Why would anyone ever make Ecks vs Sever, while adding the title ‘Ballistics’ forever; Featuring the international cast of Banderas and Liu, along with a director who will never ever get his due. They shoot, maim and they kill, and we keep watching as we foot the theatre bill; The monologues sound more like something [...]
Archive for September, 2010
28 Sep
What Mangalore can teach Ayodhya
So, there we have it. The Ayodhya verdict is due this month end and there’s no stopping it this time, now that the Supreme Court has intervened and cleared the path for judgment day on September 30, 2010. Simplistically speaking Ayodhya Ram Janmabhoomi has been a conflict between two of the largest communities in India [...]
24 Sep
Damme good!
‘There’s somethin’ strange, in the neighbourhood, who you gonna call? – Jean Claude van Damme.’ If Ghostbuster’s was still the international flavour of the season, the anthem every Belgian would be singing while walking the streets of the hometown of the ‘Muscle from Brussels’ would be this. Jean Claude Van Damme has been Belgium’s biggest [...]
21 Sep
Deadgirl – A heavy body count
Picture this – you come across a girl in the darkest corner of a basement in an abandoned psychiatric hospital. The girl is tied up, shorn of all her clothes, on a hospital gurney with a dazed look in her eyes. What do you do? ‘Deadgirl‘ starts off from here. A movie from the heart [...]
20 Sep
Dabangg – More bangs for your buck
An Indian campy film never looked, sounded or felt so good. Take a bit of Sergio Leone‘s early Westerns, mix them with a bit of the Sippy brothers kitsch of the ’70s, get a psychologist to transcribe the dreams of every living BIMARU (Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, UP for the uninitiated) villager and bring in a [...]
16 Sep
Dalma – Koramangala goes Oriya
This evening turned out to be one of those ‘ don’t plan and just go for it days’. The discussion in office these days eventually veers towards Salman Khan‘s latest blockbuster Dabangg. With all the hype and the cracking open of enough piggy banks to fill up the RBI mint, this movie was a must [...]
14 Sep
My Mangalore weekend
Back in Bangalore this morning after a weekend of gorging on home food backed by ice cream from Pabba’s, Mangalore’s very own and in the eyes of every Mangalorean – the best ice cream in the world. As usual the days passed by pretty quickly. Spent a part of the holiday shopping with my cousin [...]
14 Sep
Nadal wins 2010 US Open Finals vs Djokovic
As I write this Rafael Nadal is on the verge of winning his first US Open title and completing his career Grand Slam. I am watching the fourth set right now and after leading 5-1, Djokovic pulled one back to make it 5-2. Nadal leads Djokovic by two sets to one. The two players are [...]
5 Sep
President Osama in Sunday Express?
Today’s Sunday Express (The New Indian Express edition) had a major typo in its mid-page features. It was in Soli Sorabjee’s Soliloquies section. A reference to President Obama is spelt as President Osama. Such a mistake appearing in a national newspaper does call for action, either on the newspaper’s part by apologising before it becomes [...]
5 Sep
Sunday Expresso (not a typo)
Shades of Sanghvi – Vir Sanghvi is one of the highlights of the New Sunday Express. His writings have led to a new-found respect for this veteran editor who makes realistic sense in an age where news features are relegated to pompous high-pitched, rabble rousing ‘insights’. Today’s feature from Sanghvi brings into clear picture a [...]
