All posts tagged: Moderately

D Gukesh Starts Moderately In Freestyle Chess Grand Slam

D Gukesh Starts Moderately In Freestyle Chess Grand Slam

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World Champion D Gukesh began his campaign at the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam tour with three draws and a lone loss, signalling that he is gradually coming to terms with the new format. A brainchild of World’s number one Magnus Carlsen and German entrepreneur Jan Henric Buettner, the freestyle chess event marks the beginning of what could be a permanent fixture for professional chess players despite a showdown with FIDE, the world’s apex chess body. Freestyle basically is a new name given to what was known as the Fischer random chess — the name attributed to the 11th world champion Bobby Fischer who advocated this format that has the chess pieces randomly set up at the start of the game instead of conventional chess that sees a fixed alignment of forces on both sides. Since there are 960 different ways to set up the board initially, Fischer random chess gradually became chess 960 and now sees its latest avatar called the freestyle chess by the promoters of this new format. Gukesh, the youngest …

Kho Gaye Hum Kahan Review: Moderately Entertaining And Occasionally Perceptive

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A still from Kho Gaye Hum Kahan. (courtesy: YouTube) The protagonists of Kho Gaye Hum Kahan, directed by debutant Arjun Varain Singh from a script he wrote with Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti, are digital natives struggling to stay abreast of, and cope with, the real world. Their impulses and actions, both private and public, are mediated, or directly impacted, by social media. On the face of it, their life, as reflected through the tints and filters of their reels and posts, brims with fun and games. Imaad Ali (Siddhant Chaturvedi), Ahana Singh (Ananya Panday) and Neil Pereira (Adarsh Gourav), in their 20s and thick as thieves – are ensconced in a bubble that is only a punch away from being punctured. The three appear to have lots of friends and exciting escapades. Scratch the surface and they are lonely souls with no dearth of problems. Severely limited attention spans make them vulnerable to hasty moves, topsy-turvy relationships and delusional surmises. Kho Gaye Hum Kahan, a moderately entertaining and occasionally perceptive Netflix film produced by …

Tarla Review: Moderately Scrumptious With Huma Qureshi In Piping-Hot Form

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Huma Qureshi in Tarla. (courtesy: iamhumaq) Tarla Dalal famously used many non-veg recipes – Murgh Musallam and Chicken 65 are specifically mentioned in this movie about her life and times – to rustle up vegetarian dishes with potatoes and cauliflowers. But Tarla, directed and co-written by Piyush Gupta and streaming on Zee5, could have done with some meat. A diligently structured slice-of-life drama about a celebrated real-life exponent of the art of vegetarian cooking, Tarla brings to the screen the struggles and successes of a middle-class Mumbai homemaker who churned out bestselling cookbooks while she juggled her domestic chores in pre-liberalisation India. Dangal and Chhichhore screenwriter Gupta’s directorial debut, the Tarla Dalal biopic has a fair sprinkling of drama but it thrives especially on its quieter moments, on the negotiations that take place within a marriage, in a society and during an era when life wasn’t easy for women seeking opportunities to make a name for themselves beyond the gender roles they were buttonholed into. The screenplay by Gupta with Gautam Ved is aimed at …