A majority of Schengen countries have outsourced the visa-issuance service to VFS Global Joint Visa Application Centre. The VFS visa centre in Paddington’s Battleship Building can leave you feeling exhausted by the end of the process.
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Vikramaditya Motwane’s Lootera is beautiful but soulless. His debut effort Udaan moves me to tears every single time. Lootera too is heart-breaking in its own way -- the film he might have made if greater care was taken in telling a story with feeling rather than merely painting a pretty canvas! Read more
iTadka.com, the online Indian grocery store for UK Indians holds the promise of providing you with Indian vegetables, fruits, groceries, masalas and sundries so you don’t miss home or, more importantly, home food, much. But the actual shopping experience – ranging from site navigation through to doorstep delivery is not as sizzling as the name itself. Read more
Zombie is a term often "figuratively applied to describe a hypnotised person bereft of consciousness and self-awareness, yet ambulant and able to respond to surrounding stimuli”, according to Wikipedia. Read more
Sai Paranjpye has been conspicuous by her absence from the hullabaloo around her 1981 cult comedy Chashme Buddoor. You can speculate on her reasons though the obvious one that comes to mind is the very idea of remaking a film that’s still so fresh, both in content and treatment, and then handing it over to David Dhawan. Read more
Udupi vegetarian restaurant Sagar on King Street in Hammersmith offers authentic South Indian cuisine and is ideal for a quiet meal for two who prefer something more upmarket than fast food chains but still something very reasonable and palatable. Read more
There is a human face to every tragedy––even the most violent and horrific ones. A filmmaker has the right to choose his stories and the points-of-view from which he narrates them. For instance, Ramgopal Varma may have a greater fascination for the ten terrorists who landed in Mumbai on 26/11 than any of their victims or those who tried to capture them. Fair enough. Read more
Clean and hygienic atmosphere, reasonable prices, authentic South Indian food. Basically, Southall’s Saravana Bhavan is a vegetarian Indian food-lover’s popular go-to joint. Read more
Despite its thoroughly entertaining exposition and great period detailing (the computer/mobile-free ‘80s with just two state-manufactured cars, HMT watches and all the inconveniences of the License Raj!), something about Neeraj Pandey’s Special 26 left me feeling disturbed. Read more
Three destinies tied together by a name. That’s the premise of Bejoy Nambiar’s David. His first, Shaitan, had reminded me of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Amores Perros for its lament on human civilisation and modern cities where everything has eroded––love, family, trust, but above all, humanity itself. Read more
