My Favorite blogs

Was cleaning up my Google reader and the only folder I didn't touch was my favorites. Just thought I could share my list of favs, so here goes (in alphabetical order):


1. Aishwarya.Rao

My school friend during my Primary - Middle school years - a old time family friend to my mother, this lady has an amazing sense of humor and wit. A B-School student now, finds networking sites to be notworking!

2. Ammanchi

SatyaRaj follower - as in, Lollu Unlimited. Keeps coming up with funny lines and nakkals. But kadavul kept nalla aapu with one poori kattai kayil edukkum pondaati - so Mr. Ambi is Veetile Eli, Velile Puli.

3. Balaji's Thots

This guy is 100% substance - a superb movie critic, this guy puts in a lot of effort to see all movies - ranging from the best of the best Kamal Rajni movies to horrible almost B-Grade movies and write reviews too.

4. Blogeswari

Perhaps, my best friend online - she is up there in terms of Nakkal, Nayyandi and humor. We share a lot of interests - Rajni Kanth, Tam Movies and music, our hates (fraud jaathi and the like ;-)). An Ad-world ka Baadshah, on the path to becoming an Ad film director (one chance for me with Shriya, Please!). Her other blog is also on my fav list for its super duper nakkal of some our common pet peeves.

5. C' EST MA VIE

Friend from SVCE, who I knew as Chimbu when we were at SVCE. Came to know more about him through Orkut and Gtalk. We also share a lot of likes and the most uncommonest of our common likes is MINNALE - we both know every dialog, every scene, every costume in this movie. Is a tamizh movie freak too and I really felt bad when I couldn't meet him in person when I'd been to India this april.

6. filthy, funny, flawed, gorgeous

Like rathathin rathame, Ammani is Akka-vin Akka kinda. One helluva writer and has a sense of humor which appeals to me.

7. FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH

A senior from SVCE - he updates his blog as often as India wins a 20-20 match (or make that Sachin hitting a century and India winning - does that happen? ;-)). He is a weight loss guru and a very good friend from my days of bus route no. 31.

8. lazygeek.net

Well, who doesn't read this guy? The most popular tam-blogger I know of....

9. Lightning Strikes Everyday

Hawkeye - Perhaps the only blog I've been reading since September 2005 kinds - has a super duper layout to access old posts. His sense of humor in one word is Awesome and perhaps, is one person whose style grows on you a lot. Claims to be in Ross School Michigan, but you will find him talking about every other place other than Ann Arbor.

10. oLiyile

An extremely honest movie critic and extremely knowledge-able bloke too.

11. Ouch My Toe!

A very humorous guy - he needs no introduction!

12. Teesu is talking....

A frank and off the cuff blogger - very caustic on people/things which irritate her. Well, I don't want to be the topic of one of her posts, god-willing!

The Hypocrite called Dr. M.K

The political waters are starting to boil again. Tamil Nadu's Hon'ble CM, Dr. Karunanidhi, once again, for the umpteenth time proves that he is pseudo-secular (sickular?) as anyone in India. He has gone on to the extent of asking whether Rama was a civil engineer or some such crap. Why doesn't Dr. M.K have the same bravado attitude to ask the Christians whether Jesus Christ of Nazareth was a MBBS MD from Johns Hopkins as Jesus was supposed to have cured people from sicknesses and its believed that he brought back someone from the dead. If all this is believable to our venerated senior politician from Gopalapuram, why is Rama building the sethu bridge not believable? Even leaving all this, take the case of Islam (Dr. M.K really loves Islam as he fasts with them and calls Hindus as Thirudan when he is under the comforting company of 100 odd muslims). Certain sections of the Islamic society have misinterpreted the Holy Quran and are indulging in terrorism in India and Pakistan - has Dr. M.K ever spoken about this? NO!

My point more than showing deficiencies in other religions (the same way they exist in Hinduism), is to show the lowly vote-bank politics of Dr. M.K. And other supposedly learned people like Dr. Manmohan Singh, Dr. Chidambaram praise Dr. M.K as the architect of modern South India - What Shame!

Minnale Magic

If there was any Minnale maniac, Minnale freak, Minnale addict - whatever you want to call it - it is me and perhaps, this guy. This was one movie which has never bored me from the first time I watched in the summer of 2001 till date. I still laugh at Vivek saying "ennaku IG-ah theriyum" or still sing along with Azhagiya Theeye.

There ain't nothing big in the story or acting, but I guess the scenes in itself lend to endear the film - the scene at the restuarant ("I looove chicken!"), Maddy - Abbas confrontation scenes in the first 20 minutes of the movie, Azhagiya Theeye song (This is the first song I listen to in day from my MP3 player), Vivek comedies (the one at the kai-kari kadai - LOL), the last scene - overall a simple movie which has become a part of me. The BGM and music from Harris Jayaraj were pretty good and barring Kakha Kakha, Harris jayaraj hasn't been able to match up to his Minnale.

Some super duper favorite scenes in Minnale:

P.S: I Know at least one blog-friend who is going to hate this post - he he!

Sunday Matinee

Thanks to a good friend of mine, I got a DVD with a combo of, well hold your breath, Thalapathy and Nayagan! Well, that's a set of movies for which I wouldn't mind giving away two tickets to the US of A from Timbuktu :)


Anyways, got around to watching Thalapathy today and to put Rajni Kanth's performance in one word - Fantastic! I've always maintained that for an intense and underplayed role, any day, I would choose Rajni over Kamal. In this movie, Rajni, sans any of his usual 'style', comes as another slum dweller - he in fact, comes throughout the movie in some 3 - 4 shirts only. Full credit to the Magician from Madras, Mani Ratnam in making Rajni play a character which was right up to his strengths. And Santosh Sivan's amazing camera work - Since this movie has a Mahabharathaic origin, each shot has the Sun in it and the interplay of shadows reflects the moods and feelings of the characters in the scene - simply super shot composition and execution. I don't know how this movie was shot - with such accurate lighting effects and effects, I think they couldn't have more than a scene a day.... I simply loved watching this movie, for perhaps the 85th time. Also the still shown above is a rare one - but my personal favorite.


Lots of people like some other songs from this movie, but my favorite in terms of visualization and song is this ( I wish Shobana had also shown a glimpse of her dance skills - I generally don't see Bharathanatyam, but Shobana is one who really makes me see the art form):

Whats it with blogs and spelling mistakes?

Well, I'm not one of those walking talking Shakespeare kinds, but still, the number of spelling and grammatical mistakes in my blog shames me beyond no end. Perhaps, its my 'by-now' famous impatient, frenzied typing style which causes it or my long time hatred to read and revise what I've written (this started when I was in standard 4 and upon revising my social studies answer paper, I realised I had majorly screwed up my numbering in the 'map' question..... from then on, it was the classic Annamalai dialog "Indha naal un calender la kuricho vechukko LKS - inime answer paper revise panninena, un seruppaliye unnai adichuko" kinds.) And you people have been nice enough never to comment on my mistakes :)

LKS