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Category: Entertainment
Know Your Bombay! – 7th January 2017
The Elephanta Island Once the capital of a powerful local kingdom, Elephanta was earlier known by the name Gharapuri, derived from a small village at its southern end. In the 16th century, Portuguese explorers renamed it ‘Ilha Elefante’ or Elephant Island, in reference to a large stone elephant that was found there. The statue was […]
Film Review: A Monster Calls
Based on the 2011 novel by Patrick Ness — and centred around the original idea of Siobhan Dowd as she herself was dying of cancer — A Monster Calls is an unusual tale of 12-year-old Conor O’ Malley (Lewis MacDougall), who, as the voice-over informs us in the beginning, is ‘too old to be a […]
Film Review: Passengers
Apparently set in the distant future, the starship Avalon is on a 120-year journey to ‘Homestead 2’ – a distant colony planet of Earth. During the voyage, due to a systems failure, passenger Jim Preston (Chris Pratt) wakes up from his hibernation within 30 years, 90 years too early. The 5000 passengers and 258 crew […]
Film Review: Allied
French Morocco, 1942. Casablanca to be precise. And that could only mean WWII. A Royal Canadian intelligence officer Max Vatan (Brad Pitt) finds himself paired as the husband of French Resistance fighter Marianne Beausejour (Marion Cotillard), with the German Ambassador Hobar (August Diehl) to Casablanca being their target. Mission assassination accomplished, their pretence at being […]
Film Review: Zhala Bobhata
Regional films have rarely been acknowledged in mainstream cinema. Nor have they got their merited due. This year alone, Marathi films such as Ekk Albela, Natsamrat and Ventilator have done reasonably well, with Sairat earning rave reviews. The first Marathi film of 2017 has Dilip Prabhavalkar (Mahatma Gandhi of Lage Raho Munabhai) as Appa, R.K. […]
Caption This! – January 7, 2017
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Reader’s Corner: Apri Editor And I
To our madam editor Anahita, like the Swam of the Avon, ‘Brevity is the soul of wit’. Yours sincerely, when it comes to brevity, is like Big Moose of Archie comics – I am d-uh! Anahita likes everything short and sweet, as I used to hear yet another intellectual editor, Adi Marazban say “tukku ne […]
Know Your Bombay! – 31th December 2016
Colaba Constructed by the British East India Company during Sir Robert Grant’s tenure as the Governor of Bombay (1835–1838), Colaba, the southern tip of Mumbai, was declared a cantonment area, where construction by civilians was prohibited. Its construction was completed in 1838, using the Old Woman’s Island as part of it, and, thus, the last […]
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Film Review: Sing
With the awards season barely a couple of months away, studios are in the race to release their best films. Sing is one of the few, intended for the entire family, and with its title, there leaves little ambiguity regarding its genre. The film revolves around a koala Buster Moon (voice of Mathew Mc. Conaughey), […]