Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Inception – A direct lift from Disney Duck Tales

I was still under the illusion that Inception was a work of Christopher Nolan’s ingenuity until I saw a link one of my friend’s had shared in Facebook. http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Rosa/show.php?num=2&loc=D2002-033&s=date I have always belittled the Indian film industry of having a poverty of imagination for lifting stories from one regional language to other. But I am flabbergasted to see a Hollywood hit being a direct lift from not even another movie, but from a comic strip!! I vouch never to criticize another Indian movie for being based on an epic. Walt Disney’s imagination for sure will keep you gripped far more than Mr.Nolan’s. Here’s the teaser first page of the comic The link once again to read the rest...

Monday, October 25, 2010

What’s keeping me from posting?

   Yeah, Yeah I have not been posting for a loong time (10 days is very long if some one is new to blogging – it really hurts the already minimal traffic my site boasts). I can’t just blame on ‘no good movies released in the past week’ or rather no good prints on internet of the movies I wanted to see. Some other things are also distracting me and keeping me from my writing.          My husband got an IPhone and ever since the evil gadget entered our home, I’ve not been able to be away from it for all the time my husband is at home. Then he got a camcorder – another one of those electronic stuff for me to toy with. I got addicted to “Everybody Loves Raymond” show and am watching...

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Chettinad Pepper Chicken

Generally my chicken dishes don’t turn out to taste very good but that has never kept me from trying new recipes. Yesterday I tried a different variation in chicken cooking and to my pleasant surprise came out very well. So I wanted to share the recipe. This time around, I was able to take a picture of my dish. Ingredients: Chicken: 1.5 lbs (get wings or drumsticks) Cleaned and cut into pieces Whole garam masala (Cinnamon sticks: 5 inches, cloves: 4, Cardamom:2) Mustard seeds: 1 tsp Fennel seeds: 2 tsp Onion (big): 1 finely chopped Tomatoes: 2  finely chopped Ginger Garlic paste: 3 tbsp (freshly ground paste gives the best taste) Green chillies: 3 finely chopped Ginger: 2 tsp (finely diced) Curry leaves: 1 bunch...

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Uthama Puthiran Music Review

Given the past tracks from Vijay Antony, there is nothing much to expect from this one too. All the songs have been tuned to catchy beats and just like any Dhanush movie songs, these will go for a round in FM and TV and will then be soon forgotten. In all there are 6 tracks in this album with 4 beats number and two melodies. “Usumu Laresay” is yet another of those meaningless words to join the list of ‘Omahazeeya’ and ‘Allegra’. This is the title song with forgettable lyrics and after few minutes, the ‘takkunu takkunu’ gets irritating. “Kan Irandil’ reminds at least a couple of hit numbers in terms of the rhythm. Naresh Iyer has a beautiful voice that is the only consolation. “Idicha Pacharisi” has the foolproof folk beats and there...

Friday, October 8, 2010

Anjaana Anjaani Movie Review

Genre: Romantic Comedy (Supposedly) Director: Siddharth Anand Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Zayed Khan Storyline: A stock market crash stricken young man and a ‘got cheated in a relationship’ lady meet on a bridge trying to commit suicide. When attempts fail, they decide on a date to kick the bucket and go about living their bucket list . They end up realizing they want to marry each other Bottomline: The same no-brainer we get to see all the time. I was unfortunate enough to watch it and my sincere advice – Stay away from this An absolute debacle. The poster by itself started as a controversy for copying frame to frame from a poster of famous Hollywood flick ‘A Walk in the Cloud’. It was later changed to what we see...

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Endhiran Movie review

The only reasoning that stood between Rajinikanth and impossible stunts was that he is human. Being a ROBO has allowed him defy all odds and that gives us an ultimate entertainment blockbuster – Endhiran. Tamil cinema scales new heights with this magnum opus by Shankar. This movie is a proof that with enough cash under the belt, guys down here can make James Cameroon look a dwarf. Its Rajinikanth all the way. Be it the subtle portrayal of the scientist Vasi or the awe inspiring Chitti or even better the upgraded Chitti 2.0, Rajini was on the dot. Just like any Rajini fan, I was left longing for the slow-motion winning Rajini walk (the one in Kadhal Anukkal doesn’t count) and the punch dialogs (I just loved the single punch dialog...

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Jhootha Hi Sahi Music Review

I doubt if I can ever call any of the A.R.Rahman albums anything less than ‘Good’ and that’s not just me. “Jhootha Hi Sahi” goes to prove that right once again. I am very happy about this album mainly because of the number of tracks in it. There are 9 tracks - each one a treat to our ears. “Cry Cry” the first track, is in the same league as ‘Kabhi Kabhi Aditi’ in terms of the lyrical theme sung beautifully by Rashid Ali and Shreya Goshal. Shreya has one of the most admirable voices that makes this song work.  I’ve still not had enough of listening to “Kilimanjaro” from “endhiran” that the same duo (Javed Ali and Chinmayi) strike again with another absolute brilliance in “Maiya Yashodha”. Awesome exemplification of their...

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Western Digital WD TV Live Review

Okie! Here goes my first gadget review. I am going to tell about a very cool bit of technology innovation called Western Digital WD TV Live player. A small cute device that is going to change the way you viewed connected media before! Honestly speaking I didn’t appreciate this amazing piece of work when my husband bought it. Well he is a gadget freak or more rightly an electronics-shopaholic. But just like any shopaholics he has his own way of convincing why that was a ‘can’t live without’ stuff. I was really skeptical if any of his reasoning was going to even convince me on this. But this time, it was the product that convinced me! I’d not say that it’s a gadget you can’t live without, but I’d definitely say its worth every penny...

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Internet explorer 9 Beta Review

IE version 9 was officially launched on 15th September 2010 with a lot of promising features and a magnitude of reengineering to give a fast, clean, secure, never before web experience. You can download IE9 Beta from Beautyoftheweb.com. Web browsing or internet browsing constitutes almost over 80% of usage for a PC / Laptop users. Still it is one of the most compromised areas too. Browser crashes and slower loading time of graphic web pages are going to be things of the past with the latest IE in action. One of the most striking feature of IE 9 is that it puts content first. The screen space for the website is increased and browser controls reduced. So how does the experience get better? 1. Hardware acceleration: With the use...

Friday, September 24, 2010

Spilled Water on Laptop

"What an Idiot!" Thats what I said to myself when I spilled water on laptop - not just drops but a lot :( In an over enthusiasm to show a fish bowl to my niece, I lifted the bowl above the keypad and unknowingly tilted it!! I know that you are just thinking "What an idiot!" But anyways,whats done is done and am out of action for days to come. Here's what I did immediately upon the spill: removed power,removed all external devices connected, removed battery,turned it upside down, bloated water on surface with tissue paper, vacuumed the keypad area (i don't mind if my vacuum doesn't work ever again) and left it turned upside down near a light bulb to dry. Now I am keeping my fingers crossed as the warranty on laptop has expired!!! Do you have any ideas on what I can do now??...

Friday, September 17, 2010

We Are Family Review

Genre: K Jo Drama Director: Siddharth P. Malhotra Cast: Kajol, Kareena, Arjun Rampal, Aanchal Munjal, Nominath Ginsberg and Diya Sonecha Storyline: A terminally ill single mom transferring responsibilities to a Stepmom. Bottom line: K Jo’s big guns in action. Sadly they fail to fire! I’m sure you’ll want to see the credits of this movie once again when you are done with going through the mawkish debacle just to check if Karan Johar’s name came under ‘Produced By’ or ‘Script and Screenplay’ section. This movie has all the K Jo elements-big stars, beautiful and rich houses (Does K Jo have a doctorate in making NRI stories?), cool locations and cute kids. Can you think of one K Jo film that didn’t have any of these? This is...

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Va Quarter Cutting music review

The mere title by itself is intriguing and raises an expectation to see a well made comedy. It is rumored to be Tamil Padam – Part II and I hope its not. Spoofing movies cannot sustain the humor quotient for long! Happened to hear the album today and I was not expecting a lot (even though music director was G.V.Prakash as this seems to be a comedy movie and comedy movies usually don’t have much weightage on music) as the songs these days do not seem to make a lot of impression on us. But I was pleasantly mistaken, for the album is quite good. All the songs are good to hear and have interesting lyrics. Kudos to Kumarraja,  for penning such refreshingly new lyrics. In an air stale with mix and match of same lyrics lifted in bits...

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Boss engira Baskaran Review

Genre: Drama, Comedy Director: Rajesh Cast: Arya, Nayanthara, Santhanam, Rajendran, Chitra Lakshmanan, Subbu Panchu Story line: Vetti hero loves heroine, family denies to marry girl off to a no job hero. Hero raises in life and marries heroine Bottom line: Complete Galata, non stop entertainment, carnival for college students! Arya (Boss) is a vetti officer who has still not completed degree and has been writing arrears for 5 years. Nayanthara (Chandrika) is a temporary lecturer and Boss falls for her at the very first sight. Boss’s brother Saravanan’s (don’t think hard where you had seen this handsome dude before – he was the villain in the serial ‘Arasi’) marriage gets fixed to Chandrika’s sister. Arya tries to ‘correct’ Chandrika...

Dabangg – What a movie!

Genre: Action, Drama Director: Abhinav Kashyap Cast: Salman Khan, Arbaaz Khan, Sonakshi Sinha, Dimple kapadiya, Vinod Khanna, Sonu Sood Story line: Good triumphs Evil – simple as that Bottom line: Absolute paisa vasool!! With all  the gray shade the in betweens andcharacters marking the bollywood movies these days, it is like a cool refreshment when we get to see movies like Dabangg. The magic formula that ignited the screens in 80’s is brought back with the good conquering evil said in a complete entertainment package. Chulbul Robin hood Pandey is a fearless cop who is not really the HonestRaj types but is still good in his own way. His mother (Dimple) is widowed when he is very young and she marries Vinod Khanna. He...

The best home remedy for cold : Chukku Kashayam (Dry Ginger Potion)

As promised, I write this post to share one of the best remedies for cold. Ingredients: Chukku (Dried Ginger) – about 5 inch long piece Black pepper – 10 to 15 (crushed fine) Cumin and Coriander seeds – 1 tsp each crushed fine (optional) Karupatti (Palm Jaggery) powdered – 1 cup Tulsi (holy Basil) leaves – 1 bunch Water – 5 cups Coffee powder – 1/2 tsp (optional) Method: Crush the chukku in a mortar and pestle  till it almost gets powdered (If you get really good dried ginger, it’ll become powder with relatively lesser crushing – ask for ‘maavu chukku’). Dissolve the karupatti in water in a thick bottomed vessel, to this add the powdered chukku, crushed black pepper, coriander and cumin seeds and the tulsi leaves....

The annoying ‘common’ cold!!

That’s right, I was down with a sore, painful throat and a bad cold for the past few days. I feel that the common cold is the most annoying of all the illness, thats bcos, one is not actually sick but still cannot go about the regular discourse without a feeling of unease. Since it is said that ‘A cold cures in 7 days without pills and in 1 week with pills’, I thought this time I’d take the 7 days trial :) I am going to write a separate post on the ‘sukku kashayam’ (the dry ginger potion) that actually worked wonders on my cold. But here goes small tips that work in a big way! If you have a bad cough, try these home remedies: 1. To 1 glass of hot milk, add 1/4 tsp turmeric powder and crushed black pepper (3 to 4) and natural brown...

Friday, September 10, 2010

Inception Movie Review

Genre: Action, Sci-fi Director: Christopher Nolan Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe, Dileep Rao, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, Marion Cotillard Storyline: Of Dreams, dreamers and their ideas Bottomline: The director must’ve been on hell of a dreamer – excellent – undoubtedly the movie of the year When insanely unimaginable stuff is presented on screen in an unprecedented way with unparalleled clarity, there is no way that one could help being swept off the ground! Inception just does that to you. A brilliant no-chaos script that doesn’t confuse the viewers even though it is ‘the most freshest’ and the most unimaginable idea. Leonardo has just cake walked through the Dom Cobb...

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Peepli[Live] movie review

Genre: Draorea Director: Anusha Rizvi Cast: Omkar Das Manikpuri, Raghuveer Yadav, Malaika Shenoy, Naseeruddin Shah, Shalini Vatsa, Farrukh Jaffer Storyline: A social issue handled in quite an intelligent way Bottomline: Hits the chords just right – A Definite yes! I don’t think there is much left for a hobby critic like me to review the movie. After all, it had won accolades even before its release in Dublin international film festival. Still, I couldn’t stop myself from writing this for I wanted to share my awe at such an intelligently thought out movie and the excellent way in which the extremely sensitive issue of farmers suicide has been handled. The casting scores cent percentage. From amma to the agri minister and everybody...

Saturday, September 4, 2010

How to make a flop extravaganza?

This year has seen many high budget extravaganza movies that went straight to the dumpster from the box office within a week into launch. And with me reviewing the movies, was ill-fated to sit through those. I am really fed up watching these no script/dumb joke/total nonsense movies these days that I can give tips for making movies getting inspiration from the likes of Sajid khans. So here goes the 10 ways to make a extravagant flop movie: 1. Sign the top hero and heroine for the movie – their salary would eat up almost 1/3 of the total budget 2. Shoot the entire movie at international exotic locations. 3. Have songs that are totally irrelevant to the movie. 4. Get as many well known supporting cast as possible – even if they are going to show their faces in just one scene in the entire movie 5. Make a flashy and costly Poster for the movie. 6. Make a grand audio launch in a 5 star hotel inviting all big shots and making them say “this movie is going to be the hit of the year” 7. Create publicity stunts (like...

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Dabangg Trailer

Saw Dabangg trailer today. Interest provoking indeed. Salman looks so cool and handsome with dress on :P   img alt="" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('73ca7d40-adba-4deb-bae1-292812b55ab4'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = "";" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6jty-qfFlsJxbJvn8yjS9ep-DRVF7amLej_adi5ffSfIADmxzdTXO1fjiRbg13kq3oie_SBir8rh4yrHOOzn6vxLzXyUPYZq4ynpZSpxoa3Skc1i-UqJKYWQ9E9pH-YMIBDYK42LTYtLk/?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none">...

Aisha movie review

Genre: Romantic Comedy Director: Rajshree Ohja Cast: Abhay Deol, Sonam Kapoor, Ira Dubey, Cyrus, Amrita Puri, Lisa Haydon Storyline: Trio of jobless young Delhi girls going about finding their life partners. Bottom line: Run as fast as possible in the opposite direction – not even worthy to be watched in pirated DVD The most shallow movie that I had the misfortune of having to watch. Actually dozed off midway through the movie. Had to watch those part again to write the review.. GRRRRRRRR. As the tagline of the movie says, its a total confusion. For someone who didn’t know better, the movie would only give an impression that Delhi girls have nothing worthwhile to do except bumping at beaus at various parties, dancing and...

Monday, August 30, 2010

Inidhu Inidhu Movie Review

Genre: Drama, College Director: K.V.Guhan Cast: Narayan (Tyson), Sonia (Shravs), Arun Iswaran (Sidhu), Reshmi Menon (Madhu), Vimal (Vimal), Bennas (Appu), Sharan Sharma (Shankar), GiaUmar(Sangeetha), Sunny Sawrav (Sanny Balboa), Abhishek (Arjun), Krishna (Sanjay), Ajay (Ajay) Storyline: College life Bottomline: This seems to be the director’s fantasy college. Unrealistic and Hollow After movies like Mozhi and Vellithirai, expectations are very high when Prakash Raj produces a movie. This movie did nothing to even get close to 1% of the expectation. The film is a remake of the Telugu movie “Happy Days”. It doesn’t even qualify to be stated in the same breath as the original version say my friends who had watched Happy Days....

Friday, August 27, 2010

Upload Files To Blogger

Never knew that I could even upload files to blogger other than pics n videos.. An eye opener post!!Upload Files To Blogger. ~ The Blog Docto...

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Naan Mahaan Illai Review

Genre: Action Director: Suseendran Cast: Karthi, Kajol Agarwal Storyline: A middle class young man who turns violent to avenge Bottomline: A fresh makeup for an old idea. Apt casting and brisk screenplay are the main strength of this movie. As the title goes to say, Karthi (Jeeva) is not a homely, decent boy. It seems to be Karthi’s forte to look cool in the not-so-good boy role. The film starts off with a group of adolescent boys smoking pot and committing a murder for their lust. Little would one imagine that the film could be such fun with an opening scene like this. Karthi is a carefree youth who as usual has parents who dote on them. It is amazing that both of them don’t mind him being jobless. Anyways, he meets Kajol Agarwal (Priya) at a marriage and its love at first sight. Sadly as in any action movie, the heroine in this movie is also pea-brained and comes just for 4 scenes and the songs. There are quite a few interesting light-hearted scenes like the one in which Karthi and his friend go for collections...

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Pingback and Trackback for blogger

http://mymindstalk.blogspot.com/2010/08/pingback-and-trackback-for-blogger.htmlI have spent the whole day today trying to find how I could do a trackback/pingback from my blogger account. Still haven’t found anything that I can use. I thought I would use haloscan, but it is not free anymore. I tried installing GreaseMonkey along with this script - but even that didn’t work. Is there any way we can do that in Blogger...

Monday, August 16, 2010

Naan Mahan Illai Music review

Naan Mahan Alla is yet another hit album by Yuvan Shankar Raja. The songs are refreshing and melodious. This album has 4 original tracks and 1 remix track of one of its own original tracks. ‘Va Va Nilava Pudichi’ has good lyrics with matching music and leaves you humming after listening to it once. “Iragai Pole” is a classic Yuvan refreshing number – a good melody even though there is nothing admirable about the lyric. “Oru Maalai Neram” is another good number from the album. The “Thaeivam Illai” song has such exceptional lyric that the music is outweighed by the lyrics. The last track is the remix of “Va va nilava” with chennai beats to it. Overall a not-bad-at-all album and yes I would recommend buying if you don’t grumble about...

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Inidhu Inidhu Music Review

Inidhu Inidhu is a remake of the Telugu Hit “Happy Days” produced by Prakash Raj. The music was released on the Friendship Day. Music for this album is composed by debutant music director Micky.J.Meyer. In all there are 7 songs and I must say the album is actually nice. Vairamuthu proves yet again why he is the best in the business. The lyrics of all the 5 songs that Vairamuthu has written are very interesting, intelligent and meaningful. In fact in some cases (Ammakale Appakale, Kalloori Thaye) the music doesn’t seem to live up to the lyric standard. Na.Muthukumar has penned the other 2 songs which are also lyrically good (unlike his fiasco in Sindhu Samaveli). “Inbam ethirile” is definitely a song that you might want to your collection for a long drive. “Valkai oru” song is worthy to be heard many times for the quality of lyrics. “Kodi Kannavu Kannil” would probably be the only average song in the album but is definitely better than most of the songs that come out these days.The album is worthy of a buy. I’d rate...

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Sindhu Samaveli Music Review

Sindhu Samaveli is one of the new music tracks that has been released recently. The music for this album is scored by Sundar C.Babu and lyrics by Na.Muthukumar. I would actually say this album was a disappointment esp because I was expecting something that would beat Anjaathe in music and also was looking forward to hearing some good refreshing lyrics. But Na.Muthukumar seems to have lost his marbles after he finished writing “Ovvoru manithan nenjum”song. The others are just collage of the usual lyrics that we hear all the time. The “Thappu Thanda” started with good beats but again it just didn’t make an impression. The lyrics made me compare that with a better version of the same thoughts in “Sirichi Sirichi vandha cheena thana”...

Monday, August 9, 2010

Endhiran Audio release videos

Endhiran audio release that took place at Malaysia was an extravaganza by itself. A very enjoyable presentation of this audio release function was telecast on Sun TV recently Just like every other nice program, I couldn’t watch it live. But what’s internet for He He.. All those who missed out viewing that, here are the links: Click here to see Day 1 telecast Click here to see Day 2 teleca...

Endhiran Lyrics

Endhiran CD sales has slashed all the previous audio records. The music and the lyrics are awesome. Got hold of the lyrics pages.. Sharing those images here Enjoy...

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Designed a Blog!!

Yeah! you heard that right. Though I got a template from somewhere, I tweeked it so much that it no more remains the template that I took. So I think I can safely claim that I designed the blog. See the blog that I’ve designed by clicking here. Alternatively you can also visit http://frank-virtualizationtips.blogspot.com/. Now I know a bit of CSS too!!! Do let me know what you think of this blog. Also please comment on where I have not done a good job and areas of improvemen...

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

ROBO trailer rocks!!

Happened to see the ROBO endhiran trailor today. Wow!! just amazing. Trailer looks promising and interesting. Left me wanting to see more of ROBO.. Do comment if you happen to know some other trailer videos other than the one given here. Click to see ROBO trailer...

Monday, August 2, 2010

Endhiran Poll

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Endhiran Music Review

Album: Endhiran (ROBO) Music Director: A. R. Rahman As with any A.R.Rahman album, the songs of Endhiran grow on you as you listen to them. Click here to listen to Endhiran music online and to download Endhiran songs for free ‘Kadal Anukkal’ is the best with Shreya Ghoshal crooning to sooth the soul. The melody is very good. ‘Boom Boom’ and ‘Arima Arima’ are the pacey tuned songs with good techno music. A.R.Rahman has the tribal fusion done in the ‘Kilimanjaro’ song. ‘Irumbile oru Idhayam’ makes you move your body – an absolute A.R.Rahman stamp song. The Rap part is awesome! Listen to the voice of A.R.Rahman’s daughter Khatija in ‘Puthiya Manitha’.Vairamuthu proves yet again why he is the best in the industry in this song. ‘Chitti...

Endhiran (ROBO) Songs released!

The much awaited thalaivar movie Endhiran’s songs are released at last!!. The audio release was done on 31st July at Malaysia and the audio release was an extravaganza on its own. Watch the Endhiran audio release video clips here ...

Kalavaani

Genre: DramaDirector: SargunamCast: Vimal, Oviya, Saranya, Ilavarasu, Soori, Kanja karupuStoryline: Irresponsible village boy loves school girl, Boy enemies with girl’s brother, Boy and girl elope to marry and happy ending Bottomline: One of the best – if not the best film of the yearClick here to see kalavaani movie online Wow! Recently saw this movie, online of course.. but would definitely have seen it in theaters had I been in India. It was a such a refreshingly entertaining movie. When there is a debutant director around the corner, it will be either a lot of bloodshed rat-eat-rat story (where nowadays everyone dies in the end) or it would be no plot-total nonsense movie with a lot of skin show to pull the crowd or just simply...

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Power Outage

We had a power outage in our apartment today (yes in US!!) for around 4 hrs. I still don’t know if it was an outage local only to our apartment or for the entire block… Since power outages are quite normal from where I come from (Chennai), I was simply waiting for the power to come back. But after 4 hrs, I thought that I’d call and inform. I was amazed by the kind of service esp this being a Sunday. There was a request created with a request number and they even offered a curtsey walkup call for any day in the week!! I could just not help comparing how power outage reporting happens in my place… Lets imagine I have a power outage in chennai, this is how my conversation would be: Note: I must call within the first 5-10 mins to have the phone answered (else the intelligent people at the substation would place the receiver down!!)Me: Sir there is no power in xyznagar.Substation technician (SST) : which area?Me: xyznagar, abc streetSST: Lineman is working. Power will come Me: When is the power expected to be back?SST:...

Friday, July 30, 2010

Trying out the Windows Live Writer

Got introduced to the Windows Live Writer through one of my friend. She hosts an excellent frugality website Wealth Informatics. Do check that out!!Getting back to Live writer, it is just so cool to use.. and this is my first post with the live writer editor.. Do try the live writ...

New York Touring Tips

Keeping up with my pledge here is the post on our New York trip. Instead of going on saying how great the trip was (yup it was indeed greaaat!!) I am going to say my tips on how to save better and see more on a trip to New York. I may not be the frugality expert to give my tips, but I did have my own ways of sightseeing New York. How to get there?? We took a rental car and drove up to New Jersey. Now the question comes why New Jersey, why not New York. The answer – 1. Staying in New Jersey is way cheaper than staying at New York whatever be the star rating of the hotels you are looking at2. New York is at a very close commutable distance from here and there are multiple options how you could reach New York - all of them equally exciting. (We took the Lakeland Bus service which took us to the port authority bus terminal, the busiest terminal in US - one of the places to see in NY)3. If you ever took a car, parking is either complimentary or real cheap at the hotels in New Jersy whereas, in NY, it could easily be anywhere...

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Madharasapattinam

This movie can be said to be a cross of Titanic+Lagaan+Some Kollywood masala :) But this movie is a definite yes to watch because of the art direction and the sets in the movie. It is always a nice feeling to see the old Madras in paintings or in antique photographs collection. I must say that they have brought those images to life in the movie. The heroine in this movie is Amy Jackson who has the Miss Teen America title to her name and sure enough looks pretty (but certainly not comparable to Kate Winslet on any scale). Arya looks cool. I don't know why the director choose the titanic style of narration, but in my guess the film would have looked much better in the typical tamil film flashback style of narration.I would rate the...