Jhing Chik Jhing – a peek
January 15, 2010Jhing Chik Jhing – the Marathi film that my company Cogito Entertainment produced – is ready. It was part of the panorama at the Pune International Film Festival (PIFF) on Wednesday – and ran houseful to an appreciative audience. The last year…
A “Perfect Widow”
January 14, 2010Once again my eye chances upon something that induces your my jaw to hit the floor and come back up in very, very slow motion. The world’s largest selling English language daily in association with the owner of an IPL team bring…
Distorting reality ?
January 5, 2010From the ToI – sometime last year When Sonia Gandhi hid her tears and despair behind those famous dark glasses and sat still like a nun at prayer, the embalmed body of her husband Rajiv Gandhi on a hot May afternoon of…
One Line Review – Avatar
December 28, 2009One Line Review – The Day the Naxals won ! summary – on a planet far far away, computer generated ancient people – who live as one with nature – face off against wicked humans who want to mine a rare metal…
26/11 – just another date….
November 26, 2009November has been an eventful month in terms of remembrances. So much so that i have forgotten half the things that we are supposed to remember. The most noise however, was for Nehru’s & then Indra Gandhi’s birth anniversary, the Babri Masjid…
Bal Thackeray Commits Blasphemy – Questions & Attacks God .
November 16, 2009There is no better sign of a party losing all signs of perspective than to attack Sachin Tendulkar on the eve of his 20th anniversary. Which is essentially what Balasaheb Thackeray did. Thackeray said his “friendly advice” to Tendulkar was that he…
The Eight Step Path to Kick Start Your Political Career
November 15, 2009Over the last year, I met many people who wanted to enter politics. Students, CEO’s, Social Activists and the rest. I have been giving some sort of general gyaan on the how’s and the what’s of politics – especially building core support groups and…
A Nightmare
November 12, 2009Sometimes, the mind is a dangerous place to get lost in.it is a place where time & space are elastic and past, present and future co-exist without any issue.And it is even more scary when that manifests itself as an almost lifelike,…
Review – Saga of the Swamp Thing
November 5, 2009I have been, for long, a huge fan of Alan Moore -the British Comic writer – who has shaped the form that comics have taken since the 1980’s. The 1960’s and 1970’s were the time when comics in general, and super hero…