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  • June 19, 2004

    Week in Review – Once upon a time…

    Guest Blog #17 – Anand C

    One of my favorite professors had an interesting ability to combine many things in one story / train of thought – often starting from something fairly random. Left one with the feeling that everything was connected. For instance his compilation of some of the week’s interesting news items might sound like this (Click on the links to go into the news items):

    This post, passed on birthday wishes…
    to late Prof. Richard Feynman,
    who worked at Los Alamos,
    on what became the A-bomb…
    Built on physics principles of Einstein…
    who in his writings mentioned Gandhi,
    as the greatest that walked the face of the earth.
    And urged people to ‘Think Different’, and was used,
    in a campaign by a company named after a fruit
    Called Apple, whose boss has a side project,
    Pixar, which recently stopped negotiating with Disney…
    that stopped distribution of a controversial film
    on recent events and George W Bush.
    Who was in Normandy to speak,
    at the 60th anniversary of D-Day (June 6)
    where 9,500 soldiers sacrificed their lives.
    And need to be remembered!

  • June 18, 2004

    Living in India; Looking at Boys & Girls

    Shankar’s Boys created ripples in Tamil Nadu. Having recieved some real bad, screwed-up reviews from the media, Boys failed to click in the Box-Office and fell as a prey to the media games.

    Now, after more than 8 months of the release of Boys, I get this review in my mail box from a person who calls himself Kabbaadiwala. Also he mentions, Kabbadiwala refers to waste collector as stated in a Tagore’s shortstory. He names this as a rare review of boys instead of a rave review.

    Having read it, I found myself amazed. The first couple of paragraphs gave me a notion that it is going to be a serious and a profound one. But as the writer eases himself into the Boy’s colloquial tone itself, it becomes a comical read. Reviews can also be written so comically with lots of in-depth meanings to it. With very less grammar and sentence formation, this review offers an insight into the movie. Though at many places, I couldn’t agree with the thoughts of the writter, it needed to be published for the public consumption.

    So here goes Kabbadiwala and his rare review of Boys. I disclaim this review and leave it to kabbadiwala to answer the comments, if any.

    (more…)

  • June 18, 2004

    On Coincidence…

    Guest Blog #16 – Anand C

    “can the loud clap of a cymbal change everything?”
    – ‘The man who knew too much’ (1956)

    “a large van coming across the street, onto a slab of glass, Lola and her boyfriend fleeing from the police…”
    – Run Lola Run (1999)

    “…discovering a little box of playthings that some child hid away decades ago… everything associated with childhood will one fit one day fit in a little box… is the way to true happiness improving the lives of everyone around you?”
    – Amelie (2001)

    “what if there are no conicidences?”
    – Signs (2002)

    “three youth. from three different strata. meet on the Napier bridge. their lives change irrevocably…”
    – Aayitha Ezhuthu (2004)

  • June 17, 2004

    Appidi Podu becomes a Manmatha Rasa

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    Gilli‘s superhit song Appidi Podu is emerging as this year’s Manmatha Rasa. Topping the charts in all the countdowns, it is creating rockers in kollywood. Though it would be an exaggeration to call this as equivalent to the Manmatha Rasa fame, Appidi Podu is the hum-of-the-mouth in chennai.

    On an another note, I was watching Muthey Muththamma song from Ullasam in KTV yesterday. Just noticed that what a great singer we have in Kamalhassan. Especially they way he has huskily sung this song reminds me of what I felt while I heard Shankar Mahadevan‘s Sandana Thendralai from Kandukondain Kandukondain. It had the same fervour and passion. Karthick Raja had earlier told in an interview that it was real tough to make Kamal agree to sing this song.

    I can’t imagine someone singing this song except for Kamalhassan. He is one hell of a singer, unexploited.

  • June 17, 2004

    Farhan Akthar and his Lakshya

    Farhan Akthar’s Lakshya is set to release this week. The movie has been hyped and expected just because of Dil Chahta Hai. Dil Chahta Hai tried to change the way people looked at bollywood films. Especially DCH But the expectation was ephemeral. Not many movies after DCH created the impact like what it did.

    Out of a blue, on one fine saturday, if you are lazing through channels and you see this tall guy Hritik Roshan dancing like a Prabhu Deva in the recent super hit Main Aisa Kyon Houn. Especially those clandestinely beautiful Bharathnatyam movements where Hritik moves his fingers like scissors across his eyes, are certainly prabhu deva like ones. When I finally learnt that it was Prabhu Deva who composed the choreography, I couldn’t resist my curiosity. Now this is what Prabhu Deva’s uniqueness. He can add those magical movements even to a rather monotonous song.

    Recently, during a talk show called The Lounge show in CNBC TV18, Farhan Akthar displayed absolute discipline and was very level headed, unlike many of his contemporaries. Simone D Singh who hosted the show was a show-off. With he not-so-glamorous-and-not-so-natural smile, she was parroting Frahan and kep me irritating. But Farhan maintained his cool even when Simone jumped sky high while mentioning about his wife who did the neo-urban hairdressing for the Dil Chahta Hai guys.

    However, I didn’t like the feel of Dil Chahta Hai. It was very unnatural, especially the interiors and the story. But Aamir and Saif Ali Khan played their roles, appreciably well. The interiors, Aamir’s french beard and the Jaane Kyon Log Pyaar Karte song all inspired Kamalhassan in Panchathanthiram. Looking at the promos for Lakshya, it looks like Farhan Akthar has a long way to go. FYI, he also does the lyrics for Bend it like Beckam fame Gurinder Chadha’s latest flick Bride and Prejudice.Are you asking, what about Hritik Roshan?. Thats slightly doubtful.

    Read this interesting profile of Farhan in Outlook, here.

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