For over a decade, I have maintained the irrelevance of the Oscars, shunning it as a fofoshishilala extravaganza with little or no consequence to the movie industry at large. The declining viewership of the Oscars was a comforting factor that I was not the only one thinking this way. The last time the Oscars had [...]
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So Slumdog won the Oscars
Posted in Entertainment, Uncategorized, tagged Slumdog on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dhin-chak chants
Posted in Entertainment, Uncategorized, tagged chants, desimusic, hinduprayers, Indiamusic on January 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A few hundred yard from the sanctum sanctorum of the Guruvayoor temple, are a line of music stores. Over the years that I have been visiting there, very little had changed. The music that blared for those stores in questionable yet colorful union was either Yesudas’s melodic salutation to one of the gods, or Balamurali [...]
Suneeta Rao does not disappoint…yet again
Posted in Entertainment, tagged desi music, desi pop, Indi-pop, Indian pop music, Suneeta Rao on September 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am a die-hard Suneeta Rao fan, so this blog is likely to have a major bias. So much so that I am still waiting for her autograph per my sister-in-law’s promise (she worked with Suneeta). I know the readers are going to kill me here, but I would easily consider her to be India’s [...]
Rock On – Music Sucks, Hope the movie is good
Posted in Entertainment, tagged Music on August 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Awesome preludes, great lead riffs, questionable lyrics, substandard chorus, unoriginal score, poor drumming, zero consistency – somehow music does not all come together.
Given the hype and lead in, I really had really high expectations for the music of Rock On: Maybe one reason why I am fairly disappointed. The music and the movie epitomize the [...]
Creating generes in India….breaking the bollywood stronghold..RS can do it.
Posted in Entertainment, General, tagged India, Music on June 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Well Well Well, Just came back from India, was visiting there after 3 years. Three things had me smiling like a kid in a candy store: moms dosas, Hyd airport and Rolling Stones magazine.
Being a die hard music buff / critic, the first item in my agenda was to get hold of a copy of [...]
The death of the unconventional musical orgasm
Posted in Entertainment on March 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
What is common to the following:
Guns and roses : Sweet child of mine
Metallica : Nothing else matters
Orff : Carmina Burana
Thaigaraja : Yendaro Mahanubhavulu
Shankara Bharnam : Brocheva Revarura
Chitti Babu : wedding bells
Hariprasad Chaurisiya : Rivers
Bob Marley : Redemption Song
Miles Davis : Sketches in Spain
Other than the fact they are awesome awesome pieces strung together by superior [...]
Tare Zameen pe
Posted in Entertainment on March 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I am not a movie buff, especially not hindi movies. However one extremely cold winter day, when I was snowed-in thousands of miles from Bollywood, I decided to battle temperatures nearing -30 degrees C, to go to the local India store and rent a couple of hindi movies. One was Tare zameen pe (TZP) and the other was On [...]
