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JLF2022: How Much Do You Know About Ramayana’s Indelible Impression On Indonesia?
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It was around the end of 9th century, Khanna said, that two magnificent retellings of the Rama tale appeared in central Java.
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JLF2022: Lilly Singh’s Book Club Favourite Neel Patel Talks About Identity
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As the third day of Jaipur Literature Festival’s virtual sessions got under way, Canadian actor-comedian Lilly Singh interviewed American author Neel Patel. Neel’s...
JLF2022: Steven Pinker On The Scarcity Of Rationality And Repercussions Of Cancel Culture
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Canadian-American author Steven Pinker, in an engaging session at Jaipur Literature Festival, opened up about his latest work Rationality: What It Is, Why...
JLF2022: Elif Shafak Says Writers Have To Ask Political Questions, But The Answer Has To Be Left For Readers To Decide
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On the first day of the iconic Jaipur Literature Festival, one of the major highlights of the 29-session-long day was Turkish author Elif...
Against the Ice movie review: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau serves up survival thrills in this tolerable movie
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Against the Ice movie director: Peter FlinthAgainst the Ice movie cast: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Joe Cole, Charles Dance, and Heida ReedAgainst the Ice movie...
Russia-Ukraine War: Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie Among 1000 Authors Who Signed Open Letter Condemning Russian Invasion
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As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues to ravage the east European country, several notable figures from around the world have expressed their...
Upacharapoorvam Gunda Jayan movie review: Tale of a messy wedding
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After Aishwarya Lekshmi-starrer Archana 31 Not Out, another Malayalam film Upacharapoorvam Gunda Jayan is centered around a wedding. Directed by Arun Vaiga, the...
Licorice Pizza movie review: A warm, sunny and pleasurable nostalgia trip
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Licorice Pizza movie cast: Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman, Sean Penn, Bradley CooperLicorice Pizza movie director: Paul Thomas AndersonLicorice Pizza movie rating: 4 stars
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The Lake House that Inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Writings has Been Resurrected to its Old World Charm
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If you are familiar with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s literary work you must know the image that the American author’s work conjures. Fitzgerald’s notable...
Petite Maman movie review: Céline Sciamma’s new film is a whimsical, poignant exploration of grief
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Petite Maman movie director: Céline SciammaPetite Maman movie cast: Joséphine Sanz, Gabrielle Sanz, Stéphane Varupenne, Nina Meurisse and Margo Abascal.Petite Maman movie rating:...
Uncharted movie review: Tom Holland gives it his all in action adventure
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Uncharted movie cast: Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg, Antonio Banderas, Sophia Ali, Tati GabrielleUncharted movie director: Ruben FleischerUncharted movie rating: 1.5 stars
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I Want You Back movie review: Likable Charlie Day, Jenny Slate make this banal rom-com worthwhile
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I Want You Back movie movie director: Jason OrleyI Want You Back movie movie cast: Charlie Day, Jenny Slate, Gina Rodriguez, Scott Eastwood,...
Badhaai Do movie review: Rajkummar Rao, Bhumi Pednekar film hides its core under layers of humour
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Just what makes two people decide to tie the knot? There are marriages of all kinds. Love. Arranged. And Arranged-cum-Love, which happens only...
Looop Lapeta movie review: Taapsee Pannu starrer takes much too long to warm up
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Because he’s the kind of guy who does these things effortlessly, Satya (Tahir Raj Bhasin) manages to lose a bag full of cash....
One Cut Two Cut review: Danish Sait’s dim-witted attempt at tomfoolery is a disaster
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Gopi — a lovelorn, timid man with an outdated fashion sense and a toothbrush moustache — is the latest addition to comedian-filmmaker-actor Danish...
Munich The Edge of War review: World War 2 movie gets bogged down in dull bureaucratic proceedings
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Munich The Edge of War movie cast: Jeremy Irons, George MacKay, Jannis NiewöhnerMunich The Edge of War movie director: Christian SchwochowMunich The Edge...
Bhoothakaalam review: Revathy, Shane Nigam deliver a physiological doozy
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Director Rahul Sadasivan’s horror thriller Bhoothakaalam, which is now streaming on SonyLiv, addresses many of our worst fears. The simplistic setting surprisingly adds...
Unpaused Naya Safar review: Gitanjali Kulkarni, Nagraj Manjule’s shorts stand out in this masked-up anthology
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Unpaused, Naya Safar is better than part one. That’s the good news. The bad news is that it hasn’t fully been able to...
Bangarraju review: Naga Chaitanya plays a man child, Nagarjuna his guardian angel in this sorry excuse of a movie
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Bangarraju is director Kalyan Krishna Kurasala’s follow-up film to his 2015 supernatural thriller, Soggade Chinni Nayana. If you haven’t watched the first film,...
The Tragedy of Macbeth movie review: Denzel Washington is a masterclass in one of the finest films of the year
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The Tragedy of Macbeth movie cast: Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Alex Hassell, Kathryn Hunter, Bertie Carvel, Brendan Gleeson, Corey HawkinsThe Tragedy of Macbeth...
Putham Pudhu Kaalai Vidiyaadhaa review: Amazon Prime anthology is breezy, timely and young
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Amazon Prime Video’s latest anthology Putham Pudhu Kaalai Vidiyaadhaa feels fresh, breezy, and much lighter and grounded than Putham Pudhu Kaali (2020). The...
The Tender Bar movie review: A cliché ridden coming-of-age film, (somewhat) saved by Ben Affleck
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The Tender Bar movie director: George ClooneyThe Tender Bar movie cast: Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan, Daniel Ranieri, Lily Rabe, and Christopher LloydThe Tender...
The Lost Daughter movie review: Olivia Colman deserves another Oscar for Netflix’s elegant Elena Ferrante adaptation
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“Don’t think badly of me,” Dakota Johnson’s mysterious young mother tells the mythical-sounding Leda in the new Netflix film The Lost Daughter. Played...
Murder At Teesri Manzil 302 movie review: Jaw-droppingly bad Irrfan Khan film that was best left unreleased
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Murder At Teesri Manzil 302 movie cast: Irrfan Khan, Ranvir Shorey, Deepal Shaw, Lucky AliMurder At Teesri Manzil 302 movie director: Navneet Baj...
Shyam Singha Roy review: Nani, Sai Pallavi ooze charm in this revolutionary romantic tale
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To fulfill some promises, one lifetime is not enough. And that is one of the themes of Nani’s latest movie Shyam Singha Roy....
Don’t Look Up movie review: Leonardo DiCaprio leads a galaxy of stars in Netflix’s sharp satire
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Don’t Look Up, director Adam McKay‘s latest star-studded satire, makes a plea for the protection of humanity, before pausing for a moment and...
Being the Ricardos movie review: Nicole Kidman nails it in Aaron Sorkin’s uneven but energetic Oscar contender
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An earnest ode to screwball comedies, a snapshot of Hollywood history, and a teary-eyed tribute to Lucille Ball, writer-director Aaron Sorkin’s second film...
Atrangi Re movie review: Sara Ali Khan-Akshay Kumar’s magical mystery tour is a misfire, but thank God for Dhanush
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Runaway girl. Sincere, confused boy. And a charismatic man with several magic tricks up his giant sleeve. The great Bollywood love triangle gets...
Rocky movie review: A bold, relentless depiction of senselessness of violence
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The first teaser for director Arun Matheswaran’s debut movie Rocky included a scene where a father wails hopelessly as he watches his son...