Gran Torino(Clint Eastwood, 2008)

Gran torino
Old cowboys don’t die. They go in a  magnesium flame of creativity. This film is  illustration to Americans of what Francois Truffuat meant when he said of the Robert Bresson film The Diary of a Country Priest ” every shot is as true as a handful of earth” . Clint Eastwood is a master [...]

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Three from Dilli 6(music, A R Rahman, Bollywood)

Dilli 6 is a Raykesh omprakash mehra(Rang de Basanti)  film receiving rave reviews  for it’s haunting music , by  AR Rahman.
Im trying to get my mind wrapped around the very diverse ten tracks, and not finding a unifying anthem through the album,  I am treating these songs as individual compositions for the purposes of criticism.
A [...]

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Editorial : Slumdog Millionaire and the question of Indian poverty art

Slumdog millionaire gets an indian release shortly.  This is going to make many people angry. often people in India (and many Indians who have butted their head frustratingly against the rigidity of the Western upper class)  are irritated when a foreigner with a different skin color has the  audacity to comment about India’s poor(who are [...]

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Bala’s Naan Kadavul Music review

Naan Kadavul
Released January 1 and inexplicably available for free download immediately all over the net,the soundtrack of  Bala’s long awaited film Naan Kadavul (whose title translates to the upanishadic “Aham Brahmasmi…. I am the transcendent god-ness”)  has six songs from the semi retired Illayaraja ( in the vanaprastham stage of his creative life) .

Ilayaraja
Illayaraja’s life [...]

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Tech: Gadget Essentials for the 2010’s. The next list.

Hello all,
This is part II of geeking with ramesh.
I was wondering whether it was worth showing up for the CES show (Jan 8-11 ) in Las Vegas, (I may still go, recession and all)  so I decided to set up my own exhibitor booth for products I may buy/ already have. This is a list [...]

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