Of all the people in the world, I took my brother to the film. We both took comfortable seats in a practically empty theatre and […]
Continue readingI’ve given money to the State’s exchequer! Have you?
This post is long overdue. Really long! So long that the proof of this incident has lost its colour. Anyway, it was a Saturday morning […]
Continue readingMynaa: But for the end!
I don’t get to watch too many films as and when they release for various reasons. So, I don’t get to write about them all […]
Continue readingThe rightful war of Ms Militancy!
Meena Kandasamy’s Ph.D. in Sociolinguistics and English Language Teaching is what initially got me interested. As jealous as I was, I google a bit and […]
Continue readingKo – the stereotypical political thriller!
The film begins with a ‘stunt scene’. A bank robbery and a journalist’s heroic act to help catch the miscreants. This establishes that the ‘hero […]
Continue readingMan behind Blossom Book House
By Me. Published on 19 Apr 2011, Citizen Matters From an engineering graduate to the owner of one of the most sought after second hand […]
Continue readingArundathi on another blog!
Hi all, I’ve posted my thoughts on Arundathi on my other blog! Please come back here for long detailed (mostly frustrated) reviews of new films. […]
Continue readingEasan
A couple of days too late as this comes, it is indeed a Women’s day post. It is about a truly disappointing film by Sasikumar […]
Continue readingYudham sei – A tough battle to sit through!
I kept wondering for the last few days if I should dare write this review for Yudham Sei. For all the dump that Mysskin gave […]
Continue readingAadukalam – the (un)fair playing field.
“Irene-u, I am lou you!” is one of those lines that will go down history books. And I mean it in a good way. Rooster […]
Continue readingIs China the new Russia?
This thought occurred to me while watching ‘Castle’ last evening. It’s the 6th or the 7th episode in the 3rd season which I don’t think […]
Continue readingMan Madhan Ambu
This is one of the two allegedly up-market watch-this-film-if-you-want-to-be-known-as-intelligent films I watched last weekend (the other one is Dhobi Ghat and that’s coming very soon […]
Continue readingToo bad we live ‘here’ ‘today’!
I’ve been for long, wanting to have a conversation without ‘baggage’. Not literally. I wanted to talk to someone who I knew well enough to […]
Continue readingThe innocence that is called ‘mental’ – Nandalala
Disclaimer: I did not watch the film in a theatre. I did not also watch it in one go. I am constrained by a 13.3” […]
Continue reading39 Steps – a laughter riot that tripped!
The 39 Steps – A comical adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock brought straight from the Broadway by Evam and precisely Bhargav Ramakrishnan. I haven’t watched the […]
Continue readingThe Sunset Club – A nonagenarian indigestion club!
The latest offering from the celebrated grand old man of Indian-English literature, ‘The Sunset Club’ is a nonagenarian’s rant about his intolerable indigestion and insatiable […]
Continue readingRatha Sarithiram – ‘Bloody’ Hell!
From an ironic beginning to a rather preachy end, nothing about Ratha Sarithiram was something I couldn’t have guessed would happen. The film begins with […]
Continue readingThe thing around your neck
Published earlier on www.ingoodbooks.com at http://www.ingoodbooks.com/125/the-thing-around-your-neck/ A collection of melancholy instances in the lives of Africans, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s ‘The thing around your neck’ is […]
Continue readingThe woman that wants to be grazed on!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlPL6M5Km1Y&w=480&h=390] I’ve not been intrigued and left in awe by any other other piece of literature in a long time. The day the music of […]
Continue readingYatha Praja, Thatha Raaja!
When I woke up this morning and realised that I am so ill that I can’t get out of my bed, I decided to do […]
Continue readingVa, Quarter Cutting – Laughs at who we are!
Just as I was writing another post about the film, I realised I was quite noticing PoMo elements in the film through every sentence I […]
Continue readingApe America!
Today, I was at the Bangalore office of a Technology Solutions company. The office is located in central Bangalore in a tall building in a […]
Continue readingSadistically addicted playboy!
Just as much as I want to write a blog post every single day, I find myself stuck in a conflict of what to write […]
Continue readingEndhiran, the male Robot!
This is that side of Tamil cinema that bothers me the most! Endhiran and the woman behind his rampage!
Continue readingBlogging for the joy of it
After a two yearlong hibernation from blogging, I realised what’s generally weird still remains normal to me. Before I took off to the UK with […]
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