Sanjukta Sharma - Livemint.com
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  • Friday, August 28, 2009
    Posted at 8:43:00 PM
    After watching the 24-minute footage of 'Avatar', the most awaited Hollywood film of the year, I have just one advice for film buffs: Don't watch it in any other format but in 3-D IMAX. It will be released in 2-D too, but the thrill of multicoloured, gargantuan reptiles, lurking about in multicoloured thick forests, leaping out at you with their mouths gaping open is one hell of a thrilling ride. Canadian Hollywood director James Cameron who took 12 years to make this film---all the while developing the Fusion Camera System with Vince.
  • Monday, August 24, 2009
    Posted at 4:03:00 PM
    Elizabeth Gilbert, the spirituality seeker from New Jersey who wrote 'Eat, Pray, Love' just signed up for her next, a meditation on---surprise!---marriage. More specifically, how to make peace with marriage. For those of you who haven't read 'Eat, Pray, Love', it goes like this: It's a travelogue and memoir of a New York jounalist and author who is embittered by a divorce, a rebound romance and severe bouts of depression. At 34, she is in a no-woman's-land sort of a place. So she decides to travel across India, Italy.
  • Friday, August 14, 2009
    Posted at 4:10:00 PM
    Vishal Bhardwaj’s Kaminey has been the most anticipated film of this year. And justifiably so. His earlier works are products of a ripe, evolved imagination—one that gives flight to the ugly, and revels in it. In his two most successful films— Maqbool and Omkara —lurks a thick texture of rot and violence. It is in the air that the bad, foul-mouthed goons and gangsters inhabit. It’s in the milieu, the story, the climate and the temper. Kaminey is no different, although alongside the evil, there’s its equally riveting—and flawed—flipside, the good.
  • Monday, August 10, 2009
    Posted at 10:40:00 AM
    It was a ‘first day, first show’ morning in my neighbourhood theatre. At 10.30am, there were exactly six of us at the counter buying tickets for Ram Gopal Varma’s 'Agyaat'. There were two college-going guys who looked so bored they could have been straight out of their book-keeping and accounting class. There was a couple who stuck to each other, and who was accompanied by a friend who also looked bored because the couple were so into each other that they had nothing to say to her. That girl and I exchanged a few sympathetic glances; after.
  • Thursday, July 30, 2009
    Posted at 1:58:00 PM
    Last week, I had a long conversation with the chief editor of Random House. Our topics of discussion included: the photo of Vikram Seth that Outlook magazine recently published, where he is lying on his back bare-bodied; how the Bandra-Worli sealink has made my life easier; and a book that comes out of the RH stable next year. It's a book I look forward to. Phiroza Parekh, the famous gynaecologist of Bombay writes about her experiences treating infertility and about infertility among Indian couples in general. Why is infertility on the rise.
  • Friday, July 24, 2009
    Posted at 6:49:00 PM
    Since Lounge's very first issue (3 February, 2007) we've debated over how to write about films: who to write about and why; should an actor be profiled just before his new movie releases or after its success/failure; must there be Govinda and Aamir Khan, or David Dhawan and Anurag Kashyap in the same magazine; should a particular kind of film be endorsed by us. These questions are still asked. Every story in Lounge, as you know, needs a good reason to be there. But somewhere along the way, all of us agreed that bad trash Hindi movies like.
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