The Ridley Scott directed G I Jane (1997) is one of my guilty pleasures. Watching the elfin Demi Moore transform into a buff, tough-as-nails Navy Seal, cigars, buzz cut, moonlit one-armed push ups and all was thrilling for the 24-year-old me, nearly a quarter century ago. With no one else to share my nascent feminist [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr3Z5D60XnQ This beautiful dirge of a song, it amuses me, annoys me, moves me, I love it. It was the mellifluous Sudha Malhotra's swansong at the ripe old age of 23. If she had hung around, she'd have given the Mangeshkar Family Singers a run for their money. Rumour has it that her scandalous affair [...]
Tumhein Ho Na Ho In 1977, a few dozen scientists and their families came together to perform Bhoomi Poojan on a plot they had collectively purchased in the recently developed satellite city of Navi Mumbai. Among these was a proud 38-year-old scientist, Gopinathan and his wife and their three young children all under the age [...]
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