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10 "Over The Top" 1970's Bollywood Songs
Reviewed Ten Best Hindi Comic Songs
The 1970’s were a unique era in Bollywood, one that saw the first SuperStar, as well as the first dethroning of the reigning SuperStar with a "angry younread more...
A Women's Stormy Coming of Age Tale
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Reviewed Persepolis Movie
Growing up with a grandmother who lets you in on her female anatomy maintenance secrets, at most is eyebrow raising material. Add to that a home in an exclusiread more...
My Crazy Merry Parsi Upbringing
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Reviewed Little Zizou
"Sir I don’t know the Marathi word for subtlety", epitomizes the subtle humor abundant in Little Zizou, a film about two feuding Bombay Parsi men and theread more...
Explanation/Prediction of the Financial Crisis
Reviewed Trishul
Amitabh (Vijay Gupta) in his first meeting with Sanjeev Kumar says "Main Paanch Lakh Ka Sauda Karne Aaya Hoon Aur Meri Jeb Mein Paanch Phooti Kaudi Nahin Hainread more...
India's Unknown Birth Control Pioneer
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Reviewed Dhyaas Parva
Margaret Sanger, an American birth control pioneer, founded her first clinic in 1916 at Brooklyn New York. A few days later, she was arrested on obscenity charead more...
Woody Allen's Enchanting Spanish Caper
Reviewed Vicky Christina Barcelona
The movie starts with two American friends Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Cristina (Scarlett Johansson) going to Barcelona for the summer. They stay at Vicky’sread more...
Food + Wine: Music, An Amateur's Epiphany
Reviewed General Tips on Cooking
Not being able to analyze wines like an expert, you know the type that spouts "exhibits gorgeous floral, cherry, tobacco, spice, and roasted Provencal herb-liread more...
A Tale of Two Reviews
Reviewed Continental Airlines
For the most part, this review addresses Continental’s NonStop service in economy a) Newark(EWR) - Delhi(DEL); traveled in 2006. b) EWR - Mumbai(BOM) rread more...
Measure Time in Seasons Not Days
Reviewed Year in Provence, A - Peter Mayle
Do you like to buy your fruits and vegetables from a farmer’s market instead of a supermarket ? How about your olive oil in liters from a mill and liberread more...
Still Romancing with Life
Reviewed Dev Anand
The first Hindi movie I saw outside India was Jewel Thief, year 1971, place Tehran Iran; dubbed in Persian. Iranian’s in those days had un-fettered accesread more...
There Will Be Blood - In Acquiring Oil
Reviewed There Will Be Blood
On the surface, one may depict this movie as a proxy for the US involvement in Iraq. It is about a ruthless, cheating, win-at-any-cost oilman’s relentlesread more...
Maine Kasam Li/Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head
Reviewed Cycling
A bicycle as an instrument of romance? An exercise machine - certainly, good for the environment - pretty obvious, cheap reliable transportation - cannot be dread more...
Beyond Obelix & Anatole - French Cuisine Today
Reviewed Tips on Cooking food
You do not have to hunt wild boar like Obelix, the fictional world’s most prolific consumer of French cuisine. Neither do you have to afford the servicesread more...
Stereotypes R' Us
Reviewed The Spanish Apartment Movie
Stereotyping is bad for promoting multiculturalism, so says the manual on political correctness. Fortunately director Cedric Klapisch bends this sensible ruleread more...
20/20/20
Reviewed Twenty Best Hindi Romantic Songs
20 Music Directors 20 Heroines and 20 Heroes gave us these romantic duets from 20 different films. Why this insistence upon 20 separate. a) Left to myself, read more...
Musings on Pairing Indian Food with Wine
Reviewed Tips on Buying a Wine
Golconda wine & Batatawada was my first attempt, as breakfast before writing the IIT entrance exam in 1979. That I got in was due to a lot of hard work & Agarread more...
Precursor to "World is Flat"
Reviewed Free to Choose - Milton Friedman
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke responded to the sub-prime crisis in the US with a 50 basis point reduction in the Fed Funds rate. This controversial moread more...
Kishore's Heroes
Reviewed 20 Best Songs of Kishore Kumar
Kishore Kumar has several "best" songs, and to make this a bit more challenging and interesting; I shall unilaterally add two constraints:- 1) Solo Songs & 2)read more...
Mild Sign of an Emerging India
Reviewed Indigo - Colaba - Mumbai
It sounds a trifle elitist, using a high-end European-Indian Fusion Restaurant as a sign of India’s possible emergence. Some may rightly ask, what about read more...
GUIDE --- Undercurrents of Feminism
Reviewed Guide - FilmFare Award 1966
Feminist is a word rarely used to portray Guide; most descriptions include multi-layered, ahead of its time, a story of redemption, based on adultery, inspirread more...
Nice Place for Family & Friends
Reviewed Family Tree - Panch Pakhadi - Thane
Family Tree is known for its diverse and extensive vegetarian menu, which has become increasingly popular as demand for meatless options grows. The restaurantread more...
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Wiredforsound : Thanks for the wonderful comment. Hope you get the movie & like it. I liked it a lot & so did my wife & daughter (a teenager). Samir
Ipsi :)) Glad to see you here, as always with a nice comment. I am a Big B fan as well, and I used to be a Rajesh Khanna fan but only for some of his initial roles. Certainly his long haired phase contributed to his loosing the SuperStar status. And, Kishore Kumar was absolutely the best. My movi read more...
Candyfloss : Thanks for liking the review and the nice comment. It is a wonderful film, one of Allen's best. Samir
Hi Ipsi:)) I too hate the hot weather; hopefully we get a break soon. Thanks for all the Marcello film suggestions; I had of course heard of 'La Dolce Vita'. I will try and see this & the others as well. Isn't is interesting, Chiara being the daughter of Marcello & Catherine Deneuve, and Catheri read more...
Hi Ipsi :)) Nice to hear from you with a wonderfully detailed comment. I have yet to see some of those Italian Marcello M movies, but I will try and see some. As usual you have something unique to add; the comparison with Italian fascist is most apt. This movie did strike some tiny personal chord read more...
Rohit : Hope you feel better soon, and thanks for the honor. Will wait for your comment. Samir
Sonia : Will wait for your comment, the name (as mentioned in the review) is derived from an ancient Iranian city. Thanks Samir
Hi Shalu : Thanks for the wonderful response. The book is magnificent as well, and I highly recommend it. Thanks again Samir
Commented on Snobbiest's review
Sonia :) Since you wrote so passionately about this gentleman; I did listen to some of his songs, was my first time. I did not form any opinion of him, and so my turn to ask now --- 'What wine will you pair him with ?' What little I heard, I could not determine. Samir
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Commented on CilemaSnob's review
Rohit: A nice, crisp, to the point review; will surely read this book. Can certainly relate to some of the, what from the review sound like, matter-of-fact, no-nonsense style; certainly a characteristic of Mumbai (& New York) living. Thanks for a wonderful review, and now I am on the hunt for thi read more...
Rated on CilemaSnob's review
Sonia :) So I will skip this one; Val's review also said the same. Do not have anything 'profound' to say on this review; and I did remember your earlier book review; I mistakenly remembered its as a film review. You wrote about the book, and I saw the film. Anyway, I did order the 'The Book Thi read more...
Commented on Jhiingu's review
Val : I was there too, and my wife as well; and your description is apt. Overwhelming feelings of helplessness & shock seemed to abound. Based on your review, I will probably skip this movie. Thanks for the same though. Samir
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