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Abhinav Bindra’s gold medal winning performance at the Olympics has been a new experience in more than one way for India. Apart from the first individual gold medal in Indian Olympic history ( i.e. if you discount a gold won by an Englishman representing India way back in 1900), Abhinav Bin… Continue

Call it deja vu, but around the same time last year, I went with the same people to the same theatre to watch the same lead pair in an outrageously high-budget movie which to be honest was a dud save for a certain Akshay Kumar's on-screen charisma. That movie of course was Namastey London, a movie most Punjabis put right on top of their 'Must Watch' lists even before its release. The same can be said for… Continue

Question: What is common between the Dragon Emperor and the script of The Mummy – Part III? Answer: Both were best left buried deep beneath the ground where the world was blissfully unaware of them! I fail to understand what the filmmakers were thinking when they made The… Continue

To say that The Dark Knight was merely one of eagerly awaited movies of the year would be a great understatement. With a promotional campaign that could rival Barack Obama's presidential campaign, The Dark Knight had fans, critics and trade pundits convinced that it would be a super hit that would smash box-office records to smithereens even before it was released. I for one though have always been… Continue

I could only fathom two reasons for the amount of campaigning Aamir Khan did before the release of this movie – Jaane Tu...was either a disastrous movie that Aamir was trying to save via a great publicity campaign or the fact that Aamir believed it was that damn good. After watching it, the answer seems to lie between the two extremes. Jaane Tu...Ya Jaane Na is certainly not a l… Continue