Category: Quick Links
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Summer, Rahman and Hanuman Chalisa
Chennai is getting ready for yet-another-hot-summer. Today was even worse. With the sun hitting hard, a chap was pushing his cylinder filled tri-cycle with barefoot, up the Doraiswamy subway. Life moves on. Had to do some good amount of packing/unpacking stuff today, at home. A R Rahman gave a helping hand. You probably got that…
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Anniyan’ji’, Where is Mumbai Xpress ?
Tata Telefilms ties up with Sivaji Films on the Chandramukhi marketing. The similar effort by Pepsi for Rajini’s BABA which costed nearly 25 lakhs(?). 75,000 Sq Ft of hoarding space in Chennai alone. I never heard anything like this. the biggest effort until now was for Kamal Hassan‘s Aalavandan. Pity the Chennai traffic. Did watch…
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Friday Quickies
Channel [V] ropes in A R Rahman and Adnan Sami for the final-phase auditions of Super Singer contest. Handful of them would certainly get a chance to sing ARR’s compositions. Lucky them. Marriage inisde the family. Dum Dum Dum to Hotmail and Outlook. Will anybody stop loving Raymond even after they are done by May…
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Amitav Andaman and Amrish
Amitav Ghosh, the writer of The Calcutta Chromosome, writes to The Hindu about his experiences on The Tsunami disaster in Andaman as a three-part series. Amrish ‘Mogambo’ Puri passes away. In pictures. His last film was Kamal’s yet-to-be-released Mumbai Express. This year’s Bhogi went without fogging any flights and the traffic. It’s improving every year.…
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Not just Tsunami; also geeks
What is here is nowhere else; what is not here, is nowhere. If that sounds like Rajinikanth‘s quote, it isn’t. It is Mahabharata. Shashi Tharoor exposits on the rivetting epic, Mahabharata. Looks like the column would run into weeks, keep watching that space if you are interested. And you thought software engineers just did coding.…