Shakun Narang

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About Shakun Narang

Shakun Narang is passionate about people, dancing, music, kids and their safety rights, traveling and city exploring. She is a perpetual dreamer and dream-chaser, a friend for life and companion for all conversations and part time Agony Aunt. A moviebuff and bookworm herself she is actively working on her Facebook communities Moviemaniacs and Bookoholics to be that happy place where people bursting with views and reviews around movies and books can meet and mingle with like minded people.

Ankur Arora Murder Case: Topical And Truthfully Told

The movie is not just about medical fraternity. To me, it came across as a movie on professional ideologies and ethics be it medicine or law. ...

Movie Reviews

Punjab 1984 Review: About Wounds, Emotions And Simplicity

There is no condoning of terrorism in the movie but it simply tells the story of a youth who lived for his pride and how he got manipulated into the act of terrorism. ...

Movie Reviews

Sathuranga Vettai Review: Most Thrilling, Engaging And Real Tamil Heist Thriller

Without any popular star and the typical Kollywood stylish stunts, Sathuranga Vettai movie delivers on content....

Movie Reviews

Jilla Review: A Comic Version of Thalaiva

Though Jilla boasts of huge star casts, it lacks substance. With its predictable story, it is a typical Tamil masala potboiler....

Movie Reviews

Horns Review: Engaging But Only Till The Suspense Opens

Isn’t a bad watch if you are used to supernatural thrillers with slow moving, contemplative back and forth narrations. ...

Movie Reviews

Vadacurry Review: Hilarious Laugh Riot In Tamil

I recommend this highly especially for its laughter, comical situations and its underlying message. The film reminds me of Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s style of story telling where a loser becomes a real life hero. ...

Movie Reviews

Thanks Maa: An Innocent Conviction, An Insensitive Society

Thanks Maa is a superb story of 2 days in the life of an orphaned homeless boy and how his life changes, when he battles to help an infant reach its mother....

Movie Reviews

‘Every Child Counts’: Gift Children Their Childhood

We can’t and should not expect a cruel society to be a benefactor to our own kids when parents themselves are touching the new lows of parenthood. ...

Opinion

Doosra Aadmi Review: Exploring Love In Its Various Facets

Doosra Aadmi explores love in its various facets - love before and after marriage and the desperate attempt to cling on to memories of love...

Movie Reviews

Yatra Review: A Rare Treat For Hindustani Classical Music And Literature Lovers

Very slow and very high on philosophical thought process, very ably narrated in Nana Patekar’s pure Hindi diction - Yatra is a rare treat for music lovers....

Movie Reviews

Arekti Premer Golpo Review: Bringing Out The Woman Within

A man who was a riddle in himself has the audacity to make and act in movies that question your sense of right and wrong and make you ponder about it long after you have watched them....

Movie Reviews

Chitrangada Review: The Suffering For Love

“Will you suffer me?” Is the most poignant love proposal I have ever heard in an Indian movie. When heroin addict Partho hid his tear-laden face in Rudro’s bosom he appealed to him to accept him with all his flaws, his liabilities and his weaknesses. Unconditionally and unbiasedly. And Rudro did. Trapped in the body of a man, his heart...

Movie Reviews

Half a Rupee Stories: Unraveling Forgotten Emotions

Every story unfolds a small mystery or unravels a forgotten memory and emotion....

Book Reviews

Maleficent Review: Fairy Tale Turned Around

Maleficent unlike Frozen stays away from musical genre and tells the tale of the Sleeping Beauty from the villain's point of view. ...

Movie Reviews

Listen Amaya Review: A New Call Out For Role Reversal

This is an undiluted joy to watch with subtle yet so strong performances from a still very much loved onscreen the couple Farooque Sheikh and Deepti Naval....

Movie Reviews

Hawaa Hawaai – A Fresh Breath Of Air

There are kids out there longing for things your kids take for granted and never use again - used roller skates, used bicycles, broken Barbies, torn soft toys; movies like Hawaa Hawaai are beyond ratings and beyond criticism...

Movie Reviews

Rio and Rio 2: Love of Nature, Birds and Everything in Between

As a genuine sequel to Rio, Rio 2 takes you through the journey of Amazon where Tulio and Linda are working on saving rare birds and fighting against deforestation in Amazon....

Movie Reviews

Ankhon Dekhi Review: An Enjoyable Real World

Rajat Kapoor plays this submissive, respectful younger brother of Bau Ji (Sanjay Mishra) but what he has given to the movie in terms of story, writing, dialogues and direction is priceless....

Movie Reviews

Jyoti Babel on Insignificant: Poetic Reflections on the Vast Cosmos and Self
Thank you so much for your appreciation and kind words. Hume jab ehsaas hota hai ki is brahmand mein hum bindu matra bhi nahi hai, toh sab pareshaniya...
Madhu Verma on Insignificant: Poetic Reflections on the Vast Cosmos and Self
Jyoti, bahut hi acchi poem likhi hai tumne 👌 Brahmand ki vishalta aur insaan ke chhote hone ka ehsaas itne pyaare andaaz mein bayaan kiya hai... ...
Madhu Verma on Winning the Fastest Line Follower Trophy at Technoxian World Robotics Championship
Congratulations to budding robotics enthusiasts Ayush Gupta, Shrutika Negi, and Sampriti Bisht for winning the Fastest Line Follower Trophy at the Tec...
A K Nanda on Ei Korechho Bhalo Nithur He — English Translation of Tagore’s Song
Rajan Ji I'm extremely grateful for your comments on my translation of Tagore's poem of Geetanjali "Ei Korechho Bhalo". I had to do this on the insis...
NS Rajan on Ei Korechho Bhalo Nithur He — English Translation of Tagore’s Song
Nandaji. Namashkar. I have no knowledge of Bangla. But who hasn't heard of 'Geetanjali'? it is an irony that when I was in College in 1952, I won tw...