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Will an Ilayaraja song open London Olympics?
Naanthaan ungappanda (Tamil for I am your father), a song composed by Ilayaraja for the 1981 Kamal Haasan film Ram Laxman, and sung by S.P. Balasubramanyam, is reported to be …
Why nimma Ajji is OK with world ending in 2012
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Ajji was doing pooje at the Tulasi katte on the last Saturday of the year. I was sitting nearby, what with a double attack of seasonsal chill …
Why this Kolaveri Di to Why not Rang De Basanti?
While the Kolaveri Di viral assumes pandemic proportions, a fine Punjabi song composed by a Tamilian inspires a bunch of youngsters—163 of them, actually—from the city formerly known as Bombay …
When a tiger has sex with a tornado: Rajnikanth
The release of Endhiran aka The Robot this Friday is creating sufficient noise in the media as almost every movie seems to do these days. But since it is Rajnikanth, and …
‘A devil’s idea from hell’s labyrinth to ruin us all’
SUNAAD RAGHURAM writes: Switching on the telly late yesterday, at an hour when the beat policeman had perhaps blown his tenth whistle for the night, I watched with bemused disgust …
Don’t our cricketers have social responsibility?
B.S. NAGARAJ writes from New Delhi: Cricket’s ultra-pyjama version, Champions League T20 tournament, got off to a glitzy start on Thursday. Chaka Khan, Shaggy and Jameila, and not to forget …
Because Oscar Fernandes is an ordinary minister
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: That the Minister was not in a good mood was evident to the chairman of the slum clearance board, Shri Jhuggi, by the way the Minister twisted …
Why A.R. Rahman is India’s first global rock star
S.R. RAMAKRISHNA writes from Bangalore: Many say A.R. Rahman‘s music for Slumdog Millionaire is “noisy but nice”. That phrase could come in useful when you look at his oeuvre as …
‘Aren’t our slum people the best in the world?’
Tunku Varadarajan in The Times, London: “Maybe it’s a result of 200 years of colonialism, but Indians are world champions at caring—really caring!—about what foreigners (more accurately, Westerners) think or …
The A.R. Rahman no one has yet told you about
The genius of A.R. Rahman—-audible to South Indian music fans for 18 years now, and today globally heard thanks to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which is …
Golden Globe before the Golden Statuette?
For 25 years, India has thirsted for an Academy Award™ also known as the Oscar™. Some really dumb movies (Shankar‘s Jeans, for one; Paheli for another) have been sent out …
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