Factors behind the supreme success of Marvel Cinematic Universe Films

Among the superhero-based feature film universes, it won’t be wrong to say that Marvel Cinematic Universe’s films has replicated their comic counterpart’s model of a thoroughly shared universe on screen and in doing that Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has set an unparalleled example for other studios producing similar films to …

Batman Vs Superman : Height of Story-less Blockbusters

Back in Aug 2013, I guessed that the main issue with Batman Vs Superman would be Zack Snyder. And oh boy! I was so right. The legacy of The Dark Knight Trilogy ruined by DC themselves by pumping out movies without real stories. Batman Vs Superman : Height of Story-less …

Save Yamuna

I read yesterday on DND Flyway, Save Yamuna, Save Delhi. And I am still laughing. It should actually read Save Yamuna, Save Delhiites. If you haven’t got what I mean, read this by George Carlin. “There is nothing wrong with the planet. Nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is …

The Private College Engineers: How the Indian Govt. fooled our parents

You know, I liked science, I wanted to study it. I studied it. I got the Engineering degree although I don’t consider myself an engineer. I am currently in the Project dept. where I do simple numeric calculations on excel-sheets and write emails all day. That’s not science, at least, …

Dilli 6

You know when you have been born and brought up in Old Delhi, it kind of gets to your head. The PM flows the national flag in your backyard, the President comes to watch Ramleelas at your cricket grounds, filmmakers like Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra makes big-budget movies in your narrow …

An UnCooked dish: Finding NaMo (2014 post)

Finding NaMo NaMo lost the 2014 Indian Lok Sabha elections. This defeat made him very-very angry at his fellow countrymen and women. He left for the Himalayas. There he became the president of Bhutan and attacked India. He lost the battle as India was led by RaGa. Sad and aloof, …

The Journey Home

My mom once asked me, why are you leaving everything, your career, your job, your home? What did this, which dreamy-eyed movie did you see, which artist caused this? In 2001, during my school holidays for 10th Pre-boards, I used to listen to stories from my grandmother, stories of what …

Indian Film Industry

In 2010, when I was in deep internal conflict, I asked my friend Manish Bhoj, who I fondly call Narayan (because he has all the answers; yes, all of them), to answer this question: Why is the Hindi film industry producing so many crap movies? And he answered in an …