"Fun" Movies
Not classics, certianly. But movies that bring a smile to my face and cheer to my spirit when I really need em... Well, here goes:
1. Main Khiladi, Tu Anari - REALLY fun movie. Never liked Akshay Kumar earlier, but this movie was a laugh riot
2. Get Shorty
3. Andaz Apna Apna- yeah, totally unintellectual, lot of slapstick, and I love it. So sue me.
4. Hera Pheri - he he he. what else is there to say?? :)
5. Gol Maal. AND the tam version of the movie - Thillu Mullu. One of the few movies where I enjoyed the remake as well as the original!
6. Chupke Chupke. Yeah, I know... Its there on the other list, too. So?
7.
The Year of the Comet. Some vague movie played quite often on Star Movies when I was younger - funny, romantic,. just the right recipe to appeal to a somewhat feather-brained 16-year old
8. Kal Ho Na Ho- not too often that you get to watch an Indian Movie which is so witty, so funny, and so what you see in real life! Though Shah Rukh Khan as a guardian angel was a little too much to stomach...
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Year in summary - books
Books I have read over the past year (2004)
- The Da Vinci Code
- The Rule of Four
- An Imperial Progress
- The Agony and the Ecstasy - Terrific
- Lust for Life - Good
- To Sir With Love
- Capt. Corelli’s Mandolin - V. Crappy
- The Great Indian Novel – Excellent Read!
- The Name of the Rose – Terrific
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the night-time- Fair
- The Chronicles of Narnia (about 4 books in the series) – fair
- The Crooked House – An Agatha Christie after years!
- The Leopard – Decent read, a bit heavy and depressing
- ALL the short stories by Saki
- A few books by P G Wodehouse
- Revisited old favorites – Ivanhoe, the Talisman, etc
- Peter the Great – His Life & His world – simply amazing, if you like history
- A very forgettable Frederick Forsyth- don’t even remember its name!
- Gone with the wind – okay - not particularly impressive. To be fair, that’s mostly because of the hype
- Scarlett – Don’t touch it with a barge pole!
- Les Miserables- Don’t remember if I read it this year or the last.
- Leonardo Da Vinci by Freud – decent.
- Drawing – A complete Course – by Jenny Rodwell. Excellent, if you want to learn.
- Angels & Demons by Dan Brown - blah-blah- very very mediocre
Not much, aint it? L let me see if I can make the next year any better. Don’t think I have missed out any books. I might have, but not too many.
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What are the best books that you have ever read?
Pondered on that, and came up with:
1. Wuthering Heights
2. Razor's Edge (Maughaum)
3. Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco)
4. Peter the Great: His Life and his times (Robert Massie)
5. Love Story (Erich Segal)
6. Jonathan Livinston Seagull (Bach)
7. Mind's I: Fantasies & Reflections on Self & Soul (Hofstadter and Dennett)
8. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
9. The Count of Montecristo (I Almost forgot that one!!) - Dumas
10. The Three Musketeers (Naturally!!)- Dumas
11. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
All in no particular order.
Pls add your comments on the list. Would like to refine this!
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