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- Sep 6, 2008
- Movie Review: Tahaan - Paradise Lost
This take of a boy and his quest for bringing back his donkey is definitely not better than his similar film The Terrorist, but is - Music Review: Thieves - British IndiaAn album of growing up, of coming of age, and by poets of yet another lost generation.
- Sep 5, 2008
- Sorrow of BiharThe fury of Kosi continues unabated but for these representatives of people it has boiled down to who gets the maximum accolades in this time
- Sorrow of Bihar
- 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.
- Aug 28, 2008
- Satire: Dear AllahSince You are Omnipotent and all powerful why did you not delay Muhammed's arrival till the dawn of the internet era?
- Satire: Dear Allah
- Aug 25, 2008
- Movie Review: Mumbai Meri Jaan -Saluting the Spirit of Bombay
Nishikant 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
- 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 KinngIt 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 Kool
I’m not sure I’d like to tell them what I felt about the show; honesty doesn’t always have sporting takers!
- Movie Review: Singh Is Kinng
- 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 ChildIt 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 Up
Then, when I finally managed to get in touch with the lady herself, she promptly threw me back into the pool of sharks
- Umrao Jaan - A Story of The Indian Girl Child
- 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 VerisimilitudeHow close to reality are the settings and scenes in Indian movies? Is this their best? Or is this all that we deserve?
- Movie Review: Kuselan
if you are a die hard Rajni fan, please do not go to the movies trusting him to make his appearance any time soon.
- Indian Movies - Very Much Without Verisimilitude
- 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 Integrity
A good analyst can conclude from the blind men's reports of examining an elephant that they were describing a large animal.
- 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 CallThe 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 Believe
The power of the film lies in the secret sharers rather than the secrets they share.
- Movie Review: Mission Istaanbul - Male Booty Call
- 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 BangaloreThe bombs are said to be of low intensity, possibly induced by gelatin sticks.
- Seven Blasts Rock Bangalore
- 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.
- Jul 21, 2008
- Follywood SooperheroesNow Spiderman is probably furious after watching this!
- Follywood Sooperheroes
- Jul 19, 2008
- Movie Review: Kismet KonnectionThose of you who went to watch the movie expecting another Jab We Met would have been left severely disappointed
- Movie Review: Kismet Konnection
- Jul 18, 2008
- Movie Review: Kung Fu Panda - Awesomeness - For Kids
Legend 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 DanceDream sequence: song and dance, with at least a hundred youngsters on the floor, and a DJ wearing psychedelic colors
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