If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. Yes, that was the bard in Twelfth Night (Act 1, Scene 1). Having belatedly realized that our 16GB iPhone (which of course includes an iPod) still has a considerable amount of empty […]
Folks, if you think Bollywood movies are trash, you ain’t seen real trash yet until you see those hideous, garish, ugly, crude SOWth Indian films. Here’s a list of 50 SOWth Indian films that you must not under any circumstance watch before you kick the bucket. 1. Villu 2. Aegan 3. Indiralokathil Na Alagappan 4. […]
(Recommended by SI reader shadowfax_arbit) Slipped the Alai Payuthe DVD into our player. Directed by Mani Ratnam, Alai Payuthe features B-grade Tamil film star Madhavan with Shalini (now Ajith’s wife) playing his heroine. Madhavan is not a bad actor but we wonder if anyone gives a flying f**k for this Nai-kutty (puppy) faced fella. After […]
Surely, the Japs have taken leave of their senses or perhaps it’s the delayed effect of the nuclear bomb we dropped on their parents’ heads back in 1945. We think the decline of Japan (the stagflation and all that) and their fascination for Muthu and its protagonist Rajnikanth is all of a piece. Decline of […]
A short while ago, as we were on Apple’s iTunes digital media store to buy a Hindi song Duniya Ki Sair from Around the World in eight dollars) and that old Tamil classic Ninaipathellam Nadanthuvittal (from Nenjil Oru Alayam) for our iPhone our mind wandered on a nostalgic trip to the many happy moments spent […]
Every entrepreneur is a Steve Jobs wannabe. I was as guilty of that as anybody. – Netflix CEO Reed Hastings on his abandoned attempts to build a hardware box to let subscribers watch movies online. (By the way, one of the conference rooms in Netflix’ headquarters is called Paheli, after the Shahrukh Khan-Rani Mukerji Bollywood […]