Jabberwock

I’m very pleased with my DVD of Ernst Lubitsch’s 1932 classic Trouble in Paradise. Apart from the main feature – a lovely, elegant romantic comedy that provides immediate evidence of the fabled “Lu...

And while on pets, here’s the new addition to our family.Looks coy and innocent but she's very street-smart, being one of the pups I mentioned in these posts. After the last of her siblings got ado...

On NDTV’s pet show Heavy Petting, Tusshar Kapoor and Raima Sen try to get their dogs to be friends.Raima: Okay, Tusshar’s dog is a boy-dog and my dog is a girl-dog and we’re going to see if they li...

[Paul Newman died yesterday. Here’s a profile I wrote for the New Sunday Express early last year, when he had just announced his retirement from acting. I wasn’t very happy with the piece – would’v...

[This Q&A with Alice Albinia is a companion piece to this earlier post about Empires of the Indus. It should have been more detailed but I discovered after the interview that something had gone wro...

Without comment, here's the synopsis for two consecutive episodes - yes, two full, 30-minute episodes - of Kahaani Hamaaray Mahabharat Ki, as provided on the Tata Sky menu.Aunty asks Radha not to t...

...or new techniques in self-perpetuation. Spotted on a park bench in Saket:

Note to DVD-buyers in Delhi who are interested in “offbeat” cinema (usually defined as anything that isn’t mainstream Bollywood or contemporary-mainstream Hollywood): there’s a much greater variety...

Estragon: Shall we go?Vladimir: Yes, let’s go.They do not move.- Waiting for GodotWhen people ask me why I got out of the office grind and started freelancing, I make the usual noises about not wan...

I liked Rituparno Ghosh's The Last Lear overall, though the ending was somewhat desultory and unsatisfying and I thought some characters should have been better fleshed out. The film establishes it...