Bulbbul released on Netflix India has generated quite the necessary buzz on social media enough to pique and revisit the haunting legends of witches and Chudails in popular Indian lore with feet turned backwards especially in the backdrop of a bloody red moon. Anvita Dutt’s yarn starts off with a…continue reading →
I encountered Neha Bindal's Table for One on Instagram. I also apparently won a giveaway contest of a copy of the book by @jugnitravel but I'm yet to receive it. Got it downloaded during Happy Hours on V's Kindle and finished it easy-breezy in 3 hours or so while i…continue reading →
My movie going partners are many. Most times,V and me. Sometimes, V's mom and me. Other times, our boys and me. Sometimes, my mother and me. A few times, my sister and me. With friends, a few times. At times, my company and me. So this time it was V's…continue reading →
Mumbai is scorching with round 2 of summer post-monsoon. How cool to be transported to breezy Pune and catch familiar glimpses of Magarpatta, Viman Nagar and a quaint restaurant. How soothing to hear Radhika Apte talk like a regular Puneri after Hunterrr(err..I forget how many 'r's actually).How Caravan-like to hear…continue reading →
I got introduced to Khaled Hosseini in the year 2004, when i spotted a solitary copy of "The Kite Runner" at a quaint family run bookshop, one sleepy afternoon in Shillong. The book stayed with me until a few years ago, it has gone missing from my collection. My husband…continue reading →
That we love watching movies is now a lore, you'd think these reviews are arriving rather late in the day. So, one, I usually don't write when everyone else is watching the movie and busy tweeting and reviewing the movie if it's a must watch or a dampener. I prefer…continue reading →
I don't drive to work. I have a car and I have 3 valid excuses for not driving. No, don't get me started. And, I hate the claustrophobic buses. I also hate most of the commercial sedans and the few smelly hatchbacks that offer attractive deals. I hate ACs in…continue reading →
There are fathers With bittersweet love for their fathers Who beget painful memories for their children And there are fathers who loved their fathers Who their children look up to with pride. They write happy pages to read in old age. A Pakistani who thinks he is a father first.…continue reading →
Bollywood does not fail to surprise me with its whims and also,its fancies. A Prakash Jha take on the Mahabharata saw the nation drooling on some Italian connection - Godfather and Sonia Gandhi, wow I must say.Taken for granted,you are intelligent enough to get the drift.Now, Ram Gopal Varma has…continue reading →
I feel so good doing a movie review after a long time, even Slumdog for all its Rehman-Resul Oscar bandbaja is not worth reviewing. I restrained the movie buff in me to watch a Housefull of Kites and Badmaash Company for the heck of it. Rajneeti lived up to its…continue reading →