Talaash- a search of your beliefs!!!

Author : Aashu      Blog : I IS SOMEONE ELSE      Date : 12/9/2012 11:48:00 AM

'Waiting for a movie from the time since it first made news about its making is a much usual phenomenon for me when it comes out to be one of Aamir Khan's. And during all this waiting, avoiding every other news, previews, stills, scenes, etc is a completely deliberate act for me. For me, watching a movie without knowing a bit of it and being completely unprepared for whatever is coming on to you in the movie is the best preparation that one can have. Being unbiased about the storylin(...)'

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The Picture of Dorian Gray - An Excerpt

Author : Aashu      Blog : I IS SOMEONE ELSE      Date : 10/28/2012 10:08:00 AM

'Starting a novel and not completing it has been my forte since long. There have been one-too-many a novels that I started with full enthusiasm and then could not continue with that due to lack of time or mostly lack of enthusiasm. The start of this year has been a good one to me in this regard and I have, unexpectedly, completed more than a few novels, some in Hindi and others in English. Now only time will tell what is in its store for Oscar Wilde's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'. Go(...)'

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Doctors are not bad always!

Author : Aashu      Blog : I IS SOMEONE ELSE      Date : 5/27/2012 10:32:00 AM

'Waiting for the date of joining and hence some engagements to come it’s hard to pass your time sitting just idly at home. Nothing to do and nobody to meet fills you with utter boredom. Being in such a situation where every day is like a Sunday, you tend to forget the importance of a Sunday and then don’t even wait for one. Things are almost similar to me at this very point of time, yet, I was looking for a Sunday today. The reason, well, was Satyamev Jayate, the TV show. The way it (...)'

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To Kill a Mockingbird

Author : Aashu      Blog : I IS SOMEONE ELSE      Date : 5/25/2012 11:50:00 AM

'Being an Indian and being a movie buff, I have already seen a lot of movies that have been adapted from many other works of art. Mostly they have been (without any reference) taken from a foreign film and hence the use of the word stolen instead of adapted won't be much wrong. However, having said that, there have been quite too many indian movies that have taken a prior work of art as their bases and with due respect and reference too. Movies like Guide (from R.K. Narayan's novel o(...)'

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Riot, A Novel

Author : Aashu      Blog : I IS SOMEONE ELSE      Date : 2/18/2012 3:07:00 PM

'The death of an american women, Priscilla Hart, serves the pretext of Shashi Tharoor's 2001 novel, "Riot, A Novel". Of the many things that is good about this novel, the first and the foremost is the fact that its written by Tharoor. A thoughtful, sociologically precise novel that not only brings with it a great flavour of Indian social stratification, the religionism, the conservativeness of a small Indian town, but also manages to present the very Indianness that lies at the heart(...)'

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The Truth of Truth

Author : Aashu      Blog : I IS SOMEONE ELSE      Date : 2/6/2012 11:06:00 PM

'"You know, there's an old Hindu story about Truth. It seems a brash young warrior sought the hand of a beautiful princess. Her father, the king, thought he was a bit too cocksure and callow. He decreed that the warrior could only marry the princess after he had found Truth. So the warrior set out into the world on a quest for Truth. He went to temples and monasteries, to mountaintops where sages meditated, to remote forests where ascetics scourged themselves, but nowhere could he fi(...)'

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