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Hustle and Flow tells the story of a man who wishes to become a rap star, and sinks all his earnings into the effort until it almost breaks him. The rap music involved is fairly okay, maybe just a bit above average. The lyrics aren’t G-rated either. And yeah, I suppose I should mention that he…
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For those of you who are marginally interested: I spent a fortnight in Europe, then went to Chennai for my sister’s wedding, then to the Andamans for some much-needed R&R (travelogue post coming soon), then back to Chennai for Diwali (wishing you and your loved ones, btw)… 24 fps should be back in action by…
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I will be traveling to Germany and Poland on work for the next fortnight. 24fps will be on hiatus until I return. Those of you who wonder about the sheer waste of beer involved in sending a non-beer drinker to Munich during Oktoberfest are welcome to rant and rave in the comments section. Those of you…
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This is, absolutely, without doubt, the best performance of The Beatles’ Hey Jude I have ever heard. ’nuff said. Hat tip: To Nithya, who posted the link on her facebook page and alerted me to this gem.
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I came across this lovely blog post by Sharanya Manivannan this morning: The Venus Flytrap: Just Ask Jeeves « Sharanya Manivannan It reminded me of a little something I had written ages ago, so I thought I’d post it here. The other day, I was at a family function and an elderly relative…
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I found this little gem when I was searching for some other link in my bookmarks. It got filed under a work-related folder by accident. I think. If ever you feel like reading a nasty review of a bad movie would make your day a bit better, go search for Roger Ebert’s zero star reviews.…
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Rock On begins with a band setting up their equipment and tuning up for a practice session. There’s some clunky dialogue about the lyrics for a new song on Things We Never Wonder About In Life (you really feel the capital letters when Farhan Akhtar utters those lines), and another howler about how nobody takes over Magik…
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Much of the time I spend writing a blog post goes into figuring out the opening and closing lines. I spent quite some time trying to figure out how to open this one. The options I ran through were: Literature: A reference to Catch 22, where the main character is given the job of censoring…
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A few weeks ago, Memsaab posted a review of Makdee wherein I had commented that Shweta Prasad would be my choice for Hermione if someone were to remake Harry Potter in Hindi. So I got to thinking: If I had to remake the Potter franchise in Hindi, what would my casting choices look like? I’m…
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I was watching Aaja Nachle the other day and wondered for the n-th time why the movie did not fare well at the box office. It has Madhuri in top form, gazillion watt smile and all, Akshaye Khanna radiating smugness from every pore of his being, a wonderful supporting cast (Irrfan Khan, Divya Dutta, Raghubir…
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