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Madharasapattinam – A Review

Posted by: Deepak Venkatesan on: July 15, 2010

Tamil cinema seems to be moving ahead of the tried and tested formulas, and bold directors – backed by bolder producers – have started experimenting on new methods of story telling. Madharasapattinam is – no doubt – one of such experiments. I hope all of these movies succeed in the box office pretty well, so [...]

Top 10 Tamil Remix Songs

Posted by: Deepak Venkatesan on: February 18, 2010

Absolute vettiness in insurmountable proportions has made me bring out the list of Top 10 Remix songs in Tamil. The probability of a remix song becoming sooper-dooper hit heavily depends on how popular and peppy the original was, how much the music director has kept his ambitions out of the remix, and how much the [...]

February post

Posted by: Deepak Venkatesan on: February 11, 2010

Blogging had been on a long vacation. Today morning wonly it came back I say! My PC broke down one fine day, and I decided to make my long term dream to own my first laptop come true. But hell broke loose from the day I ordered the laptop. (Yes, I ordered it, because DELL [...]

Aayirathil Oruvan – A Review

Posted by: Deepak Venkatesan on: January 19, 2010

Aayirathil Oruvan is a Tamil language movie written and directed by Selvaraghavan. Karthi, Reema Sen and Andrea play lead roles. Music has been scored by G.V.Prakashkumar. A warning: This movie is not suitable for children and family audience. Also people sensitive to blood and gory should better avoid watching this movie. Actually this warning could [...]

Pirate Latitudes – Book Review

Posted by: Deepak Venkatesan on: January 10, 2010

Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton is supposedly his penultimate novel (…another one is slated for release in 2010). The script was found in his computer after his untimely demise in 2008, and has been published posthumously around a year later. That is reason enough for the book to be one of the bestsellers of the [...]


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