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Go Goa Gone- 2013

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Genre: Fantasy/Adventure/Action/Comedy   Starring: Saif Ali Khan , Vir Das , Kunal Khemu , Anand Tiwari, Puja Gupta Whenever Bollywood has tried to explore a new Hollywood concept, most of the times the movie has fallen flat on its face. Be it superheroes, science-fiction, creepy aliens or, in this case, zombies, they never seemed to have seriously worked. Luv (Das), Hardik (Khemu) and Bunny (Tiwari) are three flatmates where Luv and Hardik only want to enjoy life and who also get high on anything they can lay their hands on. When Bunny has to go for an office assignment to Goa , Luv and Hardik decide to hitch-hike along with him. Luna (Gupta) is a random girl who becomes Luv's love interest for the rest of the movie. When Luna invites Luv to an underground rave party organised by the Russians, the three friends decide to go there to have the ultimate time of their lives. Boris (Khan) is ex-Russian mafia who is also the party organiser. The party is for the launch of a new drug whi...

Live from London by Parinda Joshi

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Title: Live from London Author: Parinda Joshi Publisher: Rupa and Co ISBN: 978-8129118233 Genre: Fiction Source: Blogadda.com Rating: 3.5/5 Live from London by Parinda Joshi is a fast read. In 204 pages, the author expresses herself and the plot excellently and that is what is needed in this type of a book. And let me clarify one thing: Live from London is not a chick-lit book. It probably cannot be termed as literary fiction for sure, however it isn’t your run-of-the-mill girl-centric novel, and that is certain. Live from London is about an aspiring singer Nishi Singh and her struggle to make it big in the music industry. The story is set in London. Nishi has big dreams of becoming a singer through the stage of “Britain’s Got Talent”, where she is humiliated by the judges on account of her performance. The story continues as Nishi is determined on making her mark in the British Music Industry, no matter what it takes. Along the way readers meet varied characters such as Nick Navjot Ch...

Raanjhnaa

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Genre: Drama/Romance/Crime   Starring: Abhay Deol , Sonam Kapoor , Dhanush , Mohammad Zeeshan Ayyub, Swara Bhaskar, Shilpi Marwaha Bollywood has always explored inter-caste romance, love between the rich and the poor, triangle love stories, forgotten love etc.  Raanjhanaa  tries to be all of the above but yet movie away from the cliches and narrate a sensible story. Kundan (Dhanush) is a young and cheerful lad that resides in Varanasi, India . In his school days, he falls in love with a Muslim girl, Zoya (Kapoor) and tries hard to cajole. When Zoya's family learns that she is romancing a Hindu boy that too in her school-going days, they send her off to Aligarh to pursue her further studies there. Eight years on when Zoya returns to Varanasi, she is unable to recollect who Kundan was whereas Kundan waited for eight long years for her to return and profess his love for her once more. Where Zoya has moved on and fallen in love with Akram (Deol), Kundan is still deeply in love with he...