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...fireplace and the chimney, lifted floorboards, climbed onto the roof, fished in the water tank under the ceiling and crawled under the floor. Darkness had long descended on the city when they decided to dig up the garden. They switched on the terrace lights and started digging. The damp, ash-covered lawn was trampled into a sea of mud; all the flower beds were dug up, and spades were sunk into the earth around the shrubs. They even pulled plants out of their pots. But they found nothing, for nothing was there to be found. In the end, physical exhaustion...
...author could never have imagined when his house at Bermagui burned to the ground. Partly caused by a faulty gas line, the inferno spared little?"there were twisted metal things for the fridge and the gas stove," Hall recalls, "but other than that there was just nothing, just ash." While the eldest of his three daughters, the house's sole occupant at the time, escaped, part of Australia's literary heritage was not so lucky. Gone were many of Hall's slavishly hand-written manuscripts and letters, including his lifelong correspondence with English writer Robert Graves. Fire couldn't erase...
...life story. And unlike Kane, this movie dispenses with the muckraking for hagiography. The Ambani estate is protective of its founder's legacy, but at least two members of the family gave their blessing to Guru's stars: Dhirubahi's son Anil Ambani, chairman of Reliance Capital, attended the Ash-Abhishek engagement party with his wife, the former Bollywood actress Tina Munim...
...2hr.46min. film Ratnam lays out the story with cool assurance, making room for five Rahman songs, all worth further hearings. (I can't stop humming the wedding song, and don't want to.) Dance numbers aren't crucial to a Ratnam movie, but there are a few here anyway. Ash's big number is a compendium of Bollywood visual tropes (no, let's be honest and say cliches): she dances in the rain, through a temple, by a waterfall, moving with more energy than rhythm and getting whiplashed by her pigtail. Much more satisfying is an early turn...
...Ash's film eminence remains a mystery. No question she's pretty, but she's more an actress-model than a model actress. In Guru she's mainly ornamentation. For most of the film, Gurukant's and Sujatha's marriage is a montage of goodbyes (as he dashes off to cinch another deal) and hellos (as he returns in triumph or in peril). Their relationship has plenty of affection - "You shine as beautifully as polyester," he tells her fondly - but not much heat. Curiously, the movie's most intense, honest physical emotion is between Madhavan and Balan. Their kiss when...