On the 3rd of December 2010 , The department of Posts , released 3 stamps to honour 3 great Geniuses in the world of Music and Dance. Two of them T.N.Rajarathinam Pillai and Balasaraswathy are connected to Cinema and hence form part of my collection.
Continue reading Balasaraswathy , Dhanammal and T.N.Rajarathinam
I had posted the above title on Facebook and a reaction was – why am I targeting Modi ? Is it because of my “friendship” to N Srinivasan (NS) ? – The answer is simple – I wish I was NS’s friend – I am not .
Continue reading LALIT MODI – From “Raja” of IPL to “Raju” (Ramalinga type) of IPL
I am a die hard “Rajini” fan and love him both as an actor and a human being, many an earlier blog of mine will prove this.I watched Endhiran and must say I came out with mixed feelings….
Indian Express of the 18th August carried an article on my talk. I am thankful for the fine reporting. Please click on the article to…
The government of India had honoured one of Hindi Cinema’s iconic Directors Guru Dutt with a Postage Stamp in the year 2004.
The media has been crying hoarse about this “scandal” – Mr Pawar , I do not wish to go into the technicalities for I am sure all those ends will be tied up by you and your people.I just have a few basic queries……
I was watching the National ( English) TV Channels and the focus that was on the IIFA Awards being held at Colombo. It set me thinking , what made me act – at least prodded me to Blog was dinner with an old friend of mine, one of India’s finest film makers , who has also set one of his films in the backdrop of the Tamil’s struggle in Sri Lanka.
Continue reading IIFA at Colombo- Kudos to the Southern Film Industry
Around the late 1990s Sivaji films wanted to make a TV show on Nadigar Thilakam (NT).This was tentatively titled “Naanum oru rasikan” and was to have been him reliving his experiences with around 100 of his colleagues, seniors and even those who came later. Continue reading Down memory lane – Nadigar thilakam documentary
All over Chennai have sprung up Posters which roughly say this “Padmasri Kamalhaasan please resign your post as Honorary President of FICCI which is running the awards in Sri lanka to cover up the genocide –Live Like BharathiRaaja who threw away his padma Sri title – take him as an example” This is the most factually incorrect statement I have ever seen – another clear case of Actor bashing.
Continue reading IPL / BCCI – The Media’s selective Bashing ?