The prospect of seeing a movie after James Cameron’s Avatar can be somewhat scary. It’s fairly true to say that this spectacular movie about spirituality, nature and the consequences of human greed has altered the movie landscape.
But what about the movies coming out in the next month or so, sure there is no Avatar sequel on the horizon but is there anything that can assuage a moviegoer’s desire for big entertainment without compromising a good story?
The first two films on the list both around Greek History and in fact they …

The 81st Academy Awards ceremony in 2009 has been referred to as the “Indian Oscars” because the film ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ won eight awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. The film is set in India, the actors are Indian, one-third of the dialogue is in Hindi (one of India’s many languages), and there’s a Bollywood-style song at the end, but it is not, as many Americans believe, an Indian movie. The filmmakers, including the director Danny Boyle, are British. Only three of the film’s eight Academy Awards went to Indians: …

The India Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has revealed that they are going to actively use social networks such as Twitter and Facebook to reduce the amount of traffic accidents. They aim to create awareness by uploading videos on YouTube and posting information on Facebook and Twitter so that Indian citizens will be cautious while driving. Their goal is to use social media optimization to reduce traffic accidents by 50% in the next three years. There are far too many fatal accidents on the roads and highways of India …

Under the guidance of the Sippy production, the film Sholay released to become one of the iconic sagas ever created in the history of Bollywood. There have been movies which have been good and then there are ones which are great, however there are some which establish an identity of their own and hence remain in the thoughts of movie lovers, critics ad the general public forever.
This movie when it was released, became one of the greatest hits of its time with all the actors gaining the identities of the …

Michael Madhusudan Dutta (1824-1873), the 19th century Bengali poet and playwright, was born on 25 January 1824 in a landed family in the village of Sagardari in Jessore district, Bengal (now in Bangladesh). He was the only son of a well-to-do Kayastha Family. His father, Rajnarayan Dutta, was a law practitioner in Kolkata. Madhusudan in his early years, was taught at home by his mother, Jahnabi Devi, and later he joined Sagardari Primary School. At the age of 7 he went to Khidirpur School, Kolkata. In 1843 he got admitted …