The Triumph of Human Spirit

Sidharth(Salaam Namaste) Anand moves a step ahead in his craft. Tara Rum Pum, while retaining all the gloss and glamour associated with Yash Raj Films, is essen...read more

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Just Married - Just Superb!

Finally, in 2007 arrives a film where I didn’t wait for the interval, nor did I fidget around for the end to arrive; where the proceedings on screen were crispi...read more

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Madan Mohan - A Genius

Any superlative falls short of capturing even an iota of the genius music maker that he was. His tunes have survived the onslaught of time, in more ways than on...read more

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Dharma Cola

What is dharma(duty)? Is it the constricted definition passed down from the Mahabharata ages in the form of Eklavya’s story(who cut his thumb to please his pseu...read more

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A Yawn Effort

Salaam-E-Ishq Saw the film first day first show: a first in my life! Unfortunately, the film is a damp squib, and despite a fabulous star cast falls much short ...read more

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Average Timepass

Despite some obvious flaws, Reema Kagti’s debut venture about six couples is quite crisp and crackling and a giant leap forward from the tedious Salaam E Ishq, ...read more

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Music That Entices

While the nation looses control over Rahman’s frothy Rang De Basanti score, his quiet and serene Water languishes away in oblivion. I am not a Rahman fan, but h...read more

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My Take on UMRAOJAAN's music

Let’s face a few facts squarely in the face - it was an arduously tough act to compose songs for a subject whose previous version is still fresh in the minds of...read more

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Favorite Songs - 2004

10.*Dil de diya hai jaan tumhe denge *(Masti)-That such a song would be in this double-entendre filled slapstick comedy was quite surprising; & that ARajAnand c...read more

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Favorite Songs of 2003

No.10 Seemayen Bulayen- LOC You cannot better what you have achieved the best once. This maxim was proven with finality in this film. None of the songs could su...read more

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A Singers' Delight

Madhur Bhandarkar attempts a true blue musical in his film on glamour and the glamorous; for this, he has unexpectedly chosen a relatively new Shamir Tandon, ra...read more

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Sometimes There Are Free Dinners

There is a common English saying - “There are no free lunches in this world!” But I realized that there could be some free dinners sometimes! It all started on ...read more

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