To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the few works that I read more than twice, watched more than twice, read the book first and then watched the movie and still didn’t get disappointed. Harper Lee’s novel is also my default gift, the way some gift the Bible when they can’t think of anything else. [...]
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Remember Me, Remember Marcel Proust
This Friday evening a friend who wanted to get out of the office told me that he hadn’t been to a theatre in a long time. Actually I haven’t been to a theatre in a long time and he hasn’t been to one in a very long time. We decided to watch some movie, any [...]
PIFF 2010: About the Bestiality in Man
I was driving home one night. I stopped at a red signal, still thinking furiously about the movie that I had just watched. There was a long queue growing with cars coming out of the multiplex that I had driven out of. The driver in the car behind me got impatient and started honking. I [...]
And the award for the best actor goes to
The day after the big night. The day after a decade of Oscars. This is a better time than most other to air my mixed feelings about awards in the acting categories (hereafter called acting awards) given my interest in fiction. While the deservingness of awards are eternally debatable, awards play a role in reminding [...]
Avatar is no Star Wars
I read and heard a lot of superlatives about James Cameron’s Avatar in the last two months. Some from well-known critics and mostly from the gen-pop — “awesome”. I knew very little about the story itself and that may have helped ground my expectations closer to Earth than Pandora. I waited for the opportunity, and [...]