Allô Chatrath

   

 I have been a fan of actress Sanya Malhotra. (Farrukh Jaffar Paggliat Badhai Ho Minakshisundaram Sam Bahadur: She was wasted in a very routine role.  'Photograph' was her first film that I saw. She was in a de glamourised role. She remains serious throughout the film and hardly speaks, except once when the old lady asks her to smile for a photograph. But she does not let her co-actor and senior Nawazuddin Siddiaqi over shadow her even once. My favourite scene in the film was when she and Nawazuddin touch each others hands for a few brief seconds. Kathal was a slap-stick comedy with a serious message. She, as a junior police officer performs her role with great gusto.  Mrs. inauguration in Australia in a ridiculously loud dress.

I visited Hoi-An in 2019.  Hội An is a city on Vietnam’s central coast known for its well-preserved Ancient Town, cut through with canals. The former port city’s melting-pot history is reflected in its architecture, a mix of eras and styles from wooden Chinese shop houses and temples to colorful French colonial buildings, ornate Vietnamese tube houses and the iconic Japanese Covered Bridge with its pagoda

  I am a fan of Stephen Spielberg. Over two decades back I saw his mini-series ‘Taken’ on the TV. It is about aliens who abduct some selected humans for short periods and then send them back to earth. There are a number of plots and sub-plots which are woven around the experiences of three generations. But here I am going to mention two parts from the series which impressed me a lot.   The first is the way Spielberg introduces an alien for the first time. One sees a fleeting movement of an alien running around in one corner of the screen. So the viewer is prepared to see the aliens later on, even though their presence on the screen is for very short spells of time. The subtlety with which aliens are portrayed is noteworthy.   The second part relates to a young girl aged around 7, who gets introduced in the last two episodes. She is Dakota Fanning. She carries every scene in which she is shown with amazing aplomb and self-confidence..   I subsequently sa...

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