total timepass...

A play which had all the ingredients of being a top-notch enjoyable and entertaining play... However it turned out to be none of it in the end!! A really forgettable play to put it mildly... The background setting is of a motley group of people who stay in a slum near the Mahim Junction Station. Their lives, interactions, ups and downs, goods and bads.. The play takes you through it all. For the cast, you have the drunkard, the eunuch, the chai-wala, the phoolwali, the hero and the heroine, and the one who loves the heroine, the villain, the NRI MLA, the police inspector and his side-kick and so on... The whole cast of the overboard 70s is there on the stage, interacting with each other, mouthing loud dialogues, singing and dancing to the old songs at the right (and the wrong) moments, the villain creating a problem in the hero-heroine's life, the corruption, the power hunger, the non-secular events.. All you could expect in a pot boiler of the 70s and more... Doesn't it s...

Given the drought of good movies in the earlier part of the year, this sudden spate of decently good movies has been tough to handle:)))). Also as a positive for these movies, the standards have been so lowered, that they do seem to be getting a better response than they deserve.. But I am not complaining... At least there are some reasons to go to movie halls again!! Anyways Tere Bin Laden is one of the same category, not a bad movie but surely does not deserve the ratings its getting! Am sure its notched up by one star just because there have been so many terrible movies recently.. Not to say though that its not a fun movie, it surely is. The premise of the movie is of Ali, a Pakistani reporter who desperately wants to go to Amreeka running into an Osama look-alike, and the whole movie is about how he makes use of this oppurtunity to get what he wanted. The rest is just a laugh riot, of the unexpected and over-the-top happenings. Of how Ali ends up changing not just his own li...

Udaan got tons of positive reviews from critics and multiple awards to boot. That was the reason I went to see the movie. I should have realized though, to expect just that, a movie which wins lots of awards for being a serious take on some aspect of life. But I should not really have expected any entertainment from it! Anyways to be fair, its a well made movie for some with some seriously good acting. Its the journey of Rohan, from his hostel to his father's house, to a new life with his till now unknown (but sweet) step-brother Arjun, to a father who likes to live by strict if not draconian and many times unfair rules, to a career in engineering forced onto him, to making new friends as being the only outlet for his frustration.. And towards finally being able to gather the courage to rid himself of all this! The pace of the movie is slow, building up on the events to show how the frustration in Rohan grows. Wasn't that to be expected of an artsy movie? Another thing yo...

Its a brilliant movie (more so because I had to put sooo much effort to understand it:)) but seriously hats off to the writer and director for thinking of something so out of this world and then being able to put it into a movie so beautifully well. Inception has got rave reviews everywhere anyways, so am not sure what more I can add other than to support the view. Its a movie which needs you to be absolutely and completely involved to be able to 'get it' but more so, is able to achieve that by itself! The pace is so quick, that try as you can, you cannot escape it. You are bound to the movie, trying to get a grasp of all that is happening and trying to figure out the gaps by yourself too. Inception gives the mind a new concept, of being able to enter other people's dreams and then slowly builds up this idea on what all can be done by entering other people's dreams, trying to make it a believable and complete theory. And frankly I think thats the biggest USP of this...

I have obviously not eaten gol-gappe everywhere in the world to make a statement like the above, but have been enough of a connoisseur all through my life to spot the ones which beat the rest.. And I recently tasted them! Its at Rajouri Garden market in Delhi, in a shop called simply, 'Guptas'. Its a sweet shop but the chat it serves outside beats anything else you may have tasted ever. If you get a chance, you HAVE to go there..! Yummm.. They taste just the right bit of spicy and salty and yummy and light and heavy... You have to eat them to know them! I am getting a high just thinking about those!!

The list of how we just ignore our soldiers except during war times goes on and on.. its a never-ending list... Here is another to that list ... Does it not hurt to read this?

Yawnnnnnnn..... That's my reaction to this movie, don't even feel like writing a review. Its so uninteresting, so lacking in punch; wonder how such a movie could be made by such a team!! For starters, the movie should have been called 'The making of Robinhood' as it traces the events leading to a certain Robin Longstride becoming Robinhood, rather than 'Robinhood'. Also, the movie seems more like a history documentary than a Hollywood movie. The movie tracks the death of King Richard (the Lionheart), his brother Prince John taking to the throne thereafter but not being able to rule ably; the ensuing betrayal by his friend and the corresponding French attack; and throughout these events, Robin Longstride, an archer from King Richard's army taking the identity of a knight from Nottingham, Robert Loxley and leading the charge against the French (and of course throwing them out of the country). Adding to that of course is the love angle, with Robin taking R...

Its a first that am writing a review for an eating place, but this place surely deserves it!! Good tasty delicious North Indian food is a rarity in Mumbai, and this has really been a fortunate find for us. Located in Andheri (West), Urban Tadka is heaven for people who are looking for goooood food! I would surely recommend this restaurant to someone who wants to have a tasty meal; its even worth going halfway across town till Andheri to have this yummy fare:). The ambience of the place is rustic and rural, trying to portray something similar to villages in Punjab. And the food totally totally rocks, I don't really have too many words to say it. It was yummy, tasty, with lots and lots of butter and totally mindblowing food. I tried the Dal Makhani, Butter Naan, Aloo and Biryani there. They are surely pure heaven, other dishes can't really comment on, but given what I ate, the rest should also be comparable. A must frequent place.

A lot of us who were in Mumbai during the 26 November events will never forget what all happened. And the people who actually went through the events of course will be haunted by it all for years to come!! But I did not expect someone to be affected by those events in this way ! This is just ridiculous, for someone to be discriminated against for having been a witness to the Mumbai attacks??!! And that too from a prestigious institution like a school!