My First Free Foreign Movie on Viki

Chutiyas, it’s Viki with a V. Not Wiki, comprende? I don’t want to see any asinine comments about how you speed-reading gaandus logged on to Wiki and couldn’t stream any free foreign movies! 😉 A short while ago, fortified with a tall glass of cheap Chilean wine (Corbett Canyon Cabernet Sauvignon, $8.99) I sat down […]

Karunanidhi Made Chutias Out of Americans

[Karunanidhi’s] support in the DMK will probably erode as the trial gets under way….We feel that Karunanidhi’s political career may not survive this latest onslaught by the GOI….We feel that Karunanidhi’s remarkable political career has reached its crossroads and that it is now at the beginning of the end. – November 2, 1976 Telegram from […]

Poll – Is It Time for a Tamil First Lady?

One of the recurring nightmares of my life runs thus: It’s past midnight. And I am plodding down a dark street in Washington DC. The moon is AWOL, the stars are playing hide-and-seek and the sequester has shut down street lights. Then I hear footsteps approaching. The footsteps get louder and ominous as the person […]

Evil Dead Review – Too Gory, Least Scary

By Madmax 673 I went in with a lot of expectation for this reboot version of Evil Dead as it’s hard to forget the original classic. Second, this flick, unlike other Hollywood franchise movies that rush into reboots, has waited three decades. Even more to me is that this is my third movie review for […]

Quote of the Day – Roger Ebert

No good film is too long and no bad movie is short enough. – Film Critic Roger Ebert (June 18, 1942 — April 4, 2013) I’ve often wondered if Roger Ebert, who died today of cancer, ever had the misfortune of seeing an Indian movie. The fact that Ebert lived up to 70 suggests he […]

Wave – Stop Whining! Many Die Every Day

I imagine saying those words – “My family, they are all dead, in an instant they vanished” – and I reel. – Sonali Deraniyagala in Wave (p.116) I don’t understand all this hype about Sonali Deraniyagala’s book Wave. Maybe, it’s because Sonali lost all her dear ones (husband, two young sons and both parents) in […]

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