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Review: The Avengers

Here’s a fact – you will have to watch films such as Thor and Captain America especially in order to connect well with The Avengers. This is a little unfair but it worth the payoff when you get a film like this at the end of it all. After being thrown into the abyss at the [...]

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Rearview: We Need To Talk About Kevin

The horrors that plague mankind as portrayed by the media or from word of mouth always have a way of leaving us jilted, tensed and even a little haunted by the details. We Need to Talk About Kevin will have you feeling similar emotions where I guarantee that you will be disturbed in more ways [...]

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Review: Urban Shots – Crossroads

Light-hearted, lucid and easy to read – Urban Shots Crossroads is none of that. A book I picked up with the intention of breezing through in a day’s time had me think again just after the first few stories. Edited by Ahmed Faiyaz, this anthology of 30 stories written by 26 authors is a rather [...]

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Review: Blinkers Off

At first glance, Blinkers Off might seem like a pleasant read, an easy story. However, it is neither. Contrary to my expectations (which maybe, I shouldn’t have had), I couldn’t finish this book as fast as I had wanted to. Neither did the story grip nor the characters. I wish the author hadn’t juggled with [...]

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Review: Agent Vinod

Simply put, Agent Vinod is a story of a RAW agent who finds out about an explosion which is about to kill millions, and shows that he can go to any extent to prevent it. Now as far as the story is concerned, this isn’t exactly a novel concept. Therefore, the entire movie depended on [...]

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Review: The Hunger Games

Set in the futuristic North American nation of Panem, The Hunger Games is based on the 2008 best-selling novel of the same name by Suzanne Collins. The plot is fairly simple. Out of 12 poverty-stricken districts, one girl and one boy between the age of 12 and 16 are selected to represent their district in [...]

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Review: Urban Shots Love Collection

This edition of Urban Shots is the fourth edition of the series published by Westland-Grey Oak. It marks the debut of Sneh Thakur as Editor who has tastefully compiled these stories. The book is filled with colourful short love stories from the by lanes of Kolkata to the metropolis that is Mumbai, from the crowded streets [...]

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Rearview: The Help

The Help, An adaption of the book with the same title by Kathryn Stockett, raised an equally alarming hoard of criticism as the book regarding how the author assembled the dialect, outlined her characters and distorted a very sensitive time period. For viewers who watched the movie without reading the book or with a lack [...]

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Intimate Theatre: Without Curtains

The concept of Intimate Theatre is one which is seldom heard of. It consists of a performance where the performers [...]

First-time Wonders

When 35-year old Kiran Desai was nominated for the Booker, there was quite a stir created since she was following [...]

Coffee

You’re sitting in front of me, the sun falling on your face. It lights up your eyes as you tell [...]

#2 – Whose Poster is it Anyway?

It’s been more than a year since the first part of this article was put up. Since then, I have become [...]

The Colour Red

As a colour, red is extremely powerful. It holds utmost significance and even has a lot of hidden meaning. Because [...]

Review: The Avengers

Here’s a fact – you will have to watch films such as Thor and Captain America especially in order to [...]