After ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ in which the Kabir Khan-Salman Khan film had overtones of Indo-Pak amity, the duo now train their sights on our Eastern neighbour. Jagatpur, in Kumaon, is the abode of Laxman Singh Bisht (Salman Khan) and younger brother Bharat (real-life brother Sohail). Laxman is derisively called ‘tubelight’ — the Indian connotation for a […]
Sewri Mangrove Park: Located along the eastern edge of South Mumbai, the Sewri Mangrove Park comprises 15 acres of mangroves in the mudflats between Sewri and Trombay and was declared a protected area by the Bombay Port Trust on 15th January, 1996. Over seven species of mangroves and twenty species of birds including the Flamingo, […]
Acting & Writing Workshop Hone your acting and writing skills with ‘Zubin Driver’s Master Class In Acting & Writing’ on 17th June, 2017, at The Cuckoo Club, from 10am to 4pm, and change the way you look at art, life and creativity! Parsi Times readers can avail a 10% DISCOUNT on producing this cutout! For […]
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Riteish Deshmukh and Vivek Oberoi provided some antics in their ‘Masti’ series. In the long awaited ‘Bank Chor’ (the title’s refrain sounds conveniently like the Indian expletive — and one guesses, deliberately so), Champak Chandrakant Chiplunkar (RD) and his inept cronies from Delhi, Genda (Vikram Thapa) and Gulab (Bhuvan Arora) hijack a bank. In the […]
This film by any other name would have been just the same. The film begins impressively with a high-angle shot of a cremation in a village. Cut to a village simpleton Phullu (Sharib Hashmi) staying with his mother (Nutan Surya) and sister Tara (Trisha). Phullu runs errands for the women-folk of the village, doing their […]
A confession at the outset would be in order: though musically inclined, I am neither a fan nor an aficionado of the rap denomination of music. All Eyez On Me is the short-lived but eventful life led by rapper, actor, lyricist and activist Tupac Shakur (Demetrius Shipp Jr.) — his mother Afeni (Danai Gurira) was […]
Banganga Tank: Built way back in 1127 AD, Banganga Tank is an ancient water tank that forms part of the Walkeshwar Temple Complex in Malabar Hill, South Mumbai. One of the holiest Hindu sites in Mumbai, as per legend, it was here that Ram’s brother Lakshman shot an arrow into the ground creating a hole for the water […]
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Medical Camp A Medical Camp for Health Check-up is being organised at Dadar Athornan Madresa Hall, first floor, Dadar, Mumbai, on 18th June, 2017, from 10:00am to 12 noon. For enquiries and to register before 16th June, 2017, contact: 9822291743
Isn’t that taken for granted or rather, the accepted standard, the unwritten covenant that one should love one’s family? In the film Love U Family, written and produced by Vipul Devani and helmed by Sachindra Sharma, the makers have gone to great lengths to depict the natural ties of a family — and its binding […]