floydian quip

"Ve(e)ra, what has become of you?"

Roger Waters on madras talkies' Raavan (2010)

Dus Saal Baad

There are no more movies in the pipeline that I particularly look forward to watching. I consider it the end of my significant decade (2000-2010) of Indian cinema. Time and again these pit stops have helped me recharge myself along this journey.

Lagaan (2001) because both Aamir Khan in 1999 and Bhuvan in 1893 had balls.

Monsoon Wedding (2001) because sometimes micro emotions handled and mounted on a tight scale with chutzpah could pack in more punch than broadstrokes on bigger canvas.

Maqbool (2003) because very few tug at your heart, massage your mind and sock you in your solar plexus.

Company (2002) because any cooler would cause frostbite.

Kannathil Muthamittal (2002) because it was a modern treatise in organic chemistry, fluid mechanics, kinetics and dynamics.

Ab Tak Chhappan (2004) because... je ne sais quoi

Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003) because it was heavy cinema with just the right light moments. Jab We Met (2007) because it was light cinema with just the right heavy moments.

Athadu (2005) because it showed what water-tight screenplays could potentially do.

Pithamagan (2003) because for everything it stood for, for packing in two superstars and have them do what they do in this longshot from 5.12 through 5.15

Omkara (2006) because it was the near cinematic equivalent of being in a ring opposite Muhammed Ali and Mike Tyson.

Swades (2004) because I'd have loved to live Mohan Bhargava's life and I cannot pluck out hand pumps from the earth.

Lage Raho Munnabhai (2006) because it was a Gandhian way of showing finger to the super cynical world yet come unscathed. You know which finger.

Dil Chahta Hai (2001) Nothing. I rest my case.

flickr of hope

At last I seem to have found a good online photo management/sharing tool. I had been reluctant to endorse it for quite a while now. I'd have wished for flickr to have better navigation, and a generally better user interface. Picasa does a neat job here.

But what cheers me up is the picture quality with minimal compression, and a fantastic sync feature with my iPhoto. I prefer not publishing my photos to having their shoddy versions clogging my precious bandwidth. Now, I'd even pay to upgrade to the pro features. Picasa, understandably, does a bad job here.

rubric cube

.........................do birds like to lighten themselves, repeatedly, on red cars?....................

PS: I had no idea this would be an antithesis to my previous post. Not intentional.