Know Your Bombay

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, […]

Film Review: Bank Chor

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 […]

Film Review: Phullu

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 […]

Letters To The Editor

In Appreciation Thank you for mentioning about the passing on of our young family member Mehernosh Freddy Sanjana, in Chennai. Your mention about the accident and the understanding evinced by you in the editorial, gave us much solace. Mehernosh was indeed a fine young man, a topper in the Commerce stream in the State of Tamil Nadu. […]