Are you as Bawa as Bawa can be? Is Parsipanu in your blood, beyond just biology? How deeply entrenched is our Parsipanu ideology in your system? Take this quiz and find out… Answer the following 25 questions (tick Yes or No) and check out the results: 1. If you’re going for a wedding or a […]
“I love your religion. I’ve read about it and have tried to understand it. Yours is the only religion which is eco-friendly. Also, to accumulate wealth is fine, but I have observed that your community spends it wisely and uses it to help people, which is even better. Recently when the Parsees of New York […]
Winner: Meher Sutaria The holy days of Muktad are here A time to remember and welcome the dear Fravashis and all noble souls, of the departed With whom we had once, sorrowfully parted. We welcome them and seek their blessing We want them to know that we are expressing Our profoundest love which will never […]
It’s an accepted fact that many of us have some of the most unusual and funny surnames. In fact, we would hold the record for having the longest surnames, were it not for those interminable South Indian surnames! The longest Parsi surnames, so far include Sodawaterbottleopenerwala (25 alphabets) and Workingboxwalla (15 alphabets), which are currently […]
The only category left unexplored by the Filmfare folks is that of ‘Best Casting Director’. With Akshay Kumar in the eponymous Rustom, based on the celebrated Nanavati case of 1959, this lacuna should hopefully be addressed. But first things first. The film, ‘suggested by actual events’, bears striking resemblances to the incidents of the 1959 […]
The initials J B are not the only common denominator. If this, the latest Bourne film had the signature James Bond theme music during its opening credits, one could have forgiven the viewer in mistaking it for one. As action films go, Jason Bourne is right up there, but as thrillers go, it is a […]
Whatever happened to the winsome comedies starring Boman Irani and Arshad Warsi, two of our most gifted comedians? That they both require a good script is stating the obvious—the Munnabhai films, Jolly LLB, where they shared screen space. Arshad Warsi is Michael Misra (yes, we are told the ‘h’ is absent), who is a wannabe […]
Accompanying Jason Bourne this week in losing his memory is Armin Salem (Rajeev Khandelwal) who meets with a car accident on a lonely road in picturesque Switzerland. Attending to him there is Dr. David Roy (Victor Banerjee) who asks him all the right questions but fails to ignite his memory. ‘It’s a brain injury,’ the […]
It was a term originally coined for cricketing greats such as Bradman, Gavaskar and Tendulkar. Budhia Singh, at the age of four, earned the epithet, ‘The Run Machine’, but with a literal connotation. Timed to release during the 2016 Rio Olympics, for which Budhia was trained and slated to run, the film is a sincere […]
The interview was scheduled for noon on 22nd July at the Filmalaya Studio, Andheri. I realized I would miss the press show of Kabali at 11:00. No problem… Rajnikanth can wait… I reached a half-hour early. Akshay was shooting for the sequel of the successful ‘Jolly LLB’. I settled myself down in the dimly lit […]
Voices: BFG – Mark Rylance, (Hindi – Amitabh Bachchan); Sophie – Ruby Barnhill, (Hindi – Parineeti Chopra). OK. So it’s just a coincidence. The BFG (Big Friendly Giant) novel on which this family fantasy film is based was written by Roald Dahl in 1982, the same year in which the Steven Spielberg-directed and highly acclaimed […]