Its a movie I could have easily missed - it has classic ingredients for cinematic ‘art-film’ repulsion. The DVD cover has a child star in a south Indian dance pose, from which we can easily construct the story… "a poor girl from a disadvantaged background (lower cast and/or no father 6 sisters) follows her dream…taking dance classes […]

Aamir Khan must have a guts of steel to have made such a risky film for his debut as a director. Taare Zameen Par, a film about Children, but NOT a children’s film (from his blog). The subject matter is borderline documentary, but almost well woven into a film. Why almost? Read on…
In the first […]

Report: Many U.S. Parents Outsourcing Child Care Overseas
 
I wonder if these parents realize the mental trauma the child has to go thro during the 3 day transit? Its sad to see the country slowly draining its moral values and replacing it with dollars & pennies saved.
Sad sad day!

Release Notes:
RAM UPGRADE v1.0, 2007:
Delivered on: September 06 2007
Accomplishments/Deliverables
  • The Project was delivered on-time and on-schedule.
  • Lightweight Client (7.4lbs/21in)
  • Strict compliance to StyleSheets.
Release Notes and Bugs:
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  • 99.99% all-night uptime guaranteed.
  • If Scheduled Uploads fails, see above.
  • Incompatible extensions (socks/caps) can […]

Here is a powerful little short film, it won the ‘Bronze Lion’ at Cannes. A real eye opener - wow!

A short interview with the actor-director Gajraj Rao

 
Adiradikaaran song was e-x-p-l-o-s-i-v-e !! Great picturization which fits the Rhythm to the "r" - it was adiraadi!
Obviously Superhero movies don’t need logic - anything can be added/subtracted as the hero’s image warrants. Add that to Shankar’s coerced exaggerated logics - you get a movie which is pure fun and time pass. I missed 2 […]

No No… Sooraj Barjatya didn’t copy Bubble so… what does the title mean?
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First let me explain what ‘Bubble’ is:
Bubble is a Steven Soderbergh movie which broke the standard industry release window. Release window is the time when the movie is shown in theaters to the time it gets released in home video market. It […]

Alaas… Gautam Menon seems to have taken the shortcut like AG Murugadoss. His latest film ‘Pachai Kili Muthucharam‘ seems to be an(other) adapation of the book “Derailed”. Hollywood has already made this movie with Clive Owen, Jennifer Aniston ‘Derailed (2005)’ and burnt its finger (meaning it was a massive flop).
My initial thought was “What a […]

Now my hometown temple, the famous grand Madurai Meenakshi Temple complex, is open to the worldwide web. Not just a website - but they are offering Online Poojas, and even sending prasadam’s to anywhere around the Globe.
Having grown up in Madurai, and the Meenakshi Temple was part of my early childhood. My Grandpa’s house have the greatest […]

Well, I saw the match live - and Lara has been unfairly portrayed in the media and elsewhere. They same Lara, who is one of the few guys who has a reputation of being a walker (without waiting for a verdict from the umpire, if he knows he is out - other being Adam Gilchrist). He has […]

[Review of Indian Film]
Watching SJ Surya’s “Aahaa”, though the story is fresh for Tamil audience (wait, before you pat him on the back, more on that in 3rd para), you wonder ‘what if’ scenarios - what if Vijay/Shaam had played lead in this movie? coz SJ Surya just sucks! His gimmicks, mimics and that horrible […]

Has Maniratnam signed on to direct Rs 300 crore The Mahabharta in a trilogy format, ala The Lord of the Rings ?
Hard to believe this Times of India report
But harder to believe is that Badshah Khan (Shah Rukh) and Amir Khan has signed up to play the lead - hmm… some things don’t add […]

Ismail Merchant the longstanding producer/director duo of classy independant films, died today in London. Indian born Merchant along with James Ivory, an American, made some 40 films together and won six Oscars spanning 4 decades. Infact, they are featured in The Guiness Book of records for longest standing partnership in films. Their movies were […]

Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s films are known for its music. 1942 A love Story (RD Burman), Kareeb (Anu Malik?), Mission Kashmir (Shakhar Ehsaan Roy) had extraordinary music. His latest film based on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyaya’s classic bengali novel Parineeta, simply rocks! Listen to it at Raaga.com.
Sonu Nigam croons, lulls, mesmerizes and Shreya Ghosal transports you 2 […]

One of the evergreen Indian films of all time - Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (The one with pure heart will conquer the girl) released in 1995 completed its 500th week in Bombay’s Maratha Mandhir Cinema Hall. Apparently it is still running full houses on weekends and public holidays!
This is the film that started the trend […]

I came across an indie movie ‘Let’s Talk’ from India at my local Mercer Island Library. The premises sounded interesting, so I picked it up last week and watched it yesterday. It is a small budget movie, shot with 3 actors and 2 rooms. I have a fascination with movies shot with limited resources, […]

Woohoo!! to be read like Homer’s “woohoo”
I can’t hold my excitement any longer. As it is apparent from the not so subtle title - you might have guessed it… yes…the Holy Grail for Photographers…National Geographic, yes, the real one - the one with bright canary yellow borders, contacted me to inform me that […]