Awards

  • To Kate Winslet

    Dear Kate, Congratulations! I am extremely glad that you won not one, but two Golden Globes for your performances this year. I haven’t seen either movie, but I am sure you deserved them. I am fairly certain that the Oscars aren’t that far away. The Academy has a habit of awarding people a statuette on

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  • And the winner is…

    This is my I-told-you-so post, the one where I get to gloat about how accurate my predictions were. I’m discussing the filmfare awards, about which I had made my predictions at the end of last year. Permit me this moment of self-congratulation: rarely have I been this accurate. Here’s how I fared: Best Picture My

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  • The Filmfare awards have long been the barometer of public opinion on the year’s Hindi movies. Public opinion, mind you, not necessarily quality. A knockout performance in a little known movie stands no chance against SRK in the latest tearjerker about some rich guy named Rahul and his love life, as far as the Filmfare

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