The Idea-smithy

HT Cafe’s summary of Paa goes as follows:
Auro (Amitabh Bachchan) is an intelligent, witty 13-year-old boy with an extremely rare genetic defect that causes accelerated ageing. Mentally he is 13, but physically he looks five times older. He lives with his mother Vidya (Vidya Balan), who is a gynaecologist. Amol Arte (Abhishek Bachchan), is a [...]

I am not a shopaholic. I’m not, I’m not, I’m not!! And for those of you who gasped in shock/amazement/incredulity (or don’t follow my idea-tweets, here are some of the Confessions of a Shopaphobic:

I don’t hate spending money, it’s the dressing room trials that get me down!
I don’t hate toting shopping bags, but I do [...]

What if you could spend the rest of your life lying back in an easy-recliner chair? What if you never had to lift a finger to work again? What if everything you wanted and needed was at your beck and call, and you literally had to just…ask?
Maybe you’d read a book. Maybe you’d watch television [...]

I’m not usually inclined to writing movie reviews, given I tried it on one of my other blogs and failed miserably to write anything interesting. But I just had to put my thoughts down on this just to remember the funny idea if not the movie.
Seen The Forbidden Kingdom as yet? Or have Iron Man, [...]

Darna Mana Hai…..getting scared is strictly prohibited. Of course I would love to be able to claim that this dictum isn’t valid, because there is nothing that could scare me. “Want to bet?” The movie seems to challenge me as it unfolds into 7 different routes into that murky zone of fear.
A couple of years [...]