A lot of students face problems in the General Awareness / Business Awareness / General Knowledge section of MBA entrance exams like XAT, IIFT and SNAP. That happens because they start “preparing” for it once they are done with their Quant, LR/DI and Verbal prep (sometimes even after CAT) – which is often too late. […]

As kids under the age of sixteen headed out to play in their jerseys for the finals of the Mumbai Schools Sports Association (MSSA) boys’ Under-16 football division one finals at Mumbai’s Azad Maidan, the excitement was palpable on their faces. Devoid of any other thought, these kids gave their all to the game. Ultimately, […]

State home minister RR Patil will be pleased to know that college students have now joined the moral policing brigade. A few days ago, about 70 students belonging to different Rotaract Clubs got together and gheroed couples who were sitting along the seafront in Bandra. They held placards which read: ‘Kuch toh sharam karo, yeh […]

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is the first installment in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit Trilogy—the much awaited prequel series to the ubiquitously acclaimed The Lord of the Rings Trilogy—based on J. R. R. Tolkien’s 1937 fantasy novel The Hobbit, or There and Back Again. The trilogy’s second and the third installments viz. “The Hobbit: The […]

Pedro Almodóvar’s Broken Embraces (2009) is a strange yet intriguingwork of cinema. A heartbreaking tale of love, Broken Embraces highlight’s the Spanish filmmaker’s love for filmmaking as well the medium, which is underlined by the following line spoken by the movie’s protagonist: “No, what matters is to finish it. Films have to be finished, even […]

Inkaar (which translates to “Refusal” in English) is a 2013 Hindi film written and directed by renowned Indian filmmaker Sudhir Mishra. Inkaar stars Chitrangada Singh and Arjun Rampal in the lead roles. While this is the third Sudhir Misha film that stars Chitrangada Singh in the lead—the other two being Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi (2003) and […]

Dead Man presents the bizarre journey of a meek, naive young accountant who, after getting haplessly entangled in a deadly maelstrom, goes through an intellectual and spiritual transformation that changes his life forever. While any typical road movie could have served as an effective vehicle for the propagation of this quaint tale, Jarmusch defiantly opts […]

The Master is the latest film by American filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson. The movie comes after a gap of five years following Anderson’s highly successful outing in There Will Be Blood (2007). The Master stars Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams in pivotal roles. Anderson is one of the few commercial filmmakers alive […]

Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino’s This Must be the Place is a beautiful film featuring an exceptional performance from Sean Penn. A casual viewer is ought to look upon it as a cocktail of a road movie, a detective movie and a Nazi-criminal-hunt movie. But a keen viewer would be able to see through this facade […]

Man of Steel is the first installment in the much-anticipated “Superman” reboot helmed by American filmmaker Zack Snyder. The movie marks the return of the DC Comics iconic superhero to the celluloid after a seven- year-long hiatus following the abysmal show of Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns (2006). Co-written by David S. Goyer and Christopher Nolan, […]