May 28th, 2010
On Wednesday evening I went to the launch of a book that started life as a screenplay, and will very soon be turned back into a screenplay, when it is made into a film. Exciting stuff.
My friend Anita Vasudeva invited me along to the launch, because the author, Manisha Lakhe, is a good friend and they both are part of a very successful online writing forum.
Manisha was very funny, quite irreverent (how did you know that no-one involved in the making of “Kites” wasn’t in the audience, Manisha ?) and is clearly heading for fame and glory [...]
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May 25th, 2010
I have just finished reading an absolutely charming detective novel set here in Delhi. It’s called “The mystery of the missing servant” by Tarquin Hall. It is a fun read, especially for we dilliwalas, as there is loads of local colour and language, and the whole effect is quite delightful.
Am looking forward to reading the next in the Vish Puri series.
April 27th, 2010
Anjulie, Abhimanyu and your blogger at large went to see an open air performance of “Hair” at the Garden of the Five Senses last night, and good fun it was, too.
Gita and Shoki Bhatia were there, as were Emma, Andrew and Rebecca Horne.
The show was fun, though the acting was a tad stilted and the sound system let the actors down badly in the second half of the show.
I had forgotten just how good the music is, and was dying to stand up and dance and show my age, but :
(a) we were [...]
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April 13th, 2010
…is a lovely film, and to be relished. Christina and I went to see it this afternoon at Vasant Kunj, and it is an absolute delight.
Filmed in a mix of Bengali, English and Japanese (but sub-titled throughout) it is a sweet, slightly old-fashioned love story. It takes place in the Sunderbans, which is somewhere that has been on my Absolutely To Be Visited List, and now even more so after the film.
I arrived at the Mall at the same time at some VVIP, whose motorcade swept by us in a flurry of flashing lights and wailing horns. [...]
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