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Review: Ron Howard’s Rush
Formula One has the habit of making other sports look absurdly insignificant. What, you run real quick? What, you flog a bit of leather? What, you hit another bloke in the face? Well, I battle gravity and push physics to the limit by hurling myself at the apex of a curve, calculating and strategising about…
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Trailer: Go Goa Gone
Go Goa Gone: In which Raj and DK direct. In which Saif brings the cool. In which I write his lines. (Oh, and did I mention zombies?) ~
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What I love about Mumbai…
The meritocracy. The mania. The home-delivered alcohol. The hours. The fact that we call it Bombay, come what may. The delusion. The complete lack of perspective. The palpable fanaticism about film. The seaface. The honest auto-rickshaws. The dives. The impossibility. The DVD bootleggers. The fanboys. The fact that nobody really cares unless you beseech them…
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The girl with the legs
Aarakshan, out this August, will be Deepika Padukone’s tenth film as leading lady, in less than five Bollywood years. What she lacks in range, she tries to make up with gams and gumption. She’s played a movie star, a cab driver, a blind roller-skater, a freedom fighter and even a half-Chinese Ninja-type. A feature with…
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Guest post: A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
Why a guest-post? On this self-indulgent blog of stuff I write and actually like? Well, because it makes sense. Because it needed a space, and I had a particularly thickskinned one right here. Because it says what needs to be said. Because the anger is real and relevant and relatable. The friend who has written…
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The world’s shortest love story
How romance began, blossomed and withered all in the space of an epic 98. I first saw her at the Arts Centre. The University’s cricket-loving population was sprawled under a giant screen, a distinctly visible demarcation between hundreds in blue and an equal number in green. Actually, I had seen her before — even…
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