Movies
(Much ado about something trivial. The section titles are inspired from The Day of the Jackal.) Anatomy of a plot I was going over Google Analytics after a long time this weekend, and I found that I was getting a few hits from Bing for the search term “Koundamani”. A closer look revealed that VKpedia [...]
Went to The Hindu’s Friday Review page to check if they had a review of Kandasamy, which almost all my friends have declared a must-avoid. Serendipitously however, I ended up reading a review of Teree Sang, a movie about kids falling in love and going to second base and beyond. This line from the review [...]
Ilaiyaraja deserves an “Ilaiyaraja Award for Excellence in Background Score” for his work in Naan Kadavul.
Parthiban Kanavu is one of my favorite movies, and as a consequence (or probably, because) it is one of the most quotable movies. The absolute best is a line from “Nagesh” Krishnamurthy, where he tries to pacify his grandson, Srikanth, who is ranting at his wife singing a Carnatic kriti: “ஏன்டா, உனக்கு கோபம் சங்கீதத்து மேலயா? [...]
Have you watched Pasanga? You really must… even if you have watched it already! Kamal Hassan, speaking at the audio launch of the movie, pointed out that whenever Tamil cinegoers are on the brink of declaring that Tamil movies have isolated themselves from realism, there comes a movie that dispels such doubts. Pasanga is truly [...]
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