Tag: movie

• The Horror Within: On watching Life

  

  After watching Life (2017) on Netflix I wondered how the small responsive unassuming alien life form grows, feeds, and transforms into a creature that eventually squeezes the vital parts of the body in order to nurture itself. Much in the vein of Frankenstein (1818) killing its creator/stimulator and thus, warning of the perils of meddling…

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  10 Feb 2019

  Audience, Awareness, Customer Review, diversity, Gender, Travel

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• Musings after watching Pataakha

  

  I happened to chance upon Pataakha (PT) – the movie, which is now available on Amazon Prime. Vishal Bhardwaj is an immensely talented director, and PT did not disappoint. I gather that it did not perform well at the box-office, primarily due to the release of Sui Dhaaga (SD) during the same time. SD had bigger stars…

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  29 Dec 2018

  Audience, Bollywood, Customer Review, Film, Gender, Story

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• When I went to watch “The Hundred Foot Journey”

  

    Has the study of literature made me lose the ability to enjoy an ordinary film? Has it? Has it? I went to watch “The Hundred Foot Journey”. The film promised the agreeable mingling of food and diaspora. Purab laughed, “Are you watching the diaspakoda?” I wanted the movie to move me. It had Om…

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  6 Nov 2014

  Audience, Film, Gender

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