Kick – Movie Review
My uncle once said to me, “You NGO philanthropic types work with poor people because it makes you feel better about yourself.” As acerbic that statement sounded back then, Salman’s latest flick KICK...
View ArticleMessed up ideal women of Indian television
Remember those five crazy sisters of the popular television sitcom Hum Paanch and their hapless father who found solace debating with a picture of his dead wife, a head-strong Shanti who fought for her...
View ArticlePerils and thrills of a solo lady traveller in India
Many of our women readers often ask us what it is like traveling on public buses, trains and rickshaws in India, especially in remote and seemingly precarious regions. Reports of rampant gang-rapes,...
View ArticleEnough of Deepika’s Cleavage! Let’s Move On!
Not that it is wise to indulge in Bollywood gossips, particularly when it is about the tabloids and movie stars’ marketing stints and gimmicks. However, when the nation’s leading “newspaper”, Times of...
View ArticleIt’s all about cleavage – Deepika Padukone’s cleavage!
Who doesn’t love Deepika Padukone? She’s blessed with a perfect body, a captivating smile, a tall athletic father, a reconstructed nose, and an enviable career. She’s gorgeous and guess what, we all...
View ArticleThe One Show you Must Watch – Breaking Bad!
I am done watching 5 Seasons of Breaking Bad back-to-back, without really giving my eyes or my rattled brain a break. But I am clearly feeling the pangs of withdrawal that no other social-crime drama...
View ArticleA night with the dead celebrities in a haunted hotel
I spent a night in a renowned haunted Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel at Hollywood Boulevard last night and experienced the most irking experience of my life. First, I had a nightmare, and I could sense a...
View ArticleMovie Blog: What we can learn from Aamir Khan’s PK (PeeKay)
“Who is God after all?” That is what an alien (portrayed by Bollywood megastar Aamir Khan) asks in the recently released Hindi movie PK (or Peekay). He innocuously explains, “There are two types of...
View ArticlePiku Movie Review – The perfect Mother’s Day treat
Our parents are aging, and we are all worried about how we will care for them in their infirmity. For me, my mother especially has been the center of my universe, and the most giving and strongest...
View ArticleMovie Review: Hidden messages of Dil Dhadakne Do
Dil Dhadakne Do (DDD) has many flaws – Zoya Akhtar is no Rajkumar Hirani (Munnabhai series, 3 Idiots, PK) when it comes to narrating stories about social problems. Her movie’s characters cannot shout...
View ArticleShaandaar Movie Review – find the right guy and dump the wrong guy!
Shahid Kapoor got married earlier this year to the pretty young lady – Mira Rajput. He then went on to star in the newest Dharma Productions – Shaandaar, as in GRANDIOSE – or as fans and critics stated...
View ArticleThank God Kareena Kapoor Khan does not Represent Bollywood Queens
I am one of those Bollywood fans who gets proud witnessing the success of our actresses. Not all are born with a Kapoor, a Bachchan or a Khan surname, yet some actresses have made it on their own....
View ArticleWill the Khans take down Sanjay Leela Bhansali?
With the holidays around the corner, mega movies are about to hit the theaters. We are anxiously awaiting: Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Bajirao Mastani (BRM) starring Deepika Padukone, Priyanka Chopra and...
View ArticleA Late Movie Review – Tamasha
The most fulfilling human projects appeared inseparable from a degree of torment, the sources of our greatest joys lying awkwardly close to those of our greatest pains – Alain de Botton, distilling...
View ArticleLet the Force be with the Fans
Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! Spellbound, Dumbfounded and Shocked That is my expression right now after watching Star Wars: The Force Awakens. If Star Wars Part IV, V and VI were about...
View ArticleBajirao Mastani – the Feminist Review
Bajirao Mastani is a wretched love story about Bajirao the stately Maratha Peshwa (equivalent to Prime Minister) and Mastani (a half-Muslim) warrior princess of Bundelkhand. The movie is lavish –...
View ArticleLessons in Karma from Deepika Padukone
Have you ever witnessed life come a full circle, like in the “what goes around comes around” kind of way? My co-blogger Deepti and I have spent numerous hours discussing the...
View ArticleSunny Leone in Sita’s World
There is something about Sunny Leone that is disturbing to many of us entangled in the so-called notion of morality. A woman should be like Sita- pure, innocent, harmless and devoted to her man. Sunny...
View ArticleMasaan – the Most Soul Stirring Movie of 2015
Have you ever loved, and eventually felt searing disappointment when life couldn’t deliver all love was meant to be – a loving propitious future, enduring years of blissful harmony? Such is the story...
View ArticleRevisiting the Classic: Saheb Biwi aur Ghulam
Sahib Biwi aur Ghulam- the classic based on a novel by acclaimed Bengali writer Bimal Mitra- must be finest Hindi cinema of the century that highlights the decline of wealthy aristocracy and the rise...
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