Personal Interest, General Issues and News
Most of us are still reeling from the great loss, the late SP Bala was not only known as a great playback singer and actor but also a music director. Image source: Youtube
… [Click to read the rest] “Tamil Movie Review 101: SP Bala As Brilliant Music Director, Actor and Singer”
Agal Vilakku is a 1979 Tamil movie starring Vijayakanth and Shobha and the music composed by the one and only Ilaiyaraaja. Image source: Youtube.
… [Click to read the rest] “Nostalgic Tamil Song 101: Classic Edho Ninaivugal by Ilaiyaraaja 1979”
It is difficult to place Vidyasagar in the Tamil movie scene – you see the 1980s and 1990s was dominated by the one and only Maestro Illayaraja and then 2000s thereafter we had AR Rahman changing the whole way we hear Tamil songs and then we had other music directors like Vidyasagar.… [Click to read the rest] “My Favourite Tamil Song 101: Beautiful Vidyasagar Tamil Hits Part 1”
One of the best things that happened whilst I was in Cambodia is that I caught The New Pope (which also lead me to watch The Young Pope which had me worshipping Jude Law) which I think is one of the best TV series that I have seen. It simply blew me away.… [Click to read the rest] “TV Shows 101: The Young Pope’s Powerful, Inspiring African Speech”
I am not sure why but it seems like most of my favourite Hindi songs in my playlist has Sonakshi Sinha as the lead actress (a mere coincidence?). This is from the 2012 Hindi movie, Son of Sardaar starring Ajay Devgn, Sonakshi Sinha. Image source: BHM Pics.
… [Click to read the rest] “Favourite Hindi Song 101: Mesmerising Bichdann by Himesh Reshammiya 2012”
This was one of the favourite Hindi songs some time ago – from the 2013 Hindi movie, Bullett Raja starring Saif Ali Khan and Sonakshi Sinha. Image source: Youtube.
… [Click to read the rest] “Favourite Hindi Song 101: Saamne Hai Savera by Sajid-Wajid 2013”
It was a well-known fact that music improves productivity and in particular at for me, the sound of heavy rain and distance thunder.
Whenever I am going to work on some deep, complex issues that need me to check sheets over sheets of spreadsheets and need to add formulas all of the place, I will put on the headphones and put my favourite collection of music so that I can focus.… [Click to read the rest] “Zen Mode 101: Sound of Rain And Thunder”
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When I first heard Kodi Lee performing – there was some special indeed and which is why he got the golden buzzer on his first performance (it would have been cruel if the judges had not done that).… [Click to read the rest] “Kodi Lee: You Are The Reason”
It supposes to be a quick post on Shankar’s Nanban but I ended up writing more especially after yesterday I watched again the well made 3 Idiots
(The guy on the far right – your right – seems better than the rest. Trust me, you will be safer watching the original 3 Idiots than the “new” idiots in Nanban – they are nowhere close to the beauty of story-telling and acting in 3 Idiots.… [Click to read the rest] “Tamil Movie Review: Why 3 Idiots 2009 is Better Than Nanban 2012?”
I am hooked seriously to the song “Sahana” and the “sadder” version of it, “Sahara” from the movie “Sivaji: The Boss”. Image Source: AVM / Youtube
… [Click to read the rest] “My Favourite Tamil Song 101: Heavenly Sahana By AR Rahman 2007”