I watched two almost identical retrospectives on

Asha Bhonsle one, Rangoli, that airs at 8am on Sundays, and the other, Flashback on NDTV ( Read more... )

One of the most talented music directors to shine in the tamizh film industry's firmament is the still-young

A R RAHMAN If you read that wiki entry, you'll realize how apt the term "isai puyal" (storm of music) is...he's truly taken the music and movie world by storm ( Read more... )

Thank you inspirethoughts for posting this.

One of my favourites....I love "every day" heroes and heroines, and their stories, in such films.

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Jaaneman jaaneman tere do nayan ( Read more... )

I don't even remember how, or when, I learnt this song. I think I learnt it by osmosis!
I didn't know that it was a movie song, and I didn't know the movie. I just suddenly decided to google for it....and there it was...in Asha Bhonsle's lovely voice.

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here is my rendition of it, obviously, a little different, with all those years of never ( Read more... )

This morning, KM suddenly took out a disintegrating scrap of paper from his wallet and said, "Write this down for me on a stronger piece of paper ( Read more... )

I know that it is the lovely music that makes me go to Youtube to revisit old hits....but since I was (and am not) a regular movie-goer, I'd never seen most of the movies that these songs are from, and so I also like to see the visual part of the song ( Read more... )

Yesterday, at the mall near my home, I watched the dance sequences of a movie being shot...all through the day.

You can see some of the artistes in costume in the centre of the crowd:


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For many months, KTB used to listen to this song every day...let me post it before a copyright violation takes away this one, too, as happened to "poo pOla poo pOla pirakkum"...

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I love the soft voice of A M Raja....the actor is

Gemini Ganesan

(that's a fairly sketchy biography on the Wiki!)

and the actress is

Vyjayanthimala who was ( Read more... )

I was listening to both Hindi and Tamizh old movie songs (B4U and then Jaya TV) and one thing struck me.....why do we think all of Nature seems to be for our benefit, and subservient to us ( Read more... )

While birding at Dandeli, I realized that that the moon was nearly full:


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