Trust Tamil movie star Joseph Vijay to conjure up a sui generis way of thanking legions of fans for standing by him for 49 films over nearly two decades. For his 50th film Sura, Vijay gathered all the saliva in his mouth and in one merciless, swift swoop spat square on the face of millions […]
(via iPhone) Thank God for the intermission. Sick, boring shit after 1-hour 3-minutes. It’s 9.25PM, here on the East Coast. Folks, the first half of Sura is total garbage. Our eponymous hero Sura is a fisherman. There’s a minister, who is also a nasty character. The paths of Sura and the minister have yet to […]
(via iPhone) After a 20-minute Hamletian dithering of ‘To go or not to go,’ we finally took the Sura plunge. And so here we’re at a crappy theater on the East Coast waiting for Tamil film to start. The print just arrived in a van. So it should take another 30-45 minutes for the movie […]
If Tamil film star Vijay had any shame at all, he’d lash himself till he bleeds out of every pore of his dark-skinned body and then nail his frame to a wooden metal cross. That would be a fitting Prayaschit (atonement) for the Judas act of loosening his bowels and raining this dysentery a.k.a. Vettaikaran […]
If you concur with us that the success of a movie reflects the citizenry, then the South Indian state Tamil Nadu is a lost cause. Beyond redemption! You see, SI blog readers who should know inform us that the 2005 Tamil film Thirupaachi featuring Vijay alias Punnaku Pandi met with a stupendous reception at the […]
There cannot be a pinch in death More sharp than this is. – Imogen in Cymbeline (Act 1, Scene 1) Who would have thought Vijay’s character in Madurey would succeed so grandly, so effortlessly and, Holy Christ, so quickly, where Martin Luther King, Lyndon Johnson, the marchers at Selma and countless other civil rights activists […]