By Naveen Based on past experience, watching Tamil star Ajith’s movies require lots of tolerance and very limited cognitive skills. The latter is available in abundance among Tamil movie fans. I was greeted with unusually empty roads all the way to the theater and even more surprised to see no lines at all! Was it […]
I have no regrets that my birth happened three centuries after the curtain came down on the European Renaissance. After all, it’s been my blessed fortune to have lived through the glorious age of Tamil cinema, from the early 1960s through 2012. Tamil cinema has been unjustly vilified and much calumny heaped on it in […]
(For Hari Jr) I am a barber by profession, murderer by accident, and today a human because of you. – A repentant Vidyasagar (Rajinikanth) to Archana (Sridevi) in the Tamil film Johnny (1980) Considering the abysmal quality of most Tamil movies that are made by schmucks for schmucks, the over three-decades-old Johnny is a darn good […]
By SI Commenter Mnx542 Watched Dhoni today in Chennai. Sad to see that including me, there were only about 30 people in the theater with a capacity of over 310. I was a bit doubtful about how the movie would turn out to be but all my doubts vanished as the movie started playing. A […]
Some Indian startups get off on a wrong footing with customers even before their commercial launch. Take for example Mela. An online Indian movie and TV services provider to desis in the U.S., Mela is supposed to roll out its paid Indian movie service on February 1. But even before the launch the fledgling has […]
With Vettai, Kollywood director N.Linguswamy has turned the Pongal celebrations into a huge funeral ceremony for 60 million Tamils Across Tamil Nadu today, the depressing sounds of a dirge fill the air and wailing Tamil movie fans everywhere beat their chests in agony. Folks, one pallbearer and one pallbearer alone is responsible for ruining the […]