Vijay Narayanan on December 13th, 2007

1. Vel: Above-average masala flick, evidently designed to please as many sections of the audience as possible in over 2 hours. Excellent performance by Surya, in his first (?) double role, that puts to shame Vijay’s ATM. No doubt Vel is rocking the BO this Deepavali. Despite the music being a let-down, the movie is [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on December 12th, 2007

நீ பார்த்த பார்வைகள் கனவோடு போகும் நீ சொன்ன வார்த்தைகள் காற்றோடு போகும் ஊர் பார்த்த உண்மைகள் உனக்காக வாழும் உணராமல் போவோர்க்கு உதவாமல் போகும்.

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Vijay Narayanan on December 10th, 2007

It is very clear – Surya currently leads the race to become the next superstar of Tamil cinema. One can arrive at no other conclusion after watching Vel. Surya’s introduction scene in the movie is cliched – and he uses even more cliches when he talks about how to hold the aruvaal. But once the [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on December 9th, 2007

Watching the Boro v/s Arsenal game. Half-time now, and Boro have been pretty impressive. In fact, for a while, their combination play has looked like Arsenal’s. Tuncay and Downing have been excellent. And the Gunners have been uncharacteristically poor. Update: Boro hold off for a win. Deservedly so.

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Vijay Narayanan on December 8th, 2007

… especially, simple South Indian vegetarian cooking has to be among the easiest things to do; so algorithm-like, that there simply can be no excuse whatsoever for someone to be a bad cook. P.S.: I must confess though that the spinach curry didn’t taste very good.

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