Calling all our readers to caption this picture! The wittiest caption will win a fabulous prize! Send in your captions at mailparsitimes@gmail.com by 30th May, 2018. Winner: “Mooi ne randhtaa-sidhtaa avartu hoi toh saru, nai toh chhokra na naseeb ma rojna eeda-pav!” – By Darayus Kavarana
Salsa-lovers will be thrilled to enjoy the live performance by globally reckoned Salsa prodigy, Michael Stuart, next month, presented by NCPA under ‘Michael Stuart Asia Tour’. Known as one of the most versatile singers in the Latin music industry globally, Stuart is the protégé of the famous singer Marc Anthony, and famous for bringing his…
‘BLAST FROM THE PAST’ ‘Hero vardi se nahi, iraade se hote hain’, with effusive patriotism, is a dialogue early in the film to seemingly justify macho-man John Abraham to star in, and co-produce this film. The film begins with the 1995 botched attempt at India trying to gain nuclear status. Back then, India had sorely…
‘A Lead Tool Too’ Despite the ‘F’ word bandied about liberally in the film, the viewer is regularly reminded that it also stands for ‘family’, which our hero plans to start with his live-in girlfriend Vanessa (Morena Baccarin). The opening credits set the tone for the next couple of hours. After a tragedy befalls Wade…
Genre: Drama Rating: 3/5 108 minutes Director : Harish Vyas In Any Other Language Sometime during the latter part of the film, when the middle-aged couple begin to have their irreconcilable differences, the till then subdued wife utters a cliched but telling remark “Our relationship is nominal, our togetherness even more so”. Set in…
Calling all our readers to caption this picture! The wittiest caption will win a fabulous prize! Send in your captions at mailparsitimes@gmail.com by 16th May, 2018. Winner: Rishi Kapoor: “Tere ‘Angoothey ki rekha’ ne ‘Rekha’ ko Angootha dikha diya!” – by Jimmy and Perin Siganporia (Toronto, Canada)
Agreeing to disagree That Raazi is one of the most noncontroversial spy films to emerge, from this side of the border at least, can be validated by a statement Sehmat’s (Alia Bhatt) Pakistani army-officer husband Iqbal Syed (Vicky Kaushal) makes to his father Brigadier Syed (Shishir Sharma), “We would have done the same in her…
Genre: Biography, Crime, Thriller Rating: 3/5 98 minutes Director: Hanslal Mehta When I had first heard of the film last year, I had assumed it would be akin to a film on the Mafia, since Omerta is the Sicilian code of silence where the captured admit nothing, for fear of retribution on their families. The…
Baap Aur Punya The best known sequence, till now, of Amitabh Bachchan and Rishi Kapoor is of ‘Naseeb’ (1981) where the two cavort to the evocatively sung Mohammad Rafi’s ‘Chal mere bhai’. Now, in ‘102 Not Out’, their sixth collaboration, AB and RK deliver an unbridled comedy, based on the eponymous Gujarati play, written by…
Calling all our readers to caption this picture! The wittiest caption will win a fabulous prize! Send in your captions at mailparsitimes@gmail.com by 9th May, 2018. Winner: “As long as no one tells us ‘Nai Khavai’, we are willing to ‘tolerate’ India’s ‘Nai Jovai, Nai Samjhai and Nai Bolai’ policy!” – By Daisy T. Elavia…
Calling all our readers to caption this picture! The wittiest caption will win a fabulous prize! Send in your captions at mailparsitimes@gmail.com by 9th May, 2018. Winner: Ranbir: Does he know about us? Sonam: I decided to do a ‘Barfi’ on that one! – By Farizeh Kekobad (Kolkata)