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Endhiran Music Review – If Rahman Farts, is it Still Music?

 Reviews, Tamil Movies  80 Responses »
Jul 312010
 
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Enthiran Box Office – Unimpressive Average Gross

Enthiran Review – Orgy of Stupidity

Emmathitanga
Ayyo, Emmathitanga
(they’ve cheated us,
God, they’ve cheated us).

A BIG disappointment. :(

A.R.Rahman and Shankar have taken Tamil music fans for a ride with the Endhiran album.

Endhiran’s music is nowhere in the class of Rahman’s Slumdog Millionaire or his earlier work in Roja, Bombay, Kadhalan, Dil Se et al.

Not even in the Sivaji class, we tell ya.

None of the songs linger in the mind.

If you’re looking for melody, you’ll have better luck with the echo of your singing under the shower.

Question for Y’all Schmucks
Since we listened to the Endhiran album, a doubt, a big doubt is nagging us, gnawing at our very soul.

Say, if music director A.R.Rahman farts, do folks in Tamil Nadu still consider it music?

Help us out with the above question, please. We beseech you. ;)

It boggles the mind that just a couple of years back this Rahman fella was the toast of the Oscar and Grammy crowd.

Oh, what a fall!

Endhiran on iTunes
The songs of the Rajinikanth-Aishwarya Rai starrer Endhiran have made it to iTunes this morning.

A short while ago, we purchased the Endhiran album for $2.99.

Instead of releasing it as a music album on iTunes, the Think Music folks have launched it as an application on Apple’s iTunes App Store.

Does this mean we can’t play the tracks on our PC?

The swines. :(

Seven Tracks
The Endhiran album on iTunes has seven tracks:

* Pudhiya Manidha (6.10 min) – A slow number, sounds as if the track is being sung by the robot. ;)

S.P.Balasubramaniam, A.R.Rahman and Khatija Rahman have sung this number, perhaps the best of the worst.

Given the Endhira Endhira refrain, is this track the title number?

Sample of the lyrics:

Pudhiya Manidha
Boomikku Vaa

Eggai vaarthu
Silicon serthu
Vayarutti uyirutti
Hard diskil ninaivutti
…..
Endhira
Endhira

* Kadhal Anukkal (5.44 min) -  A lifeless, boring track helmed by Vijay Prakash and Shreya Ghoshal.

No, the music didn’t strike a chord with us. Not one bit.

Just felt like hurling our new iPhone 4 at the wall in frustration.

Sample of the lyrics:

Kaadhal annukal
Udambil ethannai?
Neutron electron
un Neela kannil motham ethanai?
Unnai ninaithal
Thisukkal thorum aasai sinthanai
Haiyyo…

* Irumbile Oru Idhaiyam (5.14 m)  – Plain Rubbish.

Ayyo, ayyo, yet another sub-mediocre track courtesy of A.R.Rahman and Kash n Krissy.

Sample of the lyrics:

You want to seal my kiss
Boy you can’t touch this
Everybody..Hypnotic Hypnotic…
Super Sonic..
Super Star can’t can’t can’t get this

Irumbile oru irudhaiyam mulaikkudho
……
iRobo un Kadhil
I love you sollatta?

* Boom Boom Robot da (4.27 min) – Noise.

And more noise.

This Robot da number made us so angry we refer to it privately here as the Boom Boom Lava da Boom Boom Lava da song. ;)

Hey, when did yelling become synonymous with music. Will someone please enlighten us.

Yogi B, Kirthi Sagathia, Swetha are the singers.

Sample of the lyrics:

Boom Boom Robot da Robo da Roba da
Zoom Zoom Robot da Robo da Roba da

Isaac Asimovin
Velaiyo robo

Isaac Newtonin
Leelaiyo robo

Albert Einstein
Mulaiyo robo

He robo yo robo…..

* Arima Arima (5.18 min) Yet another forgettable track, begins with trumpets.

The singers are Hariharan and Sadhana Sargam.

And what’s with the howling of Endhira, Endhira toward the end. Awful

Sample of the lyrics:

Ivan perai sonnathan
Perumai sonnathum
Kadalum kadalum kai thattum
…..
Arima Arima – nano
Ayiram arima – unpol
…..
Endhira…! Endhira…!

* Kilimanjaro (5.30 min) Seriously, is this from an Oscar/Grammy award winner.

A most unimpressive track that has a tribal dance feel to it.

Javed Ali and Chinmayi are the singers.

Sample of the lyrics:

Kilimanjaro – malai
Kanimanjaro – kanna
Kuzhimanjaro
Yaro yaro
…..
Mohanjadaro – unnil Nozhanjadaro

* Chitti Dance Showcase (2.43 min)- Just cacophony with Pradeep Vijay, Pravin Mani, Yogi B. at the helm.

Disappointing Album
Is the Endhiran album the stuff of legend?

No, No, No

Folks, the Endhiran album is a ripoff.

Don’t waste your time or money on this noxious gas expulsion from A.R.Rahman.

Show the Endhiran album your middle finger but make sure you hold your nose for the stench is unbearable. :(

Related Stories:
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Enthiran Review – Orgy of Stupidity

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Legend of 1900 & Edge of Heaven – Must Watch

 Foreign Movies, Hollywood  3 Responses »
Jul 302010
 
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* Edge of Heaven – Set in both Germany and Turkey, this is a lovely German-Turkish film (English subtitles) with a strong, engaging story.

When an old man accidentally kills his Turkish hooker-mistress in Germany, his university professor son is most upset by the incident and sets out for Turkey to locate the woman’s daughter and make amends.

But the movie is not merely about the young professor or his search for the young girl.

Directed by Faith Akin, this is a richly layered story with multiple characters and all round fine acting.

* Legend of 1900 – A lovely film with fine photography, bewitching music and top-class acting, all neatly wrapped in an unusual story of a young gifted pianist 1900 who’s never left the safe harbor of a large ship.

Yes, 1900′s never set foot on land even once.

We could tell you more but then we’d be robbing you of the joy of watching this delightful movie directed by Giuseppe Tornatore.

Tim Roth in and as 1900 does a stellar job as does Pruitt Taylor Vince, who plays the trumpet and the friend of 1900.

As SI blog reader VJCool has rightly said, the piano-duel and the free-wheeling piano scenes alone are paisa vasool.

Here’s a fine line from the movie:

Land is a ship too big for me
- 1900 in the movie 1900

The ending was poignant and moving.

In case you are tempted, both movies are available on Netflix Instant Play.

Hey Abhi, Netflix has launched Instant Play in Canada now.

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House of Dosas Hicksville Review – Even Monkeys Can Cook Better

 Food, Reviews  1 Response »
Jul 302010
 
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In our ceaseless, unrelenting quest for a good Dosa, we’ve been known to haunt the major highways and small bylanes of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Virginia in an obsessive-compulsive-ferocious frenzy.

Kinda like Dr. Hunter ‘Gonzo’ Thompson searching for the American Dream in Las Vegas. ;)

But rarely have we encountered such abject misery, such unremitting hostility as was our sad fate at House of Dosas in Hicksville, New York.

Located on the main Indian strip on South Broadway in Hicksville (across the road from Patel Brothers), House of Dosas has been around for several years.

Alas, like with Bollywood and Kollywood, longevity in the Indian restaurant context doesn’t equate to quality.

The other day in the company of our Tamil friend we sanctified House of Dosas with our presence and greedily exposed our palate to a choice  of items including Idli, Vada, Onion Chilli Mysore Masala Dosa, Ven Pongal, Bisibella Bath, Upma, Badam Halwa, Carrot Halwa and Madras Coffee.

For the most part, our experience was so unsatisfactory, both with the quality of food and service, that we felt a troupe of monkeys in the kitchen would do infinitely better.

Unilateral Declaration of War

Idli (2 pieces for $3.50) landed on our table along with extremely hot pumpkin-drumstick-doodhi sambar, coconut chutney and dal chutney. While Idlis were soft and hot, the medium thick excessively hot sambar was low on tamarind and sambar spices and natürlich utterly flavorless.

Coconut chutney and dal chutney were cold, bland, flavorless and an unmistakable declaration of war on the restaurant’s diners.

By the way, Sambar this hot could come only out of the heavy water in a nuclear reactor.

Medhu Vada (2 pieces for $3.50) came hot to the table and, mercifully, was evenly cooked and crisp.

Schade, they were accompanied by the same unbearably hot, flavorless Sambar and the two cold, bland chutneys in another sign of needless provocation on the part of the restaurant.

Fusillade Continues

Not the kind to hold their fire even at the sight of a white flag, the sepoys at House of Dosas not only continued their fusillade but brought in heavy artillery reinforcements in the form of Dosas.

Our Onion Rava Sada Dosa and Onion Chilli Mysore Masala Dosa came with the same inedible, boiling-hot ‘heavy water’ Sambar and cold chutneys.

Onion Rava Sada Dosa, with chopped onions sprinkled on top, was crisp but tasteless. The raw taste of chopped onions turned the unpalatable into the inedible.

But the Onion Rava Sada Dosa was merely a trial run for a bigger offensive.

The sadistic Nazis at the House of Dosas worked overtime on our Onion Chilli Mysore Masala Dosa ($10.95).

A masterpiece of imperfection, there were multiple problems with our Onion Chilli Mysore Masala Dosa.

First, the masala paste was not evenly spread on the Dosa. Second, the Potato filling was way too soggy and tasteless and seemed as if we were eating a soft taco at Taco Bell. Finally, the  old problem of the fresh off the nuclear reactor hot sambar and those monstrous cold, bland chutneys from Antarctica.

Together, the depravities completely, totally, wholly, utterly ruined any chance of our Dosas being palatable edible.

And the bozos call this place House of Dosas.

Ah, the chutzpah of these Indians.

Run from the South Indian Impostor
(File photo)

More Pain
By now, we were bloodied and in extremis.

Yet, these rotten, deformed children of Satan, with their sharp bayonets pointed in our direction, showed us no mercy. Continue reading »

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Quote of the Day – I Enjoy Crushing Bastards

 Quotes  9 Responses »
Jul 282010
 
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Der Spiegel: You could have started a company in Silicon Valley and lived in a home in Palo Alto with a swimming pool. Why did you decide to do the WikiLeaks project instead?

WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange: We all only live once. So we are obligated to make good use of the time that we have, and to do something that is meaningful and satisfying. This is something that I find meaningful and satisfying. That is my temperament. I enjoy creating systems on a grand scale, and I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable. And I enjoy crushing bastards. So it is enjoyable work.

Source:  Spiegel Online

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How Appropriate!

 Books, English  1 Response »
Jul 272010
 
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The English word rabies is said to derive from the Sanskrit term rabbas meaning to do violence.

Source: Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk  P.81

Here’s a short excerpt from Palahniuk’s fine book:

As I understand it, you have two types of rabies. There’s your “dumb” type, where you never go insane and bite anyone. You only curl up in a ball under your bed and die. And there’s the normal kind of rabies, the “furious” type, which 80 percent of folks get. Where you slobber and swear and flail around, smashing everything in your bed-room including your Dolls of the World collection, and calling your father a “dirty, shit-eating, motherfucking, dick-less dickhead…” Well, that’s what kind of rabies our Margot had.

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Ha Ha, Jayam Ravi’s Thillalangadi Fares Better than Arya’s Madrasapattinam at Box Office

 Box Office, Tamil Movies  23 Responses »
Jul 272010
 
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Some SI blog readers came in their jetties at the mere mention of Madrasapattinam and hailed it as an exceptional, classy film and in the same breath damned Thillalangadi as a piece of shit.

Well, the makkal theerpu (people’s verdict) is different.

Folks, the Tamil makkal have spoken and spoken decisively in favor of Thillalangadi.

Tamil movie fans, who were reluctant to whip out their wallets for Arya’s Madrasapattinam, seem to have found Jayam Ravi’s Thillalangadi more to their taste.

This means that Thillalangadi has fared significantly better than Madrasapattinam at the box office, UK box office that is.

Jayam Ravi’s cup of joy overfloweth since Thillalangadi did better than his earlier movies Peranmai and Santosh Subramaniam

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