is a little lame, but the evening turned out to be lovely.

Well, it did not start that way though. We had some ( Read more... )

This has been the week of hot forty-plus women. Saw Aaja Nach Le, which is half decent a flick. The story was not as great as one expects from Jaideep Sahni and the rest of the stuff was mediocre too. However, full marks for the choreography and a respectable show put up by all actors. Additional brownie points for trying to be progressive and ( Read more... )

Because you are a Hindi-film fan, just like me
Because you are not afraid to be fun in a cliché sort of way
Because you celebrate cinema in your movies
Because you poke fun at everyone, including yourself

I like.

The best thing about living away from home is going back home. For the first time in the history of me, I was actually happy to feel the slight nip in the air that indicates arrival of the terrible Delhi winters. You see, this nip is really nice but what it brings with it is to be dreaded. So ( Read more... )

The book

I have no idea what took me so long to pick up “Neverwhere.” Have had an e-version of the book sitting pretty in my mailbox for over a year now. But I love reading the old fashioned way; just the way I like shopping the old fashioned way. My reading material must come with a faint papery smell. Coming back to the point, I am on page 66 ( Read more... )

It was one of those boring afternoons when time crawls and unexciting work piles up. A colleague and I decided to walk up to the cafeteria to get something to drink. As we sat sipping hot milk-less masala chai, my ears caught strains of a popular 90s song. I turned around to find Kishan-Kanhiya, a Rakesh Roshan flop production from the 90s, on the ( Read more... )

Delhi's heat is getting to me. I have been spoilt in a week by Hyderabad’s uber pleasant weather. Now, my skin is a shade of bronze minus the sparkles, eyes red at the corners, and throat perpetually parched. To my left hand, there is a 750 ML bottle of water affixed. And I just had an orange candy. But I am not here to talk about the heat. I am ( Read more... )

Movie recommendation of the week:


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Having gotten out of my Woody Allen mode, I settled down for some assorted movies this weekend. I saw a fairytale, a superhero film, and a mindless comic mystery. Loved them all, in different ways.

Let me begin from the beginning. It all began when I found myself without the next episode of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip; stuck with the cliffhanger ( Read more... )