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Salman Rushdie – Midnight’s Children (1980)
Midnight’s children is about India, the new free India born on 15 August 1947 with all its hope for development and progress, dreams of becoming a world power, an ambition to remove all social prejudices, a new order of democracy … in short everything we the people of India dreamed of when the British left for their land, leaving us to govern our own. Rushdie narrates the story through the 1001 children born during the midnight hour in 1947, therefore the title. What’s in store, they are born with magical powers
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Kartography (2002) – Kamila Shamsie
Cartography with K is all about life in Karachi. I remember a conversation with a blog friend, about how she and her sister residing in different cities now, sometimes, map the streets they grew up in as a fancy, a passtime, an exercise of memory, a nostalgia of an earlier life
Kartography |Fiction | Author: Kamila Shamsie |2002| Harcourt, Bloomsbury| ISBN: 0-15-101010-2| Karachi, Partition, Separation, Immigrants, Friendship, Children, Migration, Pakistan|
The God of Small Things (1997) – Arundhati Roy
There is something for everyone in this book. So if you haven’t read it yet, highly recommended. if you don’t like it then I will empathize with you in my bad moods when I hate it
Author: Arundhati Roy| DOP: 1997| Publishers: Random House, IndiaInk|
EAT PRAY LOVE 2006 (Book)
Eat pray love is done and I never saw the end coming so soon. It looked like a continuous journey with Liz Gilbert for eternity, so many pages more…
You’ll love this book because it is about everyday thoughts or everybody’s thoughts compiled as running through the mind of a single individual, that is, Liz Gilbert, the author. And we are happy to empathise. Because this is about all of us, in the different scenes and acts of our lives dealing with our own restlessness, confusions, bliss, cravings, yearnings, urges, dreams, desires; on our way to coming to terms with our reality-dreams-potential equation by patting on the heart saying Allz is Well
EAT PRAY LOVE 2010 (Movie)
Another case of a bad adaption into a movie!
They failed to capture the essence of the book on reel. Extremely slow-paced from the word go, picks up some pace in Italy and then it’s like a rushed day-trip in India and Bali. Call it poetic license, there are a few tweaks in the script… The toothless medicine man, Tutti and Richard are so cute characters, so is the Italian land lady…
Karthik Calling Karthik is an ad film on a big canvas…
I was taken in when that green bean stalk grew up into the skies through the clouds naming itself as the production company and with the presentation of the title of the movie, those letters interchanging with numbers, the suddenness of the graphic made me wonder whether it was happening in reality or in my imagination. Or when the movie was summarized in headless pictures to the tune of the title track right in the beginning, sort of giving us a glimpse of what we are going to get. And as the director has hypnotised his audience with his story, the characters and the plot, we too wait for the call!
If V(idya) B(alan)Corp along with Sunil Malhothra produced the film, R. Balki would have rightly titled it Maa. Because there isn’t any of the bond the subtitle of the film tags it to be in there: the unusual father-son son-father relationship. Except that reality is reversed in Paa.And even the awards don’t lie, the mother and the son got the Filmfare black ladies for their leading roles. The Paa got none!
Imtiaz Ali is no Karan Johar.
One good thing about going for LAK (Love Aaj Kal) was that it reminded me of all those older movies which have gone past, still remembered and recollected while watching scenes from the newer ones…..
Anyways, I have some happy memories of watching LAK because AB and I got loads of time to talk; three hours or a little less (I think it was a short movie, therefore it dragged) straight with little interruption from any other human being in person or through that irritating technology in the form of the mobile phone.
