More than a quarter-century has passed since Oliver Stone’s electrifying ‘Natural Born Killers’ first thundered onto movie screens for the first time, alighting a hurricane of controversy. By the nineties, […]
“Doing something great is overrated because then people expect that from you all the time. What they don’t realise, is you’re as screwed up as they are”. ~ Mare Sheehan, […]
Mistakes. If the life of a human being has to be summarised in one word, it would be – mistakes. Since biblical times, our actions or inactions are often labelled […]
In the year 2001, which now feels a lifetime ago, I had appeared for the IIT JEE entrance examination. Thanks to the inherent herd mentality, everyone in the study group […]
‘Karnan’ opens with a young girl lying on a road suffering from an epileptic fit and on the brink of death. Lorries and Buses pass by, but no-one stops. She eventually […]
On the breakfast table, a guest asks Sandeep about the fluctuations of the stock market to which her landlord rather snidely remarks that a lady who handles the customer service […]
Jared Leto has always been a sublimely gifted actor, from his early work in ‘Fight Club’ (1999), his doomed drug addict in the electrifying masterpiece ‘Requiem for a Dream’ (2000), […]
The complexities of the human brain have always perplexed scientists. Per them, the human brain is capable of many superlative feats and the average human uses only 7% of it […]
Covid-19 has rendered the world inoperative. In a year where a single strain of the virus, caught the whole world off guard and forced it to its knees, mankind learnt […]
Robert Redford, always a political activist, bought the rights to the book written by the two reporters who exposed Watergate, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. He knew in his gut […]
Sidney Lumet’s lacerating black comedy, ‘Network’, which is also a cautionary film about the power of television seemed to see far into the future with blistering clarity, exploring how reality […]
The old fashioned credits begin and over them we hear solemn music, then a solitary horn, lonely and mournful, foreshadowing what J.J. Gittes (Jack Nicholson) will feel by the end […]
The axe forgets but the tree remembers. This African proverb aptly sums up the motif that runs through the whole duration of ‘Taish’ – Revenge. It’s a sordid tale of […]
There’s a saying – “Man proposes, God, disposes”. In simple words, it means that despite the best of choices, it’s the fate of the man that decides what happens in […]
