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Movie Review – Alone

Works for what it is After a really long time, as I had some alone time on a Saturday night, I thought of reliving good old days by watching a movie, alone. While browsing through my HDD, I came across this movie called ‘Alone’. ‘Alone’ being a horror and foreign movie was icing on a […]

Book Review – The World of Nagaraj

When in doubt, read R. K. Narayan Nagaraj is such a unique character, so is the book. It’s one of a kind for a lot of reasons. Before jumping into the book, I wanted to ask, “Why isn’t R.K. Narayan celebrated?” In fact I wanted to title the very essay like this. But I felt […]

Movie Review – Capital I

An honorable attempt ‘Capital I’ tries a lot, with a capital T. The film has in genuine thoughts, great lines and makes for an art thriller. In the directors words, a psychodrama. But as a film, at least for it making, it looks as if it’s one step below. The film looks like a staircase […]

Movie Review – Jailer

Where is Thalaivar heading to? Ya ya, “Thalaivaru Nerantharam” and all is fine but what really it does apart from making a seventy year old man keep on walking in slow mo throughout the film. If slow mo is what I want I’d have rather watch Megan Fox in ‘Transformers 2’. Between ‘Jailer’ and ‘Leo’, […]

Travelogue: Om Shivoham – Tiruvannamalai, Girivalam, Paravathamalai and Gingee Fort

Even though everything in the list had been in plan, it somehow never came together. Finally there was a long weekend and I could make a road trip with it. But with office pressure and family pressure I couldn’t plan it as well as I wanted to. In fact the trip was confirmed on the […]

Movie Review – Captain Miller

An Eye Sore, Ear Jar, Misfire of a film. Never in my wildest dreams, did I imagine a film I chose to watch in theatres, out of my own interest, would be this bad. I should have understood by seeing only ten tickets booked for the show. But thinking that it has become a trend […]

Movie Review – Leo

An actor in fine form and a director who believes in his craft, sells this mediocre film, thanks to the sincerity. Thanks to a lot of backlash, it took me a while to watch the film. For the hype it generated before it, I too, like many of you, wanted the film to fail. But […]

Travelogue: Rupin Pass – A Stairway to Heaven

Wonder when the last time was, I wrote a travelogue this late. Even if I had, it would have been due to my personal work, but this time, it was far from it. May be that’s personal too. Whatever it is, never imaged life would change so much in a gap of three months. When […]

Movie Review – Ford v Ferrari

Vrooming to Victory The first impact the movie would have, would be on your ears. Especially, if you had watched the movie with earphones like I did. Either you’d be enjoying the sound of cars whizzing from one ear to another like it happened with “Omahaziya” in your Sony Walkman or you’d be complaining of […]

Movie Review – Water

This one’s more on the surface level Probably the least impactful movie of the lot. It could be attributed due to lot factors like, the gap between the movies (this being the longest between two movies in the trilogy), the actors or even due to the compulsion of completing a trilogy. This always happens when […]