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Preface: You can count on Anurag Kashyap for being as distinctive as he can be. In fact, I would say that his movies fit into a genre all by themselves. It should be acknowledged that his effort was better than average and rather valiant (given the amount of investment in the film), but failed to …
Preface How about I take you to a furtive world where there is no interference from politics, wars, world problems or even natural disasters, created by the smartest people in the world. Would you come there with me? Would you want to see it? Plot Bound by a shared destiny, a teen bursting with scie…
My friend repeatedly asked me to watch his 3-hour long film to review it. I didn’t find the time until recently, and it was worth every second. I opted to watch the restored, colorized version from 2005, but I am told the grainy black-and-white does not disappoint either. Preface: This is no ordinar…
The newest trend on the kindergarten block is ‘Lazy Parenting.’ now, slow down, there’s no need for a racket or judgemental comments, concerned parents. I can hear the whispers already: How can a parent be lazy? Whatever happened to the good old ‘disciplining your child’ technique? Before you jump t…
My wife is an exceptionally brilliant driver. She has good steering control, great reflexes, an extraordinary sense of anticipation and an incredible feather-touch foot on the brake. She is a genius at choosing routes that have the least traffic and has an exceptional talent for finding vacant parki…
Straight from the high of DXBeach and some stellar acts in the first half of May, [Chicane, Funkagenda, Jeremy Healy, and Judge Jules tonight], Zero Gravity Dubai is bringing in some sensational weekend parties in the second half, every week like waves on a beach. Crashing into Velocity on Thursday …
Jumairy laughed, recalling his high school band experience. Uncovering our proclivity for secrets and the human experience of trauma, Jumairy is an Emirati musician in his 20s, whose musical expression is deeply rooted in art. Known in the Dubai art world for his charcoal drawings and ‘strange’ conc…
Preface Director/Choreographer Anna Fletcher’s films sure have been cash for the producers, and yet, after Step Up (2006), none of her films have earned the same hype, or even the same recognition/glowing reviews. Step Up was a ‘Fletcher-kind-of-movie’ because she has been strongly associated with d…
I tell you, the ‘ways’ of this world are getting on my nerves. Everyone has some favourite words that resonate with them. But I think it’s more common to come across words that really piss you off. But coming back to these ‘ways’. For the first twenty years of my life, I used the term …
Plot It’s humans against AI; the zenith of all superhero film plotlines. When Tony Stark attempts to shield the world from future attacks by building a peacekeeping program powered by AI, he begins the most dangerous war of them all. In the second edition of the Avengers, our peculiar bunch of super…
Photojournalist: Tarun Shyam; Reporter: Bhoomika Ghaghada. Link to the gallery below. Not to mention the up-tempo music and zing in the air at the Zero Gravity beach on April 24. DGT Events did justice to what an all-day, all-night music fest should look like; DXBeach seamlessly moved from a lounge …
Over the last few days, I have been hesitant, tentative and wary; ducking sudden questions and beating a hasty retreat if I spy any Indian in the vicinity. There is a hunted look on my face and I have developed a tendency to jump nervously when spoken to. Most of you are probably brimming with …
When: June 10-13 How much: Tickets start from AED 150, AED 250, AED 450, VIP AED 1,000 and Royal AED 2,000. Tickets go on sale April 20 at all Virgin Megastores and www.virginmegastore.ae. Where: Dubai World Trade Centre From June 10 to June 13, Anna, Elsa and the hilarious snowman Olaf from Disney’…
Whether it is a lack of creativity or just a matter of hesitance in trusting new scripts, Hollywood’s big studios are sticking by the tried and tested. Proving my point are Warner Brothers, Disney and 20th Century Fox. These three studios alone account for over 46% of Hollywood’s release…
We don’t usually publish poetry on B-Change, but when our wise and beautiful staff writer, Shireen Chaya-Mahdi , shared this bit, we knew we had to make an exception. Here are a few verses that will make you feel liberated. You are a soul. You were given a body. A pearl from the heart of …
So finally, the verdict is in. Facebook can no longer be considered a ‘waste of time’. It has proved its value. And I don’t mean its massive market capitalization. In India recently, a super con-woman, a master of disguises, who had successfully perpetrated a series of crimes, was tracked down by t…
MARK RONSON, JESS GLYNNE, DANNY HOWARD, JOHN DAHLBACK & MORE TO PERFORM AT DAY-TO-NIGHT MUSIC FEST AT ZERO GRAVITY DUBAI The heat’s rolling in and Dubai’s sweltering summer promises to bring in a an even hotter summer party calendar. Kicking off the first day-to-night music festivals planned to …
Featured Image by Tarun Shyam Strolling on stage in a white t-shirt that looked mercilessly good, Paolo Nutini kicked Friday night off at the Dubai Media City Amphitheatre on a high note playing Funk My Life Up from his new album Caustic Love, which has a good mix of soul, funk, jazz and pop. The ni…
Want to get into reading, but the size of book stores and stacks of books overwhelming you? Well, you have to start somewhere. Here is a compilation of 5 books like Imitation Game that will help you get started. The Film The Imitation Game (2014) Based on the book, Alan Turing: The Enigma, a 1983 …
It’s Indian Premier League time. And that’s got me thinking. Deeply. Philosophically. Some three decades back, Cricket and Bollywood were two entirely different things. Never the twain did meet. One was a gentleman’s game. Men wore white or off-white, which was in cold weather, covered by a cream sl…
Plot Deckard Shaw (Statham), brother of Owen Shaw (Luke Evans) is driven to get serious revenge from Dominic (Vin Diesel) and crew for his brother’s death in Fast & Furious 6. He is smart, sharp, equipped, fast – like a shadow. Capable of assassinating the whole crew himself, can he overpo…
Whenever I offer unsolicited advice to my wife, she frowns and tells me ‘I don’t want your pearls of wisdom’. Sometimes, she actually asks me for my advice and then proceeds to do the opposite. I have been saving up all those unwanted pearls for a long time. So when the young entrepreneurs behind B-…
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