In Re: “I don’t want to die MADHUBALA” by Manju Gupta, Dilip Kumar @ Yusuf Khan is an extra ordinary personality. He was not ready to be reduced to a commodity by another commodity; rather he wanted to lift the other commodity out of the morass, but her love for her industry was overwhelming. Now …
Glamour In News Media
Yesterday, I came across a website about top ten glamorous anchors in India. No prizes for guessing, all were females. This is an unnecessary bias. I think both men and women watch news. And if men have their favourites, so do women. But, yes, one thing is for sure: Indian TV news anchoring is nothing …
“Dum Laga Ke Haisha”: Beautiful Fat Movie
Beautiful fat movie with courageous acting: Ayushman Khuranna has won a race which has no finish line, literally; and he is carrying lots of weight on his back now, once again literally.
PK: Lies Are Lovely
Moral of the story: Some lies are lovely, and you learn them only on earth, so stop worrying about Mars, Venus, Pluto and sun; Just Love and Be Loved. Amazing Movie! Addendum dt. 07.01.2015: I find the idea of unapprovingly intruding into the minds of the people abhorrent; I didn’t specify it earlier because I …
Katiyabaaz: Go, Enjoy the Reality!
This documentary is so real that it adds to the anxiety without scaring the conciousness — I am deliberately calling it a documentary, not movie, because I don’t want to insult the marvel. Go, enjoy the reality! © 2014 Ankur Mutreja
News Anchors
I have found that females have failed to make a mark on the English news anchoring scene. With the exception of Barkha Dutt, nobody else has been able to establish herself like Prannoy Roy or Rajdeep Sardesai or Karan Thapar or Arnab Goswami. Sonia Singh and Sagarika Ghosh have already been kicked out from the …