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By Toutatis, they are back!
The reprints of the first Asterix comics have hit city stores much to the delight of the fans of the indomitable Gauls as MINI ANTHIKAD-CHHIBBER finds out
Film Review

From the diary
THERE ARE no sweet memories in this film, narrated through a flashback by the hero Seenu (Raviteja). There are three episodes, which are his experiences with the girls he loved at different stages. Raviteja's narration is marred by a lack of ...


Erring on comedy of errors
THIS FILM is a comedy of errors woven around a common name with uncommon incidents. The moment we notice that the name `Anjali' is given to two characters played by Arthi as heroine and Oorvasi as the wife of a big businessman Sundaramurthy ...
Lovers' tale
Cast: Kishore, Renuka Menon, Mukhesh Rishi, Sudhakar, Chandramohan, Sudha, L.B. Sriram, Rajita, Sakuntala Director: Jonnalagadda Srinivas Music: Vandemataram Srinivas MARRIAGE FESTIVITIES are often source for love, at least in films. ...
Naturally unnatural
BEAUTY HAS an abiding address. She is slender as the new moon. And as splendid. Her sable locks veil her luminous eyes. Now, only if she could act just as well! But then she too belongs to a world of blemishes, and if she wants to hide any ...
Incredibly derivative
IT IS official, Alex Proyas, the patron saint of cool, quirky mind-altering films has sold out. One wonders what were the pressures on the man to make this thriller by numbers. On the one hand you had the brilliantly conceptualised Dark ...
Arts & Crafts

Weaving a Husain
The tapestries of M.F. Husain displayed at Cinema Ghar reflect the art-craft rendezvous
Cinema

Mass movie
WE HAVE seen this plump muscled man with piercing eyes in innumerable films creating trouble for the innocent and finally getting defeated at the hands of the hero. The stocky `villain' Ponnambalam has now turned director with a Tamil film, ...
Going offbeat
ONE APPRECIABLE thing about the Malayalam heroes is that they are not satisfied with their commercial star status. Be it Satyan, Prem Nazir, Madhu or Mammootty, Mohan Lal and Suresh Gopi, they all have done it before — taking up off beat ...
Kannada catastrophe
THE PROBLEM surfaced again. None of the recent Kannada releases has had a successful run including S.V. Rajendra Singh Babu's Love (its Telugu version Prem Nagar is yet to be released). The Karnataka Film Producers Association ...
Music

Chords & Notes
IF YOU feel like you want to listen to the album again and again, it is not because of the music — recreated pretty effectively by Mickey Jain Meyer. It is because of the beauty of the original lyrics and the care that went into choosing ...
Cuisine

Golgappas galore
Get set and go with Golgappas this rainy season
Insite

Walk tall and make music!
The word Walkman has today become a generic term for music on the move

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