Damn. Damn, we should have done this over a year ago. Seen Vicky Cristina Barcelona, we mean. Sufficiently fortified with a glass of PinGin, we popped the Netflix DVD of Vicky Cristina Barcelona into the home theater last night. Boy, the next 90-odd minutes were sheer bliss. An absolutely delightful movie. A classy affair, not […]
Back in the old days, when we were in the spring of our lives we greatly enjoyed Robert Ludlum’s books. We read most if not all his spy thrillers. If memory serves us right, the Chancellor Manuscript was our first Ludlum thriller, a novel we picked up sometime in the 1970s from a neighborhood circulating […]
Maybe…it is only those of us who have no eyes that can see through the lure of maya, and glimpse reality for what it is. – Kanai, the blind minstrel in Nine Lives, p.246 A few days back, we got William Dalrymple’s well received book Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India […]
We are Family Review – Disgustingly Bad Folks, our hopes have been dashed on the altar of Bollywood’s incompetence. Here we were fondly hoping that this weekend would be a joyous affair but, alas, man proposes, Bollywood disposes. Several Indian critics have buggered the latest Karan Johar production We are Family (directed by Sidharth Malhotra). […]
For the last couple of days, we’ve been playing with NDTV 2.0, an upgrade to the eponymous Indian TV news channel’s application for the iPhone 4. We weren’t too happy with the previous 1.1 version of the NDTV app and hoped the upgrade would have fixed some of the shortcomings. Also, the new Live TV […]
A few years back, one of our friends from Chennai got us a bunch of DVDs including one featuring three Rajinikanth films Thillu Mullu, Ranga and Moondru Mugam. For some reason, the DVD wouldn’t play in our Panasonic home-theater. So we kept it aside and completely forgot about it until we recently got an Acer […]