Letter writing
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Dear Members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, The next time Mr. Daniel Day-Lewis does the lead role in a motion picture, I request you to simply disqualify all other potential Best Actor nominees for reason of not being Mr. Day-Lewis and present him with the statuette forthwith. To support my humble
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Dear S. S. Rajamouli Apparently, Snoop Dogg reconnected with Bob Marley’s spirit on a visit to Jamaica and is now Marley reincarnated. In other, possibly related but equally weird news, he’s renamed himself Snoop Lion. Not only do you now have the basis for a sequel to your successful recent venture involving bigger animals, you
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Dear readers, First I hear that Ben Kingsley is in India. ToI announces this news with a picture of him and his wife Daniela at the Taj Mahal. Then I see this picture. Am I the only one whose mind is screaming Bunty Aur Babli Strike Back? Please let me know. Regards Ramsu
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Dear Viru, Congratulations on that knock. After scoring less than 150 in your previous hundred (other than being prime, 131 has no redeeming qualities), I thought maybe you were losing your touch. Good to see that this is not the case. I do, however, have one request. Would you please, for the love of God,
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I went on a spree recently and ended up watching three movies in more or less quick succession. Hey, people gorge on chocolate, I watch two movies back to back at a multiplex. So sue me. None of them really deserves a longish review (actually they do, but I’m a lazy bum), so here’s a
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Dear Kate, Ref: My earlier letter to you regarding accepting awards that are surely your due by now Congratulations! I couldn’t be happier. Good speech, too. Not outstanding, but definitely an improvement. Asking your dad to whistle — and, to our delight, actually hearing him do it — was an especially nice touch. My only
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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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On the way back from the multiplex, I spent a considerable length of time trying to figure out what to put in my review of Kuruvi. I came up with nothing. I could claim that the movie was beyond even my capacity to describe it, but that would be dishonest. Truth: I just ran out
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Dear Myshkin, This is a line. On one side of this line is a hard-hitting movie about two friends, one who wants to be a cop and another who becomes one. And how their paths slowly diverge until they are on opposite sides of a loaded gun. And a serial rapist and kidnapper who stands
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