Month: August 2004
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They call me MR. GLASS – The Night’s Might
[Pic: imdb.com] Manoj Night Shyamalan‘s Village isn’t still out in Chennai. But the promos have already started. Last week, Star Movies featured two nights of Night’s movies. The first one was his not-so-hit movie, Unbreakable. Unbreakable is unmistakably one of unnoticed Shyamalan’s movie that had an amazing surprise twist. Even Signs didn’t have a surprise…
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Sujatha blogs about blogs
Writer Sujatha‘s blog(thanks to desikan for that trivia), Katrathum Petrathum, in Ananda Vikatan is up for it’s third serving, two weeks back. For those who have read Sujatha‘s previous two series of Katrathum Petrathum, would know what to expect. So expectedly in the current issue, he blogs about the concept of blogging and compares it…
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Being #2, Avis Cars and Tamil film music…
Guest Blog #32 – Anand C The piece, “What should you do if you are #2?” which I got to from Marketing Playbook, got me thinking… As Laura Ries says in this post, Avis is one of the most memorable #2 campaigns (some other examples are also listed), focussing on why they are different from…
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Looking back…looking forward…
Guest Blog #31 – Anand C I’ve been getting into several conversations about why I blog… in an attempt to try and answer that question, here’s a compilation of the things I’ve been intrigued by, as represented by past blogs: Co-Blogs with LazyGeek: (World Themes for Indian Cinema) 1. The Man Who Saw Infinity –…
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You may say I’m a dreamer!
Guest Blog #30 – Anand C We’ve all heard the “graduation speech” bit in most schools about the need for the young to dream. But it’s interesting to see Ms. Marilee Jones, the Dean of Admissions at MIT, integrate “day-dreaming” more of a criteria in the application process. More importantly, kudos to her for coming…