Official Trailer: Boy Erased is the second film from Director Joel Edgerton. His first directorial venture, The Gift, was a psychological thriller that had multiple creepy moments. With these two movies I can confidently say Joel is a very good story teller. Boy Erased, adapted from a book, based on true events, takes us through the struggle of a boy and his parents, and how the society reacts around them
Official Trailer: Mad Max: Fury Road is one of those movies where just saying you liked the movie doesn’t cut it. You got to see it to experience it. I have watched this movie so many times, every viewing I find something new. Post Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Mad Max: Fury Road has raised the bar for action movies; it has set a new benchmark. Similar to T1 & T2,
Link to India Growth Story – Progress, Myths, Looking Ahead – 2 of 5 So far, covered Life expectancy, IMR, Child Mortality Rate, and Immunization Reach in previous parts. Let’s take a look at Maternal Deaths, Birth Rate, Total Fertility Rate, and Population in this third installment. Number of maternal deaths, as per World Bank, refers to the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination
Imagine yourself in a new place, where you are not familiar with the local language and culture. A task as simple as ordering food in a restaurant becomes a struggle. While in Suwon, Korea, I did pick a food joint that had pictures in menu card, still it became an ordeal to check the ingredients and get the food I could eat. Only positive thing is I didn’t breakdown similar
Link to India Growth Story – Progress, Myths, Looking Ahead – 1 of 5 In Part 1, I covered India’s progress on Life Expectancy. Let’s move on to IMR and Child Mortality Rate in this second installment. Infant Mortality Rate (IMR), is the number of infants dying before reaching one year of age, per 1,000 live births in a given year. It was ~200 in 1950s. Came down to 35
[SPOILERS AHEAD…] Official Teaser: We get a Tarantino style opening with 4 guys tossing their weapons on the table with fresh blood stains and flesh pieces, wondering what is in store for them in the future, now that they have eliminated the big man. Whatever happens, they decide to stay together. We are not shown the victim. This opening sets the premise for a gripping gangster drama for next 2
[SPOILERS AHEAD…] Official Trailer: Ten minutes in to the movie, there is a sequence where we follow Ram entering the school premise, climbing the staircase, walking through the corridors, entering the classroom, longingly looking at the benches, he shouts that is me looking at his name in the notice board. Director Prem Kumar doesn’t give us intercuts to show the thoughts he is going through. Prem Kumar is not in
If you are reading this on your laptop/desktop/smartphone, you have arrived and a member of privileged lot, upper middle class or upper class in India. Which is good and be happy about. When it comes to India as a nation, if you were like me, you will be confused trying to know how India is doing, have we made progress or regressed. Irrespective of which newspapers you read, news channels
[SPOILERS AHEAD…] Official Trailer: The opening sequence where Pariyan and his friends are taking a bath in a small pond ends with tragic death of Karuppi, the dog. That setups the premise for the movie where in the eyes of dominant caste, even the pets of oppressed castes don’t have a right to live. Rest of the story takes us through discrimination and humiliation Pariyan goes through in and outside
I would love to say I was born with a book in right hand and a DVD in left hand, but that was not the case. Initial years were similar to any other kid growing up in remote villages. My reading started with comics and periodicals (Vikatan, Kumudham, Ambuli Mama). Devoured various comics (thanks to my father’s colleague who had a good collection), got introduced to colorful pages of Phantom,