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…

From Words To Views: Anatomy of A Scandal

If you have started watching this series by looking at the cryptically interesting trailer then you are not the only one. The series is indeed stylishly crafted with actors and their surroundings pleasing to the eyes. Even the storyline seems to be on familiar territory of a man cheating his wife with his coworker from…

Vinegar Girl By Anne Tyler

Vinegar Girl is a modern take on Shakespeare’s Taming The Shrew by Anne Taylor. Like the original source, this book also has a spinster at its heart who is a bit problematic for her father and then gets eventually ‘tamed’ (sort of) by an arranged suitor. However, unlike the original play, the entire plot line…

From Words To Views: Maid

This is an interesting story of taking a big step and making big in the life. This inspirational tale portrays the true life story of a resilient woman who becomes maid due to the circumstances around her but rises beyond her station with exemplary will. It is the story of Alex who is living with…

From Words To Views: American Crime Story S3- Impeachment

Based on A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President by Jeffrey Toobin, this third season of the famous anthology series takes us to the late nineties during the time of Clinton administration. Rather than concentrating on the administration and governance, this season is all about the…

The Tattooist of Auschwitz By Heather Morris

This is the second book in a month where the book is worthy of the all the praise and hype for making it so famous. ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ is such a remarkable book containing such a fragile and fantabulous love story. Although people have already used cliché to describe its existence, I would simply…

From Words To Views: The Perfect Mother

A French series with limited episodes which talks about the mother daughter relationship in current times. Shuttling between Paris and Berlin but the storyline mainly taking place in Paris, this crisp plot line challenges many misconceptions surrounding the perfect family. Although the focus is more on a mother’s role in establishing such a perfect family…

From Words To Views: The Baztán Trilogy

There are three movies which complete the aforementioned trilogy called The Invisible Guardian (El guardián invisible), The Legacy of The Bones ( Legado en los huesos) and Offering To The Storm (Ofrenda a la tormenta). Coming from the penmanship of the acclaimed Spanish author Dolores Redondo, the first two movies are based on the eponymous…

Mythos By Stephen Fry

Mythos written by Stephen Fry is a contemporary and concise retelling of Greek mythology but with a classical narrative. It doesn’t necessarily travel in a linear manner and sometimes we find similarly named people or places in more than one stories. Having said that, this retelling of classical stories with a relaxed timeline and emphasis…

From Words To Views: The Great Indian Murder

Based on the best selling novel Six Suspects by Vikas Swaroop, this series deals with a murder and tries to trace the murderer with different storylines presented from the perspective of these different suspects. So far so good as the basic plot of The Great Indian Murder follows the base premise of the book on…

The Truth About Melody Browne By Lisa Jewell

Coming from the acclaimed author of The Family Upstairs, The Truth About Melody Browne certainly has all the hallmarks for which Lisa Jewell’s penmanship is famous for. This book has elements of mystery, drama, family dynamics and love to captivate and hold the readers’ attention for almost 300 pages. The story begins in contemporary London…

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…

From Words To Views: The Gift

The Gift is a Turkish series which talks about the origin of humankind and presents interesting ideas with a twist of historical events. It’s no wonder that it has became such a massive hit, not only in its native Turkey but also worldwide. This series is a successful screen adaptation of Turkish novel called Dünyanın…

From Words To Views: Midnight Mass

When a renowned director who is famous for his successful adaptations of supernatural genre books brings Stephen King’s Midnight Mass to life, certainly there are lots of expectations. Happy to note that the screen adaptation of Midnight Mass more or less fulfils these expectations. The story begins in Chicago where a drunk driver is arrested…