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Hari Puttar Movie - A Comedy of Terrors

Oct 1st, 2008 | By A Ash | Category: Reviews

 Posted by: Shilpa Jamkhandikar (Reuters Blog)

Warner Brothers did get one thing right.
‘Hari Puttar - A Comedy of Terrors’ does have similarities to a children’s film - not ‘Harry Potter’, but ‘Home Alone’.
A child alone at home, two bumbling goons out to get him and whole scenes lifted from Chris Columbus’s very popular Home Alone.
Unfortunately, neither does [...]



Celebrate at Celebrations

Sep 20th, 2008 | By Jairam Mehtha | Category: Featured Story, Reviews

If its raining or hot, don’t bother to go to Celebrations. Its a roof top restaurant located at Road No.1, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad.
  As you can see from the photographs, the restaurant provides a spectacular view of Hyderabad at night.
As we entered the restaurant plot, which was extraordinarily decorated with plants, small ponds, great lighting and [...]



Bollywood’s ‘Last Lear’ a treat for Shakespeare lovers

Sep 17th, 2008 | By A Ash | Category: Reviews

By Shilpa Jamkhandikar
MUMBAI (Reuters) - It’s not about Shakespeare and not based on “King Lear,” but fans of the Bard may find traces of both in a new Bollywood film set in modern-day India.
Amitabh Bachchan, Bollywood’s biggest star, plays a reclusive stage actor in “The Last Lear,” one who quotes Shakespeare with relish and is [...]



Shantaram - An adventure you should read

Sep 11th, 2008 | By A Ash | Category: Reviews

 I have recently started reading the book called Shantaram. Its written by Gregory David Roberts, an armed robber, escaped heroin addict, an adventurer and a great writer.
Shantaram is, quite simply, the Arabian Nights of the new century. Anyone who loves to read has been looking for this book all their reading life. Anyone who [...]



Adventure into Ohri’s Serengeti

Sep 9th, 2008 | By Jairam Mehtha | Category: Reviews

by Jairam Mehtha
So yesterday, I ventured into Ohri’s Serengeti Restaurant at Road No. 12, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad for dinner with my family. As we zoom into the front of the building, lot of vehicles are present waiting for it to be parked by the valet. Soon after I pulled in, a valet comes to the [...]



Welcome to Hyderabad City Center Mall

Sep 7th, 2008 | By Jairam Mehtha | Category: Featured articles, Reviews

If you are in the mood for shopping, games, some light reading and good food, then you wil enjoy City Center located in Banjara Hills, Hyderabad.

 

We wanted to buy computer accessories, groceries, books and some clothes for kids. So my spouse went to big bazar and my kids headed down to Crosswords bookstore for browsing [...]



A Wednesday-Hindi Movie Review

Sep 7th, 2008 | By A Ash | Category: Reviews

A Wednesday - Movie Review
by Amit

Source: http://mashedmusings.wordpress.com/
There are some movies which make you stand up and clap. Movies which stand out as examples as to how powerful the medium of Cinema can be. Movies which symbolise our times and go down in the history as cult movies. A Wednesday is one such movie.
Quite frankly, when I woke [...]



Peek at your Email with Peek

Sep 6th, 2008 | By A Ash | Category: Featured articles, Reviews

Source: http://www.getpeek.com
Forget Blackberry, try Peek. It claims to be the first device designed for and dedicated to your mobile email. Its lightweight and its slim design makes it easy to take it with you wherever you go. It has large color display, full keypad and simple menus to use email functionality.

Peek’s Features:

Large, color screen makes it [...]



Bite into Big Byte

Aug 27th, 2008 | By Jairam Mehtha | Category: Reviews

by Jairam Mehtha
If you are in the mood for munchies and you are around Srinagar colony in Hyderabad, without hesitation visit BigByte. Why? because they have great Chicken Burger, Donuts, Somosa , cakes and much more.
And if you feel like killing sometime, you can get a fresh juice from the vendor outside [...]



Featured Bachna Ae Haseeno Movie Review

Aug 22nd, 2008 | By A Ash | Category: Reviews

by MovieJini
The movie Bachna Ae Haseeno is produced by big banner Yashraj Films and is directed by Siddarth Anand hence there are great expectations, but just to keep you informed there has been an attempt to make the film different, but yet seems to have resemblance to [...]