Insightful, Hard-Hitting

5

Reviewed Eleven Minutes - Paulo Coelho

This man misses nothing. Not even the oldest profession to bring out his philiosphy of living a meaningful life. I read the book quite sometime back, but since read more...

Fascinating

4

Reviewed Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

Simply, just that -fascinating. Written in the first person, as the novel progresses, you can sense the deep anguish the protagonist feels without her ever sayiread more...

Botched up climax

3

Reviewed Fanaa

I saw only the second half of the movie, from the time Amir recupes at Kajol’s place. It was gripping and intense. I couldn’t take my eyes off them. Yread more...

A feel-gooder

4

Reviewed Koi Mil Gaya

it is a kid’s movie and yet watchable by adults. The usual sentiments, fight, romance fill this otherwise neatly packaged movie.So you have the "beta, ja, read more...

Hook, Line & Sinker

3

Reviewed Hanuman

A bit late in the day, this review, considering we bought the CD almost around the time it came out. But, at that time, though we watched it a few times, my 2 yread more...

Love poetry

5

Reviewed By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept - Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho has a way of writing that is simple, straightforward, and goes straight to the heart. Very strongly entrenched in spirituality, his tales do not prread more...

For hands-free comfort

5

Reviewed VIP Frenchie 'Duniya Mein Logon Ko' commercial

I have been seeing this ad for more than a year and yet I never tire of it. A guy and a girl, dancing in a practically empty bar. Both dance well. Except that tread more...

Pampering you

5

Reviewed Air India 'We Care' commercial

I can’t say much about Air India’s services, not having traveled in one. But one must congratulate them on the ad, which sure makes for interesting waread more...

Move on, Man!

3

Reviewed Noble House - James Clavell

1400 pages long with suspense, thrillers and disappointments. The author begins well and you have all the promise of this novel being a mixture of genres –read more...

It was the best of Dickens

5

Reviewed A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

I have read a few of Charles Dickens novels - despite not particularly liking his brand of style of plots. A sort of melancholy and depression sets in, reading read more...

Extremely tiring

1

Reviewed Carrom

Carrom hurts my finger and ears very badly. The coins manage to dodge the pockets. Even when I carefully take aim and strike a fairly straight shot, the strikerread more...

The cool experience

5

Reviewed Whirlpool White Magic

One of our early purchases 3 years back - soon after our marriage and as we were shifting into our new home - was the Whirlpool WhiteMagic. Till now, I have hadread more...

Not my bottle of drink

1

Reviewed Mountain Dew 'Do the Dew' commercial

Taking it out of a leopard’s mouth to have that drink. I am sorry, it doesn’t appeal to me at all...And, I don’t understand it at all... Again a read more...

Distracting opulence

3

Reviewed Devdas - New

I believe Rs 50 crore was spent on this. And so I wanted to watch it. And, I didn’t want to watch it in theaters - no way. So, I was lucky that Set Max shoread more...

Cut, cut, cut...

2

Reviewed Fanta 'Dil Khol Ke' commercial

As it is many ads fail to convey the link between the product and the message. This is one of those. It is long, and so the punch line is lost. And, of course, read more...

Tough to choose

Reviewed 5 Best Books

Books are a passion.But sometimes I read too much and forget the details - except that it was a nice book. Some books that I have/had access to and have read seread more...

Intense love story

4

Reviewed Love In The Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Love is a noble emotion, at least the way it is presented in literature and movies. One expects the heroine to be deeply in love with the hero, and in a romanceread more...

Life - a precious gift

5

Reviewed Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho

We take life for granted. We get bored, we miss out the finer aspects of life, and keep chasing and running elusive goals set by others for us!! And all the whiread more...

Revolutionary for its times

3

Reviewed Lady Chatterley's Lover - D. H. Lawrence

I was surprised that this book was not already reviewed! It was a rage in its days. In fact, DH Lawrence himself was a bit of a revolutionary, though now he palread more...

Disturbing

4

Reviewed The Thin Red Line

With the US-led attack on Iraq on, I thought this was a movie one should revisit. Based on a World War II campaign against the Japanese in a peaceful village, tread more...