Hope Springs is a classic example of a movie where great acting can make up for an ordinary script. Screen legends, Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones, bring a lot of class to a simple yet deep story of a stagnating marriage. So What Is Hope Springs About? Kay and Arnold have been married for over 31 years and their life has inevitably set into a pattern. With the kids grown up and away with…
It’s nice to know that the circus is not dead. “Cirque du Soleil” or ‘Circus of the Sun’ retains the traditional aspects of the ageless crowd puller with a juggler, acrobat, dancer, trapeze artists, and tight rope walkers. It bumps up the experience several notches higher with fabulous choreography, music and art direction. The use of projectors and laser lighting brings a mystic and ethereal quality to the performance. It’s pure entertainment for 90 minutes…
Over the past one year, there are some books that I read and meant to blog about. However, they made so little an impression on me, either good or bad, that I never got around to reviewing them. I thought I would just mention them in a single blog post. Death At the Bar by Ngaio Marsh Marsh was a New Zealand writer, heavily inspired by Agatha Christie. I have read reviews of her works…
Someone at a Distance is a heartbreaking story of an ordinary upper middle class British family is so gripping. I have read no other work by Dorothy Whipple, so am not aware of her style of narrative. I enjoyed this from a literary point of view, but I found the book oddly regressive to feminism. Let me start with the plot, which, as the blurb shows, is ‘deceptively simple’. The Norths are a happy, self-contained family…
I was in a shock of total five minutes when our car left the Delhi airport driveways and hit the main road. The state of Indian traffic, congestion and chaos had passed into deep recesses of my brain and it was pulled back rudely into the front with a jolt. As our cab weaved in and out of insanely blocked lanes, my heart skipped a few beats. My mind took a few minutes to locate some…
There is nothing wrong with the overall plot, and how it can that be, since it’s inspired from Jane Austen’s Emma, but the Bollywood movie “Aisha” falters appallingly in the execution. The story is really simple. Aisha, a super rich, good-for-nothing, rich Delhi girl passes her time setting up people together. The movie begins when she finds her new project, Shefali (Amrita Puri), a middle class girl in need of a groom. Aisha sets her…
Experiencing the Key West in A Day ! Wild, but possible! Some of the most beautiful beaches in the US are found in a group of islands off the coast of South Florida known as “The Keys”. Connected to the mainland by the 100 mile National Highway 1, these islands offer the whole gamut of conventional and unconventional tourist activities. The Keys are logically and geographically divided into 3 segments – the Upper Keys which…
I am not the kind of person who typically drools over actors or even fan-girls except for maybe something like Lord Of The Rings and The X-files. I either like certain people’s work or admire specific stories, styles of storytelling or directing. But when I saw the BBC’s contemporary “Sherlock” starring Benedict Cumberbatch ( yes, his real name!), I have to admit I was utterly Cumberbatched! I have never been so taken in by an…
