The Damned United : Movie Review

Cast: Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, Stephen Graham, Jim BroadbentWriters: Peter Morgan, David PeaceDirector: Tom HooperI don't normally review Hollywood movies but I do have a great liking for British cinema. After his amazing performance as TV broadcaster David Frost in Frost/Nixon, Michael Sheen plays yet another real-life personality, legendary British football manager, Brian

Secrets of a long life

I work in a life insurance company and we recently got the results from a number of studies about the rates of mortality in the UK we had ordered. These are particularly important when we have to price life insurance policies, calculate a capital reserve for them and various other things. It also makes for fun reading to know how certain living habits can make a difference to how long you live

Dev - D : Movie Review

Cast: Abhay Deol, Kalki Koechlin, Mahi Gill, Parakh MadanMusic: Amit TrivediWriters: Anurag Kashyap, Vikram MotwaneDirector: Anurag KashyapDev-D is an adaptation of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's famous tragic love story, Devdas. If Sanjay Leela Bhansali stuck to the original and gave it all the splendour a modern budget of Rs500m could afford, Anurag Kashyap, the controversial director of Black

Pope in AIDS controversy

Recently, I was shocked to read on a news website that the Pope, on his way to Cameroon for a mass, declared that "HIV/Aids was a tragedy that cannot be overcome by money alone, that cannot be overcome through the distribution of condoms, which can even increase the problem". Oh dear...The religious leader of almost a billion people around the world and 20% of Africans suggested that use of

Luck By Chance : Movie Review

I finally got around to watching Farhan Akhtar starrer, 'Luck By Chance' which is written and directed by Farhan's sister, Zoya Akhtar and I must say, my hefty expectations were met and exceeded! The movie is about a young hopeful's foray into the incredibly competitive and congested world of Bollywood where the laws of the jungle apply. You might think that the storyline about achieving fame

Sita Sings The Blues: The Review

I am a huge fan of animated movies. In this day and age, animated movies do not target kids only but adults also. Although the usual Disney/Pixar and Dreamworks movies are more known and marketed, there is a niche of independent movies out there which continue to dazzle and ‘Sita sings the blues’ is one of them. Recommended by a very knowledgeable friend of mine (Adarsh), ‘Sita Sings The

Mauritius 2030

When our tiny island of Mauritius acceded to independence on that fateful day of the 12th of March 1968, exactly 41 years ago, probably no-one would have imagined the economic and social miracle which would unravel. It has not been all rosy though. In the 21st century, Mauritius has been facing new challenges, ranging from economic to security challenges and without forgetting political

Delhi-6: The Review

Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra has done it again. A few years ago, he burst onto the Bollywood scene with the dark thriller Aks which reinvigorated Amitabh Bachchan's career, resulting in a Critics' Filmfare Award for Best Actor in 2001 and in 2006, came up with the mind-blowing Rang De Basanti which redefined patriotism in the world's biggest film industry and bagged 7 Filmfare Awards. Mehra comes