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It’s a Fishy world out there…

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I always wanted to taste all kinds of sea food available in our fish markets. But my mother used to scare me when I was young saying that other fish expect the Vanjaram will have lots of thorns in them and it may get stuck in your throat if not chewed properly. There is no need of any proof that vanjaram has the best taste both in Fry and Stew (Kolambu) category and because of its taste it is also the costliest. It just has one centre bone and rest all is flesh. But I always wanted to taste other kind of fishes. The biggest hurdle in it is each and every fish is called differently in different parts of Tamilnadu. In Tuticorin the Vanjaram is called as Sheela Fish. So this was one of the biggest hurdle. Soon after I came to Chennai about 9 years back from Tuticorin. We tried buying fish from Velachery Fish market. But I did not like the taste of the fish. I will not say it was bad but it was very decent. Tuticorin had a better tasting fish. But Until one fine day about a year back wh...

Aadhavan Review – Pathetic may be the right word to describe the experience

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I feel there is no need to review this movie. It is real bad. I think a group of people wanted to make some money and then they thought they can make a movie and make some money. Then they went to Suryia and Nayanthara and then took a story from some old Rajini Movie and then made the movie with money alone in their minds. There is nothing new in this movie. I was cursing myself for sitting in the movie hall. The movie has some of the worst graphics of recent times. The budget of the movie is 28 crores. I felt Eeram which was made of a shoe string budget had better graphics. News articles may tell you that Suriya has acted as a 10 year old. Please don’t believe it fully. They have morphed Suriya’s face on to a 10 year old boy. It’s really pathetic. Remember this is no Vaarnam Aairam. Vadivelu is there in 85 percent of the movie leaving us out of breath and tired at the end of the movie. Although I laughed in a couple of scenes. Thats all what he was able to do in this movie. ...

Inglourious Basterds – Oui Si Yes!!!

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13/09/2009 I was very much interested to seeing this movie right from the day it released in Indian theatres. It released in India on 2 nd October 2009 . But I was able to see it only today. It was worth the wait. Saw the cinema in Fun Cinemas, the same place where I saw Up. But this time I was not alone, I was with Praveen. I should say this is not really a very serious movie for the amount of gun shots and blood spatter shown. It is a movie where the dialogue and screenplay has its own sense of humor which was really very enjoyable. The movie has a screen play which is scripted as if it was reading a novel. With chapters and names for each chapters. Actually the movie has 5 chapters.. I think.. In this way the 2½ hour long movie has its grip on you till the end. The last chapter or the climax sure has its own high class suspense and leaves you with only one question as what is going to happen next? And I should say the movie ends in the way it should end i.e. ends in the w...

UP – Really Superb – Cross my heart….

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02/10/2009 After a not so good day I woke up at 7 in the morning. Was feeling sleepy somehow picked myself and started from my room alone for the 10am show in Fame cinema at the Forum Value Mall which had sprung up in Whitefield recently. And this was the first time I am going there. Should say was a good and professional Multiplex. Exchanged my online ticket for the ticket which they give for the entry and then went into Screen 2 and settled down. Noticed that there where many children in the theatre. It was not strange for me to notice children for an animated movie. But the feel was different. The movie started and the first scene was in Black and white. From the start I was noticing a girl of age about 12 or 13 kept asking her mother if this scene was real or was a dream scene. I was remembering myself asking my mom numerous questions when I was younger. The movie is about an old man Carl Fredricksen who tries to fulfill the promise which he made to his wife to set up their...