The movie Chandramukhi (Tamil) has the dubious distinction of being an unoriginal movie which reproduced an older Malayalam movie called Manichithratazhu while it was preceeded by a Kannada adaptation of the latter Malayalam movie, Apthamitra. This in turn was copied unscrupulously by Bollywood and therefore formed part of a quartet of movies for each geographical [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Movies’
January 22, 2009
Gattaca, Identity, Dreams and Perfection
Two of my good friends, years ago, in college, discussed this movie called Gattaca as being interesting. I was curious what it was all about but never got around to watching it. Thanks to Netflix, I did see Gattaca last week. True to their words, it was interesting and much better than I had imagined [...]
November 14, 2008
The Many Shades of Dharmavati
I have transitioned from making smaller, shorter pieces to somewhat more thorough explorations of various ragas over a three or four minute recording, sometimes more. The extended time target gives me an opportunity to record for six minutes or more (with editing to trim off the undesirable portions of the song), and in the process, [...]
October 15, 2008
Chakravakam and Malayamarutham
I remember the graceful and complex sounds of Malayamarutham from a really old movie called Maleya Marutha, in Kannada. To my recollection, an aurally impaired youth is apparently miraculously cured by his devotion to the goddess Sharada. I used to mock miracles when I was younger, and I do now too. That did not prevent [...]
July 3, 2008
Wall E
Pixar seem to out-do themselves each time they make a movie, and this started with Toy Story, way back in the 1990s. There have been so many animated films of late in Hollywood, that it makes you wonder how many of them are good quality. I saw the trailer of Kung Fu Panda and picked [...]
