'It is daunting, for sure, because you're rowing upstream.'
What are you going to watch on OTT this week? Sukanya Verma lists your options.
An unpublished tale, The Children of Hurin, hits stores worldwide this week.
When in Landour, discovers Supriya Newar, one of the most important things to do and that too in large measures, is to do nothing at all.
Enchanted rings, talking teddy bears and arranged marriages of the phony kind, hijack horror and more on OTT this week.
'When you're in Tolkien, you have the feeling of being in a world that wasn't invented, but one that was discovered or one that was sort of excavated. It feels like a real place. Like if you had a time machine, you could actually travel to Middle Earth and because of that, you are immersed in it when you go there.'
Natasha Perianayagam scored the highest grades amongst all candidates.
The Rings of Power has a visual distinction and vibe entirely of its own, observes Sukanya Verma.
Black Adam's true superpower is Dwayne Johnson's likeability. He's good even when he's bad, observes Sukanya Verma. Black Adam Review
I binged on various shows this year -- some for work, some for pleasure, few I couldn't spare time for, others I didn't have access to while some started out fabulously only to fizzle towards the end.
The heirs of J R R Tolkien sue New Line Cinema over $ 6bn.
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From Tolkien's Middle Earth to Shantaram's Mumbai -- these are places you've read about in books. Now visit them!
Sahara India Pariwar has made a $2-billion bid to buy the debt of struggling Hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Inc.
Sukanya Verma treasures every bit of this eventful journey called Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.
Half-Blood Prince is definitely a film to be watched more than once.
According to Sukanya Verma, The Hobbit series continues to exhilarate and astound with The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
The Hobbit will be adapted, but LotR director Peter Jackson will not direct the films.
The show is the most expensive production in theatre history.
A R Rahman and Finnish folk troupe Varttina will compose the score for the stage version of J R R Tolkien's epic trilogy, The Lord of the Rings.
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies will perhaps be best enjoyed by those who have not yet read JRR Tolkien's prequel to the Lord of the Rings series, says Paloma Sharma.
'This time he spreads more than his arms. He finds wings,' declares Sukanya Verma.
This is the most fun Sukanya Verma has had since Wonder Woman.
These incredible photos show some of the spectacular scenes captured by photographers as part of the annual Landscape Photographer of the Year competition. Photographers from across the United Kingdom submitted images from wildlife to stormy waves, as well as cityscapes and 'winter wonderland' style scenes. The overall winner of the 2020 competition, whose photo stands in pride of place on the first page of the book, was Chris Frost, whose early-morning shot of Woolland Woods in Dorset shows a blanket of mist rolling over a bank of white wild garlic.
'Though it's a story of inspiration, Meghna Gulzar's Chhapaak is not the kind of film you walk out feeling entertained or ecstatic about,' says Sukanya Verma.
These 10 images show that it's an odd world out there.
Rangoon is too fuzzy and half-hearted, feels Sukanya Verma.
'Pratchett's work mocked the very idea of literary limitations, going from police procedural in one book to Christmas adventure in the next, from vampires to football, from the birth of motion pictures to the examining of religion itself.'
Parallels between the two worlds are mind boggling!
If one drops the book-versus-series chatter, is Sacred Games watchable? Very much so, promises Vanita Kohli-Khandekar.
'2016 may have been unkind, more than other years, but we are here and we owe it to the ones who are gone -- to live and love fully this wonderful gift of life,' says filmmaker Suparn Verma.
Relive your childhood or enrich your kid's but revisit The Jungle Book you must, stresses Sukanya Verma.
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You'll be hard pressed to find another hero so totally, awesomely Super, insists Raja Sen.
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