Watched two movies over a weekend packed with work. King Kong I had to choose between this and another movie, so I checked with IMDb. The rating for this one was a huge 8.1. The movie was ranked 166 in the list of the Top 250 movies of all time. Plus it was a Peter [...]
Last week, the shooting for Rajnikanth’s next movie, Sivaji (The Boss) has started. Must say that thalaivar looks cool… rocking good! The production team is like the who’s who of Tamil cinema. AVM Productions, Shankar, A.R. Rahman, of course… On seeing this pic, I was reminded of Kamal Hassan in Vetri Vizha (for saying which, [...]
In his bestselling book, The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell points out how some mannerisms exhibited by ABC newscaster Peter Jennings swayed viewers subconsciously towards Ronald Reagan in the US Presidential elections. Gladwell opines that though Jennings himself might not have been biased, the fact that sample polls conducted after people watched ABC broadcasts indicate a [...]
Call it linguistic jingoism, chauvinism etc… this is a bad move. I’m reminded of a line I read in some magazine when this renaming spree on: Okay, now we’ve renamed Bombay as Mumbai. Madras is now Chennai. And Calcutta has become Kolkata. Why wait? Let’s rename India as Foolishstan!
My friend and colleague, Anuradha remembers December 11 for another reason.The same day last year, the airwaves became suddenly bereft of divinity, as Madurai Shanmugavadivu Subbulakshmi, inarguably the most famous exponent of Carnatic music of the 20th century breathed her last. “Varundhum uyirkku isai marundhaagum” says a recent Tamil song. (Music is the medicine for [...]
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