Reviews of some top books and movies!
Animal Review: A Juvenile Odyssey “Animal,” the latest addition to Indian cinema, leaves much to be desired as it continues the trend of targeting a specific demographic – 25-year-old boys with the maturity level of 5-year-olds. The film revolves around…
I don’t have too much to say about Swing Time by Zadie Smith other than the fact that I was thoroughly disappointed. I have seen the light with Zadie Smith’s writing (White Teeth), but Swing Time was quite a miserable…
Harry Potter is back — and he’s older, wiser, and working in the Ministry of Magic. Okay, no spoilers, and no, I haven’t read the book yet. I have ordered it on Amazon.in, but, surprisingly, it was only after much…
I shall confess: I love suspense thrillers, murder mysteries, and all things noir. While Scandinavian fiction tops my list of guilty pleasures, I am loving the new surge in Bollywood suspense thrillers — from Kahaani to Drishyam to Ribhu Dasgupta’s…
I’ve been reading two books over the last couple of weeks, both by Indian writers, both dealing with life in a middle-class family moving up and down the socio-economic ladder, both in English. But my experience after plunging into the…
In an effort to start reviewing more movies, we begin with the latest movie on our list: Manjhi – The Mountain Man. Like almost everyone else, I already knew that Manjhi is based on the story of Dashrath Manjhi who broke…