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சில நேரங்களில் சில மனிதர்கள் – Jayakanthan
I had a year to spare. Lots of books and movies to catch up with. Well, by books I had the public libraries here in mind. And I did read. 10-15 books per visit every 3 weeks. I tried to put in as much...
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My generation of rebels with so many causes
Mass Hysteria. Social media revolutions. #Outrage. Everyone and her brother is an activist today. Rebels without a cause of the 70s appears to have spawned wannabe rebels who are desperate to involve...
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Understanding Surrealism… or not…
That title is an oxymoron I know. But I just couldn’t come up with anything better and I did add the “or not” bit didn’t I? So let’s just get on with it. Shall we? I watched Mulholland Dr yesterday....
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Hamir Kalyani and Saaranga
Last night, I committed the cardinal sin of mistaking Hamir Kalyani for Saaranga at an outstanding Ranjini Gayathri concert. Something I haven’t been able to forgive myself for. Especially, given that...
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Offensive – what’s that again?
I always begin writing about this topic at various times and then leave it as a draft when I am past the phase of feeling angry enough to rant about it. You know, the concept of “something being...
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Beginners, Christopher Plummer and memories of an old man
I had seen this movie – Beginners, last December on the flight back to India. I loved it so much – I saw it twice. Back to back. There was something absolutely beautiful and emotional about this movie...
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Charlie Kauffman
Having written an entire post on Surrealism, you might be wondering how I missed mentioning the greatest surrealist of our times, the one and only Mr. Charlie Kaufman. Well, for one – it is impossible...
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The annoying pursuit of half-truths
I finally decided to watch Hemingway and Gellhorn today – the movie that was made for TV and released by HBO a week or so ago. These movies are some of the main reasons we hang on to HBO – the made for...
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The boy that nobody wanted to draw with
Place: Saraswathi Devi Elementary school Setting: V std A section classroom Class Teacher: Mr. Ambikapathy Dinnnnngggggg Dinnnnnnnngggggggg Diiinnnnnnnnnggggg [Bell rings] Mr. Ambikapathy: Silence!...
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Midnight in Paris, revisited
To Rome with Love is in theaters this week. It has very poor reviews none of which I cared to read. Reviews simply don’t matter for a Woody Allen movie. Atleast to me they don’t. It has been well...
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Clouds, meanings and him
Clouds in the sky. They just lie there like a puff of smoke. Constantly on the move. Constantly changing shapes. And then they form clusters. Some hang around for a bit. If they hang around long...
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Reality check
This summer in Seattle has been quite the enlightening experience. Amma and appa – you might want to sit down for this. Without going on a soul searching expedition, just the events of the summer and...
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The master of quirk
The trailers and early previews for The Master have been trickling into my twitter feed the last couple of weeks. Suudhan’s comments on this post has finally given me the push to publish this old draft...
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In the end…
In the interest of catching up to lost time in the form of a rather important vacation, much theater going has been happening over the last few weeks. Of all the movies watched, I am picking on three...
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And more violence and more arguments
I experienced what a “shudder went through my spine” felt like earlier this year on July 27th when I read the news at 9AM, coffee in hand. You see, I had just behaved like a true fan-girl by going to a...
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Kadal and conspiracy theories
The posters of the movie Kadal have been evoking a lot of Ponniyin Selvan memories for me and I am finding it really hard to shake out of. Given the fact that Maniratnam was proposing to make a version...
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Thu manushangala
Tagore wished (and I paraphrase) that his country should awake to a heaven of freedom where the mind is without fear and the head is held high. Where words come out from the depth of truth and where...
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The distraction that is A.R. Rahman
This A. R. Rahman is an absolute distraction, I tell you. I literally had to stop work in the middle and just get this out of my system so I can get back to it. Bitten by the...
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Vishwaroopam
Before I proceed to write anything, certain disclaimers are in order: I am a Kamal fan. I have liked all his movies, even his most flawed movies have had more interesting things in them than most other...
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The voyeur
She is in a yellow A-line dress with a sleek tan belt that emphasizes her slim waist. The hem line is just long enough to kiss her knees. The long slender unending reeds that one would imagine her legs...
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