Music, Film, & TV
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Movie Review – The Great Indian Kitchen
[This post was originally published in a Marathi magazine called Palakneeti, published from Pune. You can read the original post on the magazine’s free online version here] Once upon a time there is this beautiful girl – educated, trained in Indian classical dance, an expert at cooking; and as she grew up in a gulf Read more
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Screen-time of the month – March (and February)
Yes, I do sound like a broken record when I say this, but I (also) missed publishing my screen time on February. However, these have been strange times, where there are new challenges and new headaches and new distractions. Anyway, here’s the list of what I watched in February and March. DCI Banks – Netflix Read more
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Screen-time of the month: January
Honestly, this is nothing but another attempt to keep writing… something! So here’s what I watched during the month of January. Bala – Hotstar Had been waiting to watch this movie for a long time, so I pounced on this one! I loved it! Right from the writing to the acting to the direction, everything Read more
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Movie Review: Dangal
Okay, first things first. Dangal is an excellent movie – entertaining, sensible, inspiring, and, surprise, surprise!, a very clean PG movie! I had a lot of mixed feelings about going to watch Dangal. I’m not a big fan of Aamir Khan (I do concede that he is an amazing actor, of course. Still, we cannot Read more
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My favorite romantic songs – Happy Valentine’s Day :)
Ahem! It is that time of the year again: Valentine’s Day, when love is supposed to be in the air! 😛 I am not a romantic person at all, but I am a big fan of Bollywood music. And Bollywood music makes romance really shine! So here’s a list of my favorite romantic Bollywood songs, Read more
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Crazy Dreams!
Got a really, really crazy dream last night! A boy says to Stewie (from Family Guy): “main tumhe markar tumhare tukde tukde kar dunga” (I will kill u and scramble u into pieces). Stewie replies: “You can’t… I am already in millions of pieces! In fact you are actually UNscrambling me right now… That’s how you can Read more
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My Favorite Bollywood Rain Songs
[Update: 25th June 2021] After a very dry spring in Michigan, it has started raining again; and has made me very sentimental and dreamy and whatnot! So I thought of rehashing this old blog post of mine (from April 2012!). And as I’ve grown a bit since then, and my tastes have changed more than Read more
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Inception! Fascinating! (No spoilers)
Have you ever been out wandering around the country, with lush green pastures and a cool blue sky to keep you company? Have you been so engrossed while watching the trees and birds and flowers that you lost your way but still did not panic, as you were simply happy taking in the calmness of Read more
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Movie Review: Billu Barber
Cast: Irrfan Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Lara Dutta Director: Priyadarshan Synopsis and my opinion: Please read the letter below. ================================================================================ Dear Mr. Irrfan Khan, Subject: Please don’t!! Sir, let me first clearly state, that we all love you very much…your mind-blowing performances in several movies like Haasil, Yeh hai Mumbai Meri Jaan, Life in a Read more
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Movie Review(No Spoilers): Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
Well, I am not really a sucker for love stories…in fact senti n melodramatic love stories really bore me…. so I went to watch Rab ne Bana Di Jodi only because of SRK…. But but but…surprisingly, I liked the movie…. the songs, the dialogue, the acting, n ofcourse….SRK!!! In 2 contrasting roles: a sincere, intelligent Read more
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Movie Review: Hello!
Line 1: Trring Trring…….. Trring Trring…….. Trring Trring…….. Line 2: Hello? Who’s this?? Line 1: This is…………. GOD………….. Line 2: And we are 6 ammmmazed typical call centre employees.: TeamLeader-wannabe Shyam (Sharman Joshi – very comfortable in the role), Senior member Military Uncle (Sharat Saxena – endearing, but purposeless), Mr. biker Vrroom aka Varun( Sohail Khan Read more
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Movie Review: Mumbai Meri Jaan
CAST: Paresh Rawal, Kay Kay Menon, Irrfan Khan, Vijay Maurya, R Madhavan, Soha Ali Khan SYNOPSIS: This movie is actually an album or a collection of snapshots from the lives of people who live in Mumbai, and happen to live (and die and relive) through the deadly blasts of 7/11. Right from rich (R Madhavan, Read more
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Movie Review: Hancock
Ever heard about a drunk super-hero, who however powerful and well-meaning, makes some mistake everytime and ends up receiving the wrath of public? And then tries to take vengeance from these ungrateful souls by creating troubles in their lives by his reckless behavior?? 😛 Enter John Hancock(Will Smith, who else) from Los Angeles!! The movie is about Read more
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Movie Review: Jaane tu..Ya jaane na….
The quientessential question: So, when do you know it’s love?? Yup, that’s the main theme of the latest “fresh” movie on the block. Produced by Mr. Perfectionist Aammir Khan and starring Imran Khan and Genelia D’Souza(Remember the peppy girl from “Tujhe Meri Kasam”, and the crybaby from Masti??), this movie tries to explore the avenue of Read more
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Amruta's Writing Block! 