Restaurant review - WTF! Versova, Mumbai. 'Where's The Food?'

Given my knack for writing random incidents/experiences coupled with my fixation for trying out new restaurants I had been coaxed into writing restaurant reviews on multiple occasions. But sadly never gave in as judging food is clearly not one of my greatest talents. Eating out is meant to be a fun experience and I could hardly ever be judgmental about it to put in a page or two describing food. But my visit to this particular eating joint left a bitter-sweet taste & since I’m still thinking about it 24 hrs later, I thought it deserved a note. So here goes…

Movie Review - Band Baaja Baaraat * Anushka Sharma, Ranveer Singh

Beginning of 2010 saw Yash Raj films branching out onto the small screen with couple of television series aiming for wholesome family entertainment. One of the ventures, Rishta.com was about two college friends played by Shruti Seth & Kavi Shastri, who come together to start a matrimonial agency. As two individuals with contrasting personalities, the serial attempted to highlight the chronicles, nuances of new-age relationships and the concept of the age-old matchmaking/arranged marriages in a humorous albeit honest way. The series worked favorably, captured prime-time slots on Sony channel and Isha, Rohan became household names, youth icons. When the series reached its finale, disappointed fans drew out petitions to continue the show & if reports are to be believed plans for season 2 are in place.

However, in the interim, creative’s at YRF worked on the same context, took it to the big screen and presented ‘Band Baaja Baaraat’. So does the big screen output impress me just as much?

In pursuit of …. Life

Disclaimer – one of my few personal posts which are about me, so you might want to read it real fast, before I realize the extent of my stupidity and delete it :D

December has always been a special month to me. Possibly because it’s my birthday month, I feel blessed and pampered. Or maybe it has something to do with the Xmas festivities. Convent schooling and an almost immediate employment with an American MNC ensured Christmas holds a special place in my heart. Or maybe it has something with December being the last month of the year. The time when curtains fall down, like a grand stage finale moment, time to look forward to new beginnings, new hopes, new promises, new ideas! 

December is also the month I gave up my life’s single constant thing – my job (2 yrs back). Coincidentally, December is also the month I’m celebrating ½ year anniversary of my passion – writing. So while I usually refrain from writing personal articles on this site, as a mark of celebration of the two life turning events, I decided to do a special post acknowledging the reasons, people and events due to which I’m here today.