After the Shipa-Gere hullaballoo, Richard Gere seemed a natural choice to come on Koffee with Karan. He appeared much the same as he did in “Pretty Woman”, maybe frailer and with glasses. Charm flowed in a direct stream from Gere to me, the viewer, the TV screen and the thousands of miles being not a […]
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Spiderman 3
In which Spidey gets an attitude. A bad one. Well, not really. I mean, Spiderman is a good, humble, kind-hearted sort of guy. So, how can he go bad ? In this film, via a mutant life form, crashing into earth on a small meteorite. The parasitic life form crawls off the meteorite and crawls […]
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Leonardo di Caprio gives me the hives. And not in a good way. Apparently I was the only one who didn’t L-O-V-E “Titanic”, and I am quite unable to see his “boyish” charm (or so I have been told). Although the charm still eludes me, I did like “Blood Diamond”, and Leo in it. He […]
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Koffee with Karan this time had Karan, Bipasha Basu and John Abraham. Karan was his usual gossipy self (“tell me more darling”). Bipasha and John come across as a sweet couple, very easy-going and as down-to-earth as a gorgeous couple like them can be. They apparently don’t agree on anything, says Bipasha. And while she […]
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Shekhar Gupta has an excellent article in the IE. Gupta who also anchors the program “Walk the Talk” for NDTV, sounds much better in the written word than the spoken. Here he presents an effective case against the pervading VIP culture : And, of these, nothing is more important than our rapidly proliferating VIP culture. […]
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