Working on the Dubai International Film Festival is as exhilarating as it is exhausting. My main role has been to manage real-time updates from the festival, i.e. live-tweet /Facebook from the event as much as possible. Fun, eh? Anyhoo, with a million things happening at the same time, my responsibilities extended into doing anything needed [...]
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Movie Review: Slumdog Millionaire
Posted in life, movies, opinion, personal, thoughts, tagged Danny Boyle, India, Mumbai, poverty, Slumdog Millionaire on January 30, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I come home from watching Slumdog Millionaire with a lump in my throat. The blatant truth of the Mumbai slums depicted in the film is unsurprising for Indians, yet horrifying all the same. There are a number of off-beat Indian films that shed light on various issues — like Split Wide Open, Water and Salaam [...]
Quote for the day
Posted in movies, thoughts on August 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a starter home. Choose dental insurance, leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose your future. But why would anyone want to do a thing like that?” — from the movie Trainspotting.
Movie Review: Sex And The City ***/*****
Posted in movies on July 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yup, I’ve finally seen it. From a person (urrr…me!) who LOVES the series, and has watched all seasons, multiple times, I was overall disappointed. **(Warning: a few spoilers!)** Firstly, it was just.too.long. 2h15 minutes of forced laughter and focussed “oh, that’s the mushy bit I’m supposed to gush at”, just didn’t cut it for me. [...]
Thoughts on "The Love Guru"
Posted in movies, personal on June 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I recently wrote a post on Gadling about Hollywood and its misinterpretations of foreign cultures, with the just released movie “The Love Guru” as the main subject. It’s created a bit of a hoo-haa with strong arguments on both sides…check it out here.
From Argentina to India to me
Posted in movies, personal, thoughts on May 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Docu-Madrid (a 2-week documentary film festival) has just started and yesterday Boyfriend and I watched 5 films — yes we totally doc-ed out! My favourite was one called Fotografías, which is the autobiographical story of an Argentinean man who has an Indian mother. His mother ran away from her traditional, suppressed household to be free [...]
Quote from Juno (the film)
Posted in movies, personal, quotes on February 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just watched Juno and it’s one of the best movies I’ve seen in a LONG time. It’s hilarious, yet not stupid, meaningful yet not heavy, it will often make you laugh out hard and sporadically make you cry as well. The script is fantastic; every other line was original and had impact. Here is [...]
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