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Moodu Pani (Tamil, மூடு பனி ; 1980) Screenplay & Direction: Balu Mahendra The only time this movie is remembered is when the superhit so...

Full River Red (China; 2023) Director:  Zhang Yimou 'Full River Red' is a patriotic poem written by Yue Fei, a Chinese general durin...

Kadavul Irukindran from the movie 'Ananthi Jothi' (1963) It seems that poet Kannadasan started off as an atheist. With time, throug...

Yeats, Keats and TS Elliot all wrote fantastic poems. Rumi did the same but at a different level. To connoisseurs of Tamil poems, they tr...

Pujiyathithukkule Oru (Film: Valar Pirai, New Moon; 1962) Singer: T.M. Soundarajan The wisdom of Nature (Fibonacci numberin...

I learnt a new word day, Dilettante. The term 'a dilettantish person' could be a pejorative term used against an individual who has...

I do not think any songs in any other languages carry as much philosophy in its lyrics as the Tamil movie songs do. The songs are no...

Sumaithaangi (சுமைத்தாங்கி, Tamil; Burden Bearer, 1962) A little of Plato's philosophy in Tamil cinema for you. The moral goal or...

Continuing in our series of exploration of smacks of philosophy in Tamil film, we will look into a MGR starred 1971 film, Rickshawkaran. I...

Nitchiya Tamboolam (1962) Met up with a friend after 30 over years. I did not have much to talk about then, did not have the oppo...

The Beatles Lyrics, Hunter Davies (2014) I guess we will never have enough of the Beatles. This time around a book to analyse the lyric...

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Foster_Jenkins Florence Foster Jenkins (1868-1944) "People say I can't sing, but th...

The Malay music scene is familiar with many songs emanated from unabashed plagiarized works of Hindi songwriters. DJ Dave, R Azmi and many t...

After a few weeks of cerebral constipation and writers' block which was not helped by a vacation, (what do you expect when there is no s...