2008, Signing Off

Outlook is debating if it is India's worst year yet. NDTV is calling it a year best forgotten. India Today has put a splash of blood o...

To Boldly Write What No One Has Written Before

(Published in Zeitgeist, The New Indian Express, dated 27th December 2008) The only question that's more annoying than "What plans ...

The Beats Behind Bond

(Published in The New Indian Express, dated 14th December, 2008) Pete Lockett has arranged and recorded all the ethnic percussion for the fi...

Mumbai Terror Attack: Of Campaigns and Candlelight Vigils

(Published in Zeitgeist, The New Indian Express, dated 13th December 2008) Maybe it was Rang de Basanti that started it all. But research h...

Timeo Danaos...

I have received something called a Premio Dardos Award from Goofy Mumma . This rewards bloggers for "their efforts to transmit cultural...

Movie Review: Burn After Reading

When a movie opens with Google Earth and a cross between percussion beats and gunshots, one has a feeling the opening scene will be in Russi...

Teen Deviyaan

While doing my previous post on Hum , I reminisced about Kimi Katkar and her films. A certified starlet in the late 80s, she was one of seve...

Random Movies I Like: Hum

When Mad Momma proposes a motion, the entire blogosphere takes sides. And when the topic is the hottest movie of the 1990s , it is like Yuvr...

Incognito

After hanging around in jungles for twelve years, the Famous Five and Droppy had to meet the final condition - stay undiscovered from Duryod...

Random Movies I Like: Dance Dance

I have done film posts in two different formats: one is a detailed analysis (!) of films of a certain period/genre/theme, usually running in...

Where My Quantum of Solace Were the Music and a Burger that Gave me Food Poisoning

For a while now, it has been a matter of principle to watch a Bond movie on the day it releases. And so, avoiding search engines that volunt...

James Bond, RIP

I saw a very good action film last Sunday. It was called Quantum of Solace . Before the film, I was led to believe that this was the latest ...