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…
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The Blind Assassin book is my pick for Canada for Around the World! I always have very high expectations from award-winning books and I am usually not disappointed. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood was an exception. The novel traces the story of Iris & Laura Chase, two sisters born into a rich but fading household in a small industrial town in Canada. Our narrator is Iris Chase, the elder sister who unravels her life…
Piece of Cake qualifies to be neither a great piece of literature nor a thought-provoking book, but it makes it to our web pages simply because reading it was ”fun’. Classic chick-lit, it follows the trials and tribulations of a 29-year-old business school graduate, Minal Sharma, in a cutthroat multinational food corporation. Running parallel to the core story is her need to find the ‘man’ of her life before her mom dumps the HT Matrimonial…
Imagine you were in a fairy tale….. What would you do if you realized it was in your hands to change the course of the story? What would you do if you realized the characters in the fairy tale were real people and did not want to be a part of the story? Terry Pratchett’s ‘Witches Abroad’ does it all and in a very entertaining manner. Three witches, Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat, one…
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…
It’s almost outrageous that I should consider reviewing the literary work of someone as globally renowned and acknowledged as Rabindranath Tagore. But our goal is to write about things we feel are worth sharing, so here goes an attempt to explain my first experience with Tagore. Mystic Moods is a compilation of 10 short stories, more or less centered on the inherent darkness in the minds and hearts of all humans. The stories reflect some social evils…
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…
