Ramayana – The Epic
Rama, the hero of the Ramayana, is a popular deity worshipped in the Hindu religion. Each year, many devout pilgrims trace his journey through India, halting at each of the holy sites along the way. The poem is not seen as just a literary monument, but serves as an integral part of Hinduism, and is held in such reverence that the mere reading or hearing of it, or certain passages of it, is believed by Hindus to free them from sin and bless the reader or listener. According to Hindu...
Jumbo
Jumbo is a Bollywood animated movie with voices of Akshay Kumar, Lara Dutta, Rajpal Yadav, Dimple Kapadia and Gulshan Grover. Jumbo is the story of a young elephant called Jumbo and his journey in search of his father who he has never met. Taunted by other elephants because he is fatherless, Jumbo wanders off to find his father who he is told is a war elephant for the king. On his trip, he is captured by a raiding party. While trying to escape, he befriends a boy prince who has been ransomed to...
Double Dhamaal
In director Indra Kumar’s Double Dhamaal, the quartet of Ritesh Deshmukh, Arshad Warsi, Ashish Chowdhry and Javed Jaffrey often stand side by side and have their turns at cracking jokes from scene to scene. If Ritesh stole a few laughs in the previous scene (or at least attempted to), then the next one has Warsi or Jaffrey trying to tickle you. Still further, chal bhai Chowdhry, ab teri bari! And so goes on and on the menagerie of the madcaps, the tomfoolery of the twits. But if you revel in...
13B
In today’s world, the major source of relief, information and entertainment is the TV. So much so, that it has moved up from its modest position of being just another ‘household appliance’ to actually determining the power equation in a family. It is easy to identify the hierarchy in the family depending on who controls the remote control. So what happens when the TV realizes this power and begins to take control? What happens when instead of showing you the facts, the TV,...
Darna Zaroori Hai
Three years ago, Ramgopal Varma triggered off an experiment. He combined six different stories in one film called DARNA MANA HAI. Continuing with the ‘Darna’ series, he narrates six different stories once again in his new outing DARNA ZAROORI HAI. The difference this time is that the six stories are directed by six different directors, unlike the first attempt that had one director [Prawal Raman] calling the shots.
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