Manala Dreams – A labour of love

25Feb09

Manala Dreams, a short movie by a friend is ready for release after almost a year long effort. A hard hitting story about substance abuse it’s sure to evoke strong reactions among the youth and is a story with a social message.
Although the movie is complete, the director, a final year law student from Symbiosis [...]

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Tags: Cinema, drug abuse, movie making, Movies, Pune, Short film, Short movie, substance abuse, Symbiosis, Symbiosis Law School

Jai Ho

23Feb09

As predicted Slumdog Millionaire swept the 81st Academy awards ceremony. Jai Ho!
Jai Ho – A.R.Rahman (genius), Resul Pookutty (best speech of the night) and Sampooran Singh Kalra aka Gulzar (legendary lyricist, whom most of the pathetic Indian media has ignored / forgotten in this wild celebration of Slumdog Millionaire). For the record – 3 Indians [...]

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Tags: 81st Oscar Awards, A.R.Rahman, Academy Awards, Anil Kapoor, Awards, Deewar, Gulzar, Mickey Rourke, Oscars, Pineapple Express, Rahman, Sean Penn, Slumdog Millionaire

Creative output?

21Feb09

N.B: Knowledge of Hindi essential

Social Networking website for Morocans – Fezbook
Dan Brown’s new book based on Arabic folklore – Alibaba aur ‘chalice’ chor

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Tags: Alibaba, Arts, Crap, Dan Brown, Fez, Fun, Life, Morocco, PJs, Social Networking

Because Chaddi’s are forever

12Feb09

Wisecandyman supports the ‘pink chaddi’ campaign. Expects you to do the same.

For details: http://thepinkchaddicampaign.blogspot.com/
Join the facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=49641698651&ref=mf

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Tags: Freedom, India, Mangalore Pub incident, Moral Policing, Muthalik, Pink, Pink Chaddi, Pramod Muthalik, Violence against women

Devdas on LSD

09Feb09

If psychedelia had a Hindi movie as a representative it has to be Dev D, the brilliant yet esoteric new movie by Anurag Kashyap, the enfant terrible of ‘Indie’ film movement. Esoteric! Isn’t it Devdas? Isn’t it about Talsonapur, Chandramukhi, Paro, ‘Kaun Kambaqht bardaasht karne ke liye peeta hai’ and all that Jazz?
Anurag Kashyap has [...]

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Tags: Abhay Deol, Anurag Kashyap, Avant Garde, Bollywood, Dev D, Devdas, Entertainment, Gulal, Hindi CInema, Hindi Movies, India, Movies, Musical, Rock, Singh is Kinng

It’s a good day

06Feb09

Instead of the Peggy Lee song title, the post could have easily been titled Chutneys – An incredible affair with the steam Dosai. But there were other things which made the morning and the day so far great.
My partner in crime (the same guy who does nature photography and has shot his way to an [...]

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Tags: Birding, Birds, Chiranjeevi, Chutney's, Dosai, Food, Foodie, Hyderabad, India, Indian babblers, KBR Park, MLA Pesarattu, Nikon D40, Photography, Purple-rumped Sunbird, Red-vented Bulbul, sex, Steam Dosa