Comments on: The Namesake http://filmiholic.com/2006/12/29/the-namesake/ Meri duniya - bilkul filmi Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:33:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: mrutyunjay http://filmiholic.com/2006/12/29/the-namesake/#comment-95826 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:12:23 +0000 http://filmiholic.com/2006/12/29/the-namesake/#comment-95826 hi........i have not seen the movie.......i just wanted to know the story.....i found this review....this is a good review........i also found a review in comingsoon.net That was really interesting one. I am giving link to it http://www.comingsoon.net/news/dvdreviewsnews.php?id=39534 hi……..i have not seen the movie…….i just wanted to know the story…..i found this review….this is a good review……..i also found a review in comingsoon.net That was really interesting one. I am giving link to it
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/dvdreviewsnews.php?id=39534

]]> by: The Namesake http://filmiholic.com/2006/12/29/the-namesake/#comment-30777 Mon, 19 Mar 2007 03:49:09 +0000 http://filmiholic.com/2006/12/29/the-namesake/#comment-30777 [...] The Namesake - reviewed on Filmiholic (spoiler warning, some elements of the story and plot are revealed). [...] […] The Namesake - reviewed on Filmiholic (spoiler warning, some elements of the story and plot are revealed). […]

]]> by: Amit http://filmiholic.com/2006/12/29/the-namesake/#comment-21511 Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:03:29 +0000 http://filmiholic.com/2006/12/29/the-namesake/#comment-21511 Hey nice to find a fellow movie blogger.I too wanna watch namesake but its not yet released in India(atleast not in Goa) Have heard great reviews of the movieand ur review does reinstate t5he movies worth. Hey do check out my personal cum entertainment blog in which i have a too write movie reviews. Can you add my site www.ktima.wordpress.com to your blogroll?????Let me know I shall then do the same.Thanks and once again your blog and reviews are real KEWL. Hey nice to find a fellow movie blogger.I too wanna watch namesake but its not yet released in India(atleast not in Goa)
Have heard great reviews of the movieand ur review does reinstate t5he movies worth.
Hey do check out my personal cum entertainment blog in which i have a too write movie reviews.
Can you add my site www.ktima.wordpress.com to your blogroll?????Let me know I shall then do the same.Thanks and once again your blog and reviews are real KEWL.

]]> by: Beth http://filmiholic.com/2006/12/29/the-namesake/#comment-20131 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:02:20 +0000 http://filmiholic.com/2006/12/29/the-namesake/#comment-20131 I loved the book (and cried) too; in college I took a class in US immigrant literature and have been interested in that genre ever since, so that was the context in which I thought about the Namesake. All of my ancestors have been in the US for over 150 years, if not way more, and I still found a lot of the emotions in the book really resonant, even if I missed some of them. The book made me so sad, with such a sense of people being torn. I'm with Carla; Gogol struck me as drifting in a lot of the book, although I was not decided on why that was, exactly (whether he was just one of those bright but detached people we all know, or whether it stemmed more pronounced-ly [?] from his relationship with his parents' culture). I loved the book (and cried) too; in college I took a class in US immigrant literature and have been interested in that genre ever since, so that was the context in which I thought about the Namesake. All of my ancestors have been in the US for over 150 years, if not way more, and I still found a lot of the emotions in the book really resonant, even if I missed some of them. The book made me so sad, with such a sense of people being torn. I’m with Carla; Gogol struck me as drifting in a lot of the book, although I was not decided on why that was, exactly (whether he was just one of those bright but detached people we all know, or whether it stemmed more pronounced-ly [?] from his relationship with his parents’ culture).

]]> by: Maleeha http://filmiholic.com/2006/12/29/the-namesake/#comment-19674 Fri, 29 Dec 2006 19:47:43 +0000 http://filmiholic.com/2006/12/29/the-namesake/#comment-19674 I cried when I read The Namesake. It was my mausi's life. She came to the US just like Ashima and everything, I mean everything Lahiri describes in the immigrant experience (naming, letter writing, dreaded midnight calls, missing home, etc) was the same for my mausi. I read this parts of this book out loud to her when she was undergoing cancer treatment. Reading this book gave me a once in a lifetime chance to connect with one of the most important women in my life. By reading it, she would go into these awesome flashbacks and trips down to memory lane. Now that she is in remission from her cancer, I'll take her to see the movie :) I cried when I read The Namesake. It was my mausi’s life. She came to the US just like Ashima and everything, I mean everything Lahiri describes in the immigrant experience (naming, letter writing, dreaded midnight calls, missing home, etc) was the same for my mausi. I read this parts of this book out loud to her when she was undergoing cancer treatment. Reading this book gave me a once in a lifetime chance to connect with one of the most important women in my life. By reading it, she would go into these awesome flashbacks and trips down to memory lane. Now that she is in remission from her cancer, I’ll take her to see the movie :)

]]> by: filmiholic http://filmiholic.com/2006/12/29/the-namesake/#comment-19665 Fri, 29 Dec 2006 18:02:34 +0000 http://filmiholic.com/2006/12/29/the-namesake/#comment-19665 Yes, I think I recall a similar sensation when reading the book, though not to the same extent as in the film. In her novel, I seem to remember a bit more of an interior monologue. There was quite a long discussion on Sepia Mutiny of the book too, have you seen it? Yes, I think I recall a similar sensation when reading the book, though not to the same extent as in the film. In her novel, I seem to remember a bit more of an interior monologue.

There was quite a long discussion on Sepia Mutiny of the book too, have you seen it?

]]> by: carla http://filmiholic.com/2006/12/29/the-namesake/#comment-19578 Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:35:29 +0000 http://filmiholic.com/2006/12/29/the-namesake/#comment-19578 Thank you for this review, Filmiholic. Your criticism of Kal Penn is interesting to me - you say "I found the presentation of Gogol as hollow.... I never got a sense that he was feeling or thinking much of anything." The reason this is interesting to me is that this is exactly how I felt about Gogol while I was reading the book; it's the reason I didn't quite care for the book as much as I wanted to (and hoped and expected to, after *Interpreter of Maladies*). Thank you for this review, Filmiholic. Your criticism of Kal Penn is interesting to me - you say “I found the presentation of Gogol as hollow…. I never got a sense that he was feeling or thinking much of anything.” The reason this is interesting to me is that this is exactly how I felt about Gogol while I was reading the book; it’s the reason I didn’t quite care for the book as much as I wanted to (and hoped and expected to, after *Interpreter of Maladies*).

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