Cast: Tom Cruise, Andrea Riseborough, Olga Kurylenko
Director: Joseph Kosinski
The new Tom Cruise starrer 'Oblivion' borrows from so many films, you could start a game of "spot-the-reference" the moment you settle into your seat. There's a little 'Total Recall', 'Minority Report', 'Moon' and 'Wall-E' in there, while the mid-air action scenes have a distinct 'Top Gun' feel to them.
It's a stylish-looking sci-fi set in a not-so-distant future where the Earth has been more or less destroyed after a war with an alien race. Much of the planet has been turned into a radioactive wasteland, and the surviving population has been transported to Titan, Saturn's largest moon, where they must start afresh. Cruise plays Jack Harper, a blue-collar repairman responsible for maintaining the fleet of drones that patrol the lifeless planet. Jack and his wife Victoria (Andrea Riseborough), who live in a space-ship like house that floats high above the clouds, are the Earth's last remaining residents. Their mission - mining the planet for its remaining resources - will be completed in two weeks' time, after which the couple will head to Titan to join other humans. But then Jack rescues a mysterious woman (Olga Kurylenko) from the remains of a shot-down spacecraft, and it leads him to a colony of supposedly alien 'scavengers' that reveal a disturbing truth....
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11:07 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Police in Bihar are searching for eight doctors charged with dereliction of duty following complaints they abandoned survivors who needed medical assistance during devastating floods more than four years ago, police said. ...
05:52 PM, Mar 05, 2013
Army Chief General Bikram Singh met slain Indian soldier Lance Naik Hemraj Singh's family in Kosi Kalan in Uttar Pradesh, two days after the martyr's wife broke her fast. Hemraj was killed and was beheaded on January 8 by Pakistani troops in an alleged ceasefire violation by Pakistan in the Poonch sector. ...
12:20 PM, Jan 16, 2013
Boston: A federal judge on Tuesday ordered state prison officials to provide a taxpayer-funded sex-reassignment surgery to a transgender inmate serving life in prison for murder. US District Judge Mark Wolf ruled in the case of Michelle Kosilek, who was born as a man but has received hormone treatments and lives as a woman in an all-male prison. Robert Kosilek was convicted of murder in the killing of his wife...
08:42 AM, Sep 05, 2012
Mathura: The BJP on Wednesday demanded a judicial probe into the recent clashes between two communities in Kosi Kalan town near Mathura, which claimed four lives and left 16 others injured. "Why is the government avoiding a judicial inquiry into the riots? One-sided action by the administration will not be tolerated," senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh told reporters in Kosi Kalan. "If the administration is found to be at fault,...
10:50 PM, Jun 13, 2012
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government has transferred two senior officials in Mathura following the communal riots that left four people dead, an official said. Mathura District Magistrate (DM) Sanjay Kumar and the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Dharamveer were transferred on June 3. According to a government spokesperson, Alok Tiwari has been appointed as the new DM and N.R. Padmaja as the new SSP of Mathura. The two officials have...
12:34 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Mathura: A fight over the usage of water kept in front of a religious place turned into a full-blown fight between two groups in the Kosi Kalan town near Mathura in Uttar Pradesh. The resulting violence led to the death of four people and left 16 others injured. Over 100 houses were gutted in the arson that followed. The incident took place at around 1:30 pm and resulting violence continued...
09:30 PM, Jun 02, 2012
Patna: Differences continued to dog the political parties in Bihar over naming of the newly-constructed Kosi bridge giving new lifeline to Mithilanchal region. State Youth Congress president Lalan Kumar and former MP Ranjit Ranjan on Saturday said they would petition Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union Surface Transport Minister C P Joshi soon to name it after veteran socialist leader B P Mandal. While Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Vinodanand...
02:25 PM, Feb 11, 2012
Bhagalpur: Floods have not only rendered thousands homeless in Bihar but has also damaged crops and snapped road communication at several places. Sunita Devi, a resident of Bhagalpur which is reported to be one of the worst affected areas, has been through the worst trauma a woman can undergo. Stranded in a make-shift flood relief camp, she had to give birth to her daughter six days back, without any medical...
07:30 AM, Sep 01, 2011
Patna: The World Bank on Wednesday granted a loan of $220 million for the rehabilitation of those hit by the 2008 Kosi floods in Bihar. The money will be used for building 1 lakh houses, 90 bridges and 290 kilometers of road apart from setting up disaster management cells. Over three million people were affected by the Kosi floods which hit Bihar in 2008. The World Bank is giving Bihar...
04:33 PM, Jan 12, 2011
Patna: World Bank chairman Robert B Zoellick would be on a two-day visit to Bihar from Wednesday on the occasion of signing of an agreement with Bihar government for a Rs 1000 crore soft loan for rebuilding areas affected by the 2008 Kosi floods. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said that Zoellick would be present during the signing of the agreement on Wednesday. The loan would facilitate reconstruction of about 1...
06:06 PM, Jan 11, 2011
BJP dares Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to end alliance in the state. ...
09:09 AM, Jun 21, 2010
Nitish snubbed Modi in public but failed to draw support as other parties feel he took the matter a little too far. ...
08:25 PM, Jun 19, 2010
The spat between Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his Gujarat counterpart Narendra Modi has taken an ugly turn. The Bihar government has returned Rs 5 crore, which was given by Gujarat for Kosi flood relief, just a few days after Nitish cancelled a dinner in honour of BJP leaders in Patna. During the recent BJP national executive in Patna, some Bihari youth working in Gujarat had published advertisements in local newspapers thanking Modi for helping Bihar during the 2008 Kosi floods. Kumar had termed this claim "uncivilised", saying any gesture of help should not be proclaimed publicly and threatened to return the unspent amount to Gujarat. Is Nitish's move purely an electoral one?
05:10 PM, Jun 19, 2010
The Bihar government on Saturday returned Rs 5 crore that was given by Gujarat for Kosi flood relief. ...
11:12 AM, Jun 19, 2010
Nitish Kumar launched a frontal attack on the Gujarat CM saying Bihar will return the aid given by Gujarat. ...
11:10 PM, Jun 12, 2010
Bihar CM was upset with an advertisement published by the BJP which claimed that Modi helped Bihar during floods. ...
04:15 PM, Jun 12, 2010
Nitish Kumar denies allegations of mismanagement during Kosi floods. ...
10:21 AM, Jan 27, 2010
Indian wagon-maker Jessop and Company Ltd will undertake the project. ...
07:50 PM, Jul 08, 2009
