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Bourne Legacy

Jason Bourne dives from the top of a building and gets shot before splashing into the river below. We get to know from a news report that the body was not recovered. Just then Bourne’s girlfriend smiles and then Moby’s … Continue reading

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What Roger Federer can teach you about Leadership, Performance and Passion

Disclaimer : This is purely in my view! This Performance Appraisal season, ‘The Global Exceptional Performer – Roger Federer’ teaches us how to lead an inspired life. 1. Don’t emote during the task.  Federer is popularly known as the “Ice … Continue reading

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How to write a Critical Review on Dark Knight Rises – For Dummies

Probably by now, hundreds of reviews are being posted on the internet, newspapers and Magazines. Facebook status updates and tweets across the globe praising the quality and class of the Dark Knight trilogy. This poses a tough question for someone … Continue reading

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Moving on from Renaissance, Its time to Re-Crown the Aged Prince Roger

Moving on from Renaissance, Its time to Re-Crown the Aged Prince Roger! And where else but a kingdom called Wimbledon. 2011 Wimbledon, Joker beat Rafa and in his disbelief ate some grass. He thought may be he was dreaming. Now … Continue reading

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Shanghai (2012)

We have seen quite a few political thrillers in the past. While Ram Gopal Varma concentrated on the evil mind a lot more and Mani Ratnam concentrated on the path and youth’s entry into politics, Dibakar Banerjee is the king … Continue reading

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“Avengers” is what they like to call themselves, in the words of Tony Stark!

If all the comics super-heroes got together, what would they be fighting for? ‘Earth’ is not the right answer. Copyrights is ! What happens in a symphony? Hundreds of Instruments, all types of them, would play together and produce a … Continue reading

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3 (Tamil 2012)

Entertainment is inversely proportional to logic in Indian movies. If a movie, that is set to entertain crowds of all sorts, can still tie back to logic, I consider it to be top class entertainment. Remember the bus stop, the isolated … Continue reading

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Book Review : 1000 CEOs

Quite a rare bunch of the human population are born leaders.  Inspiring their team is an inborn characteristic for these special people.  For the rest of us a little help is needed.  If the neighbor at my apartment was a … Continue reading

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MoneyBall

Quantitative Optimism! Let me be very straight-forward when I say I have never watched a baseball game. In this side of the globe, we play the ball game differently. But that does not stop one from just loving this movie … Continue reading

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WarHorse 2012

Be brave! Be a Horse! A thing of beauty is never permanently owned.  At times auctions are held to decide the owner. Sometimes it is just snatched away. At times it is owned through love and friendship. There have been wars … Continue reading

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