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My Reading in 2025 aka Reading with a Smartphone in One Hand
Happy new year. Did you know 2025 is the only perfect square year (452) we will see in our lifetime? Wait, what… your uncle was born in 1935 and he has seen… Did you know who else was born in 1935?...
View ArticleSpoiler Alert: Will the Real Dhurandhar Stand Up?
Dhurandhar has reached that enviable position in showbiz where you can love it or hate it but cannot ignore it. Looks like half the Hindi-speaking Indians in India (and Pakistani spies, if any) have...
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2023: A Round-up of Hindi Movies
Disclaimer: I may have been involved in a professional capacity with at least one film in this list. But before you dismiss that as partiality, do note that the other reviews have been more effusive...
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2023: A Round-up of Books
I read an alarming low number of books this year (damn you, Reels!) but still managed to find some amazing ones, which will remain with me for a very long time. I also suffered from an advanced case of...
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2023: A Round-up of Non-Hindi Movies
In one fell swoop, I have combined all languages of the world - except one - and created this list. 5. Barbie - Greta GerwigI was supposed to like the other film, right? Barbie was supposed to be the...
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2023: A Round-up of Streaming Shows
As it turns out, ranking the shows I loved this year turned out to be most difficult - and there were so many that I loved a lot. Who cares? Here's everything I loved! Honourable Mentions Raj & DK...
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2022: A Roundup of Books
My hopes of reading a few more books than last year got dashed by Netflix, Instagram and Twitter. I just about managed to hit my target (but not without some underhand tricks) and I end the year with...
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2022: A Roundup of Regional Language Content
After watching a lot of regional language content, I still seem to have missed out a truckload of them across languages. Blame it on time I wasted on Insta Reels! Here are my favourite five...
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2022: Roundup of Hindi Content
2022 was the year everyone predicted Bollywood would die. And yet it didn’t.The leaping tigers of RRR, the ear-jangling entry scenes of Rocky in KGF Chapter 2, the romantic flutterings of Hridayam, and...
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Don't Forget 2004: A Book Review and Musings on Political Campaigns
I finished reading Jayshree Sundar’s Don’t Forget 2004 on the first anniversary of a very unlikely electoral win of recent times. Not even its most passionate supporters gave Mamata Banerjee’s...
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Pure Evil: A Book Review
For no reason at all, a picture of Amrish Puri from a 1980s potboiler called Loha.Thanks to the ever-growing need for content and the insatiable interest in Bollywood, listicles (how I hate this word!)...
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The futility of recommendations
Image of fans watching DDLJ at Maratha Mandir by the legendary Danish Siddiqui My daughter has ‘discovered’ Hindi cinema with 83. A rousing sports victory, memorable characters and an episodic...
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Some films...
Some films are simple. It's easy to explain why you loved them, or hated them. Some films are simpler. You don't even have to explain... Everyone loves them. Or hates them. You just ask a friend...
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2021: A Roundup
During 2021 – for a couple of months – I wondered (for the first time) if I would end the year in a position to write about books, movies and the good things in life. It was the year where all our...
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Ray: A Fanboy's Review
I cannot remember when I read more polarizing reviews than for Ray on Netflix right now. Srijit Mukherji is one of the superstar directors of Bengali cinema with a large and passionate following. His...
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2020: A Roundup
View from my office for most part of the year. A definite perk.Time for the roundup of the most unusual year of my life is here.Work from home always makes you feel that you can sack around in your...
View ArticleIt's a Classic! 24* Years of JJWS
This post was written on 22nd October, 2016. On an auto back from Bandra to Andheri. It is now 28 years since JJWS released. All of it is still true for me. Today I went for an event (as part of the...
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College Sweetheart
On 1st September 2002, I left Calcutta for Bangalore to join a job and have remained an outsider ever since. The last film I watched in the city was Sanjay Leela Bhansali's opulent Devdas. If there is...
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