(via iPhone) After a 20-minute Hamletian dithering of ‘To go or not to go,’ we finally took the Sura plunge. And so here we’re at a crappy theater on the East Coast waiting for Tamil film to start. The print just arrived in a van. So it should take another 30-45 minutes for the movie […]
If Tamil film star Vijay had any shame at all, he’d lash himself till he bleeds out of every pore of his dark-skinned body and then nail his frame to a wooden metal cross. That would be a fitting Prayaschit (atonement) for the Judas act of loosening his bowels and raining this dysentery a.k.a. Vettaikaran […]
If you concur with us that the success of a movie reflects the citizenry, then the South Indian state Tamil Nadu is a lost cause. Beyond redemption! You see, SI blog readers who should know inform us that the 2005 Tamil film Thirupaachi featuring Vijay alias Punnaku Pandi met with a stupendous reception at the […]
There cannot be a pinch in death More sharp than this is. – Imogen in Cymbeline (Act 1, Scene 1) Who would have thought Vijay’s character in Madurey would succeed so grandly, so effortlessly and, Holy Christ, so quickly, where Martin Luther King, Lyndon Johnson, the marchers at Selma and countless other civil rights activists […]
When Tamil film actor Vijay shuffles off his mortal coils, the coffin lowered, the last heap of soil flung on the decorated box and the tombstone erected, the epitaph will most likely read Punnaku Pandi – Failed Comedian. With a zany knack for picking films whose only qualification is that they must be bizarrely nonsensical […]
It was very warm, but the smell was not strong. In size it was like a big ball of gulab jamun, but with none of the softness. In fact, it was as hard as a rock. Load a musket with it and you could have shot a rhino. I returned the ball to the cup […]