Sanjay, both Dutt and Gupta give us an unusual treatment, a feast of movies for the price of one… what could go wrong?? Many things, but unfortunately for all those skeptics, nothing does. A brilliant bouquet of comedy, hopeless romance, paranormal and even the positively revolutionary is Dus Kahaniyan…

Every year the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences, which gives the Oscar awards keeps certain surprises up their sleeves when announcing the nominees for the awards. However much the Oscar watchers and critics try to keep with the trend, the Academy is always one step ahead…

The trend of ‘campus novels’ as they are called, started with the phenomenal success of Chetan Bhagat’s Five Point Someone. This novel and many others which have joined the race depicting the campus life of various Universities across the country have created a whole new market for campus novels in India…

Before moving on to the review of this brilliant film by Frankenheimer, I would like to strongly emphasize that this film is phenomenally better than its recent remake in 2004.The Manchurian Candidate is an intriguing psychological thriller set in 1952 during the Korean War, in the backdrop of the Cold war era…

When European travelers discovered a city of stones, above the bush country of southern Rhodesia, they exclaimed with glee, thinking they had found the legendary mines of King Solomon. But the fact was different. They had found the religious citadels of a powerful empire, Zimbabwe…

It’s implausible that the country’s highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, has ever been subjected to this kind of political jockeying since it was first instituted in 1954. While the Central Government is yet to decide on the recipient of the award for this year, more and more political parties have joined the fray. The names of four political veterans are doing the rounds…

It is just as essential to pair the right type of sauce to a dish, as it is to pair the right kind of wine to your meal. The foodstuffs of a region or country will often pair well with the local wines, as they have both evolved to complement one another. A few standard combinations of pairing white wine to white meat have always been treated like a delicacy…

Rashtrapati Bhawan, the Secretariat, and the Parliament Building etc. compose what we today call Lutyens’ Delhi. When it was designed, Lutyens’ City with its urban fabric was meant to keep the “lowly native Indians” out of the core city. Ironically, it continues to do so even today. I can quite confidently say that this is not the recipe for a building representing Indianness…

British drama, Atonement stole the show with a stunning Best Motion Picture-Drama win. The film, which had lost out on almost all major precursors, won over the heavily favoured critic’s darling, No Country For Old Men. The Coen Brothers also lost out in the Best Director category to another surprise win, Belgian director Julian Schanbel was rewarded for his style in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly…

Religion is believed by many to be a necessary evil; in the ancient times of barbarism, it provided a structure and framework to human existence. There is a certain group of individuals who hold their beloved savior, Jesus Christ, so close to their hearts that they develop sores and often bleed from certain locations in their body. This phenomenon is referred to as ‘Stigmata’…