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 »
Movies, please!
Posted in What we think on May 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I saw the ‘mo movie measure‘ over at Finally, a Feminism 101 Blog, and of course, I am off, recommending Indian films that fit the bill. The ‘bill’ is that the movie
should have at least two women characters
who talk to each other in at least one scene
about something other than a man
So, let’s see. I [...]
Coming late to controversy
Posted in What we think on April 30, 2007 | 3 Comments »
In my usual spaced-out and self-centred way, I appear to have missed out on a blogwar-of-sorts about the IIT-JEE. Usually, I would’ve shrugged and moved on, but this war was about gender bias in the JEE! You can’t expect me to resist that! The fact that this is actually being discussed gives me this huge [...]
Privacy
Posted in What we think on April 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Aa okka vishayam meeda kada, nannu lokuvaga choostunnaavu. Aa okka daanito nenu neeku lokuvai poyaanu. Anduke kadara nannu ila treat chestunnavu…
Interspersed with sobs and in a suitably tearful tone of voice. Overheard on the road home. A girl, perhaps a few years younger than me, standing on the roadside, and crying into a mobile phone.
She’d [...]
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.
Provoked
Posted in What we think on April 16, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Saw it in Hindi, in Nagpur, in a more-than-half-empty hall, at midnight.
The problem with Hindi-dubbed movies is that you’re automatically translating into English in your head when a dialogue is spoken, so when you can’t get an idiomatic translation immediately, your mind is occupied with wondering what it is, rather than what is happening on [...]
Sensitive, I am
Posted in What we think on March 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today of all days, this had to catch my eye! Now, on any other day, I might have even let it pass. But you see, today was today. And I can recognise all three of the adverts they’ve awarded. Now, I can’t find the videos on YouTube, so you’ll have to put up with links: [...]
Why am I surprised to find
Posted in What we think on February 19, 2007 | 3 Comments »
that Karan Johar is a misogynistic git?
More random channel surfing last night resulted in my alighting on Koffee with Karan Season 2 – an episode featuring Hrithik Roshan and Priyanka Chopra. And of course, the little bit that I saw had to have Hrithik mentioning how much Priyanka eats, and Karan Johar saying something to [...]
Love
Posted in What we think on February 18, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Random surfing of TV channels while lying exhausted on the couch produces this gem, which I’m going to transcribe as closely as I can remember:
(Shot of young girl dressed in very short silver skirt and silver halter top descending a large and very ugly spiral staircase while older woman wearing zari-filled pattu saree and heavy [...]
Traffic Signal
Posted in What we think on February 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
On a lazy Saturday with nothing to do, I still managed to almost-miss the movie… friends, I tell you! We missed the opening credits and the beginning of the introduction, but not much else. I’ve seen Corporate and Page 3, so I suppose now I’ve seen the entire ‘trilogy’, (though why people don’t include Chandni [...]
