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My Activities for Weeks 3rd and 4th of June 2016

Things I did in last two weeks while being bedridden: a) Watched Two of Johnny Depp's most recent movies (not that wonderland one) : Black Mass (A Must Watch) and Donald J. Trump's Art of Dealing (If you wanna watch how Depp could possibly look like Donald Trump......if you go with my words, he has absolutely killed it) b) Watched 'Zootopia'.........it's surprisingly good!!!! c) Watched 'Salt n Pepper' (Malyalam) and Sairat (Marathi): Both are certificates to the fact that how good our regional cinema is doing!!! d) Watched FAN.....why because Pakistanis loved it......I didn't get the logic but Shah Rukh as Gaurav Chandna was fantastic and unmissable!!!! e) Watched Game of Thrones last two episodes....immensely satisfying television.....couldn't complain......couldn't be more overjoyed!!!! (Hope to follow on this one later) f) Read tonnes of articles on Brexit and yes, it did happen!!!! g) Watched Copa America Final (my first major

Is Game of Thrones 'Season 6' a Bollywood Production?

Yeah, it's been a while. Let's start with GoT S06 E08. This whole season has been so disappointing and frustrating that given a suitable option, I would really like to hang on but let's go on for a while. Daenaris Targaryan gets kidnapped by her baby dragon and drops her off in Khal Dothrak. She comes back to Meeren after burning everything and with whole lot of Dothraki soldiers. Anything surprising???? Arya Stark decides to be a STARK again and makes her wishes known to Jaqen H'Ghar (It's really an exotic name). He decides to drop her off the hook instead via Waif. Waif is a lusty killer but she really can't kill Baby Arya. This is Bollywood stuff, really and It's Waif's face that gets hung on one of the pillars of 'House of Black and White'. But what's really is this 'House of Black and White' anyway? Surprises, not really!!!! OK.....Who is this Breyndan 'The Blackfish' Tully? During Episode 5, Ser Davos Seaworth, former

Jonathan Pryce: An Enviable Acting Genius

I first came across Jonathan Pryce while watching 'Glengarry Glen Ross'. He was there in a scene with Pacino where Pacino, playing a real estate salesman's character, tries to convince Pryce, his prospective client about buying a USD 500,000 property. Pryce was there in the film for only about 20 minutes and still in a film clouded by the presence of heavyweights such as Ed Harries, Pacino, Alec Baldwin, Alan Arkin, Kevin Spacey and Jack Lemmon, he leaves an indelible mark on viewers' psyche. I have written this past sentence on basis of my memory which at that time dictated Pryce was a lightweight. I'm comparably enlightened now. Jonathan Pryce was never a lightweight. Like Pacino, stage had always been his preference and cinema, only a means for playing bills. His protruding eyes and angular figure were never fit to make him a bona fide movie star in Hollywood but he has become a very respectable stage giant in USA and UK. TV was also never his media but in a move