Here's to Minghella and Pollack..

It would be fitting to start this review with an important piece of trivia. In the year 2008, during the making of the movie ‘The reader’ two of its producers p...read more

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Entertainment - cent percentile!!

Sometime back, a friend of a friend got me an interesting looking book and wanted to have my opinion on the same. The book was by one of his colleagues and was ...read more

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What’s your Rashee? – Who cares???

Read Linda Goodman instead. If you are interested in Rashis that is. If you are interested in movies, watch just about any movie of recent times. Anything excep...read more

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War insomnia solidarity & the weird world rolls o

Disclaimer – the review as well as the book might stir up forgotten disturbing thoughts/images. Remember the war on Iraq? Remember the abducted hostages? Their ...read more

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Oh that wanderlust..

Sometime in the year 1990, 20 year old Christopher McCandless graduated from the Emory University in Atlanta. He donated all his money to charity, burned his ca...read more

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A lyrical saga of love and betrayal in wartime

A few days back while traveling, a certain passage from the book ‘The English patient’ came into my mind and would just not leave me. It almost spoiled my vacat...read more

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On not giving up and second chances

Just a little background.(For a detailed one please go to link http://www.mouthshut.com/review/Before_Sunrise-170189-1.html). Two strangers meet in the train on...read more

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All you hopeful romantics out there..

Look no further. This is THE movie about that true love, meeting the right one and hope. And it could be anybody’s story. Like they say, special moments come an...read more

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And what a steal this is...

Some facts about this story/book The protagonist – A 10 year old girl staying with her foster family The place and time – A small village in Germany in 1939-43 ...read more

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Bad karma and oh so unholy!!!!

Actually I should have known from the title itself. Karma and Holi? (But this era of cinema being an experimental one, you can hardly judge the movie by its nam...read more

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A non American gem!

This delightful novel by Bapsi Sidhwa is a must read for people wanting an insight into a teenage girls life in the early 80’s who has lived all her life in Lah...read more

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It IS scary, very scary...

Forget The Scary movie. Forget The hostel part 1 , 2 or 3 (if there is one) Even forget the brilliant The Blair witch project. Welcome to a handful of homemade ...read more

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Music of a really different genre..

A big chunk of dark chocolate. A glass of full bodied vintage red wine. A much fancied yet forbidden dark lane you have been trying to avoid but finally are in ...read more

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A brilliant read!

I would call it a great second book. In most cases, the authors of Hamid’s kind make a lot of stir with their first novel and then for whatever reason they some...read more

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Jaiho, Slumdog!!!

YES. The movie IS A TRIUMPH. A brilliant rags to riches story with all the usual twists and turns. The only difference is there is absolutely no dull moment in ...read more

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The best from Lahiri so far...

"Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My chi...read more

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A remarkable read

I would like to call it a good book. Normally its not the kind of books I would pick up to read. And if you are the kind who read only those books that add some...read more

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