(This is not a movie review, but my impressions of The American.)
George Clooney’s The American opens in theatres tomorrow. This is a different kind of a film with sparse dialogs, hauntingly beautiful images accompanied by long stretches of silence and ambient sounds where the background score is used in a sparse and elegant way. That is it: [...]
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By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 31st, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Hollywood Films, People
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 17th, 2010 • Category: Ideas, Infrastructure, Technology, Video, YouTube Videos, silicon valley
The US spends half a trillion dollars on oil every year according to Shai Agassi, founder of Better Place. Some think cheap gas is an inalienable right given by the US constitution quipped Agassi. So, given our nation’s addiction to oil, how do we break out of this habit? What are the alternatives out there? [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 16th, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Hollywood Films, People, Video, YouTube Videos
“I am the most skilled extractor,” says Leonardo DiCaprio in Chris Nolan’s Inception . “You taught me to navigate people’s mind,” DiCaprio says to Michael Caine, his mentor and father-in-law in the film. “The truth is it is Nolan who is the skilled extractor and navigator. It is Nolan who got the best out of [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 3rd, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, Diaspora, India, People, Video
Admit it, you paused for a minute when you read “storys” instead of stories when you saw the title I Hate Love Storys. Why was “Storys” spelt/spelled that way? Was there a missing apostrophe or did someone make a typo when registering the title of the film? Or, maybe it was a deliberate ploy to [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 2nd, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, Diaspora, People, Video
I was really looking forward to watching M Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender. I was curious to see how Shyamalan translates this hugely popular Nickelodeon series into a movie. I was also curious to see The Last Airbender in 3D since that was not in the original plan. You see the success of James Cameron’s [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jun 25th, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, People, YouTube Videos
It was the laughter that caught my attention. Nay, it was the people howling with laughter that caught my attention and had me from the start. You see I was late & therefore missed the first 1o minutes of Grown Ups. That laughter was like a chorus from the audience and continued for the next [...]