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For someone who has always been a fan of romantic comedies and who has recently discovered the gem known as Woody Allen, picking up Annie Hall was not surprising. I started watching the movie with very high expectations and guess what? The movie was not what I expected it to be at all. But was still brilliant.

Romantic Comedy with DepthAs a rule, ( Read more... )

Wonder why I never thought of this before?!While traveling to work and back, I do various things to keep myself occupied and to take comfort in the fact that these 3.5 - 4 hours are not entirely wasted. I usually read books or play games. But then there are days when I do not feel like doing either of those and that is when I listen to music or if ( Read more... )

Survived another Holi by locking myself indoors. The closest I came to colors this Holi was while watching Eklavya. A movie I enjoyed and wanted to make a post about. I also wanted to write about three other movies I watched this weekend; you know one of my signature posts that are well formatted, have a fancy title, and have paragraph titles ( Read more... )

So a shiny brand new year is here and some good things have already happened. For one Warren_Ellis has returned to LJ. His daily dose of cynical wit was greatly missed by many. And they published my article on CLOMedia.com. Another fun thing that happened early this year was that I got to watch The Prestige. It is a movie that did not get its due worth in ( Read more... )

It was my Diwali bonanza - a double bill on the first day of movie release, and I am not even a movie reviewer. Happiness.

|| Don - The Chase Begins Again ||It was the excitement of catching the first day first show of an SRK flick combined with the fanfare created around the movie that ensured that I was in high spirits for three hours. And I was ( Read more... )

I hereby begin a new series of posts in which I will confess my guilty pleasures and then make embarrassed faces. Then, I will expect you to leave a comment telling me that I need not go red as you are way sillier. Next, you will describe your silliness. Thank you very much.

Topic of the Week: MoviesTo commence the ritual of making a fool of ( Read more... )

I sat down to watch Dancer in the Dark because I had nothing better to do on Sunday morning when my friend called at the last minute to cancel our plan to go watch My Super Ex GirlfriendI have this thing; I love watching movies in theatres. The whole larger than life experience is so joyful, so beguiling that I do not care if I go to watch crap ( Read more... )

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It was a hot summer afternoon and our hero, Raj, could feel his brain go numb. He had been trying to add some punch to the script of his next movie for almost two weeks now. But how much can a lad do when the story is about a handsome boy meeting a pretty girl, falling for her, romancing her, and then getting into trouble with her fiancé. How does ( Read more... )