Prologue The cricket world cup is upon us conveniently sandwiched between two EPL seasons and while the cricket gazing world is busy, footballing quarters are rife with transfer speculation. Through speculation in theory is pure guesswork, in Footballdom it is decorated with analysis, inside tips, newspaper reports, unattributed sources etc. to give an impression that …
I expected Shakuntala Devi, rather, maybe desiring a break from the current doom and gloom around Corona, I wanted Shakuntala Devi to be a cheerful movie. More like Tumhari Sulu, lighthearted, with my ambassador of smiles, Vidyabalan. To a certain degree, Vidyabalan’s smiling posters for the movie reinforced my expectations. Needless to say, Shakuntala Devi …
Astrology, it is the ‘in-thing’ resurgent since the last decade or two. Top credit should go to our celebrities for turning Astrology in vogue. Celebs donning multiple coloured stones, projects starting with specific letters, famous people changing how they spell their names (guilty!), astro talk shows, all have contributed to this surge. Hard to believe …
‘Dystopia of Abundance’ is what I felt after watching the imagery in the movie ‘Annihilation’ . Dystopia is the favorite theme of most sci-fi movies, however the dystopia is mostly barren, deserted, a jungle of concrete, broken landscape, full of death and misery. In short it is the full cocktail of depressive imagery. Annihilation breaks …
