We Indians are a weird race, we hate winters and crib about it all the time. Yet we welcome winter with the most joyous festival of them all. Ladeej and Juntalmen it’s Diwali/Deepavali time! The festival is special to one and all and everyone has their own reason to celebrate. Cinema is my first love and last year I made a killing in the black market with some  of the biggest names in Bollywood locking [...]

After having endured the music of Karzzz, I garnered courage to boldly do what no man has ever attempted before. Oh Ganesha forgive me once again, for I watched Karzzz all alone in a theater! If not for me they would have canceled the screening, but then I felt like one of those Zamindars in villages who have exclusive screenings and book the whole show! With the whole screening left to me, I could even [...]

For two days now, I have been racking my head to come up with something witty so that I can post it as part of Blog Action Day. For those who are unaware, Blog Action Day is an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day. This way they aim to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion. I personally [...]

Despite rumors that people were selling their tickets for half price at INOX, I still dared to watch Drona. I am a sucker for mythology and that weighs just about everything. Hell, I’d watch even if the great Teeyaar was in a Mahabharata remake. Even if it was as bad as trade pundits claimed, it would still work for me as nothing gets worse than Jimmy. I may sound a bit biased for I have [...]

Bhaktas, This is you friend, philosopher and guide Baba Bangali and today I have a very special guest here at Dappan Koothu. They’re very close to me and we share a strong bond and hence I refer to them as the Powerpuff girls. Durga, Lakshmi and Saraswati are the consorts of the holy trinity and command utmost respect in Hinduism. Today is the last day of Navratri and is celebrated as Vijaya Dasami across the [...]

It’s been a while since I’ve seen some bad cinema and I was missing the agony factor. It’s no secret that bad movies give a kick, much more than what a shot of vodka, vibhuti and vadu maanga does! The wait finally ended this week when I saw not one but 4 box office duds! I wasn’t quite much expecting a show but when it was the guy who gave VRF their biggest hits, I [...]

Jeez what that booming sound? I heard they shut of that stupid LHC so this couldn’t have been that so-called Bing Bang. Turns out that our Vaigyanik Daanav was meeker than our very own Mamata Bannerjee.  If it wasn’t the shelved experiment then what could have caused the commotion? Closer inspection reveals that it was just another bank that came crashing. I’ve crashed parties and weddings before but that was when we were pretending to [...]