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Education: B Tech, IIT Madras, MBA, IIM Ahmedabad
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Seeking Meaning out of Human Bondage
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Reviewed Arth - Hindi
Watched Arth the other day. This movie brought a certain Mahesh Bhatt to the limelight and as Mr. Bhatt himself has accepted, Arth is an odd adaptation of hisRead more...
Forever Gulzar- the eternal poet-artist
Reviewed Gulzar
Kabhi toot gaya, kabhi toda gaya Sau baar phir mujhe joda gaya Yunhi tut tut kar, yunhi lut lut kar Bajta hi raha hoo main [Chor Machaye Shor, 1974] WordRead more...
My tryst with the violent real world
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Reviewed Mohra
I have seen my dad go misty eyed at the mention of Sholay , unfortunately I grew up when the euphoria of the mega-hit had died down. BRead more...
Let's not make it a man-made disaster
Reviewed The Tsunami Tragedy of December-04 - Express Your Feelings
On the morning I landed at Indira Gandhi International airport, New Delhi, death waves had stuck our southern coastline. My mom told me on phone about the disRead more...
My droplets from the ocean
Reviewed Twenty Best Songs of Lata Mangeshkar
My most difficult review so far(and after quite some time too).Choosing just a handful from the melody of ocean. I have my own biases, maybe not as exclusive Read more...
One Unforgettable Collection
Reviewed Legends : R.D.Burman - The Versatile Composer Songs
Recently while driving through the wind mills and the green pastures of Holland, my mind was racing off to distant memoirs, to a time when as a four year old Read more...
The Roman Experience- My Travelogue
Reviewed Rome
It?s very rare that you get to witness historical beauty at such gigantic levels, bricks echoing myriad tales about legendary figures whose footsteps romped tRead more...
The disease of Secularism : My concluding remarks
Reviewed India - General
A few days back, I was trying to answer few disturbing and fundamental queries regarding our religious identity, raised by Monsieur Criminal. And I must say IRead more...
My answer to the Devil's Da Vinci Code
Reviewed The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Sorry, the comments section in the devils review did not have enough memory to allow my entire answers. So here I am pasting the entire answerology. BtwRead more...
The worst among the Best
Reviewed Five Worst Actresses of Bollywood Movies
Okay..I just could not resist writing something on this topic despite the fact I am cooling my heels in faraway Scandinavia and that I have thousand other minRead more...
Demythifying the JEE
Reviewed Successful Preparation for IIT JEE
Although it has been more than five years since I went thru the horrors of JEE, the entire phase of preparing and appearing in the dreaded exam is something IRead more...
From George Reddy to Lallan Singh
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Reviewed Yuva - Bollywood
This review has politically sensitive contents. Please abstain from reading it if you are very politically sensitive. I never thought of writing this review Read more...
The Mighty and The Arrogant
Reviewed Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd (Times)
I had badly wanted to write a review on The Times of India for long, not of the praising flowery verbalization, but some hard hitting the nail on the head tyRead more...
Evergreen Anand at his best
Reviewed Guide - FilmFare Award 1966
This is my first review on MS and I feel its very apt that it is dedicated to the man who brought style to Indian cinema and the film which had impeccabRead more...
Worst decision of my life
Reviewed Stownest
PLEASE READ TILL END.. THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS.... Absolutely worthless. Opt for this service if you want to get your hard earned furnitures return to you in damaRead more...
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Commented on matwalaboy's review
reading only after few paragraphs bcoz as usual it is so verbose and lucid..but then, how can you wirte so much on an ad??...beats me..but then, excellent job as usual..urs was the first revu i read after abt six months and it feels so refreshing..few points though..well noticed fact that car makers Read More...
Commented on mbfarookh's review
on one of the modern greats..i did play a lot of TT in school and college ..had a decent backhand and an awful forehand return :(( And abt the state run sports hostels of China, I can assure that entire scandinivia is not very different..although these nations are highly sufficient, the policies Read More...
Commented on Cousin2's review
Tolstoy is a master when it comes to waving complex tales around complex characters..i have read Anna Karenina in parts and liked it a lot..btw, one small querry if Anna means 'wife of' why do even unmarried girls keep the name..i have met few unwed russians whose first name is Anna Regards Man Read More...
Rated on Cousin2's review
Commented on ady348's review
Raj Kapoor could make grand socialist statements using the kaleidoscope ..no wonder he was an icon across the communist East Europe and China, people in those parts of the world still identify India with Raju ..as Mrs Medha has said, he gave lifes ideals to many and gave them reasons for survival.. Read More...
Rated on ady348's review
Commented on Sushama's review
As Dr saab already pointed out Pran's real name is not Sikandar Bhakt (Sikandar Bhakt was infact a senior BJP leader who died recently)..another interesting trivia, Pran refused to accept the filmfare for best supporting actor in 1971 when the jury refused to give Ghulam Mohammed the best music awar Read More...
Rated on Sushama's review
Commented on own review
bharat5: thx for the inspiring words..even I would like to see him go behind camera again.. munir: Yeah, he is a complete artist. Actually there can be only one Gulzar, forever; whoever follows will have sky high standards to matchup to. Thx for RRCing. King: Absolutely agree on the depth part Read More...
Commented on Somelogic's review
to Harsha Bhogle, ESPN-Star for infusing sparks in the dead engine called indian hockey..and to you as well, for spreading the good word..well the tangibles are already showing up..we finally discovered a penalty corner specialist, Len Ayappa and offcourse it was a treat watching Sohail Abbas, the Read More...
Rated on Somelogic's review
Commented on diver's review
With all due respect to your choices (and sad that it doesn't match mine) , i think that there's a degree of inconsitency in your ranking..i think Veer-Zaara is as good as (or ad bad as) MHN and Khakee or that Swades or Lakshya has more entertainment value than Phir Milenge..btw, agree fully Read More...
Rated on diver's review
Commented on criminal's review
'Khushboo' could've been a masterpiece but for the acting (or the lack of it) of the main protagnists..i honestly felt Hema Malini was too wooden at times and Jitendra, as you said when he isn't jumping around, is hardly alive..but hats off to Gulzar for putting faith on them.. Nice elaborate rev Read More...
Rated on criminal's review
Commented on evil_ot_to_live's review
But hope you haven't confused the sexuality of Madame Sharma..'coz there's an altogether different category for worst actresses.. Regards Manash
Rated on evil_ot_to_live's review
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