Anniyan showcases MPD. Multiple Pada DejaVu and Mostly Puerile Direction. Stunts that are Mindless Plagiarised Derivatives. Special effects that scream Mattamaana Program Development. And Vikram’s performance that Made Puke Desirable in comparison. That’s right, Shankar. I can be lame too.
Arular Bonus Tracks: Get it while it still lasts…your M.I.A obsession, I mean. (Update: One of the 4 bonus tracks is a remix of Galang feat. Gabbar Singh & samples from Mehbooba)
Nixon – an obscure Indie band got me thinking of ‘Devan Thiruchabai Malargale‘ (from Dhool.com) with this song of theirs. (Devan thiruchabai, on the other hand, always made me think of Neil Young’s ‘Don’t let it bring you down’)
Saravanan, Dhool.com’s resident Wikipedia of Tamizh Film Music, has a write-up about 80s hit-queen, Jency. I’ve always wondered what she looked like. The post answered that for me. (I foresee a similar post in the future about 90s hit queen, Swarnalatha)
Silly Anagram Hangover: I see this photo and all I can think of is the word ‘Dismal’.
A Montage-a-Google of my name reveals the mugs of a former Hindi movie star who rounded off Chitrahaar with cries of Mere Desh Ki Dharti, a failed actor-son, a bunch of moustached dudes and man-boobies. Disappointing.
At least one soul is here to share my opinion on Anniyan. The whole media and the blogosphere is going ga ga over the movie. Even those people who accept that the movie is bad…go onto praise Vikram for his so-called performance… for me..he hammed through all the three alters…can’t just blame the actor in this,the characterisations were downright silly. Ambi irritated with his constant nagging, ‘Remo’ with his pukeable accent, Anniyan with his frog-like voice modulation.
“We are in love right…..let’s go some place and do some yo yo”
duh…wasted 3 hrs and 125 bucks for this..lol.
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125 bucks = 2 plates of biriyani at Nanjappar, right? Yeah, I feel your pain then!
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Nanjappar…haven’t heard of that at all… OK, i don’t eat Biriyanis..leave that. Don’t forget to write about ‘TIS’ once you get to hear it.
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neat website. I wandered in from elsewhere, read most of your posts and enjoyed them. your post on chummy auto drivers in madras brought back great memories. people do not believe me when I tell them that madras auto drivers can be friendly!
do post more.
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Thanks for the niceties. I would post more, but then nothing interesting happens in a 8 hour workday as opposed to a 30 minute auto ride that provides easy fodder for a 3000 word post. And I agree about all the negativity projected about auto-drivers. I actually had more auto-accounts to write about, but then chose brevity(!) over a really drawn out borologue.
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Manoj.. saw ur comment about Harmony 97 on my blog… can I ask you which college were you in?
And btw.. saw ur (?) on Kaps blog about Rayil Sneham.. V.S.Narasimhan was a family friend (we seem to have lost touch now) through his father who taught me to play the violin when i was like 5 or 6 years old. Sadly that did not go too far, because of a combination of my violin lessons clashing with the time all the other kids playing cricket…I regret not paying attention to it now.. To think I have had a total of 5 or 9 years of lessons spread over 10 years, broken by change of locations/teachers. And I can’t claim to have learnt much!
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Sorry to be off the topic.. but I saw your post/comment on TIS
I made a longish and roaring post on TIS here .. an alternative perspective. Looking fwd to ur comments
http://blogontheweb.com/navin/
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anTi: That would be the Karuppur College in Salem. Or as some would call it, GCE- Salem.
Many, including me, have fallen prey to the lure of alley cricket. I gave up Carnatic lessons after a year, cos’ I thought I needed to work more on my square cut. I was an idiot.
And if I were you, I’d re-establish contact with someone like V.S.Narasimhan. :)
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I believe since hearing from you guys on violin wizard V.S.Narasimhan , it must be mentioned that I recently happened to listen to one very young girl playing a South Indian Classical Violin Concert in the Jazz Meets Classics Festival in Germany . I think she was at her best with the violin!
There was swaying crowd for her concerts and everyone was literally stunned with her mastery and virtuosity on the instrument . Later I came to know she was also a student of Western Classical Violin under Mr.V.S.Narasimhan!
I felt great about this master and disciple.
Indeed Indian Music in the years to come will be glorified with this matchless prodigy’s nimble fingers!
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I heard earlier V.S.Narasimhan has long stopped taking classes…he only does give some sessions with music lovers and close musicians….
When enquired came the truth that …….though he was very active as a teacher quite some time back , now he only teaches this prodigious violinist Athira.
Anyway the talented little chip of this master block has already started making headlines in India & abroad……………Athira is the most discussed news of Madras music Industry right now!!
Hats off to versatile master disciple duo of V.S.Narasimhan & L.Athira.
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Check this out guys – V.S. Narasimhan playing an astonishingly beautiful peace with his quartet. This is really unbelievable because the music is Indian but he has combined this with the western classical style:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGCIbn5ZT0g
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