Being cheapo desis, we started salivating when the $99 Ouya game console launched last week. Such was the demand that the consoles quickly disappeared from shelves within hours. We had to wait a couple of days before our online order was fulfilled. Since picking up the console yesterday, we’ve been trying out the various features. […]
By Cool Guy TVSK, short for Theeya Velai Seyyanum Kumaru is yet another romantic comedy. 🙁 The obsession to churn out predictable romantic comedies is a plague afflicting Tamil film directors. Why else would films like Soodhu Kavvum turn out to be such rare commodities. Cast: Siddharth, Hansika Motwani, Santhanam, Delhi Ganesh, Ganesh Venkatraman Direction: […]
These days, Vidya Balan is considered the high queen of Bollywood cinema. Her star is soaring high. Barrels of ink have gone into extolling her talents and cataloging her every move. Vidya’s presence on the Cannes film festival jury, her remarkable performances in Dirty Picture and No One Killed Jessica, her marriage, her weight, her […]
Indian movie-makers are turning me off the medium of films with their insane Idée fixe on love. Hindi, Tamil or Telugu, most Indian movies have this unyielding, tiresome obsession with love. I’m sick and tired of watching yet another love story. So I was delighted to stumble upon The Lives of Others (2006), a remarkable […]
These days there’s a lot of buzz in the U.S. around 4K TV sets. HD TVs, if you believe the buzz, is passe. So 2012. Sony, Sharp, and Seiki are some of the vendors that have jumped into the 4K TV fray in recent months. Just this week, two vendors have launched 4K TVs. On […]
India edged past Japan to become the third largest smartphone market (after the U.S. and China) in the first quarter of 2013. Micromax Smartphone Rapid Growth The Indian market for smartphones is said to be growing four times faster than the global average, market researcher Strategy Analytics said in a new report on smartphones. In […]