A few decades ago every ravishing vamp was made to die, either directly killed by the villain or during her own attempt to rescue someone following her remorse and newfound respect for “our values”. When a supporting character “slipped her leg” in her blind love for the not-so-good guy, towards the end either she died [...]
Posts from ‘October, 2009’
Still Life the Game
I rarely play PC games. More than the epic-scale strategy games and frag-anything-that-moves games, I prefer games with few characters and a storyline. Max Payne was the first such game that I played and it remains the favorite. I enjoyed the dramatic shoot-while-jumping moves, loved using the clean weapons, had my heart broken by Mona [...]
ఇందిరమ్మ ఇంటిపేరు కాదుర గాంధి
Despite Sirivennela’s signature lyricality and SPB’s towering voice, I was disappointed by the song. One. I think music directors should experiment with other voices for such songs. While his voice adds more weight, SPB’s intonation has become overly familiar and I fail to feel a pleasant surprise, or a did-you-hear-that jolt like in this particular [...]
Book Review: The Girl Who Played With Fire
Stieg Larsson’s The Girl Who Played with Fire starts with a confidence, maybe certainty, that the readers of his previous book will hold on no matter what. Lisbeth Salander gets a lot of pages. This is her book. She travels the world; reads Principia Mathematica; tries proving Little Fermat’s theorem; and gets her breasts enlarged, [...]
నేను నీకై పుట్టినానని
Many of Jandhyala’s songs in his early movies gelled well with the situations – especially songs like pisinAri sangham jindAbAd. The other three songs in chanTabbAyi – uttarAna lEvandi dhruva nakShatram, nEnu prEma pUjAri and aTlAnTi iTlAnTi hIrOnikAnu nEnu – are all situational. I think they are easier to write. The one below is a [...]