Continuing with the critiques I started in 2015, here is the next in series - a movie review.
Prologue: Go here.
Stars:  5 / 5
Recommendation: A movie filled with laughs, tunes and much needed life's lessons - yet completely entertaining.

This year Father's Day fell on June 19th. For this day I picked this movie as it is one of the movies that my dad ( Read more... )

Continuing with the critiques I started in 2015, here is the next in series - a movie review.
Prologue: Go here.

Stars: 3 / 5
Recommendation: A comedy to pull out those drab moments in your life for a few hours and forget the world around you.

Happy Cinco de Mayo!!! I have been thinking of watching a movie that would resonate with the festival ( Read more... )

Continuing with the critiques I started in 2015, here is the next in series - a movie review.
Prologue: Go here.

Stars: 5 / 5
Recommendation: Definitely if you love musicals and a sucker for classics based on epic mythologies.

Happy Sriramanavami!! The auspicious day celebrating the birth of Lord Rama falls in the Shukla Paksha on the Navami, the ( Read more... )

Continuing with the critiques I started in 2015, here is the next in series - a movie review.
Prologue: Go here.

Stars: 2.5 / 5
Recommendation: For those lazy days and nothing to do, watch this on youtube and while away your time.

Happy Ugadi!!! Ugaadi ( = New Year), is the New Year festival according to Hindu Calendar for Telugu and Kannada ( Read more... )

I cant believe the year has come to an end already. It gave me immense pleasure posting all the wonderful melodies that are my favorites too. It took a lot of searching and compiling before I could post any single song. Not to mention to keep track of already posted songs and movies so there would be no repition. (I might have had one or two ( Read more... )

The countdown to 2016 started. So did the closure to my song-a-day blog theme for 2015. Keeping with the mood, here is the second of the three songs that were going to be part of my closing posts.

From the 1982 hit Telugu film Manchu Pallaki ( = Snow Palanquin), this lovely melody was Sung by S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and S. Janaki. Interesting to ( Read more... )

The countdown to 2016 started. So did the closure to my song-a-day blog theme for 2015. Keeping with the mood, here is the first of the three songs that were going to be part of my closing posts.

This 1980s hit song titled Happy New Year by Swedish pop group ABBA is a perfect ballad to start with. Sung by Agnetha Faltskog for their album Super ( Read more... )

What better song to sing than this famous carol for Christmas every time. Jingle Bells was originally written for Thanksgiving by American song writer James Lord Pierpont in 1857. It was titled as One Horse Open Sleigh. James composed the Music for the song too. Later on this song became more related to Christmas and is played all the time during ( Read more... )

On this day my youngest cousin and the last one for our generation in the Devarashetty side of my family got married. I so wanted to be there but for various reasons could not make it. However, here's welcoming the new bride into the family and wishing both of them a wonderful happy life ahead together.

Weddings are a common theme in many Indian ( Read more... )

It was another Holiday Happy Hour, the third of the parties this holidays, with two good friends. Good music in the background, laughing all the way with lovely gossip while mood is set with good spirits both in glasses and in mind. It was a happy ending to the lively time. Toasting the time with this song by Rihanna from her fifth album Loud ( Read more... )