Archive for May, 2007

Chennai 600028.

Is there a male equivalent of a ‘chick flick?’
Chennai 600028 is Kollywood’s answer.
A mixture of a ‘guy flick’ (for want of a better name for the genre) and a ‘sports flick‘ with a wide variety of other genres (Comedy, Drama, Romance, Action, etc.,) thrown into the pot to get one big masala movie, which [...]

Spoken Like a Champ.

“I wouldn’t play Wimbledon just to play - I would play to win.”
Pete Sampras on whether he would play Wimbledon 2007 after thrashing Petr Korda in the Senior Tour Champions Cup in Boston two days ago.
(Read more here or here)
Here is Arunn’s take on Tennis. Check it out
Start Slide Show with PicLens Lite [...]

Great Breakfast.

Aappam (ஆப்பம், recipes here, image here)
With coconut milk (தேங்காய்ப்பால், recipe here - almost the same preparation method in India as described under Thai dishes or read under methods here)
And thin watery tomato sambhar (தக்காளி சாம்பார், similar kind of preparation as for tomato rasam which is described here, but a little thicker).
A cup of [...]

The Smile of Murugan.

I am currently reading ‘The Smile of Murugan. A South Indian Journey‘ by Michael Wood.
Here is part of the author’s introduction, which I’m sure will warm the cockles of any chauvinistic Tamil heart…

This book tells the story of a journey in Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state in India, which stretches down to the tip [...]

Mozhi.

P and I saw the movie Mozhi last Saturday. Seeing a Tamil movie about two months after its release is par for the course for us.
I’m no good at reviewing movies. All I can say is it’s a great movie. Watch it if you haven’t (yet).
You can read some better reviews here, here & here.
After [...]