Of recent times, there is compelling social pressure to try new restaurants in the extremely active culinary market of Mumbai city. I have to very strongly ‘scrooge’ this and advocate sticking to the tried & tasted (pun intended duh). And for good reasons. First, we struggle to import ingredients that are not typical to our [...]
Archive for March, 2010
My top 10 Mumbai eateries
Posted in Food, Lifestyle, tagged Food, Food in Mumbai, Mumbai, Mumbai restaurants, Places to Brunch, tourist tips on March 26, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Love, Sex and Dullsville
Posted in Bolly bella, tagged Bollywood movie reviews, bollywood reviews, Dipankar Banerjee, Love Sex anr Dhokha, movie reviews on March 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »
There is something highly prophetic about the opening lyrics of the title track of the film Love, Sex aur Dhokha (LSD) – “Tujhe goli maarunga” or in English, “I’ll shoot you”. I so wish I had been shot before I watched this inane film that is full of  offbeat cliches, meant for shock effect. All [...]
The other side of 3 Idiots: Gulaal
Posted in Bolly bella, tagged Anurag Kashyap, Bollywood movie reviews, Gulaal, movie reviews on March 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
For a film that was released in 2009, I should have been more punctilious to have commented on it earlier. However, better late than never. Dusted the cling-wrap off the DVD of the film Gulaal, which has been in my pile off “must get around to watching” films. While I think the story and its [...]