Certified Copy 2010 (Original French Title: Copie conforme) Dir:Abbas Kiarostami A writer is delivering a lecture on his book about art, in the Tuscan province of Arezzo. He is late and the camera is fixed on the podium.The writer James(William… Read More ›
For any lover of Thai food a trip to Bangkok is a bit of a pilgrimage.I remember the stories of eating idli-dosa heard from relatives who travelled to South India in my childhood.The question put to them always was “So… Read More ›
Life of Pi : An Atheist** Perspective. Dir:Ang Lee About ten years ago I read the novel.I remember the reading vividly.It was a book I could not put down.The story of a boy trapped on a lifeboat with a Royal… Read More ›
Argo dir.Ben Affleck The bad guy in this thriller is a gigantic poster of Ayatollah Khomeini,glaring down at lesser mortals, anywhere you dare to look in post revolution Iran.Just before the 1979 revolution in which the Shah left the country on… Read More ›
Les Misérables (2012) Dir:Tom Hooper What a formidable year Hollywood has had.The cherry on top should be a period musical and Les Misérables appears magically, bang in the middle of the Oscar season to stir things up.Musicals do not appear… Read More ›
Hitchcock(2013) Dir: Sacha Gervasi [on Michelangelo Antonioni and Federico Fellini] Those Italian fellows are a hundred years ahead of us. Blow-Up (1966) and 8½ (1963) are bloody masterpieces. – Alfred Hitchcock 1978 And yet Alfred Hitchcock’s film Vertigo has just… Read More ›
Anhe Ghore Da Daan (2011) English Title: Alms for Blind Horses. Dir: Gurvinder Singh Gurvinder Singh’s Punjab is unlike what we have ever seen.Its very far removed from the yellow mustard fields with farmers doing the Bhangra. The mustard fields… Read More ›
Singapore Zoo Some pictures from a recent visit to the Singapore Zoo.It was a rainy day which for a rainforest zoo should be good weather.A good zoo is always worth braving the elements.
Special 26 (2013) Dir Neeraj Pandey India should be bursting with original stories.But Bollywood remains wedded to the big fat wedding formula and its hackneyed variations.Of late, there is a tendency to present the same stories in new settings, using… Read More ›
A Good Day to Die Hard(2013) Dir: John Moore Mitt Romney called Russia geopolitical enemy number 1 in his presidential campaign leaving the pundits scratching their bald heads.It stands to reason that democrat dominated hollywood must prove him otherwise. But… Read More ›
