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Quote of the Day – Kumar Sangakkara

 Cricket, People, Quotes  9 Responses »
Jul 052011
 
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It’s indeed a pity that life is not cricket. If it were, we’d not have seen the festering wounds of an ignorant war.
- Sri Lankan cricket captain Kumar Sangakkara, some 31-minutes into his 2011 MCC Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture at Lord’s on July 4, 2011

We’ve always known, and indeed written on the SI blog, that Kumar Sangakkara was not merely a fine cricket player but an extraordinarily eloquent one as well.

In his 2011 MCC Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture at Lords on July 4, Sangakkara showed what a fine wordsmith he is in a remarkable address on the subject Spirit of Sri Lankan Cricket.

Sangakkara delivered a scintillating summary of the story of Sri Lankan cricket deftly weaving the history of the game in the island nation with the country’s colonial history, politics, civil war, victory, defeat, corruption and political interference. Continue reading »

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Delhi Belly Box Office – Decent Collection

 Bollywood, Box Office  4 Responses »
Jul 052011
 
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Delhi Belly has done well at the U.S. box office.

Of course, the 4-day Independence Day weekend must have helped draw in the crowds.

Plus, the movie surely had decent word of mouth despite its crass, toilet humor (the title of the movie says it all).

For the July 1-4, 2011 opening weekend, Delhi Belly collected $701,824 with an average gross of $7,975.

Hey, those are respectable numbers considering the movie featured lesser known actors. Aamir Khan’s nephew Imran Khan was the only recognizable name, the rest including his two roommates and the two girls could well have come from Timbuktu.

Here’s how Delhi Belly fared at the U.S. box office compared to some prominent Bollywood movies:
Delhi Belly Box Office in the U.S.

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Delicatessen, A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop – Decent Fare

 Foreign Movies  5 Responses »
Jul 052011
 
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(For Twig, VJCool)

Since we happen to be in the mood for foreign movies lately, we readily took up some of our readers’ entreaties to watch the French film Delicatessen the other day.

Delicatessen is on Netflix Instant Play and so access to this movie is not an issue for our North American readers.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro directed this 1991 movie that debuted to favorable notices from both critics and the juries at various award ceremonies.

Classy Affair

To our delight, Delicatessen turned out to be a classy, charming movie in many respects.

Set in post-war or post-apocalyptic times amidst sepiaesque ruined buildings, Delicatessen resembles the Johnny Depp film Sweeney Todd (2007) in its morbid, arresting central theme.

The movie centers around the lives of a bunch of oddball dwellers in a tall ramshackle apartment building lorded over by the butcher owner.

For us, one of the highlights of the film was fine photography by Darius Khondji (the man behind the camera in Woody Allen’s recent work of beauty Midnight in Paris). Often, moviegoers tend to dwell on the actors, the story or in the Indian case, the music.

Despite movies being a visual medium, seldom do we pay careful attention to the fast-moving images on the screen except in rare instances like an Avatar. Khondji is a master of his craft and it shows in Delicatessen and more so in Midnight in Paris, where the visual appeal is stunning. Continue reading »

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