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Sunday is one of those movies that works best when it isn’t trying to tell the story. The premise is interesting: a girl goes out partying on Saturday night and wakes up on Monday morning. It takes her ages to find that she has lost an entire day, during which time she is chased by…
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He is an aristocrat from the previous century who landed up in present day NY. She is an ad executive who lives inn the apartment above where he stays. (In the present, that is. I doubt they had ad execs back then.) He’s doing his best to cope with the future, and she is doing…
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Not the (relatively) new one starring Venkatesh and Karisma Kapoor. I’m referring to the old one with Raj Kapoor, Motilal and Nutan. For the most part, this is just a standard simpleton-in-the-big-bad-city movie, the cinematic equivalent of comfort food. What makes it memorable, however, is a courtroom scene right at the end. Raj (Kapoor) has…
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Here’s a funny little post from a man whose creativity astounds me every time I think he’s hit his peak. Guide to designing Indian Political Posters « Doing Jalsa and Showing Jilpa If there is someone whose finely-tuned sense of the absurd reminds me of Terry Pratchett, it would be KA. The aforementioned post is…
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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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Pri’s latest blog post speaks of someone reaching her site after googling “when old tulsi will come back“. Quite naturally, this begs the question: why would someone want to know that? Pri’s rant on the topic: can you believe such people exist? i mean clearly this person has access to the internet. the wonderful genius…
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A senator gives an interview to a journalist about a new strategy being unveiled in the US war in Afghanistan. A professor of political science tries to persuade a brilliant but lazy student to fulfill the promise he has shown. Meanwhile, two of his students are stranded deep inside enemy territory in Afghanistan, in an…
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As of now, I have watched three of the four major Tamil movies released on Deepavali. The two big ones that got all the media attention prior to release were Vijay’s Azhagiya Thamizhmagan and Surya’s Vel. Incidentally, both had the heroes in double roles. Incidentally, both sucked. As it turned out, one helping of Dhanush…
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Frank Lucas rises to the top of the drug heap during the Vietnam War by importing heroin from South East Asia through some corrupt army personnel.He gets it directly from the source and cuts out the middle-man, thereby ensuring that his product is cheaper and better than the competition on the streets of New York.…
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