The Wall Project: Boycott Aladin, Canvas, Gair & London Dreams For Boorish Publicity Actions

About two months back, I wrote about the exciting experience of being part of The Wall Project in Mumbai. A BMC initiative, a number of citizens turned out to beautify and place their own mark on the wall running along Tulsi Pipe Road, between Mahim and Matunga Road.
Yesterday, we commenced on Phase II of the [...]

Animals Are People Too!: Review of Bolt

Thursday, 25 June 2009, 19:48 | Category : Spectator, X-Desicritics, X-post
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I’m not a dog-lover. In fact I am not even an animal-lover, though I could fairly tolerate a cat’s company. It’s not that I have anything against them, animals just never touched me. I’m a people-person, not an animal-person.
But what if animals were people too, just on fours and oh, with paws and fur instead [...]

Fear’s New Address Is Not 13B

Thursday, 12 March 2009, 17:26 | Category : Spectator
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Flush with the success of my earlier movie plan which turned out such great results, I decided to go one extra and spice up my next movie outing as well. So, I proposed ‘Kitsch is Kool’. The idea was to do something unusual with a touch of whackiness, all in the name of entertainment. I [...]

Pink Diamonds And Jade

Wednesday, 4 March 2009, 17:30 | Category : Spectator, X-Desicritics, X-post
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After a spate of Pudinhara-inducing movies like Valkyrie (heavy: good but seriously serious) and Dilli 6 (does this city produce anything palatable??), I decided I really needed something different. So underlining my pukka suburbanite status with Vodafone Tuesdays, I found myself in a multiplex late last night, watching Pink Panther 2.
The movie was just what the [...]

Upside-down

Wednesday, 9 July 2008, 13:02 | Category : Citywatch, Mumbai metblogs, Roving I, Spectator, X-post
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See anything interesting?

Look closer.

The funniest part is that this is the second one that I spotted within 20 minutes. I thought the earlier one was a mistake but two? Am I missing something?

One Little Thing – I Miss You

Sunday, 17 February 2008, 17:56 | Category : Citywatch, Reflections, Spectator
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Sunday afternoon screening of Choti si baat. Associations aplenty.

Iago

Sunday, 1 July 2007, 13:52 | Category : Heard-Felt-Thought-Did
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Heard: The theme song of Omkara
Felt: Like a mouthful of pepper laced with honey
Thought: Lies, it was all lies…save this one
Did: Blamed it on PMS and the rains