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Sep 22, 13 • 579 Views • Movies, Reviews • Aniket Dasgupta • 2 Comments
The credits rolled and I thought to myself; how can something so simple be so poignantly beautiful? And I probably thought over that for two days, hence the delay in writing this. And I still haven’t found the answer, maybe I’ll go watch it...
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Sep 10, 13 • 2941 Views • Movies, Reviews • Aniket Dasgupta • 6 Comments
We’ve never reviewed a Kannada film before and this is our first. I am not going to explain and then cringe and cry about the atrocities some of the films from Gandhinagar commit. But Pawan Kumar’s Lucia really changes a lot of things. For...
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Aug 28, 13 • 425 Views • Books, Reviews • Ushnav Shroff • No Comments
The Boy who could see Demons is Carolyn Jess-Cooke’s second novel and a very impressive one at that. In the vein of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, it’s a clever and enchanting novel for anyone who understands the importance of needing...
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Aug 24, 13 • 607 Views • Movies, Reviews • Aniket Dasgupta • 1 Comment
Madras Cafe is a smart espionage thriller considering the fact that the last time two times a RAW agent was seen in a hindi movie, they were busy romancing ISI agents and running around the planet without reason and strangely had a lot of clothes to change...
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Aug 24, 13 • 1127 Views • Movies, Reviews • Rajdip Ray • 1 Comment
Having grown up in Calcutta, I’ve been a part of (and witnessed) several absurd plays. I have also watched some really good cinema that the city has produced. What I had not experienced till now, was both the art forms merging to produce something which...
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Aug 18, 13 • 469 Views • Books, Reviews • Ushnav Shroff • 2 Comments
“Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t an answer to them.” Mark Haddon’s The curious incident of the dog in the night-time has the distinction of being the first novel ever to be published simultaneously in two...
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Aug 12, 13 • 256 Views • Movies • Puneet Wagh • No Comments
This movie confirms one thing beyond any question of doubt- film critics and movie reviews cannot always be trusted. It really is asking too much of a person to see meaning in a piece of cinematic art in which the cast and crew have put their heart and soul...
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Jul 21, 13 • 451 Views • Movies • Yash Thakur • 1 Comment
A film that came out of nowhere has now taken the world of cinema by storm. It has won multiple accolades and applause since its premiere at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. Legendary directors like Shyam Benegal and Anurag Kashyap claim that...
