Amitoj Gautam

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Gender	Male
Location	New Delhi, Delhi, India
Interests	Reading and contemplating; Watching classical movies; Listening to music; and talking to select group of people in my world, I know as friends.
Favorite Movies	All movies of Al Pacino (The Godfather, Scent of A Woman, Carlito's Way, Scarecrow, Scarface, Two Bits, Serpico, Local Stigmatic, Panic in the Needle Park, Chinese Coffee, being the bestest among the bests.) and those of Aamir Khan (with few exceptions).... Among the rest: Apocalypse Now, On the Waterfront, Coversation, Rebecca, Ben-hur, Lawrence of Arabia, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Broeback Mountain, Rome, I am Sam, Mexican, Troy, Collateral, Save the Tiger, Unforgiven, The French Connection....... The list is too long.
Favorite Music	Anything that is soul-touching..... To be specific: Instrumental compositions by Thomas Newman, Nino Rota, Lisa Gerrard, Gustavo A. Santaolalla, Hans Zimmer and Giorgio Moroder being hot favorites... Besides, in percussion Talvin....
Favorite Books	One of my bosom friends and good sources for contemplation they are! Reading books on History, Geography and Contemporary Affairs was something I had to do perforce. However, it is classical English Literature per se which excites the most. Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, George Bernard Shaw, Jane Austen and Franz Kafka remain all time favorites..And, not to forget Freud and Simone d Beauvoir.. On to philosophy these days.....