Silence

There’s a lot of thought process (read: passion and defining moments) behind the films of Martin Scorsese — whether they be on crime (with Robert De Niro — Goodfellas, Mean Streets), or on faith & religion (The Last Temptation of Christ, Kundun). After waiting for over a quarter century to adapt Shusako Endo’s 1966 novel […]

Film Review: Moonlight

Watching ‘Moonlight’, one could be forgiven for presuming that the film was shot in Africa – the locales, the penury and the privative conditions of the principal characters in the film being adequate affirmation. The film portrays Chiron’s life in three stages – as a 10-year-old boy, as a teenager and finally as an adult. […]

Film Review: Hidden Figures

The colour of the skin and the power of the human ‘computer’ are the mainstay of Hidden Figures, directed and co-written by Theodore Melfi and based on the book by Margot Lee Shetterly. The film opens in 1926 in West Virginia, in an era and place when racism and segregation were prevalent in the US. […]

Film Review: John Wick : Chapter 2

The 2014 prequel ended with John Wick a widower and losing his puppy to the Russian assassins. Barely five days after the eventful first film, director Stahelski (who was a stuntman in Reeves’ Matrix Trilogy), unleashes a wave of some spectacular, and some all too predictable action scenes in John Wick : Chapter 2. Santino’s […]

Parsee Gym Wins Talim Shield

. Bravish Shetty’s master-class innings of 186 in 139 deliveries, laced with 20 fours and 6 sixes, helped Parsee Gymkhana (PG) win the finals of Padmakar Talim Shield Cricket Tournament, conducted by MIG Cricket Club, by a massive margin of 129 runs against rivals New Hind Sporting Club. This was team PG’s first Talim Shield […]

Your Moonsign Janam Rashi This Week –
18th February, 2017 – 25th February, 2017

મરહુમ મહારાજ શ્રી સ્વયંજ્યોતિના સહકાર્યકર્તા જયેશ એમ. ગોસ્વામી ARIES | મેષ: અ.લ.ઈ. શુક્રની દિનદશા ચાલુ હોવાથી તમારા મોજશોખ પૂરા કરી શકશો. ગામ-પરગામ જવાના ચાન્સ મળશે. ઘરમાં નવી ચીજ વસ્તુ ૨૩મી એપ્રિલ સુધી વસાવી શકશો. નવા કામ મળવાના ચાન્સ છે. ચાલુ કામમાં નાણાકીય ફાયદો મળતો રહેશે. જીવનમાં કોઈ નવી વ્યક્તિ મળવાથી મનને શાંતિ મળશે. મનગમતી વ્યક્તિ તરફથી […]