'British' Oscars or 'American' Baftas?

My bets:-

Helen Mirren
Forest Whitaker
Paul Greengrass[maybe]

Mid Day Bangalore over Filter Coffee

Diary

Bangalore has just become a worse place to live in.
The uber-narrow roads are inundated with over-choked traffic. The autowallahas have become nastier. Going around the city is a pain, without your own conveyance.

Time Out

Blossoms became my favourite bookshop over this trip. I entered the shop and asked for a few books [to be read as obscure books], and the people looking after the shop left their job mid-way to help me find my books even though they had to struggle through the alleys and heaps around the shop and most notably, people they do not hear of in their daily lives. Excellent customer service! My sole request to Landmark, Crossword, et al is to at least hire sales people who are book-literate and familiar with the authors.

New members on the rack:

The Harper Collins Book of New Indian Fiction
A Tilak for Jung Bahadur-Jug Suraiya
Scoop-Evelyn Waugh
High Fidelity-Nick Hornby
Complete Prose-Woody Allen
Paperweight-Stephen Fry

Bangalore Bites

Lakeview, promises no lake views other than the views of honking traffic plying on MG Road, perhaps, has the best omelets in town. And even ice creams. Corner House was given a miss this time though Rum Tarts at Melting Moments were not and so was the Iced Tea at Java City.

What’s On

Someone please inform George Clooney to continue making movies like this. Good Night and Good Luck is a must-see for those into media and journalism. Even for those who are not into it. They have actually used McCarthy's archival footage in the stead of using an actor.

Leonardo DiCaprio has emerged as an amazing actor since his Titanic-days. This is a fact, which got corroborated after watching Blood Diamond. The only disappointment: the movie is tad too long.

Christopher Nolan is just amazing. He can make the most rivettingly-complex movies out of the simplest scripts: Memento, Batman Begins and now The Prestige.

And it's only in Bangalore, that you can get the LOTR trilogy, and not just that but two other movies all on a single DVD. Just for a paltry sum of forty bucks. I really wonder how they managed to squeeze in all of those LOTR epics into one DVD.



For the uninitiated, the entire post has been written in the format of columns from Mid Day. I found their ubiquitous ads even more uber-cool than the Bombay’s DNA ones though it lacks on masala when compared to Bombay Mid Day.

Bangalore on the Move.

Frank Miller is God

But say hello to Sarnath Banerjee.

..and did you hear about Samit Basu?