It is always interesting to observe how a character from a book comes to life on the silver screen. One of my all-time favorite detectives Hercule Poirot is a complex character with his own peculiar habits. A man most brilliant but also multi-dimensional. I am more than impressed than David Suchet’s interpretation of Poirot. He brings Poirot to life. David’s Poirot is just what Agatha Christie would have imagined – the short bald Belgian, with…
Movies & TV
Being a huge period movie fan, I had awaited the release of ‘Jodha Akbar’ with some trepidation. The Indian movie industry does not generate period based cinema as frequently and as well as Hollywood. Such movies are low on content and loosely based on factual information. ‘Jodha Akbar’ was keeping up to the cliché as several controversies cropped up prerelease around the veracity of the ‘love’ affair around the political betrothal of Mughal Emperor Akbar…
Jab We Met is a movie that surprises you at every step. Excellent performances by Kareena and Shahid Kapoor, delightful music and a clichéd story told very well. It is a surprise because in past these two actors have not delivered any performance worth talking about. Jab We Met changes that. The story is nothing unique. It’s about a rich guy who has forgotten how to live and enjoy life meets a cheerful, bubbly full…
We get so busy attempting to live a life that we often end up ignoring the simple moments that make our lives interesting. Majid Majidi’s Children of Heaven is about those simple moments. It is a story that revolves around a ‘pair of shoes’ and takes the viewer on a trip to life in Iran. It’s a story about a brother and sister and starts when the brother (Ali) loses the shoes of his…
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