He must have had one sick mind. Or at least some really dark corners in his mind with which he seems to be well aware of. How can a man come up with such macabre stories, have them in his mind for considerable time while executing the direction and manage to remain sane. Of all his movies this one has the most morbid setting and it is also a personal favorite. continue reading…
Damn you Shiny Ahuja ! Weren’t all those starlets enough for you. In an ensemble of actors who takes themselves too seriously as actors (somehow this makes them more annoying than the soap ones) ,Shiny Ahuja was the one saving grace.
“No, I went to a brothel once in my life. I got hiccups you know, it was over like that”
- Woody Allen
You can love him or hate him but you can’t ignore him. He has that creepy presence which makes you take notice. Of all the Woody Allen movie , he himself rates this as one of his best although people would say Annie Hall or Manhattan. It is also my personal favorite one for no particular reason but just that it really makes me laugh every time I watch it. continue reading…
It is hard for me to comment on this guy being so far from corporate America. He surely has a truly awesome reputation and for that reason alone one can pick up the book to see what the fuss is all about. But I have a fundamental problem with all books of this genre. continue reading…
Khushwant Singh has a pretty consistent style of writing, and I do not intend to give him a compliment. Somehow his storytelling is always filmy. This one has a dramatic context ,but somehow the character development remains similar to his other works. Infact you can take some characters from his book Delhi: A Novel and put them here instead of original ones and it wouldn’t make much difference. continue reading…
This is probably the first novel I ever read, not counting Hardy Boys and abridged children’s versions of classics. Picked it up from my father’s collection and could figure out (thanks due to the graphic cover illustration) that this has some erotic content. continue reading…
How did I start reading this one? Someone gave it as a gift (it makes a pretty cheap one).
But while reading this book, I realised the writers of these sort of books are the American equivalent of our Asaram Bapoojis and those other folks in the “pravachan” business. One of their strong defence against people, who are saying they are wasting everyone’s time is that what harm can listening to them or reading them do to anyone. Fair enough, as what they are saying is pretty decent wholesome talk which does refresh you if you do not hold any bias against them. continue reading…
