You remember some restaurants for the food, some for the hospitality of the staff and some for a great dining experience. Potli, the Indian restaurant on King Street in Hammersmith, scores on all three counts and goes beyond. Read more
English Vinglish Review -- Ignore the cliches of the Mind Your Language-type institute and try looking at life through a woman's eyes for a change. Sridevi's English Vinglish is refreshing, to say the least. Read more
Umesh Shukla's Oh My God! based on his own successful play Kanji Viruddh Kanji, which in turn was inspired by the Australian film The Man who Sued God (for once the makers acknowledge their source) isn't interested in any serious engagement with the question of god's existence or the purpose of human suffering. Read more
Madhur Bhandarkar’s Heroine is another nail in the coffin––while you've been thinking there's no space left to hammer more nails! And it probably isn't the last one either. Read more
It is nearly impossible to translate the subliminal magic of director Anurag Basu’s Barfi! into words. Ranbir-Priyanka-Ileana’s Barfi! is a film to be experienced and surrendered to. Read more
“World events revolve around five things – M-O-N-E-Y" quips Gekkoesque billionaire fund manager Robert Miller (Richard Gere) to CNN on the eve of his 60th birthday in the 2012 Hollywood drama Arbitrage. Read more
Shayona Restaurant located in the grounds of Swaminarayan Mandir (temple) at Neasden London is not your regular low-key, toned-down Indian temple restaurant. It has all the glory of a contemporary and authentic Indian restaurant along with the air of spirituality and serenity. Read more
Anurag Kashyap's Gangs of Wasseypur Part 2 takes off from Part 1 and the saga of absurd violence and relentless homage to Bollywood continues all the way till the gory climax. But the sense of history and of real, pulsating characters seen in Part 1 was missing. Read more
Gangs of Wasseypur is far removed from the gloss and sheen of big cities and equally, the make-believe of Hindi cinema. And yet it doffs a hat to the movies, particularly the 'angry young man' of the '70s who has as much an impact on some of the characters and the milieu they inhabit as it must have had on director Anurag Kashyap himself. Read more
Rajesh Khanna must have known exactly how his obituary would read, regardless of the circumstances of his life and death. Read more
