2012: It isn’t just about the Khans!
If 2011 gave us record breaking films with mind boggling collections, plethora of biggies are lined up in this new year which have the potential to take the industry by storm. You don’t need to be a genius to predict who will rule the Box Office but the Khans, still there are plenty other films...
Korean delight at Shim Tur
Hidden within the terrace of a tremendously down-trodden (could give it no stars whatsoever) hotel by the name of Navurang Guest House in Paharganj, the Shim Tur Korean Restaurant is one of the many eateries serving Korean food in the area. Unless referred to by someone, a visitor unfamiliar with Paharganj would not even consider...
Junot Díaz: The Brief Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao
“It’s like a fucking knife in me”, said Junot Díaz, on the pressure to produce a follow-up to his 1996 short story collection Drown, that released to explosive critical acclaim. Greats have been known to succumb, but with the release of his sophomore publication and debut novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Diaz,...
The Buddha of Suburbia – a novel by Hanif Kureishi
Sometime before the world began perceiving him as a once-brilliant success-cliché who’d simply gone stark raving mad and taken to penning scathing novellas about intolerable ex-wives, Hanif Kureishi produced his debut novelThe Buddha of Suburbia – a curiously satirical work that drew almost entirely from Kureishi’s own tumultuous teenage years growing up in the suburbs of...
Spell & Bound Bookshop and Café: A review
The musky smell of crisp, new paper emanating from stacks upon stacks of titles sinks in the moment you enter Spell & Bound Bookshop and Café, the newest place to have moored its enticing anchor in the bustling area of SDA. With its polished wooden floors and spiral staircases, Spell & Bound radiates a cozy,...
Smiley all the way
Director : Tomas Alfredson Cast : Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, John Hurt, Toby Jones, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ciarán Hinds Rating : 4/5 The career of Gary Oldman – frequently cited as the finest actor working today never to have been nominated for an Oscar – is something of a mystery. In the...
“Elementary, my dear Watson?”
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows MOVIE REVIEW CAST: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Jared Harris, Noomi Rapace, Stephen Fry with Rachel McAdams RATING: 4/5 The much awaited sequel to the 2009 flick Sherlock Holmes hits the screen, once again giving to us Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock Holmes, the most famous fictional detective world...
A Music of Mine Own
The cities of Bombay and Bangalore have played the part of the unforgivably cool kids who quirk their musically erudite eyebrows in mild amusement at Delhi, which is perceived (not very wrongly) as a city that is only too blissfully content in dhik-chikk-ing behind its tinted SUV windows and brightly lit pubs, to the exalting...
The King is Surely Back
Don 2 MOVIE REVIEW Cast: Shah Rukh Khan. Priyanka Chopra, Boman Irani, Lara Dutta, Kunal Kapoor, Om Puri Music- Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy Direction: Farhan Akhtar Rating: 4/5 Sleek, Stylish, Sexy. Don 2 is all of this. When the promos claimed ‘The King is Back’, you couldn’t help but expect a lot of thrills and chills from this sequel...
Uncle Tungsten
Memories of a Chemical Boyhood Author : Oliver Sacks Rating- 4/5 From his earliest days, Oliver Sacks, the distinguished neurologist who is also one of the most remarkable storytellers of our time and the author of this illuminating and poignant memoir, was irresistibly drawn to understanding the natural world. Born into a large family...
The Dirty Picture
MOVIE REVIEW RATING - 2.5/5 Raunchy? Yes! Bold? Very! Good? No! Milan Luthria’s The Dirty Picture, is easily one of the boldest films you have seen recently. But how I wish it could have been ‘one of the best’. It is very clear after watching the film that the makers’ foremost priority was to shock...
