Rajnikanth

Vijay Narayanan on December 21st, 2009

(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 [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on November 29th, 2008

A must watch movie. Highly commendable. It is unfortunate that many people who have watched this movie consider it an imperfect remake of Cheran’s epic Thavamaai Thavamirundhu. In my opinion, that is the sort of preconception, borne of an urge to describe new things in the light of those familiar to us that can – and [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on November 12th, 2008

News from Chennai is that L.K. Advani, BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate, met with Rajnikanth at his Poes Garden house yesterday. And speculation is rife that this might signal Rajnikanth’s arasiyal pravesam. My opinion is that Rajni should keep out of politics, even campaigning. And that too, not for the BJP, which has proved during the [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on June 30th, 2008

I am of the opinion that an actor, however much talented he might be, must be an egomaniac if he makes a movie just to beat an existing record for the maximum number of on-screen roles. But then, most actors are egomaniacs. In fact, most people are egotists, so there isn’t anything wrong in a [...]

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