Your favorite blog SearchIndia.com is now on Pinterest! Oh well, idle minds have lots of time. 😉 What is Pinterest? Pinterest is a popular online pinboard where you can ‘pin’ your favorite photos. The photos can be uploaded from your PC or ‘grabbed’ from some other web site. On Pinterest, you can find tons of […]
No marriage is happy after it happens. It’s only before, thinking of it, that it’s happy. – Manju’s drunkard father in Behind the Beautiful Forevers p.183 I can’t swear it’s all non-fiction. But Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo is a devastating indictment of what is […]
Dark Knight Rises’ director Christopher Nolan may know a thing or two about the technique of making movies but he’s has always been a less than inspiring figure when it comes to the artistic elements, the magical amalgam that delivers a soul-stirring movie. I don’t know about you schmucks but when the lights go out […]
I hate Budweiser Beer. Like Tamil actor buffoon Ajith’s movies, it reeks of poor quality. But I made an exception and got myself a Budweiser. Know why? After seeing Billa 2’s disastrous box office numbers, I wanted to celebrate by quaffing the biggest bottle of beer. And Budweiser was the biggest in the liquor store […]
Fish require water. You’re familiar with that concept? – Fred Jones to Harriet Harriet Chetwode-Talbot in Salman Fishing in Yemen Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, what an odd name for a movie. So different from Rowdy Rathore or Billa 2, isn’t it? 😉 Unusual Theme But then the theme of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen […]
Some of the greatest melodies in Hindi films are from Rajesh Khanna’s movies of the 1960s and 1970s – Aaradhana, Anand, Haathi Mera Saathi, Katoi Patang, Andaaz etc. During my childhood, growing up in South India, songs from Rajesh Khanna’s movies were a constant presence in my life – on Radio Ceylon and Binaca Geet […]