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Genre: Biography/Drama   Starring: Ashton Kutcher , Dermot Mulroney , Josh Gad , Lukas Haas , Matthew Modine , J.K. Simmons , Ron Eldard Steve Jobs was an inspiring figure, not only for the technology industry but also for all of humanity. His thoughts and ideas may not have agreed with everyone but it pushed us all to take that one more step to raise the bar and help technology develop. If it wasn't for him, we might be living a life ten years behind what we currently have. Steve Jobs (Kutcher) grew up with a simple life at Reeds College where he was adopted by the Jobs family who raised him as their own. Whilst working for Atari, he kept insisting on doing something different but the people around him were limiting his thoughts and ideas. When Atari offered him a project on his own, he took it up but hit a stumbling block with the computer board of which Jobs had very little knowledge. It was then that his good friend, Steve Wozniak (Gad) came to his rescue and helped him develop...

Title: Ten Author: Andrej Longo Translator: Howard Curtis Publisher: Harvill Secker, Random House UK ISBN: 978-1846556173 Genre: Crime, Short Stories Pages: 160 Source: Publisher Rating: 5/5 Now to talk about a very unusual book which I finished reading a couple of days ago. It was full of impact, full of horror, and anticipation and at the same time, struck the right chords. It is also quite hard hitting in most bits and pieces. After all, “Ten” by Andrej Longo is a mix of the Ten Commandments and the Mafia. The action takes place in Naples, where the ten stories are centered. Each story is based on one commandment and of course the Mafia is a part of each of them, which is the basis of this book. The stories are interlinked which again is what happens in most books of this nature. Naples is central to every story, which only helps the reader in understanding the landscape of the place and its nuances and culture. The stories are about regular people who are just caught in their lives...

  As the story goes, Lord Krishna was one of the naughtiest kid in Mathura (a small city in India) – breaking the clay water pots carried by the womenfolk, stealing their clothes from bating ponds and play pranks. But he had a heart of gold and the villagers loved him as their own child. He was very fond of butter and the villagers had a tough time keeping their handis (clay pots) safe as he would enter their houses and eat all the butter. To safeguard the butter from the little Krishna, they would hang it high from the ceiling in their house – thinking that the small kid won’t be able to get his hands on the same. But that was not enough to keep Krishna away … was it. He and his friends would go to these houses and form a human pyramid and break the handi’s … and eat up the butter dripping from the broken pot. So started the tradition in India to celebrate Krishna’s birthday by playing ‘Dahi Handi’ – an absolutely wonderful way to enjoy the day. The festival is celebrated in Mumbai wi...

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...

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...

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...

Title: The Hypnotist Author: Lars Kepler Publisher: Harper Collins, Blue Door ISBN: 978-0007444342 Genre: Crime Fiction Pages: 512 Source: Publisher Rating: 3.5/5 Written in the tradition of Stieg Larsson’s books, “The Hypnotist” by the husband-wife co-authors (pen name being Lars Kepler) is a decent read. It manages to bring out the elements of crime fiction and yet the plot is threadbare which was a problem at times while I was reading the book. The Hypnotist is about a family living in Tumba, Sweden (no second guesses Sherlock), who are a victim of a homicide. The only witness to the crime is the sole surviving member – the son. The boy is in a state of shock with more than hundred knife wounds inflicted on his body. He cannot seem to recall or speak a word of anything that happened that fateful night. Enter, Inspector Detective Joona Linna, who in a heroic manner wants to get to the bottom of this crime. This can only be done by putting the kid through a hypnosis session in the pre...