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 […]
Darling kadhu, Parama Daridram idhi (horrible nonsense). Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the stinking garbage torch has been passed in Tollywood to a new Telugu movie Darling, conceived in Hyderabad, midwifed in Switzerland and killed aborted in Araku. (Thank you, JFK) Folks, there’s absolutely […]
We’ve watched a bunch of movies lately (three on TV and one in the theater). Here’s a short list with brief comments: * The Square (English) – My, my, how quickly and continuously things spiral out of control for its principal protagonist Ray (David Roberts) in this Australian film of infidelity and crime. Decent all-round acting […]
In this installment of Music We’ve Acquired, we’ve gone down an old road, the memories of which are turning hazy as the neurons in our brain collapse in large blocks. Here are some tracks we’ve acquired lately from iTunes: * Hello, My Dear Wrong Number (Tamil) – This one is from the old Kamal Haasan […]
Hey, does anybody even give a damn about Paathshaala? Apparently not. Yes, Paathshaala has turned into a dud at the box office, the U.K. box office that is. As the below table attests, Paathshaala ranks way at the bottom of box office returns of a few prominent Bollywood films. Related Stories: Movie Critics Savage Paathshaala