A Day At Kausani
BY SOMREETA MUKHERJEE Kausani is a small hamlet cradled in the lap of nature. A quaint hill station in Uttarakhand amidst the serene alpine hills, Kausani’s beauty remains unparalleled. Watching the orange rays of...
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VLCC Party Glow Facial Kit Review
BY SOMREETA MUKHERJEE Going for a facial once every month helps improve the texture of your skin and also treat imperfections like uneven skin tone, dark patches, blemishes, acne, spots and wrinkles. Since I...
Faces Splash Nail Enamel Wild Mauve Shade # 208 Review
BY SOMREETA MUKHERJEE I am absolutely obsessed with nail paint. And when it comes to my choice of colour, Mauve is surely one of my favourites. Recently I have invested in the Wild Mauve...
Himalaya For Moms Soothing Body Butter-Jasmine, Rose and Lavender Review
BY SOMREETA MUKHERJEE I am not a Mom yet. But that hasn’t deterred me from trying out the various floral variants of the rich and heavy soothing body butter range from the house of...
Nykaa Fragrance Mist, Country Rose: Review
BY SOMREETA MUKHERJEE While deodorants and body sprays make it sound obvious, body mists do the job in a subtle way. Recently I laid my hand on the Country Rose variant of the new...
Nykaa So Matte! Notorious Red Shade #01M Review
BY SOMREETA MUKHERJEE A red lipstick is a woman’s makeup must have and somehow, the colour red can never go out of fashion. Stylish, passionate, warm and vibrant- the colour red has dimensions many....
How is Special 26 a visceral and frequently surprising ride?
Writer-director Neeraj Pandey’s maiden film, A Wednesday, was a taut thriller that delivered a sharp comment on the nation’s frequent and bloody brushes with the spectre of terrorism; this film too glides by with such...
How Raanjhanaa holds enough of its own marvels to justify multiple viewings?
BY SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE Conception, plot and setting The blood in the veins of the two protagonists, it might seem to some, is deeper than the water that flows in the river: as the film...
What makes DAVID a thoughtfully crafted film?
BY SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE 1.A terse and tenacious structure Having gravitated consistently towards the deeply cynical, Bejoy Nambiar’s gorgeously packaged, well-acted but underwhelming David explores the more unsettling elements of human nature with a cold and...
What ominous tone does Shaitan invoke? Why is it strikingly poignant?
BY SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE “There will be Blood” actor Daniel Day-Lewis once said, “I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it’s no problem for me to believe that I’m somebody else.”...
