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		<title>Inglourious Basterds: Not dastardly enough!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
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★★★★★★☆☆☆☆
Now this was disappointing. Nowhere as uproariously kickass as one’s made to believe it is [the publicity machine, the trailers, the interviews... everything], but still, has enough chops and enough amusing detail with casually humoured irreverence for it to be counted one of the best of the year (yes that&#8217;s how mediocre 2009 has been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karana23.wordpress.com&blog=100015&post=885&subd=karana23&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Christmas Tale (French): Dysfunctional family h(e)aven?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>notsocynical</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arnaud Desplechin]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mathieu Amalric]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Un Conte De Noel]]></category>

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★★★★★★★★☆☆

Now how unassumingly elegant is this! Imagine The Royal Tenenbaums [without Wes Anderson's screaming "oh we are so quirky and dysfunctional, look at us: we are so funny!"] meets Noam Baumbach via some over-plotting courtesy Almodovar. Apologies for the references to communicate this movie&#8217;s flavour, but Arnaud Desplechin&#8217;s work has eluded me till now, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karana23.wordpress.com&blog=100015&post=881&subd=karana23&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Your Raashee? : A yarn well spun!</title>
		<link>http://karana23.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/whats-your-raashee-a-yarn-well-spun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>notsocynical</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ashutosh Gowariker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Priyanka CHopra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harman Baweja]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film review]]></category>

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★★★★★★★★☆☆
After Delhi 6 and Luck By Chance earlier this year, if there&#8217;s another movie that&#8217;ll slip under the radar before you could recover from a festive weekend it is What&#8217;s Your Raashee? Unlike the other two, it hasn&#8217;t sent the so-called critics fighting or raving. It is given a unanimous thumbs down from the niggling, finicky [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karana23.wordpress.com&blog=100015&post=866&subd=karana23&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ghostwritten by David Mitchell: Splendifantabulicixcellent!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 07:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>notsocynical</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Popular Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book review]]></category>
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★★★★★★★★★☆

This is sheer awesomeness on the printed page. An un-put-downable epic contemporary odyssey spanning whole continents and fusing themes as disparate as gas attacks, global terrorism, geopolitics, Eastern mysticism, quantum mechanics, looming apocalypse, ghostwriters, radio jockeys, transmigrating incorporeal spirits, futuristic robots in moral dilemmas: all these  with such alarming surefootedness and erudition, it instantly earns [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karana23.wordpress.com&blog=100015&post=708&subd=karana23&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Devil&#8217;s Backbone (Spanish): excelente!</title>
		<link>http://karana23.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/the-devils-backbone-spanish-excelente/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>notsocynical</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[El espinazo del diablo]]></category>
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★★★★★★★★★☆
Haunting, expansive, imaginatively symbolic and immensely moving supernatural fantasy that is so visceral and emotional a fable, its akin to poetry in motion. Playing away like a testosteroned sibling of Guillermo Del Toro’s magnificent Pan’s Labyrinth, following a recently orphaned young boy being brought to an orphanage run by the idealist leftists in remote post-Civil [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karana23.wordpress.com&blog=100015&post=701&subd=karana23&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>eXistenZ: Cracklingly inventive sci-fi!</title>
		<link>http://karana23.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/existenz-cracklingly-inventive-sci-fi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>notsocynical</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Cronenberg]]></category>
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★★★★★★★★☆☆
Taut, subtle and imaginative sci-fi horror where a life-like simulation game is being dry-tested on a motley of keen beans who unravel the game’s goals in accordance with their subconscious as this becomes a game inside a game. So we have a dopey slash geeky game designer [Jennifer Jason Leigh, uninhibited &#38; unpredictable] who starts [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karana23.wordpress.com&blog=100015&post=698&subd=karana23&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We Need to Talk About Kevin: Unflinching!</title>
		<link>http://karana23.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/we-need-to-talk-about-kevin-unflinching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>notsocynical</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lionel Shriver]]></category>
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★★★★★★★☆☆☆

Voluble and fixated to pathological effect, this over-written experimental lit-fic which just contains letters from a neurotic mother to an invisible husband figure about their kid who&#8217;s massacred not one, not two but eleven people never fails to engage with its consistent dogged honesty. Shocking anecdotes one after the other padded by circumlocutory commentaries on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karana23.wordpress.com&blog=100015&post=695&subd=karana23&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kaminey: KICK AFF!</title>
		<link>http://karana23.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/kaminey-kick-aff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>notsocynical</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bollywood]]></category>
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Explosive, audacious and spectacularly entertaining crime caper from the Man who has singlehandedly defined, reinvented and set the benchmark for the noir genre in Bollywood-Vishal Bharadwaj. After the decadently sinister Maqbool and the masterfully brawny but hideously miscast Omkara, clearly third time’s the charm for me as Kaminey is everything that the respectable-indies-showing-how-it’s-done-but-just-missing-it [read Sankat [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karana23.wordpress.com&blog=100015&post=528&subd=karana23&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Case of Exploding Mangoes: Almost there!</title>
		<link>http://karana23.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/a-case-of-exploding-mangoes-almost-there/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>notsocynical</dc:creator>
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★★★☆☆
Ambitious and irreverent political &#8220;faction&#8221; piece that had me zapped with how easily the [debutante] author juggled multiple narratives set horizons apart yet connected by one single real-life tragedy: the enigmatic assassination of President Zia-Ul-Haq in &#8216;89. Hanif creates the book&#8217;s most compelling character in Zia colouring him with plausible anecdotes, quirks, his-well-known fanaticism, his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karana23.wordpress.com&blog=100015&post=689&subd=karana23&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Love Aaj Kal: Not perfect, but very good!</title>
		<link>http://karana23.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/love-aaj-kal-not-perfect-but-very-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>notsocynical</dc:creator>
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Let me say at the very outset that for all its tonal, aesthetic, narrative and other such high-sounding-critiquing-construct misfires, for all its alternating diffidence and defiance, Love Aaj Kal has a heart throbbing in just the right place, and for a weekend romcom it is as perfect a one-time watch as good romcoms come. Also, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karana23.wordpress.com&blog=100015&post=492&subd=karana23&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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