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Archive for November, 2005

The short story

I’ve been reading short stories lately, and here are links to a few famous ones online : – The diamond necklace (Guy de Maupassant)– Hills like white elephants (Hemingway)– A clean well-lighted place (Hemingway)– A good man is hard to find (Flannery O’Connor)– The open window (H.H.Munro) I haven’t been able to find “Cathedral” (Raymond […]

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Horror and comedy

In this famine of (decent) Hindi films, I succumbed to seeing “Constantine”, and “Eulogy”, two vastly different movies. Constantine, which was released a few months agon, is a horror film, a translation of the comic-book to screen. Keanu Reeves plays the demon hunter John Constantine, who’s chain smoking himself to sure death and Hell. John […]

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Cinematic trash

Namrata Joshi has an interesting article in Outlook on vulgarity making it big-time in Hindi movies. It’s now mainstream. She writes about “Kya kool hai hum” , “Maine pyar kyon kiya”, which I saw, and “No entry”, “Shaadi No. 1” which I have had the good fortune of not seeing. Categories : _films

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Of super-heroes and detectives

I’ve waited a while to see “Batman begins”, so my expectations were high. I have always liked the Batman films, even though he’s probably the only super-hero to actually be like a billionare. You take a protagonist and imbue him with riches, and boom! all the sympathy you felt for the guy vanishes. Why ? […]

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The Bold and the Sleazy

It’s the reign of television and television channels. As news becomes more insipid and emotions over-done on Star News, Star One offers some hope, in the form of innovative stand-up comedy shows like “The Great Indian Laughter challenge” and “The Great Indian Comedy Show”, which is styled along the lines of American “Saturday Night Live”. […]

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