If you are looking for a thrilling ride with fast paced storyline and superb acting chops, then this is the film for you. Not only it’s has a madcap motley crew but it also hilariously dramatic in almost all the frames. Based on the Japanese novel called Burutasu No Shinzou (Eng: Heart of Brutus), first…
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From Words To Views: Bridgerton (Season 2)
To be frank, I was a bit sceptical about watching this season of the famous series. The promos and trailers all look promising but what was really not motivating me enough to watch this latest season was too much familiar love story between the lead pairs or rather a love triangle. Actually similar storylines have…
कृष्णा सोबती लिखित मित्रो मरजानी
एखाद्या पुस्तकाबद्दल तुम्ही खूप प्रशंसा ऐकावी, त्याच्या उल्लेखनीय असण्याची नोंद घ्यावी पण काही ना काही कारणाने ते पुस्तक वाचायचं राहून जावं असं माझं ‘मित्रो मरजानी’च्या बाबतीत बऱ्याच वेळा झालं. कधी कधी तर हि अतिप्रशंसा पुस्तकाच्या दर्जाबद्दल देखील प्रश्न उपस्थित करते कारण सध्याच्या काळातील ओव्हर हाईप्ड चीजा खरोखरचं तितपत चांगल्या असतील याची काहीही शाश्वती नाही. पण…
सत्य व्यास लिखित बनारस टॉकीज
बनारस शहराची पार्श्वभूमी असलेली आणि मुख्यत्वे बनारस हिंदू युनिव्हर्सिटीच्या हॉस्टेलमध्ये घडणारी हि कहाणी आपल्याला शेवटपर्यँत गुंतवून ठेवते. हि कथा आहे हॉस्टेलमध्ये राहणाऱ्या कायद्याच्या पदवीधर मुलांची आणि त्याच्या केंद्रस्थानी आहेत तीन जिवलग मित्र- अनुराग डे ‘दादा’, जयवर्धन आणि सूरज. यापैकी सूरज या कहाणीचा सूत्रधार आणि नायक; त्याच्या हॉस्टेलमधील आगमनापासून सुरू झालेली हि कादंबरी अखेरीस त्याच्या फायनल…
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness By Arundhati Roy
This is the second fiction work by Arundhati Roy after her brilliantly written ‘The God of Small Things’, but even after all these years her penmanship retains its capacity to enthral the readers. The novel of such an unusual name carries within its pages equally amusing characters and story, The novels opens with the birth…
Valmiki’s Women- Five Tales From The Ramayana By Anand Neelakantan
This is the second book I came across narrating the stories that make the cherished epic called Ramayan which is authored by Anand Neelakantan. Like the earlier book, depicting the details of Ravana’s life, this too successfully manages to capture readers’ attention from the word go. Here the author is specifically talking about the five…
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
Arthur Less wants nothing but an adventure to get over life, love and loss of both- life & love. And how is he going to do that, well with the help of his ingenious plan to have a trip around the world- new sites, new people, new purposes to look forward to one’s days once…
Caste By Isabel Wilkerson
There is a saying in Marathi which roughly translates into English as, Caste is something you can not cast away. We see numerous examples of this in today’s day and age too, well into the second decade of the 21st century. As Isabel Wilkerson points out in this phenomenal book, this social issue has impacted…
महाश्वेता देवी लिखित जटायु
महाश्वेता देवी या त्यांच्या लेखनाच्या अनोख्या शैलीमुळे आणि मुख्यतः ग्रामीण पार्श्वभूमी असण्याऱ्या कथावस्तूंमुळे चिरपरिचित आहेत. त्यांच्या कथा ह्या बहुत करून पूर्वोत्तर राज्यांमध्ये घडतात आणि उपेक्षित, शोषित लोकांच्या व्यथांची गडद छाया त्यांवर पडलेली दिसून येते. उपरोल्लिखित कादंबरी जरी कलकत्ता आणि आसपास घडत असली तरीही कथेच्या पूर्वपीठिकेमध्ये डोकावण्याऱ्या गावांची, वनांची त्यावर दाट सावली आहे. हि कथा घडते…
Christmas At Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve
Same time, two years ago we spent our Christmas holidays in some majestic company. We travelled to Bandhavgarh National Park renowned being the foremost tiger reserve with high concentration of big cats. Although not our first time on a jungle safari, but it was indeed in the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve. So, as it’s well known…
From Words to Views: A Suitable Boy
How you write about the most famous Indian novel of our times? How you build a screenplay out of such massive book? Well, to answer the first question; I’m not here to write a book review of A Suitable Boy. I am here to talk about the screen adaptation of this important literary milestone. As…
The Illicit Happiness of Other People By Manu Joseph
Why Unni did what he did? This question is at the heart of Manu Joseph’s Chacko family tale titled The Illicit Happiness of Other People. It traces lives of Chacko family members- the downward spiralling father Ousep, disturbed Mother Mariamma and perplexed teenage brother Toma. True to his journalistic work and using the trick of…
The Lowland By Jhumpa Lahiri
A book penned by Jhumpa Lahiri is a promise to enter a wonderland of humane tales. This book too traverse into the usual territory of her previous writings- that of lives of immigrant Indians (specially Bengalis) in U.S.A. What makes The Lowland different is it’s venturing into territory of Naxalbari, the uprisings thereafter in Kolkata…
Shodh
After hearing tonnes of praises for this book, I decided to finally give it a shot. And was I happy, yes indeed!! It was such a thrilling ride. This book handles a kind of not so developed genre in Marathi literature world called Historical Fiction. Yes, there are tonnes of books based on historical people…