Maybe…it is only those of us who have no eyes that can see through the lure of maya, and glimpse reality for what it is. – Kanai, the blind minstrel in Nine Lives, p.246 A few days back, we got William Dalrymple’s well received book Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India […]
We are Family Review ā Disgustingly Bad Folks, our hopes have been dashed on the altar of Bollywood’sĀ incompetence. Here we were fondly hoping that this weekend would be a joyous affair but, alas, man proposes, Bollywood disposes. Several Indian critics have buggered the latest Karan Johar production We are Family (directed by Sidharth Malhotra). […]
Pleaaaasseee Clooney. š Hell, the only reason we went to the opening show of the new Hollywood film The American which released in U.S. theaters today is George ‘Acme of Charm‘ Clooney. Hell, no other reason is necessary when you got Clooney. Syriana, Michael Clayton, Up in the Air and still we can’t get enough […]
We are Family is We are Garbage, Say Critics Listen, Baby, ain’t no mountain high Ain’t no valley low, ain’t no river wide enough, Baby. If you need me, call me, no matter where you are No matter how far. Don’t worry, Baby Just call my name, I’ll be there in a hurry You don’t […]
For the last couple of days, we’ve been playing with NDTV 2.0, an upgrade to the eponymous Indian TV news channel’s application for the iPhone 4. We weren’t too happy with the previous 1.1 version of the NDTV app and hoped the upgrade would have fixed some of the shortcomings. Also, the new Live TV […]
A few years back, one of our friends from Chennai got us a bunch of DVDs including one featuring three Rajinikanth films Thillu Mullu, Ranga and Moondru Mugam. For some reason, the DVD wouldn’t play in our Panasonic home-theater. So we kept it aside and completely forgot about it until we recently got an Acer […]