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 …
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 …
This is an incident which changed my life. It made me non racist but I started to hate kids severely . Once in the presumed great civil and courteous country of Canada, while I was walking home, pebbles were thrown at me by kids. It was night. I couldn’t see …
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 …
Kapoor & Sons (Since 1921) is the greatest film I have ever watched in a theater wearing a jeans.
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, …
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 …
Mad Max: Fury Road is the best action flick I have ever watched. Probably better than Terminator 2 and Die Hard. And it is also one of the most imaginative films of recent times. It renders you speechless. Best ‘Go Green’ movie released after Avatar.
A friend of mine is very tense these days due to lizard and plumbing problems. He has a phobia of lizards and there is a lizard roaming around in his bathroom these days and also a tap in his bathroom broke. And so, true to form, I didn’t help him …
Whenever people say we are so technologically advanced, I reply “Watch Back to the Future II and see how far behind we are”, we don’t even have hoverboards as of now.
Debating on who was more great Gandhi or other leaders Like Bhagat Singh, Sardar Patel is like debating whether which movie is more great, Rang De Basanti or Lage Raho Munnabhai. In one sentence, both are equally great. So please just move on, and try concentrating on making other great …
This sounds an awful lot like that Arvind Kejriwal joke but here it is. After my engineering, I joined Lanco. I left it in 2.5 years. Joined film industry. Left in 1 year. Joined Lanco again. Left in 1.5 years. Went to Canada to study TV. Left Canada in 1.15 …
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, …
I was talking to a bloke today and I said to him that I write poems in Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu), the lingua franca of most of Northern India and he said to me and I quote, “Don’t say that in Gujarat, they will kill you” and I understood immediately that he …
Comedy is when we say things normal people usually don’t and Drama is when we hide things normal people usually don’t.
I have been working at McDonald’s for the last few days and this is the thing that I don’t understand, why they require it to be so fast? Get a customer in and out in 60 seconds. I bet McDonald’s had only 10-20 customer in the early days, whom they …
Anurag Basu, the film maker of Barfi (AN INDIAN OFFICIAL SELECTION TO OSCARS) lifted Billy Wilder’s whole movie “THE APARTMENT” scene by scene in LIFE IN A METRO and didn’t had the manners and etiquette to even acknowledge it and you send his films to OSCARS….gr8 you A**HO**S…I don’t know …
I saw my first movie on IMAX 3D today and it was The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and I just wanna say that if Peter Jackson continues on this path, he will dethrone the Star Wars prequel trilogy as the biggest disappointments in cinematic history. I am really no one …
I don’t know what the heck is OSCAR SELECTION COMMITTEE OF INDIA…. I can safely tell you people that there is no FILMFARE SELECTION COMMITTEE in USA…. And also if Indian government thinks that Oscar is more prestigious than Filmfare, then don’t bloody submit BARFI! as your submission. It hurts, …
Yesterday The Dark Knight finally rose for me. And though my mind is full of thoughts about the movie I just wanna say that every great movie has a very simple single line plot called premise, Like Sholay had “Thakur ko Gabbar zinda chahiye” or coming back to The Dark …
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 …
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 …
There are some people in India who refuse to let people from other states of their own country work in their state. They say they are immigrants. Aren’t we all? People immigrated to this land from Indus valley where they came from Iran where they came from Africa where they …