Moms really don’t care much about who you are… to your mom, you will always be the child that needs to be told what to do! Check Out Mom-talk that some celebs probably had to endure… . Mona Lisa’s Mom: “After all that money your father and I spent on your braces, is that […]
Kalaghoda Literally meaning ‘a dark horse’, there was a brilliant statue of King Edward the VIII atop a black horse sculpted by Albert David Sassoon. This marvellous and popular piece of art became a landmark for the Museum, Jehangir Art Gallery, the Elphinstone College and the now defunct Watson Hotel. The statue was removed in […]
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Those who entered the auditorium a few seconds late would be forgiven for presuming that they were watching a documentary on ‘The Art of Kissing’ — thank you, Mr. Pahlaj Nihalani! A half century after ‘An Evening in Paris’ (1967), and against the backdrop of the sights and sounds of Paris, comes a musical rom-com […]
It’s difficult to imagine Robert De Niro in any sport film other than boxing. In his fourth film on the sport (Raging Bull, Night and the City, Grudge Match), De Niro plays the altruistic and patriarchal Ray Arcel who nurtured and propelled Roberto Duran (Edgar Ramirez) to the pinnacle of boxing glory in the light-middleweight […]
Carol Vanstone (Jennifer Aniston) is the CEO of Zenotek, a computing firm. Her brother Clay (T.J. Miller) is the head of the Chicago branch whose profits have dipped to a meagre 6.5%. Carol’s fiat is to double the profit in three days (just before Christmas) or be prepared for laying off 80 of the branch’s […]
Based on the article ‘Deepwater Horizon’s Final Hours’ by David Rohde in the New York Times, Director Peter Berg infuses exactly the right elements to make Deepwater Horizon a formulaic disaster film. The film opens with merely the audio of the testimony which followed the largescale catastrophe on 20 April 2010, 41 miles off Louisiana […]
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Chowpatty Chowpatty is really ‘Chau-pati’ meaning four channels, and is evidence of the inroad of the tide before the western foreshore as reclaimed. This name is analogous to that of Satpaty, a village in the Mahim Taluka of the Thana District, which is approached through a channel or khadi, containing seven pats or divisions […]
Short films usually have a deep underlying message attached to them — social, political or religious. They also come with baggage — that of finance, distribution and exhibition constraints although their ultimate aim is to be screened at Film Festivals. All three shorts, screened on Sunday 27th November by aspiring filmmaker Nozzer Pardiwala, have a […]
When once asked why he didn’t make romantic films, Alfred Hitchcock had famously replied, “If I made Cinderella, they would be looking for a body in the coach.” Vidya Balan had made Sujoy Ghosh’s female-centric Kahaani a sleeper hit, with its climax unfolding in the dying moments of the film. Four years later, the suspense […]