Emma Watson

Emma Watson, born on 15 April 1990. She is an English actress, model, and activist.
Watson known for her character Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film series, appearing in all eight Harry Potter films from 2001 to 2011.

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Movie Reviews: Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows - Part 2

Movie Review “Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows – Part 2” (2011)

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Director: David Yates

Language: English

Writers: Steve Kloves (Screenplay), J. K. Rowling (Novel)

Star Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Ralph Fiennes, Alan Rickman, Helena Bonham Carter and others

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, is the final adventure in the Harry Potter film series. The movie series we all following for about 10 years now, have ended with this movie. In this epic finale, we will see the battle between the good and evil forces. The whole wizarding world is at war. Harry Potter may have to sacrifice himself to finish Lord Voldemort. But one thing is for sure ‘It all ends here’.
This is final movie based on J.K. Rowling’s novel series. I am huge fan of Harry Potter literature but some of the movies were not up to the mark. But last two parts of these movies are excellent. Deathly Hallows – Part 1 was my favorite of this series till I saw the second part. This part has everything action, emotional drama, mystery and very well managed special effects.
Overall the movie series was really entertaining and satisfying. The success of this movie series was in it casting. Each and every character was perfectly casted and each one of them gave brilliant performance. But the casting of Harry Potter, Harmione, and Ron was absolutely brilliant so was their performances along with Lord Voldermot.
The Art directors, costume designers, Special effects Designer and all the technicians made these movies wonderful experience. But ‘It All Ends Here’.

If I have to rate this movie I will give 9 out of 10.

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Movie Review: NO STRINGS ATTACHED

Genre: Romantic Comedy

Director: Ivan Reitman

Language: English

Story: Michael Samonek, Elizabeth Meriwether

Screenplay: Elizabeth Meriwether

Star Cast: Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Kevin Kline, Cary Elwes and others

 I had to admit, I watched this movie because Ashton Kutcher is in it. He is like a veteran now in Romantic Comedy movies but I like his “Butterfly Effect” the most. I like this actor.
To tell you what this movie is about, as the title says “No Strings Attached”, it is a story of 2 people who don’t want to get into any relationship. They just want physical relationship and no emotional attachment. But can they sustain it?
Adam played by Ashton Kutcher and Emma played by Natalie Portman first meet at camp, then several years later, at a party. Several years after that Adam has been dumped by a hot girlfriend and not just dumped she dumped him for his father. Adam drinks himself silly and next morning he finds himself naked in Emma's apartment, where she stays with her roommates. They have sex, next day Adam approach Emma to take one step forward but Emma is not interested in relationship. Instead she proposes that they should be using each other for sex without any emotional attachment. Adam obviously agrees and they have raunchy sex for days. You will think Adam will be happiest person in the world. But no he wants more; he wants to be in relationship with Emma. Will Emma agree? We will find that out end of the movie.

There are no dull moments in the movie as such. Like any other romantic comedy, this is light hearted entertaining movie. Both actors are pleasing to eyes and carried the role easily.

If I have to rate this movie I will give it 6 out of 10.

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Book Review: "THE GOOD MAN JESUS & THE SCOUNDREL CHRIST"

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BOOK REVIEW “The Good Man Jesus & The Scoundrel Christ”

Author: Philip Pullman

Genre: Fiction, Religious

Language: English

Pages: 245

Cost: 499 Rs.

Publisher: Penguin Books

First Published: 2010

“The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ” is a controversial novel with equally controversial title. Not surprisingly the author Philip Pullman has to bear the brunt of Christian fundamentalist and received lots of hate mails and death threats. Author Philip Pullman tries to retell the story of Jesus Christ in very different way than the holy bible. He portrayed Jesus Christ not as one person but two people. Two brothers with names "Jesus" & "Christ". These two have very contrasting personalities from each other. Jesus is a moral and godly man. And his brother Christ is a calculating figure who wishes to use Jesus' legacy to found a powerful institution of Church. So with this perspective and these two characters he retold the same story.

As expected the book has attracted lot of controversy and criticism from fundamentalist. Although I am not Christian and not an expert on Bible, I was aware of Christ story as many of us are. So reading this different perspective was interesting and I will suggest everyone to read this book. What author did in this book is highlighted the positives and negatives of Christianity. He is not denying Jesus being good noble man or godly person; but he is highlighting the deficiency in institution of Church. He is stressing the fact that all greats are defeated by their own followers.

It is a Must Read Book. If I have to rate this book I will give it 8 out of 10.

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Book Review: The Murder on The Links

Author: Agatha Christie

Genre: Fiction, Mystery

Language: English

Pages: 319

Publisher: Harper Collins

First Published: 1923

“The Murder on the Links” is another detective fiction by Agatha Christie. It is as good as any of her work and must read for every Agatha Christie fans, even if you are not fan of her work you will surely enjoy this book. No one writes Mystery detective novels better than her.

Anyone who is familiar with Agatha Christie will be aware of her famous detective character Hercule Poirot. In this book, one day Poirot is visited by his friend Captain Hastings eager to tell him about a woman with whom he has fallen in love on the train from Paris. Meanwhile Poirot finds an extraordinary letter in his mails which came from France, requesting him to come immediately.  But when they reach France following the letter he finds the man who wrote him a letter Mr. Renauld is already dead. Poirot did not come on time to save the man; but now he takes it upon himself to unravel the mystery surrounding the death and find the responsible person.

As I said earlier no one is better in handling the mystery than Agatha Christie. She had put together this one so brilliantly that I enjoyed every page, every word of the novel and I was really eager to get through the pages as soon as possible. I could not keep the book down before finishing it. I am sure you will have the same experience. It is a Must Read Book. If I have to rate this book I will give it 10 out of 10.

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Must Read Books .......... Part 11

 

101.     Book Name: “Aelgar”

Language: Marathi

Author: Shri. Na. Pendase

Genre: Fiction

Pages: 132

Cost: 120 Rs.

Publisher: Majestic Prakashan

First Published in India: July 1949

 

102.      Book Name: “The Murder on The Links”

Language: English

Author: Agatha Christie

Genre: Novel, Mystery

Pages: 319

Publisher: Harper Collins

First Published: 1923

 

103.      Book Name: “The Good Man Jesus and The Scoundrel Christ”

Language: English

Author: Philip Pullman

Genre: Novel

Pages: 245

Cost: 499/-

Publisher: Penguin Books

First Edition: 2010

 

104.      Book Name: “Romerajya 1 – Amsterdam Te Rome”

Language: Marathi

Author: Meena Prabhu

Genre: Travel Diaries

Pages: 343

Cost: 300/-

Publisher: Mauj Prakashan

First Edition: 1^st May 2009

 

105.      Book Name: “The Curse of The Goddess”

Originally in: Bengali

Author: Satyajit Ray

Translated in English by: Gopa Mazumdar

Genre: Fiction, Mystery

Cost: 99 Rs.

Publisher: A Puffin Original

First Published: 2003

 

106.      Book Name: “Gatha Irani”

Language: Marathi

Author: Meena Prabhu

Genre: Travel Diaries

Pages: 374

Cost: 300 Rs.

Publisher: Mauj Prakashan Gruh

First Published: 6^th April 2008

 

107.      Book Name: “Kosla”

Language: Marathi

Author: Bhalachandra Nemade

Genre: Fiction

Pages: 265

Cost: 225 Rs.

Publisher: Popular Prakashan

First Published: 1963

 

108.      Book Name: “Romerajya 2 – Naples Te Venice”

Language: Marathi

Author: Meena Prabhu

Genre: Travel Diaries

Pages: 327

Cost: 300 Rs.

Publisher: Mauj Prakashan Gruh

First Published: 2^nd May 2009

109.      Book Name: “Draksh Aani Rudraksh”

Language: Marathi

Author: Subhash Bhende

Genre: Humor

Pages: 136

Cost: 25 Rs.

Publisher: Shrividya Prakashan

First Published: 15^th August 1983

 

110.            Book Name: “The Sunset Club”

Language: English

Author: Khushwant Singh

Genre: Fiction

Pages: 218

Cost: 399 Rs.

Publisher: Penguin Viking 
First Published: 2010

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