Friday, 11. July 2008, 09:36:55
sonam, books, sonam dangers, of
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It looks like that i've taken heavily to reading books in my free-time. 10 books in two week can certainly certify this. This is the third book by Chetan Bhagat, who has definitely become one of the most read and loved english author. After his "Five Point Someone" and "One Night @ Call Center", this is his third book.
After reading all his three novels, i can say that Chetan is not a great writer like J.K. Rowling or Dan Brown, but he's a great story-teller, something of the same calibre as the above authors.
This is a story about a boy and his two friends. Its about their passions, cricket and buisness and the politics surrounding them- the old Hindu-Muslim rivalry. And it is about the three mistakes that he makes, first to invest all his savings for a shop in a new mall, which later collapses during an earthquake. Second, he had a fling with his best friend's sister. And the last is left for the reader to discover....
Sunday, 2. March 2008, 14:34:26
thriller, Quaid, roman, sonam
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Cast- Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whittaker
Direction- Pete Travis
Rashoman, did anyone say? Oh puhlease! Lets leave the classics alone. Cuz, Hollywood is perfect as pulp fiction and there's nothing wrong with that. The American President goes to Spain to attend an anti-terror conference and does up a victim of a terror plot himself. The busy-body intelligence agencies sniff the plot and send a double to take the bullet as he steps forward to address the restless crowd. But its the US intelligence, remember and they rarely get their their statistics right when it comes to weapons of destruction. Hence, even as the POTUS thinks he's safe, cocooned in a high security hotel, masked intruders kidnap him at gunpoint, bundle him in an ambulance and head for an undisclosed destination, through the crowded streets of the bustling town. Hey, but didn't there Morrocan terrorists do their homework on the fearlessness of the American cop who can save the Prez, and even if bullets fly, bombs explodes and the city scape crumbles....
This time, its Dennis Quaid who plays dare-devil cop, but that's just one part of story. The more interesting parts are the eight versions of the assassination attempt, as the event is told- and re-told- through the eyes of the different people who were present there. You can even view the hungama through the eyes of a pretty little girl who loses her mama in the melee, when all she wanted to do was to enjoy an ice-cream.
Interesting. But just one query- what was Sigourney Weaver doing in a split-second scene?
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