Dead trees
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A few years ago, when I watched Juno, was completely charmed by it and wrote a glowing review, one of my friends told me that the reason why she didn’t like the movie was that it kinda trivialized teenage pregnancy by treating it as comedy. I didn’t agree with her on that one, but I
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Now, the answers to Trivia Challenge #1: 1. The connection I was looking for is Joseph Conrad. Apocalypse Now was based on Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (Coppola’s wife made a documentary on the making of the film, titled Hearts of Darkness). Amitabh’s character in Kala Paththar was indeed based on the protagonist in Conrad’s Lord
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I am, or at least used to be, an avid quizzer with a special interest in movie trivia. (To the point where my wife used to turn to me during a screening of, say, Jodhaa Akbar, to ask me if I knew the name of the second elephant from the right in the battle scene
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Jerome K Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat has a brilliant section about the protagonists making a list of things to take with them on the boat trip. The first list they make turns out to have so many items that the boat would likely sink under the weight of it all. Then one of
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No, not Humphrey. I mean Boggarts with two g’s, the magical creatures that will take the shape of that thing you fear the most. The method of banishment involves thinking of something funny, pointing your wand and saying Riddikulus! If none of this makes sense, you might want to borrow a set of Harry Potter
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Not from me, although I have much to be thankful for. This one is about acceptance speeches. My friend Rajendran posted a comment to my Kate Winslet post asking whether the reference to Emma Thompson was due to her acceptance speech at the Globes years ago, for Sense and Sensibility (Thompson won for Best Adapted Screenplay).
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A few weeks ago, Memsaab posted a review of Makdee wherein I had commented that Shweta Prasad would be my choice for Hermione if someone were to remake Harry Potter in Hindi. So I got to thinking: If I had to remake the Potter franchise in Hindi, what would my casting choices look like? I’m
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I could rant and rave about how beautiful this is, and what it means to me and how more than a third of my conversations with Ratul about writing end up referring to it. But like most good poetry, if it doesn’t grab you by the short hairs, it’s just so much prose with broken
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I’ve had a rough week. Way too much work to do and not enough time to do it. But by far the worst news I’ve heard is that Terry Pratchett, that wonderfully funny author of Discworld novels, has Alzheimer’s. In typical fashion, he adds a postscript to his announcement saying: PS: I would just like
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But it’s remarkable, isn’t it, that the Brits have produced Narnia, the Ring, Hogwarts, Gormenghast, James Bond, Alice and Pooh, and what have we produced for them in return? I was going to say “the cuckoo clock,” but for that you would require a three-way Google of Italy, Switzerland and Harry Lime. — Excerpt from
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