It tugs at your heartstrings. It makes you reach for the tissues. It makes you laugh. It makes you happy. And you go back home with a lesson for life. That’s the remarkable effect of Aamir Khan’s new film. Taare Zameen Par celebrates good cinema and at the same time, takes joy in rebelling against…
The media breaks a good story, starts a new campaign, but midway loses steam. There goes the real impact of those stories. Take the recent Bangalore campaign by The Times of India to depict the sorry state of roads in the city. It ran for just about a week and stopped abruptly. Not that the…
Just came back after watching TZP and can’t help the eyes welling up everytime i recall the story of a dyslexic child. There are many memorable scenes in the film. It’s a must-watch film that should be made tax-free across the country pronto, so that everyone gets to see the film. Every school should organise…
I saw him the first time with Raveena Tandon at Windsor Sheraton’s Jolly Nabobs. It was the premiere of Arjun Sajnani’s film Agni Varsha. I didn’t know the guy sitting next to Tandon was Samir Singh, who took the place of Mark Mascarenhas at WorldTel. A few days later, a chance telephonic conversation with Prasad…
If you’ve read Sue Townsend’s Adrian Mole series of books, you will know where I am coming from. Her works are a series of diary jottings maintained by a boy who is aged 13 3/4th years… her later books talk about his notings in his adult years and so on. Here is my interpretation of…
