Despite Sirivennela’s signature lyricality and SPB’s towering voice, I was disappointed by the song. One. I think music directors should experiment with other voices for such songs. While his voice adds more weight, SPB’s intonation has become overly familiar and I fail to feel a pleasant surprise, or a did-you-hear-that jolt like in this particular [...]
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Book Review: The Girl Who Played With Fire
Stieg Larsson’s The Girl Who Played with Fire starts with a confidence, maybe certainty, that the readers of his previous book will hold on no matter what. Lisbeth Salander gets a lot of pages. This is her book. She travels the world; reads Principia Mathematica; tries proving Little Fermat’s theorem; and gets her breasts enlarged, [...]
Book Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo opens with the one last wish of a very old birthday boy Henrik Vanger, a retired industrialist. Every year he receives a new exotic flower as a birthday gift and it is a constant reminder of the decades old unsolved disappearance of his brother’s daughter that continues [...]
PIFF Movie Review: Emotional Arithmetic
Paolo Barzman’s Emotional Arithmetic is an inequation with four very capable actors on one side and a whole that doesn’t add up on the other. Nobody can be blamed of over-expecting when Christopher Plummer, Gabriel Byrne, Max von Sydow and Susan Sarandon star not in a grand epic but a gentle drama. They play such [...]
But For Gandhism
Himmat karne wAlonki hAr nahin hOti Three years ago Anupam Kher received a note that read, “You don’t belong to the category of heroes and lead actors, but we can’t not award you because that would draw everyone’s attention to our impaired judgment,” along with a Special Jury National Film Award. It was for his [...]