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Why the blazes are people giving 2/2.5 ratings to Hulla? For me, it was an 8/10 movie. Hulla had me and even my NRI buddy laughing from start to finish, and it did so without insulting my intelligence, which is all I bloody ask of a movie. So why the bally hell are critics on their high horses and their ivory towers and their glass houses dishing out merely average ratings to such an entertaining film? If people can give Om Shanti Om four star ratings for sheer entertainment value, what keeps them from doing the same for Hulla, which had the whole audience I watched it with laughing throughout? I’m sure the ratings would have been higher if this movie had a big name attached to it. Films about the middle class are about as rare as moments of privacy on Big Boss, and …

I’m still running a slight fever as a write this – I have it since the last two days of the Sankalan workshop. The fever could either be due to an information overload or a food and tea overload. We, the dozen plus two chosen writers, were treated to luxury which at least I’m not used to. We’d be taken to the venue, Digital Academy, in an AC minibus, fed breakfast, have a session, then a tea break, then session, then lunch – session – tea break – session – and finally goodbye tea and snakes – I mean snacks. Our hostesses (cum bosses :) Anupama, Arti and Sushmita (more power to women!) declared that they intended to make us at least one or two kilos heavier by the end of the session. Unfortunately for me, who’s struggling to get rid …

In Shallow Hal, Anthony Robbins asks Jack Black, “Would you rather have a girl with half a brain or only one breast?” to which the reply is “Is this breast big?”
 I don’t really know why I wrote that. I was trying to think of a witty analogy to describe my feelings about Ugly Aur Pagli, because the Ugly half, Ranvir Shorey, is expectedly fantastic, whereas the Pagil half, Mallika Sherawat, falls waaaaayyyyyy short of angel-faced Gianna Jun, the heroine of My Sassy Girl.
 For those who don’t yet know, Ugly Aur Pagli is a remake of the Korean film My Sassy Girl, which happens to be one of my all-time favourites. I’m a big fan of the Korean rom-coms that …

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At last!!!!!!! I watched The Dark Knight on the date I�d been waiting for over more than two years now � July 18th 2008! Never have I been more overexcited at any movie before. From the moment I had the tickets in my hand in the morning I was restless the whole day. It felt like I was going to get laid after a 2 year drought or something.
�Boy did I love the film! Yes, the film IS worth all the hype, all the attention it�s got. Heath Ledger, may his soul rest in eternal peace, has done a Bruce Lee�/ Jim Morrison�/ Kurt Cobain. This is the stuff of legends � people …

At last, after about 8 auditions, I finally scored one � a TV ad for Godrej washing machine. The shoot was yesterday. Unfortunately, friends and family members trying to see me will have to watch with their fingers on the pause button. It’s not a blink-and-miss part I’m playing; it’s a miss-even-if-you-don’t-blink.
�I’d reached the audition for this ad at the fag end (no dirty jokes here please) of the second day, which was a good thing, ’cause a couple of my friends had been there on the first and they say it was obscenely crowded. After a roughly 10-15 minute look at what was going on, I played my part and did get smiles out of the casting lady and the other folks who’d come to audition. I never thought I’d get the part, and I didn’t, actually; they cast me in another part. I don’t know if they picked …

I don’t watch horror films ’cause I live alone. At least, that used to be my excuse for the last three years. I had a nice little 3-room first-floor pad all to myself for just 3500 bucks a month in Guwahati. Visitors always asked why I needed such a large place. Well, I couldn’t find a 2-room place in time, that’s all. Unfortunately, even in those days of living alone, I did end up watching quite a few horror films � Dhol, RGV Ki Aag, Buddha Mar Gaya, Fool �n� Final, etc.
I’ll never forget that I watched Bhoot in the very first row of 3 C’s in Lajpat Nagar, Delhi. I think it kind of masochistic to be a horror film fan. Personally, I …

I went for an audition last Sunday. Expecting a long journey and a long wait, I had a heavy lunch, followed by a tall glass of cold coffee to bolster myself up. I took bus number 459 to Mulund. It was a hot day � the rains hadn�t started then � so I had a glass of nimbu pani at the bus depot.
�My final destination was a short auto trip away, but within barely a minute of sitting in the auto, nature started calling � to its destination number two. This sometimes happens to me if I drink a significant amount of coffee or tea without having submitted my full daily quota to Mr Commode in the morning.
�The …