Blog Table of contents

In which I write aboot :

(Chronologically arranged within each category. (latest first))

A. Reviews of Indian films & English films made by Indians

• Movie Catchup : Terminator Salvation, Heaven on earth, gulal, Stoneman murders
  

• Quick gun murugan : Missing the sackfull of sugar.

• Tahaan : Santosh sivan and his donkey.

• Bala’s Naan Kadavul Bala’s God.

• Dev D Effin mouthbreather!

• Luck by chance non review Like shooting puppies

• Slumdog and poverty art Editorial.

• Slumdog Millionaire : Outsourcing the revolution.

• Rab ne bana di jodi: Imitation is the sincerest form of flat.

• Kuselan : Disappoints.

• Dasavatharam : Kamalhaasan’s ten role experiment with truth.

• Before The Rains (Santosh Sivan 2007) :Heart of darkness.

• Tashan Maa and the mere guilt trip : Like your daddy teenspeaking to your boyfriend.

• Chennai 600028 (2007) : Cricketing power.

• Jodha Akbar : Bollywood’s wedding song.

• Bombay to Bangkok: Kisses like she’s in a booth.

• Khoya Khoya Chand : Magnum opus.

• Om Shanti Om : Like a bear hug.

B. Collections of links with music/ movies in them (mostly from youtube)

(some of these links have gone bad (as Youtube links do from time to time) Please notify me at cdrakenc@gmail.com if you find bad links, I’ll do my best to update them/ upload vids if i can.)

• Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi (a poetic translation)
• 2 blowhards guest post 2
• 2 blowhards bollywood post 1
• koi aane wala hai
• Three from dilli 6
• Indian classical musician biographies and documentaries

• Jodorowsky interviews
• Konjum salangai songs on youtube : The S M Subbiah Naidu movie
• The Chute Years. :Writings from the Hungry Ghost Blog
• Paki rock. Rock videos from pakistani rockers
• Tom Waits Green Grass: Two versions
• M K Thiagaraja Bhagavathar on youtube. (also has songs from the newer film “moghamul”)
• Nina Simone and Townes van zandt Videos of classics
• Aaye Na balam Many cover versions of the classic thumri
• Tamil film songs Plenty links (Im really proud of this list, even if the perverts(you know who you are) keep pulling the clips from youtube citing “user violations” for movies from the 1960’s? sure! …assholes)
• Youtube Bengali neorealiost videos : Talat Mehmood and Hemant Kumar songs
• More film reviews : Earned me recognition…read all about it!
  

C. Art , opera, Ballet events,International film and Musicals

• The Ojai Krishnamurti film festival
• gran torino
• Hellboy II : Del toro’s Comic book genre defining film.
• Satyagraha: Phillip Glass Phillip glass opera at the Met
• The Tales of Hoffman The DVD version pic-reviewed
• Padmavati Albert russouel opera/ballet direct by Sanjay leela Bhansali at the Chatelet in Paris.
• Roman De Gare: Claude Lelouch French cinema Classic
• More Jaman films Reviews of films that can be found on the Jaman.com site
• Jaman reviews : Reviews of films that can be found on the Jaman.com site

D.Talking about Indian films and me

• In other news…: Craters of Aishwarya Mars
  
• Review Indian critics III (and mercifully the last…)
• Ramesh’s review of Indian film critics part II
• The Ramesh review of Indian critics. Part I
• Dasavatharam The trailer
• The Passion for cinema issue : Or why its a bad Idea to fling a stone into a drain
• The Battle of the Remakes. Why are two superstars befriending barbers?: (mine was the first story on the coincidence.
• The Ramesh Primer Me me me
• Search me.. Who was looking ?
• UK pictures Photos

E. Politics and business

Local Currency

Mortgage crisis Post game - Crisis primer III

Mortgage crisis Primer II

Mortgage Crisis Primer

Bush Invited to Join the Axis of evil In the spirit of art Buchwald

The perils of a multi polar world. Thanks Bloomberg.com

Those who don’t remember history Chis Mattews Vs Talk radio host

Forbes Magazine :India’s richest 40 : The Big Ambani tops

Rev Jeremiah Wright NOT speaking for Barack Obama… Black Church politics

Songs of the C Caroline snaps a monk beater in Katmandu.

F. American media and films and other discussions

• Warner Bros and benjamin button : venting a copyright spleen.
• Ojai and Jiddu Krishnamurthy: A spooky welcome to ojai for me..
• SMS Reviews : In which I do short takes like one’s reviewing films on SMS.
• Short Notes About cultural events in the US.
  
• Of Ayesha Takia, Pomo factions, The Omen and CGI religion.Hungry ghost conversations
• Indiana Jones and the crystelline skullduggerry of multimillion dollar…whatever….
• Berg’s cunning films.

G.Technology:

• Ten in the bag _ geeking out with Ramesh
• Tech: Gadget Essentials for the 2010’s.

H. Online movies

• Sita Sings the Blues (Nina Paley)
  

• Bariwali (Rituparn Ghosh)
• Hamsageethe (G V Iyer)
• Moghamul