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Tuesday, January 27, 2009. For the love of the Game. How fascinating it would be to peek in to a diary of a young girl? How painful it would be if the said diary happened to be written during the time of Second World War? Too much beating around the bush (or should I say Obama now? The title is “The Book thief”. The book captures the humour in death and tragedy of life. It portrays thieves who love and rulers who hate. It has mud-splattered atletes and broken musical instruments. View my complete profile.

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Tuesday, January 27, 2009. End of Saurav Dynasty. Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. Who would know this better than our adored prince, the Prince of Kolkatta. If he has courted someone outside his much publicized marriage, it would be the ‘controversy’ herself. From the said marriage to Gilchrist’s recent publicity stunt for his book, Dada has been in the eye of the storm. Love him, hate him, there is no way you can ignore him. His cricketing career was once burnt down by a poor form and BCCI po...

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B for Bihag: December 2009

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Saturday, December 26, 2009. I don't know what is our obsession with vindication! I mean granted, it is a very good movie. Great comedy, fair share of emotions, good dialogues and character development. What's more, you also deliver the message you have set out to do in the first place. But after doing everything well, you have to go and screw it all up. While Chatur seeks (and needs) acknowledgment from Rancho, Rancho is too self-satisfied to be wanting to be a big-honcho in the game that Chatur is play...

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Sunday, January 11, 2009. Remakes, memories and disappointments. One senseless killer. One senseless villain. Two sexy girls. Voila! You have all box-office records broken. Truth be told. "Ghajini" need not be compared with any Hollywood movie. As a stand alone movie, it is a wonderful run-of-the-mill masala movie with a new idea. But the problem is that you have already seen "Memento"! In short, Ghajini is an out-an-out Bollywood recipe masala flick whereas Memento is a master-piece. My rating - 2/10.

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B for Bihag: August 2007

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Saturday, August 25, 2007. For the love of the game - CHAK DE INDIA. I am a big time movie buff and I have always enjoyed movies on sports or games. When I watch ed wonderful movies like "Remember the Titans", "Coach Carter", "The Mighty Ducks", "Rocky", "Million Dollar Baby", "Seabiscuit"; I used to wonder that why can't we make such movies in Hindi? Hockey is our national sport is a detail remembered only in GK quizzes.). Darasingh, P T Usha, Richard James Allen (. Hockey Goal Keeper -. India won three...

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B for Bihag: October 2008

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Tuesday, October 07, 2008. Mobs, Bombs and My Country. To overexert a cliche "History repeats itself". And it really does for the people who don't learn from it the first time around. Some 51 years ago, this country failed an exam of History and it tore up the geography. No. Not the geography textbook. We tore up the geography of the country. Over the last few years we failed exams of Social Sciences and this time we might end up with torn up Moral Sciences at the end of it all. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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Saturday, December 26, 2009. I don't know what is our obsession with vindication! I mean granted, it is a very good movie. Great comedy, fair share of emotions, good dialogues and character development. What's more, you also deliver the message you have set out to do in the first place. But after doing everything well, you have to go and screw it all up. While Chatur seeks (and needs) acknowledgment from Rancho, Rancho is too self-satisfied to be wanting to be a big-honcho in the game that Chatur is play...

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Tuesday, January 27, 2009. Preface for the next three posts. I am nothing if not a procrastinator. Some of the posts have been lying dormant for ages now in my word processor (MS Word of course). Putting them up one by one now. The one about Saurav Ganguly's departure from the international cricket was written during his last test. For other posts, timing really does not matter. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. End of Saurav Dynasty Uneasy lies the head that w.

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Wednesday, September 22, 2010. Let Them Eat The Cake". When Mr. Amitabh Bachchan tweeted about Mr. Javed Akhtar presenting a slum-shaped cake to his wife Ms. Shabana Azami, I was reminded of this famous quote of last french queen Marie Antoniette. The apathy of this thoughtless action struck me as being too crude from somebody like Javed Akhtar for whom I have a huge respect otherwise (see here. The guardian calls this poverty porn. The link has a photograph of the cake as well). I can't agree more!