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Yup, it is official. I think I am weird. Well, I did not believe it when people told me this earlier, but I have lately started to realize that I am actually weird. And this realization has come about by a mixture of introspection and some good old fashioned interpretation of my own dreams.

There is nothing Freudian about my dreams. No naked women and certainly no naked men either. Oh wait hmmm, never mind. Anyway they are certainly not your run of the mill, Kollwoodesque romp around the trees either. But they seem to be interesting. And weird. (more…)

And just like that, Marty wins! And gets the prize from the hands of Messrs. Spielberg, Lucas and Coppola.

And a few minutes later, the “first film with a plot that (Marty) ever made”, wins too!

Dear Gautam,

I am disappointed.

The thing is, Gautam, you seem to better off making movies with actors who have still not made it. Case at point, Madhavan, who had 3 movies before Minnale with only one hit (Alaipayuthey). Even Surya, who had a dozen movies before Kakha Kakha, had only one decent hit (Friends). The moment you go to established stars, you seem to become overawed and you start to go to conventional plots that cater to their ego, leaving your loyal viewers in the lurch. (more…)

He was researching Ella and her devastating impact on his blogroll when he noticed the link to her blog. He knew that her last post was months ago. Smirking, he moved to delete it when he noticed the calendar. He paused and with a sardonic smile, he let her link live to see another day.

Everyone assumes and makes an ASS out of U and Me. Sounds cliched, huh? Someone assumes that everyone who searches for “hot madrasi gals” on the Net is South Indian. And yet another assumes that someone who bitches about India is an NRI. In either case, the people making the assumption end up sounding like they have their face up their asses. What is even funnier is the people who follow these first movers and agree with the same assumptions under another mistaken assumption that more people agreeing to the same assumption makes the assumption come true. (more…)

A couple of weeks ago, I had a few hours to kill at Heathrow while coming back from my India trip. After killing time at a restaurant over a lunch of pizza and coffee, I walked into a WHSmith in the Terminal four lounge and was browsing through their cricket section when I chanced upon Richie Benaud’s My Spin on Cricket. I picked it up and put it on my “to read in bed” list that I had begun as a (my only) New Year resolution.

I started on the book and during this past week, I read about the GOI’s latest ordinance forcing private broadcasters to share sports feeds with Doordarshan. I realized that their could be an Australian precedent, according to Benaud. And based on what I have read about it these past two days, it looks like the Aussie measure dates back to a time as recent as ‘04 early as 1992. (more…)