Posts

Sookshamadharini - movie review

-
 This Malayalam movie, probably had the most number of update news on media about when it will be aired on OTT and most importantly on which platform!! Eventually Hotstar won the tussle with Zee and just to understand the buzz around the movie watched it on the very first day. The casting is the primary reason and thriller being the toast of the theme for Malayalam movies, it was the perfect blend. Basil thomas is riding a crest of good and great movies and scores with this one too. Nazriya seems to be back at picking scripts that suits her to the T. Even though they are paired against each other with the lady being the protagonist pitting her wits against the villain (wonder who came up with the idea of portraying baby faced Basil as villain!!) story wise it might have not generated as much talk had it been for anyone else. Except for the twist, which seems evident almost 15 minutes before the climax, the rest of the scenes are quite ordinary with the heroine making one jump after...
2 comments
Read more

Galileo - drama series review

-
 As registered in this space many times prior, I am a big fan of Keigo Higashino. Galileo is his famous creation in the lines of Sherlock Holmes. Sadly, i wasn't able to land on any of the translated version of this series and to my sweet surprise, ended up with this drama series in Netflix, which are based on those books. The series is in Japanese with original audio but the subtitles are quite efficient and makes up for easy following. Each of the episode starts off with a murder or some mishap that might sound like typical police case only to have an unusual angle which piques the scientific curiosity of the professor, who is often approached by the police for scientific consult. Each of the ten episodes have such unique point of contention which seems perplexing to start with and becomes clear as water once "Galileo" clarifies the scientific explanation for those events. The very first episode in the series is my personal favorite of the whole lot. A group of rouge gu...
Post a Comment
Read more

Squid game S2 - review

-
When i saw the first season, was appalled at the ease with which killing and gore was depicted and the blatant abuse of children's games as concepts to kill people. That shock effect is majorly subdued in the 3 years since the first season came is the ugly truth. That says so much about the content online and otherwise which has literally numbed the senses and what was seen as shocking couple of years back has become common place. Says so much about our society and fast degrading culture as well. Story wise it is a continuation from where the previous season ended, where despite having won the prize money, the scruple torn hero, goes after the organizers of the game to stop it once and for all. He spends money like no tomorrow and engages several gangs to find out if any such recruitment similar to what he underwent happens in identifying participants for the game. It takes almost 2 3 episodes before he lands up in the island where the games happen. The police officer who almost lo...
1 comment
Read more

Of heroism over times

-
Recently i saw a movie called "Lucky Bhaskar". It had good reviews and was a big hit at the BO. The story is loosely based on Harshad Mehta and his scam, with the hero playing the role of a minor piece in the big bull's scheme of things. Since he is the hero, of course the entire premise is based on his role primarily with slight touching points on the original scam. The Hero makes crores of money in a short span of time, piggy backing on the bigger scam, sponsors smugglers by rotating bank money, fake publishes lottery results to convert his black money into white, liberally uses Hawala for authenticating his transactions and one fine day decides to turn a new leaf, after seeing one of his co-conspirators die due to heart attack, after realizing that he is almost caught in his act and could get arrested any time. How the hero manages to hoodwink the law agencies, his equally if not more corrupt superior officers and ends up with the bulk of his money invested in US forms...
4 comments
Read more

Mandatory year end post

-
What can i say about an year, which literally changed my world upside down in a matter of moments. It started of in trepidation of something that was threatening to happen for several months and when it actually happened, more than fear it left me with a sense of profound anger. God was mighty caring in the sense that he showed me a new path right away and despite it being the hardest couple of months, somehow with his immense grace, managed to survive those tense times. Hopefully next year should be much better and path breaking into newer frontiers. Whenever i go through certain unpleasant times, i always realize at hindsight, they kind of prepared me for where i ended up down the line. "Testing" is barely the word to describe those passages of time for they are so traumatic that it sends one into downward spiral of negative thinking of which i am already a master. In fact at times, i hate to read positive quotes or avoid self motivational books, for they sound so phony and...
1 comment
Read more

Milestone post

-
Self peethals time again with this space scoring another milestone mark of 600 thousand hits.  With the last 100 thousand coming in this year alone, makes it one of the most traffic prone time for this blog. The credit for all and everything goes to one man you all know by now and he is none other than our dear Thala, who with his continuous words of encouragement, ensures that this kodumai continues for all of you who happened to stop by this place. Thanks once again and several times again thala for your positive words and comments. I look out for your comments more than the post themselves, which happens to be just a medium for cashing in on your wise words. And for all saga prayaanis who took their time in reading out the contents, thank you so much for pushing the needle further.
2 comments
Read more

Of haircuts and heritage

-
 Getting haircut is nothing short of a great incident in every kids life. Some may have good experiences and pleasant while for majority of them, the barber with their scissors, making that tickety-ticket sound and the half blade razor that makes a scary appearance towards the end, scratching the skin behind the ears and right over the backside of the neck, above all one cutting plier like contraption that is used for plucking out hair to its lowest root (also called as summer cut) - to even think of those days makes me shudder. Odeon saloon, which was right at the entrance of our street, used to be the venue for so many of those painful memories. It was a 10 by 10 room with two rolling chairs, that rivalled the hot seat in KBC. The elderly man who cut our hair (i am particular in not mentioning it as styling for every single one of us who ever had hair cut during our school days ended up being commented as having had our hair cut in a rats hole (eli bondhu)) was quite scary and wo...
2 comments
Read more