Tis' the season of new genres. I recently read Cut Like Wound, a police procedural set in Bangalore, written by Anita Nair. The setting is quite novel, and the plot racy enough to keep one hooked. While the story is sometimes too dark for my tastes (spoiler alert: it has transgender abuse, child abuse, and gory details of gruesome murders), the characters make up for any flaws.
Inspector Borei Gowda is interesting, an alpha male trapped in a lifetime of mediocrity and bureaucracy. The story walks through his resurrection, which I liked quite a bit. He finds a girlfriend, bonds with his teenage son, and discovers a sidekick much like himself, all in the course of a few weeks. He also manages to re-discover his sex life (the sex is well written, I thought)!
Other than the characters, nothing much to remember the book by. However, I think this is probably the first book in the series, so will be looking out for the next installments.
Also saw Talaash (surprise, surprise! got tickets for it in Chennai!), the new Aamir Khan movie. Didn't know what it was when I went in. I had some vague idea from the promos that it would be a murder mystery, but turned out to be a disappointment in the end.
The plot was stale, to say the least, but the treatment was interesting. It is probably the first mainstream attempt to create Indian noir cinema. Well acted, too (Rani Mukerji was especially masterful), though I just wish they had plugged the many holes in the story! Worth watching once, but nothing that will be remembered six months hence, in my view.
Inspector Borei Gowda is interesting, an alpha male trapped in a lifetime of mediocrity and bureaucracy. The story walks through his resurrection, which I liked quite a bit. He finds a girlfriend, bonds with his teenage son, and discovers a sidekick much like himself, all in the course of a few weeks. He also manages to re-discover his sex life (the sex is well written, I thought)!
Other than the characters, nothing much to remember the book by. However, I think this is probably the first book in the series, so will be looking out for the next installments.
Also saw Talaash (surprise, surprise! got tickets for it in Chennai!), the new Aamir Khan movie. Didn't know what it was when I went in. I had some vague idea from the promos that it would be a murder mystery, but turned out to be a disappointment in the end.
The plot was stale, to say the least, but the treatment was interesting. It is probably the first mainstream attempt to create Indian noir cinema. Well acted, too (Rani Mukerji was especially masterful), though I just wish they had plugged the many holes in the story! Worth watching once, but nothing that will be remembered six months hence, in my view.
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