When you see the chief of CIA’s Near East division Ed Hoffman (Russell Crowe) taking phone calls from his top agent in the field Roger Ferris (Leonardo DiCaprio) on a dangerous mission in the Middle East while simultaneously helping his young son pee straight into the bowl or watching his young daughter throw a ball […]
We may not understand the French language but at the end of Monsieur Hire (1989) we did understand what fine acting is all about. Starring Michel Blanc and Sandrinne Bonnaire in key roles, Monsieur Hire is a lovely French movie made all the more remarkable by a fine twist at the end. Monsieur Hire tells the […]
You can bet your last dime that even as the world is ending, someone somewhere will be making a Western movie. Such is the hold of this genre that 105 years after the first Western movie debuted, Hollywood still continues to churn out Westerns to feed the insatiable appetite of movie-goers nostalgic for an era […]
As Indians, movies and music are never far from us. Indians, whether in the homeland or in distant lands like U.S., Canada, Australia or New Zealand spend countless hours either listening to songs or watching movies. And we are no different from the herd. Here are some of the songs we are listening to/watching these days […]
Who having heard the hauntingly beautiful song Meri Bheegi Bheegi Si from the 1973 Hindi film Anamika (Sanjeev Kumar, Jaya Bhaduri now Jaya Bachchan) once can ever forget it. We drew as much pleasure from viewing Anamika last week as we did when we first watched it in a different age, different country and a […]
The latest report by Transparency International shows India slipping on the Corruption Perceptions Index by 13 points to No-85. As anyone familiar with India knows, the godforsaken nation is one of the most corrupt places on Planet Earth. Whether it’s a village, small town or a big city, nothing ever happens in India without the […]