Category: Reviews
Review: Goinar Baaksho
Goinaar Baaksho( Bengali) Directed by Aparna Sen What would you choose if you are left with the option of “nothing to choose”? The statement is to an extent contradictory though but this is how we see a woman who is widowed very early at the age of 12. The only point she holds to is [...]
Book Review
Tales From Firozsha Baag (1987) by Rohinton Mistry Rohinton Mistry once wrote that fiction doesnot create facts. Instead fiction comes from facts. He said that it takes sometime for a writer to absorb his experiences internally and if it is valuable enough it haunts him, and he haunts it, till the writer is comfortable [...]
Grand Old Man of Bollywood
If we consider Bollywood to be a family, we would certainly see Hangal Dadu with a stick, surrounded by his grandsons and daughters from the family and narrating the stories of his times- the old songs, hanging out with friends at the coffee house, the shy heroines, love letters and not to forget, his struggle [...]
Living a legend
When I was a child, I was never glued to the television set. Watching a full movie undoubtedly was out of the question. I was never what people may term as a movie-buff. I started watching movies much later. Though several times I tried sitting with my parents to watch a movie, I would be [...]
Freakonomics: A Review
Freakonomics Authors: Steven D. Levitt., Stephen J. Dubner People generally read books either for the sake of relieving their heads of the monotony in their work, or else for the sake of entertaining themselves, while some are more into the club of those who read books because they want to think and wonder about the [...]
The Dark Knight Rises
Deshay basher basher Deshay Basher Basher He rises He rises The Dark Knight Rises is the last of the movie of the Dark Knight trilogy by Christopher Nolan. The last of the movie is a fitting ending to the saga of the three movies. Albeit is anticlimactic compared to [...]
Movie Review——-THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN Directed by: Marc Webb Cast: Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker/Spider -Man Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy Rhys Ifans as Dr Curt Connors / The Lizard Martin Sheen as Ben Parker (or Uncle Ben as we popularly know him) Sally Field as May Parker (or Aunt May as we popularly know [...]
Not another apocalyptic movie.
Okay I understand that this is the year 2012, the year as predicted by the ancient civilization Mayan, the year of the end or as many would like to interpret the year of a new beginning. Astrologers or rather the forecasters appear to have mixed reactions on such events many dismissing the hype altogether and [...]
Voyage in harmony
Born in the mystic land and growing up amidst the refreshing greens of the tea estates, cool breeze from river, the music seemed to come naturally to this young musician as nature played its gay tunes. The vast magnificence of folk music, borgeet, bihu naam, biya naam, ai naam and other melodies of the land [...]
Kahaani – A Thriller You Should Not Miss
For film lovers and film critics it is indeed a proud moment for they can pompously say that the Indian audience has finally learned to appreciate and applaud films like “Kahaani”. The over- whelming response that this film has received at the box office clearly speaks out that a film with good script, extraordinary [...]
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