I caught the movie on TV today, having seen it for the first time ages ago. Starring Naresh and Poornima, along with a host of ‘character actors’ like Sutti Veerabhadra Rao, Nutan Prasad, Srilakshmi and Rallapalli, the movie has a rather complicated plot.
Naresh is an idealistic young man who works in the ‘city’ (I think [...]
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Srivaariki Premalekha
Posted in Things we do, What we think on May 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Pearls of wisdom – 1
Posted in Things we do, What we think on April 19, 2007 | 4 Comments »
“Service should be inspired not by servitude, but by concern and consideration”
Cool insight from last night’s pankti bhojanalu, with traditional food vaddinchufied by an extremely enthusiastic and affectionate bunch of kids.
Trainers, sneakers
Posted in Things we do on March 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
No, not sports shoes. No Reebok, Nike, Adidas, or even Bata.
There was once a training programme for teachers, that Tipsy expressed an interest in. Aa bail mujhe maar. So Tipsy spent last weekend at “Training the Trainers”, being a trainer who was being trained. A trainer. Not a sports shoe. Not Reebok, Nike… ah, you [...]
Numaish
Posted in Things we do on February 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I was quite surprised at how many people don’t know the meaning of numaish. Haven’t you heard of a badan ki numaish? In all those Hindi movies where the hero marches up to snooty heroine wearing short skirt and puts the fear of rape into her and thus cures her of her tendency to do [...]
I feel like Menaka
Posted in Things we do on January 19, 2007 | 2 Comments »
You know, the apsara who broke Viswamitra’s penance?
You see, I have this friend, Pi. Now, Pi keeps popping up on my monitor at (ir)regular intervals, which I quite like, because it means a break from work-as-usual. And I can anyway tell him to shut up and go away, and he usually obliges. Now today, it [...]
What I’ve been reading
Posted in Things we do, What we think on January 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Susan Faludi’s Backlash.
She’s documenting the anti-feminist backlash in the US of the 1980s, as traced in popular culture: magazines, newspapers, movies, advertisements, fashion, television. And what a book it is! She’s turned staid statistics into a gripping page-turner with flair and panache and all other good stuff.
But even more than the style, it’s the substance [...]
Two movies (or was it one and a half?)
Posted in Things we do, What we think on January 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Well, then, there were two movies. One with Omar Sharief in it, and one with John Abraham. We saw the first one because it was at 6.30, which is when we wanted a movie to be, and the second one because the first wasn’t long enough. The first was called Mysteries of Egypt, and the [...]
