Zen and the Art of Hollywood Replication

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Reviewed Paap

“I made Paap not to express a creative urge but to take full control of the production of the film”. Probably the only quality Pooja Bhatt, in her nread more...

Insipid

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Reviewed Maqbool

Ishq..junoon hai ki havas, khuda jaane Dil namaazi hai ki kaafir, khuda jaane With these words, Pankaj Kapoor puts a resounding stamp on his astonishing portrayread more...

The underbelly of life

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Reviewed Paanch Songs

Kiske liye raah chalte ye jhooti hansi Kaise sahein telephone ki khaamoshi Soone bistaron pe so rahe Beeti khusbuon ko ro rahe Neeche sadke kehti hain aa kood jread more...

My opinion

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Reviewed Company

Ram Gopal Varma’s underworld saga finally unfolded last Friday. Several film buffs hoped that this would be the Great Indian Gangster Movie, our answer to read more...

Of ballas, golas and a package full of laughs

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Reviewed Lagaan

The audience cheers fervently, there is prolonged applause and every heart thumps with joie de vivre. No, this is not Hrithik Roshan being conferred another ridread more...

Best Picture?

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Reviewed Gladiator

On the 26th of March Gladiator won the Oscar for the best picture to be showcased in the USA. This event made many grimace and many guffaw, and that is the usuaread more...

Beautiful Jungle

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Reviewed Abu Dhabi, UAE (AUH)

Finally, flying with Gulf Air offers something nice! A stop at Abu Dhabi’s tree-like airport. No matter how terrible the airlines, they do pick some of theread more...

Confessions of a bored spectator

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Reviewed Zubeidaa

As the opening credits roll, a red cloth flutters on the screen...it goes up...goes down....goes up again...keeps flying and finally settles to cover the whole read more...

Religious Cinema-treading the road less travelled

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Reviewed The Message

The music - dramatically riveting, the dialogue - astounding, the cinematography - a romance with the desert, the movie - well...just good. That’s the bestread more...

Readable, but forgettable

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Reviewed Selective Memory - Shobha De

Shobha De....brought up in a narrow minded, middle class family has surfed through many waves of life. From a rebellious teenager to a modish model and a frustrread more...

The Fire of Genius

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Reviewed Gaja Gamini

It must have been in a streak of goodness that God made Maqbool Fida Husain make a movie. But, perhaps like Noah, Husain too will need a great flood to be valueread more...

He came, he saw...he conquered

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Reviewed Josh - Bollywood

Cliched, but the perfect description for shahrukh khan’s scene stealing performance in josh. the awe inspiring show by king khan is the best part of the mread more...

Can you cheat death?

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Reviewed Final Destination

Yes...you can. a teenager acquires the power to foresee death and to understand its ways. everyone is doomed for that final destination ....everyone has toD-I-Eread more...

In defence of homosexuality

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Reviewed Heavenly Creatures

This is a movie about two girls....complete opposites, and they say opposites gel together. it is a movie that comes from a much acclaimed australasian directorread more...

Booooooooooooo!!

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Reviewed PIA

An airline is probably one of the most difficult things to review. most airlines have certain privildeged routes. for instance.. I flied gulf air from delhi to read more...

Simply Magnificent

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Reviewed Love Story - Erich Segal

I was persuaded to read Love Story about two years ago and since then i’ve been thankful to my friend. it is really difficult to find apt words to describeread more...

In a class of its own

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Reviewed Class, The - Erich Segal

The book tells you about the lives of five extraordinary men from the 1957 class of Harvard, their triumphs and their failures. The five men hail from very diffread more...

Uhhuh!!!!!

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Reviewed Life Is Beautiful

This is a movie i’d been wanting to see since 98 when my friend had told me something about the story. it won awards at cannes, the oscars and every other read more...

Oh so elegant!

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Reviewed Interpreter Of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri

I picked up this book for in flight reading, expecting a lot cause had been making waves after winning the pulitzer prize. and it lived up to each and every oneread more...

Abracadabra.. gilligilligilli.. chhoo!

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Reviewed Mohabbatein Songs

Yep...abracadabra. thats what jatin lalit have done here. taken 3 albums....mumbled some infamous mantra and turned them into one album. the three albums being read more...