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   Katrina Kaif – A Meteoric Rise  After the marriage of Ashwariya Rai with Abhishek Bachhan there was some unexplained decline in the popularity of Ash “the most beautiful woman on earth”. It appeared that probably Deepika Padukone will fill the void. But quite unexpectedly it was Katrina Kaif that became suddenly popular. Today she is dominating [...]

A Great Western of all Time The Good the Bad and the Ugly (1966) is my all time favorite spaghetti Western movie. I have seen it several times but I do not get tired of seeing it all over again. Apart from its cinematography it’s the music of the film that keeps me spellbound each time [...]

It is one of Indian Cinema’s tragic ironies that a sensitive and poetic film like Teesri Kasam(1966) sank without a trace indirectly leading to its producer lyricist Shailendra’s death due to stress of financial problems caused by the failure of the film. The irony is even more so as today the film is recognised as [...]

         Kids are excited all over the world!  ‘Transformers 2’ has been released around the world including India. Finding the name of Steven Spielberg as the Executive producer I too became interested in the film and was forced by my kids to accompany them to a local cinema theater and watch the movie the very first [...]

   Gregory Peck (1916-2003) is my favorite male star from the yesteryears movies. Peck’s first film, Days of Glory, was released in 1944. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor five times, four of which came in his first five years of film acting.Personally I liked The Guns of Navarone (1961) and The [...]

She was born in California in 1972, at the age of 16 she became a fashion model. After finishing her high school she went to Japan for modeling work and returned to USA. Next few years her modeling assignments took her around the world working on contract basis with many major corporations. This 5’ 9” [...]

The movie Narnia (2005) was released in the theaters and I did not take any notice. I did neither read anything about the movie, nor was told by anyone about this film. It came and went away. Sometime back I happen to just watch it on Star Movies and I was startled. I was thinking [...]

Only three films have won eleven Academy Awards- Benhur, Titanic and The Lord of the rings. I have had the opportunity to see the first two. Both these films were made in grandest possible manner. Titanic was about a ship sailing from Liverpool to New York in 1912. This ship was a symbol of what man [...]