Passion for Cinema has been up and running for a couple of months now. Oz’s a movie freak and even before PFC even existed as a concept, his posts on cinema were quite popular even in the mainstream media. There were lot of hushed whispers that Bollywood insiders were regular readers and there were unverified rumors that people like Anurag Kashyap sometimes even commented anonymously on posts on cinema. (more…)

I have been wanting to post about my apartment hunt for about a month now, for there have been so many experiences that surprised me. Now that everything is done I can put my legs up and talk about it.

It all started end of September. Two months before my lease expires on November 27, I started my hunt for a new apartment. After a year of staying in an apartment where the heating bills often ran to a number north of three crisp Ben Franklins, I needed to be by myself in a place where I controlled my own destiny and my heater. (more…)

To commemorate 75 years since the release of the first Tamil talkie, Baradwaj Rangan revisits one of his older posts about Iruvar – a movie that in addition to being a biopic about two Tamil politicians (you can see a nice frame by frame scene breakdown here) also gives one a background about how Tamil film industry functioned from the ’30s to the ’70s. (more…)

In the 24 hours, a number of feeds on my Bloglines account have suddenly appeared in a “refreshed” state with their feeds in summary mode (example: Chennai Metblogs) rather than the usual full post mode that I have set them up as. Has anybody else noticed it?

Is this an issue with individual blogs or is Bloglines going through some maintenance?

I require a single bedroom/studio apartment (house with a kitchen works too) for rent/sub lease in the Parsippany area from Dec 1, 2006. Email me for prompt response. Also please do pass the message on in case you know someone who would be looking for a sub-lease/lease transfer.

(P.S: I am not looking to share an apartment!)