Tag: movies

• 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

  aspirations, bending gender, charan singh pathik, detail, dipper, do behnein, doing gender, dreams, film review, gender, is this too unladylike for you?, movie, movies, musings, pataakha, radhika madan, sahitya kala academy, sanya malhotra, shakespeare, short story, sonchiriya, sunil grover, thoughts, two sisters, vijay raaz, vishal bhardwaj, women

• In A World of Food and Books

  

  Everytime we visit the Foodhallen my faith in humanity is restored. You might think that is a bit of an exaggeration but it is true. Let me explain, firstly, it is a recycle project, and you know how much I like those (remember this post about The High Line). So, while it commercially opened as a…

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  22 Jul 2017

  Apoorva, Art, Books, Customer Review, Film, Food, Parenting, Photography, Story, Travel

  amsterdam, community, culture, dessert, dimsum, doner, dutch, eating out, energy, faith, family, food, food review, foodhallen, fun, hanging out, hope, hot dog, life, mobility, movies, multi cuisine, my city, new and old, photos, places, see the pictures, space, the high line, the netherlands, thriving, trams, Travel

• PK after thodi si peeke

  

  Have the reviews and counter-reviews for PK died down? Because, in that case, now would be a good time to write down my thoughts about the movie. For starters: I did enjoy the film and here I will try to delve a little into why I was motivated to do so, amongst usual blog-like meanderings.…

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  24 Jan 2015

  Audience, Awareness, Bollywood, Customer Review, Film, Gender, Music, Story, Travel

  aamir khan, bollywood, change, Cinema, critics, elucidate, film, gandhi, Hindu, identity, indian, intertextual, loss, meta, movies, nature, pakistan, pk, rajkumar hirani, religion, review, thought