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Such is the fate of 638 million people every day in Mera Bharat Mahaan.

As we’ve said many times that benighted country has no hope notwithstanding the drivel of Shining India et al.

I searched for “dahl misogyny” and ended up on http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/17/roald-dahl-will-self-books

this may pique your interest in Mr. Fox.

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Women can’t stand women more than men can’t stand women.

Reading the lengthy Guardian piece in your link.

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Think of those who have to do it day after day, night after night!

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We made a brief reference to the bees toward the end of the above post.

so here goes:
you said The last, and possibly the most significant class of films to emerge out of the last few years is the Small Town Film, a genre built up from scratch by Sasikumar (Subramaniapuram), Samuthirakani (Nadodigal), Susindran (Vennila Kabaddi Kuzhu) and Pandiraj (Pasanga).
As you clubbed Pasanga and VKK in the Small Town “genre”, Veyil also belongs in the same heap.. and hence their predecessor, which effectively trumps your argument that Sasikumar is the inventor of this “genre”. That’s all I want you to admit

I’ll try to rewatch S’Puram (the print I watched was “camera-print” – so that’s probably a major factor).. I read the Rangan review… very eloquent.. never read his reviews before (Blogical conclusion does ring a bell, though) .. So to get a better understanding of this guy’s taste, I searched for his Vaanaram1000 review and skimmed through it.. unfortunately he liked that one too.. apparently quite a bit. Did you like V1000?
He seems to be the anti-SI.. found a positive in Vettaikaran too! Did you watch Vettaikaran?

and Racer, how was VTV? (Does Trisha gets bumped off too? – ok, don’t tell) didn’t talk about that much in your synopsis, considering the fact that it is getting rave reviews (almost ) everywhere .. and a surprising omission is “Naan Kadavul”.. that belongs to the Macabre genre, which only Bala seems to dabble with.

Seeing your pessimism, am reminded of Siddharth’s dialogue in Rang De Basanti. – kuch nahin ho sakta is desh ka!

It’s true.

hope they just round them up and had them sent to the asylum.. too many loose nuts in our midst.

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Read the piece in the above link.

Bravo. Way to go!

In the sense that it had the same setting, Ok. But Veyil was too caught up with an impending sense of tragedy, if you will , waiting to smite its already beleaguered characters to properly do justice to it.
Whereas Subramiapuram, helped as it was by the story being firmly rooted in the 1980s, milked it for its full worth, I thought.

“small town and rural go hand-in-hand”
I mentioned down-to-earth as a description, but even an urban fellow can be down-to-earth, so it is the down-earth is not an exclusive privilege of these two genres. I see you took that rather too literally.

By your logic, Subramaniyapuram and Paruthiveeran should be similar, but they are worlds apart. So there is a distinction.

“Subramaniapuram or podisunga aren’t any classic ”

I never said they are. Just that they were really good films and deserved a watch. You don’t agree? Fine. Just don’t try to force your “manna” down my throat.
And just in case you didn’t notice, I gave you a link which had a write-up by a national-award winning reviewer, Baradwaj Rangan (don’t go by the award alone, he is one of the best out there, Tamil, English and Hindi films, you can read his reviews if you like) on Subramaniapuram where he spells out one-by-one reasons why the film stands out.
I see you have conveniently ignored that link and now trying to make the case that I am the only one who likes the film.

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We read the Baradwaj Rangan review. Nice one.

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Soil fertility in Mumbai, Chennai and outskirts of Delhi?

Watched a hollywood-chinese film (I do not what to say) “BulletProof Monk” on TV recently.Happy to know that I did not watch it at the theatre.The story was a perfect piece of shit.Has nothing in it.The film has no logic in it.And why did the director try to make a film in the same style as “Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon” and “Kung Fu Panda”?

I want to know your opinion on it.I do not know whether it was good enough or whether I expected too much out of this film?

I want you see the film”Laws of Attraction” and tell me how find Pierce Brosnan’s acting?I watched the film recently and found it to very good compared to our Tamil love stories where there is a illogical duet songs and fight scenes!!

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We’ll watch Laws of Attraction this week.

Mucho like both Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore.

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is a fine film and deserved the Oscar but we haven’t seen BulletProof Monk. Maybe, we’ll see that one as well but Laws of Attraction for sure.

Only Niger(80%) can claim a higher percentage.Ethiopia(60%) comes a close second followed by Nepal(50%).

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So Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are also better than us.

If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a thousand times: India has no past to speak of, no present to boast of and most certainly the shitty country has no future to think of.

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You write: Shocking

But we have two billionaires in the Forbes Top 5 Billionaires and a total of 47 in the latest Forbes Billionaire List.

Mera Bharat Mahaan.

1) Panchathantiram – Very Bad Things

2) Sathi leelavathi – She Devil

3) Avvai Shanmugi – Mrs Doubtfire, some scenes are also taken from tootsie 1982

4) Enakkul Oruvan – Reincarnation of Peter Proud

5) Indiran chandiran – Moon Over Parador

6) Moondraam pirai – City Lights (put mentally retarded in the place of blind girl)

7) Anbe Sivam – Planes Trains and Automobiles

8)Tenali – What about Bob

9) Soora Samharam – Witness

10) Pammal Sambandham – Bachelor

11) Nammavar – To sir with love

12) Raaja Paarvai – This movie is a lift of from Butterflies Are Free (1972) ,the climax scenes are from Hoffman’s “The Graduate”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paG7RCEKcYw&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjackofall%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F2005%2F03%2Finspired%2Dkamal%2Dhassan%2Ehtml&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDlhPK-vv2c&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjackofall%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F2005%2F03%2Finspired%2Dkamal%2Dhassan%2Ehtml&feature=player_embedded

He claims credit for raaja paarvai screenplay

13) Kaadhala Kaadhala – Two Much

14) Guna – Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

15) Magalir Mattum – Nine to Five

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Ulaga Thirudan———>Ulaga Madayan———>Ulaga Nayagan – The surefire path to success in Kollywood.

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Well, Abhishek Bachchan, Ajith, Priyanka Chopra and Trisha want to become actors!

Ambitions has always run high among the least talented in India.