Dileep-ukku Dillu Indha address-ukku poi nillu En paera sollu – Advice from Boss (Thengai Srinivasan) to Dileep (Kamal Haasan) on having fun with a hooker In an unfortunately far too long career, Ulaga Madayan a.k.a. Kamal Haasan has time and again inflicted agony on discerning Tamil movie fans. The 1981 film Tik Tik Tik furnishes […]
OMG, what a lavish, bewitching spectacle! These tired, misty eyes have never before been held captive by such a celestial cast come together in a single movie. Robert De Niro, Jennifer Lawrence, Anupam Kher, Jackie Weaver, Chris Tucker and Bradley Cooper, all in one movie? Eight Oscar nominations, four Golden Globe nominations (one win) and […]
By Naveen Arnold Schwarzenegger – the Terminator, the Governator, the maid-Impregnator, and one of the most famous action heroes of 80’s and 90’s, is back in the Kim Ji-woon directed The Last Stand. After doing a couple of guest appearances in the moronic Expendables 1 & 2, Arnold returns in a lead role after nearly […]
So you folks think you know all there’s to know about Rajinikanth, the Tamil Superstar nonpareil. Now before you ask Rajinikanth who, read this brief introduction. I’ll bet you my Kingdom that most of you schmucks won’t get the right answer to the below quiz. Don’t beg or bug me for any hints, clues, suggestions […]
Just yesterday, we read an article in an Indian newspaper that 25% of Indians go to bed hungry every night. And a few minutes back, we stumbled upon a Nielsen survey showing India with a low rate of smartphone penetration compared to the other BRIC countries. (Nielsen map of India is erroneous as it chops […]
Human despair seldom leads to great truths – Vladimir Nabokov in Pnin, p.338 (Library of America series) Rarely has a caricature as morbid, as pathetic, as avaricious and as over-worshipped as Kamal Haasan stalked the dark eddies, gullies and nooks of Tamil cinema. Bad as this perverse apparition and Ulaga Madayan (Kamal Haasan) is when he […]