Hrishikesh Mukherjee passed away last night.It's weird but I'd never thought much about film makes. I mean, movies don't get made by themselves but in India there is so much hype around the actors as such that most others involved in the movie tend to get overshadowed. Among those who made a mark and made... Continue Reading →
MOOOOOOOOOO!
This essay has been doing the rounds of emails and forwards for a long time now but it's hilarious each time you read it.Posting it here for those of you who haven't been assaulted by Biharism yet. Indian Cow HE IS THE COW. "The cow is a successful animal. Also he is 4 footed,... Continue Reading →
The House of a 1000 corpses
I got to know of Rob Zombie and the oeuvre of his works courtesy the Good Samaritan (pbuh) and I started off with the Devil's Rejects. It got me curious enough to want to watch the movie that started it all. But alas...it splattered, and how!While the Devil's Rejects was tautly made and isn't deliberately titillating... Continue Reading →
did i hear that right?
It's time to bitch about the lil beasties again aka my students.I'd run out of the feedback forms that they fill out after the mock interview sessions.I'd told the bunch to meet me in a while to pick up the papers.The interaction with one particularly bright person went like this-STUDENT-MA'AM, WHAT IS THIS FORM FOR? ME-THAT'S... Continue Reading →
inching towards peace of mind
The last two months have been stressful and thought-provoking to say the least. It's also been one about making choices, small and large and it's been about implementing the same. Last night I finally got the ball rolling. Let's see how far it goes and whether it rolls over some people in the process. But... Continue Reading →
The fun is just beginning….
The fear psychosis is setting in pretty rapidly.With people of Arabic "look", origins and speech being asked to deplane from flights to pacify other passengers, people being arrested in the name of damage control; I think more wtichhunts are on the way. I hope a neo-McCarthyism doesn't spring up. One era of his was bad enough.There's... Continue Reading →
vroooooooom! great movie
Pixar people are bar none, geniuses!!Just came back from seeing CARS!! . That's right, it took a while to come to Hyd'bad but it did and it was worth the wait. Had taken the mater along and she loved it too.This movie really cuts across age groups and genuinely makes people sit up in their seats... Continue Reading →
10 commandments
Arise my children and read the latest interpretation of the Word of God. I can't believe no one's brought a class action suit against the website for liberally peppering the Gospel with F***s and what nots.. I. Thou shall not have any other Gods before me. Heh, I wouldn't think God would be such an... Continue Reading →
goonj uthi shehenaai
Just heard on the news that Ustad Bismillah Khan Sahab is no more.Personally to me it didn't make much of a dent because to me the shehenaai was the symbol of the sob moment in Hindi films.But the actual impact hit me when I saw the look on my parents' faces. They are not of... Continue Reading →
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Happy Birthday Red!!
Random. Structured. Haphazard. All Me. 