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I am a huge Gene Kelly fan. And ever since I first watched An American in Paris a few years ago, I have wondered.

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And today, after finding both videos on Youtube, I am more or less sure.

Presenting Rajiv Menon and Prabhu Deva paying homage (with a National Award winning performance) to Gene Kelly…

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Oh, Yuvan! You Spidey fanboy, you! You had to use it, didn’t you? But, I don’t have any complaints because it does sound good. The rest of you (if you are still wondering what I am talking about) check out the interlude between 1:14 and 1:32 of this song below.

Thanks Karthik, for the mention on itwofs.

We roughly have 10 interested people so far in the proposed NY-NJ Quiz club. We are hoping to meet for the first time this coming weekend. Venue is T.B.A at the moment. If you wish to be a part too, please use the comments or the contact form here to get in touch with me. And even if you are not interested, please pass the message on to anyone who you think would be interested.

The one and only Dhammerigo Vesupucci is in town. Actually he is passing through town in a voyage full of “touristic discoveries” and some good old fashioned physical exertion thrown in for good measure. Having known Dhammo from the old Shanmugha - Festember - REC(T) - “culturals” days, one was compelled to meet up with the man during his Garden State sourjourn this past week. And it turned out to be a fruitful meetup. (more…)

R.I.P Magnus Magnusson

- via the KCircle mailing list…

***Warning - Stay away from this post if you are NOT a motor-sports fan***

I am liveblogging the 24 Hours of Le Mans as two factory Audi R10 TDIs finish 1 and 3 overall. If you are an auto racing fan like me, you will know that this is a monumental event. The 24 Heures du Mans is probably the most historic of auto races in the current racing calendar. This is the 74th edition and so this is possibly the oldest race in motor sports that still races in its original format.

If you are fan of the Mercedes Benz racing teams, like I am, its interesting to note that the a horrific accident at Le Mans in 1955 that killed 77 spectators caused Benz to withdraw from all racing till they came back in 1987. And Le Mans is also the scene of the famous trio of back flips that the Mercedes CLRs (one of the most beautiful cars ever, if you ask me) performed in on their Le Mans debut in 1999 along the Mulsanne straight, one of them during practice by current F1 driver Mark Webber (he had another during the actual race at virtually the same point on the track!) which has caused Mercedes Benz to stay away from from Le Mans since then (click here to see a Google video, which btw, has a funny description of what happened).

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A few weeks ago, Google Current featured a profile on “Tamil”. Yes, the word “tamil”. One important fact that I learned from this profile was that according to the last US census, Jersey has the largest number of Tamil speakers in the US. Another fact - 30 percent of all searches for the word “tamil” originate from the US.

Assorted other tidbits:

* After approximately half a decade, it could still be possible now for one to download a wall paper of Prabhudeva and Gayathri Jayaram doing the “Walk like a Egyptian” dance while moving to “Manja kaatu maina”.

* Vadivelu seems to be having fun in Imsai Arasan - 23 “A.M” Pulikesi! But for the non Tamil readers, “Whoa” is an acceptable reaction as well.

* Ashok (M.S E.E /Santa Clara/Brahmin/Brahmacharanam/Uthradam/Sankrithi), take a bow. You are famous. Or will be, if another 10 or 15 bloggers pick up this and one of them does a funny post. Or if this post is Dp’ed. Or if Nilu does a post that pukes on your profile.

To end, a quick thought that came to my mind when I saw the tag-line for this video. If Tamil Nadu is “Tamilot”, then who is King Arthur? The Gaptain, that’s who!

(P.S: BG, thanks for the link kiddo!)

In response to a threatening email (lol…) from a fellow quizzer, the Three Hi-Fives to IMDb.com quiz that I posted on October 18, has been updated with answers. I have no excuse for being late.

Oh well, that takes care of the “update to five” part in the title. Now for the six.

In Thamizh, Aaru refers to the number 6. Saw it last night and found several interesting references in the movie. For one, I found that whenever the camera panned over sections of the slum with the rail tracks in the background of the frame, a train seemed to be going past the slum. This seemed to be in every single scene. I don’t know if that was intentional, but if it was, I can give them a 9/10 for effort. Before you ask me, how did I notice such details and whether I do this for all movies, I have to add that, overall Aaru = Bore-u!

Which means that about 15 to 20 minutes into the movie, I was watching for such things such as the badges on the Ford SUVs used in the movie. And for trains in the frame.

But I noticed one reference, which deserves a post by itself, however unintentional it might have been. Probably tonight.