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  1. One song wonders

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    / February 25, 2012 / Leave a comment
    By G Mohan In the ’70s and ’80s, playback singing in Bollywood were oligopolies. The male voice would be either Kishore Kumar or Md Rafi. The Mangeshkar sisters, Lata and Asha were the dominant female voices. When radio was the most popular medium to listen to Hindi film songs, Vividh...

  2. Tum ko Hindi aata kya?

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    / February 21, 2012 / 1 Comment
    My daughter, who is a senior at New York University, recently signed up for a Hindi class. When asked what motivated her to learn the Indian language, she replied, “I want to be able to watch Hindi movies without sub-titles”. The trouble began when she assumed that I was a...

  3. Rajini & Mani first look

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    / February 5, 2012 / 1 Comment
    The first look of Rajinikanth’s Kochadaiyaan is out. The film will be directed by daughter Soundarya. A Facebook page of Mani Rathnam’s `Kadal’ also has a poster of the director’s next, that will mark the return of `Roja-fame’ Arvind Swamy. The common factor of course, is that both films have music by A R Rahman.  ...

  4. A sensational hit in 15 days!

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    / January 29, 2012 / 3 Comments
    There are posters across Hyderabad of the Mahesh Babu starrer `Businessman’ labelled as `15 days sensational hit’. It is a sign of the times and the changes that the movie business has gone through that a movie which has just made it to the 3rd week after release has been...

  5. Rajini back at work

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    / January 28, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Rajinikanth is back at work. His younger daughter Soundarya Ashwin has started work on Kochadaiyaan though the shoot will take a while to start. Soundarya tweeted : “Started work with Appa for Kochadaiyaan today god is great!! Tweeps shoot not started yet! But work on full time !!! God be...

  6. `Nanban’ at every screen near you

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    / January 12, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Shankar has decided to carpet bomb Tamilnadu this Pongal with `Nanban’, a remake of Rajkumar Hirani’s superhit`3 idiots’. At Mayajaal 14 screen multiplex in Chennai for instance, there were as many as 67 shots of the film on Thursday and 53 scheduled on Friday, according to their website. The idea...

  7. When movies ruled our life

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    / October 24, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By V Desikan   I live next to a popular mall in Bangalore. It has a six theatre multiplex and screens all the latest movies. The ambience inside is really good. Yet in the last one year, my wife and I have watched just two movies.   Quite a contrast to...

  8. `Ko’, the kingmaker in Tamilnadu

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    / May 22, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By T S SudhirAssociate Editors working in newspapers and TV channels wouldn’t have been amused watching `Ko’ in Tamil (dubbed as `Rangam’ in Telugu). Who would want the fancy designation to be repeatedly called an `ass’ and made the butt of jokes?! But this is only one exception. Most of...

  9. Rajini delivers a punch, business-like

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    / March 21, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By T S Sudhir   Yesterday at the Landmark store at a mall in Mumbai, I saw a young man intently reading portions of `Rajini’s PUNCHtantra’. I asked him if he is a Rajini fan. He first said yes and then perhaps as an afterthought, “well, not really. I was just wondering...

  10. Movie Musings

    Posted by Sujatha N
    / November 16, 2010 / 2 Comments
    So, Chennai looks like it’s under the English weather and I have come back to this page. Movie Musings! Hmmm. Saw a few, liked two. As rhyming as it sounds, movies are like food – a good meal leaves you on a sated high, a bad one, oh, never mind!...

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