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- Sep 5, 2008
- Sorrow of Bihar
The fury of Kosi continues unabated but for these representatives of people it has boiled down to who gets the maximum accolades in this time
- Sep 2, 2008
- Movie Review: WANTED - Some Kickass Action!If you thought only Bollywood could think up weird storylines, then you need to watch WANTED!
- Original Fiction: Harry Potter and the Closet of FireTo this, Dumbledore paused for a moment, then gave a sheepish smile.
- Movie Review: WANTED - Some Kickass Action!
- Aug 28, 2008
- Satire: Dear Allah
Since You are Omnipotent and all powerful why did you not delay Muhammed's arrival till the dawn of the internet era?
- Aug 25, 2008
- Movie Review: Mumbai Meri Jaan -Saluting the Spirit of BombayNishikant Kamath has painted on a huge canvas a picture of M'me Mumbai in all her resplendence, her beauty, her ugliness, her moles, her warts,and
- Movie Review: Mumbai Meri Jaan -Saluting the Spirit of Bombay
- Aug 22, 2008
- Growing Up With Enid BlytonClose to forty years after her death Enid Blyton’s books continue to enthrall another generation.
- Growing Up With Enid Blyton
- Aug 17, 2008
- Movie Review: Singh Is Kinng
It was comedy from beginning to end without descending to making fun of a community as was previously done in Bollywood. - TV Review: Sonali Kulkarni's So Kool - Not So KoolI’m not sure I’d like to tell them what I felt about the show; honesty doesn’t always have sporting takers!
- Aug 9, 2008
- DVD Review: Taare Zameen ParA heartfelt movie about a boy struggling for acceptance.
- DVD Review: Taare Zameen Par
- Aug 8, 2008
- Umrao Jaan - A Story of The Indian Girl Child
It is a story of an Indian girl child who laments her agony of life, composed in the form of poetry and music, with soul-gripping - Rakhi Sawant - My Big Break Is Breaking Me UpThen, when I finally managed to get in touch with the lady herself, she promptly threw me back into the pool of sharks
- Aug 4, 2008
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn: (Dec. 11, 1918 – Aug. 3, 2008)But shall we ever grasp the whole of that light? Who will dare to say that he has DEFINED Art, enumerated all its facets?
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn: (Dec. 11, 1918 – Aug. 3, 2008)
- Aug 3, 2008
- Indian Movies - Very Much Without Verisimilitude
How close to reality are the settings and scenes in Indian movies? Is this their best? Or is this all that we deserve? - Movie Review: Kuselanif you are a die hard Rajni fan, please do not go to the movies trusting him to make his appearance any time soon.
- Aug 1, 2008
- Gulzar's Hu Tu Tu - Misplaced Idealism?Perhaps middle age indeed is the fountainhead of cynicism and the period to beware of.
- Movie Review: The Gold Rush (1925)
The movie was a huge commercial success, earning more than $4 million at that time.
- Gulzar's Hu Tu Tu - Misplaced Idealism?
- Jul 30, 2008
- News Analysis, Electronic Media and Journalistic IntegrityA good analyst can conclude from the blind men's reports of examining an elephant that they were describing a large animal.
- News Analysis, Electronic Media and Journalistic Integrity
- Jul 29, 2008
- Splitsvilla Or Shamesville?Is 15 seconds of fame a good enough reason for these contestants to completely demean themselves?
- Splitsvilla Or Shamesville?
- Jul 27, 2008
- Movie Review: Mission Istaanbul - Male Booty Call
The movie isn't low budget, the action scenes are packed but here is what I don't get about the movie. - Movie Review: The X-Files: I Want To BelieveThe power of the film lies in the secret sharers rather than the secrets they share.
- Jul 26, 2008
- Movie Review: Money Hai To Honey Hai6 characters so busy doing their own thing that story is mere by-product. Adorable idea pulped to deplorable mince.
- Movie Review: Money Hai To Honey Hai
- Jul 25, 2008
- Seven Blasts Rock Bangalore
The bombs are said to be of low intensity, possibly induced by gelatin sticks.
- Jul 23, 2008
- Kismat Konnection, On and Off Screen.Both our leading stars have moved on (so they say) and all too quickly replaced each other’s presence with a new set of lovers.
- Kismat Konnection, On and Off Screen.
- Jul 21, 2008
- Follywood SooperheroesNow Spiderman is probably furious after watching this!
- Follywood Sooperheroes
- Jul 19, 2008
- Movie Review: Kismet Konnection
Those of you who went to watch the movie expecting another Jab We Met would have been left severely disappointed
- Jul 18, 2008
- Movie Review: Kung Fu Panda - Awesomeness - For KidsLegend tells of a legendary warrior whose kung fu skills were the stuff of legend.
- Interview: Straight Talk With Onir, Director of My Brother Nikhil"Unfortunately the current trend involves audience watching comedies and idiotic comedies."
- Pappu Learns To Dance
Dream sequence: song and dance, with at least a hundred youngsters on the floor, and a DJ wearing psychedelic colors
- Movie Review: Kung Fu Panda - Awesomeness - For Kids
- Jul 16, 2008
- Movie Review: Jaane Tu...Ya Jaane Na - Same Same But DifferentThe film handles the same issue handled in Mani Ratnam’s successful flick Alaipayuthey, but gives a totally urban look to the concept.
- Movie Review: Jaane Tu...Ya Jaane Na - Same Same But Different
- Jul 14, 2008
- Amit Singh, 7/11 Bomb Blasts VictimAmit is languishing in a hospital in Mumbai in a semi-comatose state for the last two years.
- Rastafarians, Talibans and Hijabis: Charsis, Afeemis and Purdah-nashins
We love Bob Marley. And Jamaica has beautiful beaches also in Negril and Ocho Rios. About Hijabis and Talibans we know less. - Aarushi Talwar Murder Case: The Truth Locked InAfter months of capturing the media headlines, the Aarushi murder case has finally seen some answers.
- Amit Singh, 7/11 Bomb Blasts Victim
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