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Agatha Christies Hercule Poirot – Appointment with death

October 16th, 2008

The much-awaited episode “Appointment with Death” of Hercule Poirot reminded me of “The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb” and “Murder in Mesopotamia”. It took some effort to get the video of this episode after lot of tough hunt on Internet.

However, this story did not live up to my expectations, and unfortunately, it could not create the ripples similar to some of my favorite older episodes of Poirot. The story starts with a man digging out ancient ruins of “Petra”, and a mystical ancient fable of man on a horse is used in the backdrop about this man meeting his death while roaming in desert. All Agatha Christie stories that are based on Middle Eastern and Arabia show the same stuff where group of Arabic men’s are digging. British people are portrayed as careless people roaming, drinking, and kissing. Anyways, it is well understood as all the stories have been penned in 30’s of the colonial period, as most of the archaeological discoveries were happening in that period could have left major impression in the mind of the writer.

“Appointment With Death” takes us to a Holy Land tour of Petra in 1937, first showing the busy reception area of the “King Solomon Hotel” in Jerusalem and then at a tourism camp at Petra. The tour group is primarily consists of Southern-bred Americans and Brits, making for an interesting mix of well-developed accents.

Lord Boynton an archaeological head working in Petra invites his family and friends to visit the digging site. Suddenly one afternoon among the towering red cliffs and historic ruins of Petra, the dead body of Mrs. Boynton is found. Poirot finds a tiny puncture mark, the only sign of the fatal injection that killed her, with blood and some wax. Suddenly Poirot recalls a statement that he overheard back in Jerusalem: “You do see, don’t you, that she’s got to be killed?” Yes, Mrs. Boynton was, indeed, the most hateful woman Poirot had ever met. Poirot finds the killer amongst many suspects including the adopted children’s of Boynton’s.

The whole episode is full of drama and the climax too ends with it. For the first time I see Poirot praying in night. Poirot in the last scene has been show like an angel who is caring and a person with lot of grit, the picturization was perfect for this scene.

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End of an era, Sourav Ganguly the best Indian Captain so far

October 9th, 2008

The announcement by Saurav Ganguly of his retirement has closed one of the best-written chapters in the history of Indian Cricket. In the beginning, I was not a fan of him right from the day he broke in to the scene i.e. his selection in the Indian Cricket team. I saw him first standing on the fence carrying a towel when was not selected for one of the match and yes he was the twelfth man.

This lad from the Bengal known to be a big hitter had different vision. He came into limelight with a debut century in series in England against England and won the hearts of all Indians, especially lot of Bengalis were attached to him by then. He still is the “Sultan” of off side and as said by Geoffrey Boycott, “The Prince of Kolkata”. Whenever I used to see him dancing down the track, it was sure that the ball is going to go outside the fence.

Right after becoming the captain of Indian cricket team, he gave more chances of the luxury of dressing room to his crop of young Turks, he also made sometimes Javagal Srinath and Anil Kumble sit in dressing room for his conviction Right or wrong. Ganguly was a man who stood for what he believed in.
Once India won Natwest trophy most of the people started believing in him, he was the person who along with his youthful Turks and experienced fighters like Dravid, Tendulkar took India to the Finals of World Cup. Millions of Indians living in India or abroad loved him for doing what they never could do or thought of doing. Millions found a sensational liberation in the way Sourav scripted his fairytale in the biggest stadia. Sourav Ganguly had walked on fire, Sourav Ganguly had become an icon.

At a time, when he would soon he gone, questions are buzzing. Will he remain the icon that he is today? Time is a cruel judge, history reverent, and people forgetful. I dont care, for me, Ganguly will remain the best cricketer that India has seen and produced ever.

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Agatha Christies Hercule Poirot – Cat among the pigeons

October 5th, 2008

This is the second episode that released on Itv1 this September and I must say it has been even better then Mr. McGinty’s dead. The story presents the most vibrant characters penned by Agatha Christie.

The hunger to watch more and more of Hercul Poirot has urged me to find different ways to get the latest and find the movies from where ever I can. The disappointment is that only two more episodes are left that includes most heard about “Appointment with Death”. I was very happy to find out most of the videos from season 1 to season 8 were available from a user in “Youtube”. The bad luck, suddenly one day I found all the videos were removed and that user was banned from “Youtube”, may be some one reported about them or may be it was an infringement of some copyright issues. Anyways, I started looking for different options, which included torrents.

Cat among the pigeons – Season 11 Episode 2

Miss Bulstrode, the founder headmistress of an English girls’ school “Meadowbank”, is notified in a informal discussion with one of the pupils parent that she has recognized someone at the school from her days in the intelligence service. Then there are series of murders and an attempt of murder, and Poirot is on hand to try to solve the mystery.

Poirot finds connections with a revolution in the Middle Eastern kingdom of Ramat and Prince Ali Yusuf’s missing jewels, and finally the cold-blooded killer. This episode has received overall 8.9 ratings on Tv.com. The episode for me should be the best, anyways I am awaiting release of “Appointment with Death”, as it is the one, which has received most number of votes.

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Agatha Chrisitie’s Hercule Poirot “Mrs McGinty’s Dead”

October 3rd, 2008

This has been aired on September 2008, the latest season 11 episode 1 of Hercule Poirot. This short movie has been aired on Itv (Exclusive to Britain).

David Suchet is looking older in comparison to the last season. I think world will always remember him as the “world’s most greatest detective”, despite portraying a virtual character he would remain the most life like depiction of a person who has the worlds most powerful “grey cells” to solve the most difficult murder mysteries.

The show begins with a trial of James Bentley for the murder of “Abigail McGinty”, the cleaner of Broadhinny who also took in Bentley as her lodger. The evidence is overwhelming and he is sentenced to hang. Superintendent of police “Spence” is not at all convinced, and feels the man is innocent, and so he visits Poirot, asking him to look into the case. Poirot then heads off to the village, where he becomes the paying guest of Maureen and Major Johnnie Summerhayes.

Ariadne Oliver, Poirot’s novelist friend, has also come to Broadhinny to work together on a stage adaptation of one of her novels with dramatist “Robin Upward”. With the clue of a bottle of ink purchased by the dead woman shortly before her death, Poirot searches Mrs. McGinty’s possessions and finds an edition of The Sunday Comet newspaper, where an article in relation to two women connected with famous murders has been cut out.

With the story are two photographs of the women. Poirot discovers that Mrs. McGinty had seen one of the photographs before, and knew to whom it belonged to. However, which woman was this case connected with goes in suspense? Checkout the way Poirot solves the mystery and how he saves James from being hanged.

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